APPLETON CHAPEL, SUNDAY EVENINGS.Services will be conducted on January 23 by Rev. Washington Gladden, D. D., of Columbus, Ohio.
On January 30, by Rev. Charles H. Parkhurst, D. D., of New York City.
On February 6, by Rev. Alexander McKenzie, D. D.
GERMAN READINGS.By request the third of Mr. Hochdoerfer's readings from German Ballad-Poets will be postponed until after the mid-year examinations. The remaining readings will occur as follows: Third evening, February 15, Schiller. Fourth evening, February 22, Uhland. Fifth evening, March 1, Heine, Platen, etc. Sixth evening, March 8, Schiller's Song of the Bell. The book used is "Mustersammlung Deutscher Gedichte" by Ernst Keller. The readings are open to the public.
ASSYRIAN ARCHAEOLOGY.Professor A. L. Frothingham of Princeton delivers his remaining lectures on Assyrian Archaeology on the 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: -
IV.- V. Archaeology and Art: Babylonia and Assyria, - History of Assyrian art. The great cities of Assur (Kileh-Shergat), Nineveh 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 capitol. Historical sculptures and enamelled bricks. Religious sculpture. Bronze work. [Industrial arts. Babylonia and Assyria in their foreign relations. Early relations between Egypt and Babylonia; did any exist before the xviii dynasty? The Mt. Siani peninsula and the quarry-marks on the Tel-Loh sculptures. Relations with Elam; - with Syria and the Hittites; - with Phoenicia and Cyprus; - with North Arabia; - with Persia The reciprocal influence of Babylonian and Assyrian art and the artistic development of the peoples of these countries. The influence of Babylonian and Assyrian art on Hellenic art through Phoenicia and Asia Minor, and on early Italic art through the Phoenicians.
ENGLISH D.The first Senior Forensic will be returned on Tuesday, January 25, from 3.30 to 4.30 p.m., in Sever 1.
ENGLISH B.Theme VI. will be returned to students on January 25, from 2 until 3,30 o'clock, as follows: Grew to Odell in Sever 1; the rest in Sever 5. Themes not called for at that time will be left, at the students' risk, in the tin box on the mantle-piece in Sever 3.
Theme VII. will be due on Tuesday, January 25. Subject: A Criticism. It must be deposited in the wooden box in Sever 3 before 4 o'clock.
A note of the subject of each theme, on a card specially prepared for the purpose, must be deposited in the wooden box in Sever 3 at least one week before the theme is due. A card will be found enclosed in every theme returned to students.
By the Regulation, no overdue theme will be accepted, unless the writer satisfies the Secretary that his failure to present it at the appointed time was caused by serious illness or other unavoidable hindrance. Overdue themes, countersigned by the Secretary, may be left at 18 Grays.