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

ASSYRIAN ARCHAEOLOGY.During January Dr. Arthur L. Frothingham of Princeton will deliver a series of five lectures on Assyrian Archaeology. The dates fixed are the 10th, 12th, 18th, 24th, and 26th. The lectures will be given in upper Boylston and will be illustrated with stereopticon views. The public is invited. The following is a detailed programme of the first and second lectures: -

1. Introductory. - (1) The state of knowledge about the history, language and art of Babylonia and Assyria before this century.

(2) The first discoveries in Persian Cuneiform, at the beginning of the century, by Grotefend, Lessen, Rawlinson and others, and the gradual decipherment of the second and third columns of the trilingual inscription of Behistun - the Median and Assyrian.

(3) Close connection between archaeological and linguistic discoveries: excavations of Botta, Layard, Place, Oppert, George Smith, Rassam and De Sarzec.

(4) Chief results of these discoveries as regards the reconstruction of the history of the East before the Persian rule. Sketch of the gradual expansion of early Babylonian civilization, of the various states of Northern and Southern Babylonia, and of the rise of Assyria.

II. Present State of the Science. - Philology. Theories and discoveries of scolars in England, France and Germany during the last ten year; (Schrader, Delitzscb, Haupt, Hommel, Oppert, Lenorman, Halevy, Guyard, Sayce, Pinches, etc.)

Ethnography. What were the races of Babylonia? Was the non-Shemitic population Turanian or Cushite? Which race worshiped natural forces, and employed magic? Which race developed an elaborate mythology? How did the religion of the Assyrians differ from this latter?

Literature. The various branches cultivated by the non-Shemites and the Shemites. The earliest hymns and incantations. Religious and historical writings. Preservations by the Assyrians of the ancient literature. Libraries in Babylonian cities and Assyrian palaces. Great importance of literary sources for a knowledge of the history and character of Assyrian art.

Importance of Assyrian for the study of the Old Testament. Historical data found in Assyrian annals relating to the Hebrews.

GRADUATE STUDENTS.Applications from Graduate Students for admission to examination for any degree should be made on or before Monday, January 10.