Appleton Chapel, 7.30 p.m. Rev. Francis G. Peabody. (The front pews will be reserved for members of the university until 7.30.)

*** Week-day morning prayers at 8.45 a.m. No seats are assigned, either for officers or classes. Prayers will be conducted by Rev. Francis G. Peabody from January 6th. Mr. Peabody may be found at Wadsworth House 1 every week-day from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

10. MONDAY.Last day of receiving applications of graduate students for admission to examination for any degree.

Assyrian Language and Art. First Lecture. Professor Arthur L. Frothingham, of Princeton College. Upper Boylston, 7.30 p.m.

Readings from Chaucer. The Franklin's Tale. Professor Child. Sever 11, 7.30 p.m.

11. TUESDAY.College Faculty. Meeting at University 5, at 4 p.m.

Readings from German Ballad-Poets. Burger. Mr. Hochdurfer. Sever 11, 7.30 p.m.

12. WEDNESDAY.Board of Overseers. Stated meeting at No. 50 State street, Boston, at 11 a.m.

Assyrian Language and Art. Prof. Frothingham. Upper Boylston, 7.30 p.m.

13. THURSDAY.Mathematical Seminary. Lecture: Imaginary Loci. Mr. G. W. Sawin. University 19, 4 p.m.

Vesper Service. Appleton Chapel, 5 p.m.

*** 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.

READINGS FROM CHAUCER.Professor Child resumes his Monday readings in Sever 11 on January 10. He will read the Franklin's Tale.

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

ENGLISH B.Theme V. (not the double theme) will be returned to students on Tuesday, January 11, 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 the time will be left, at the students' risk, in the tin box on the mantle-piece in Sever 3.

Theme VI. will be due on Tuesday, January 11. Subject: A Narrative. It must be deposited in the wooden box in Sever 3 before 4 o'clock.

Theme VII. will be due on Tuesday, January 25. Subject: A Criticism.

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.