Vesper Services will be held on Thursday of each week in term-time until further notice. Each service will begin promptly at 5 p.m. and close at 5.30. It will be largely musical and will contain a short address. The public are invited to these services.

15. SATURDAY.Harvard Union Debate. Sever 11, 7.30 p.m.

Question: "Resolved, That the Labor Movement in American Politics should be supported.

Regular disputants. - Affirmative: Mr. C. H. Burdett, '88; Mr. French McAfee, Sp. Negative: Mr. O. R. Hansen, L.S.; Mr. J. McG. Goodale, L.S.

Comparative Philology. Voluntary Lecture to Students in Classical Courses. Prof. Greenough. Sever 18, 12m.

APPLETON CHAPEL, SUNDAY EVENINGS.Services will be conducted on January 23 by Rev. Washington Gladden, D.D., of Columbus, O.

On January 30, by Rev. Charles H. Parkhurst, D.D., of New York City.

On February 6, by Rev. Alexander McKenzie, D.D.

GERMAN LECTURES.On Tuesday, January 11, Mr. Hochdorfer began a series of evening readings from German Ballad-Poets. On the 18th he will translate and read selections from Goethe; and on successive Tuesdays he will select poems from Schiller, Uhland, Heine, and others. The readings will be given in Sever 11. The book used is "Mustersammlung Deutscher Gedichte" by Ernst Keller. The readings are open to the public.

ASSYRIAN ARCHAEOLOGY.During this month Professor A. L. Frothingham of Princeton delivers a series of five lectures on Assyrian Archaeology. The remaining dates fixed are the 18th, 24th, and 26th. The lectures will be given in upper Boylston and will be illustrated with stereopticon views. The public are invited. The following is a detailed programme of the third and fourth lectures: -

III-IV. Archaeology and Art: Babylonia and Assyria. - Historical sketch from Sargon I. to Nabonidus. The great art-centres and their historical relation; Erech, Ur, Sippar, Nippur, Babilu, Borsippa, Kutha, Larsa, Zirpurla, etc. Their great temples, sculpture and decoration. Characteristics of this art: was it in part Shemitic? Metal-work, especially bronze: enamelling: cylinders. Correspondence of types of Egyptian sculpture of early dynastics with some Babylonian sculpture, especially that of the recent discoveries at Tel-Loh. Distinctive marks of Babylonian and Assyrian art. Secular character of the latter. History of Assyrian art. The great cities of Assur (Kileh-Shergat), Ninevah and Calah; their palaces and temples. The Assyrian palace: its construction and plan; its sculptural and pictorial decoration. The vault, the arch, the column, the capital. Historical sculptures and enamelled bricks. Religious sculpture. Bronze work. Industrial arts.