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University Calendar.

MARCH 13. SUNDAY.

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. F. G. Peabody, D. D., from March 7.

Mr. Peabody may be found at Wads-worth House 1 every week-day from 11 to 12 a.m.

15. TUESDAY.College Faculty. Meeting at University 5, at 3.30 p.m.

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Assyrian Readings. Subject: Cyrus according to contemporary Babylonian Sources, with References to Greek and Hebrew Accounts. Professor Lyon. Upper Boylston, 7.30 p.m.

16. WEDNESDAY.Divinity School Chapel. Conference, 4 p.m.

The St. Paul's Society. Sermon by the Rt. Rev. H. A. Neely, D. D., Bishop of Maine. St. John's Chapel, 7.30 p.m.

17. THURSDAY.Electricity and Magnetism. Lecture, Professor Lovering. Jefferson Physical Laboratory, 12 m.

Mathematical Seminary. Lecture: The Discussion of a Differential Equation. Mr. W. F. Osgood. 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.

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

Question: "Resolved, That the Maintenance of Large Standing Armies by the European States is inconsistent with the Advance of Modern Civilization."

Regular Disputants. - Affirmative Mr. J. J. Shaughnessy, L. S., Mr. J. H. Gray, '87. Negative: Mr. F. B's Williams, '88, Mr. E. B. Chenoweth. '88.

18. FRIDAY.Readings from the Odessey. Book XIX. Professor Palmer. Sever 11, 4 p.m.

Divinity School Chapel. Service conducted by Mr. Lewis Calvert Leary. 7.30 p.m.

19. SATURDAY.Certain English Authors Considered as Masters of Style (Course for Freshmen). Swift. Professor A. S. Hill. Sever 11, 9 a.m.

APPLETON CHAPEL, SUNDAY EVENINGS.

Services will be conducted: -

March 13, Rev. Francis G. Peabody.

March 20, Rev. Brooke Herford, of Boston.

March 27, Rev. George Zabriskie Gray, D.D.

VESPER SERVICE.The last Vesper Service will be held March 31.

FRENCH READINGS.A course of six French Readings, beginning March 21, 1887, will be given in Lecture-room No. 11, Sever Hall, on Mondays, at 4 p.m., by Professors Bocher and Cohn.

These readings are given for the purpose of enabling the French department to purchase books needed in the special library now in Sever 21.

The six readings will be distributed as follows:

March 21 - Alfred de Musset, Carmosine. Professor Bocher.

March 28 - Chanson de Roland. (Reading in modern French from the old French text.) Professor Cohn.

April 4 - Moliere. La Critique de l'Ecole des Femmes. Professor Bocher.

April 18 - Bossuet, Oraison funebre de Henriette d'Angleterre. Professor Cohn.

April 25 - Theodore de Banville, Gringoire. Professor Bocher.

May 2 - Beaumarchais, Le Mariage de Figaro. Professor Cohn.

Tickets may be obtained by mail from 59 Kirkland street, Cambridge, or at the University Book Store, C. W. Sever, Harvard square. For the course of six readings, $3.00; single admission. $1.00, All members of the University will be admitted without tickets.

GREEK READINGS.The last six books of the Odyssey will be read to Greek courses B and C by Professor Palmer on successive Friday afternoons, beginning March 18, at 4 o'clock, in Sever 11.

These readings are open to all members of the University.

ASSYRIAN READINGS.On successive Tuesday evenings, Professor Lyon will give in Upper Boylston three more illustrated public lectures. The subjects are as follows:

March 15. Cyrus.

March 22. Babylonian and Hebrew Psalmody.

March 29. Babylonian private life, ST. PAUL'S SOCIETY.

During Lent a series of services is being given in St. John's Chapel under the auspices of the St. Paul's Society. The Bishop of Maine will preach on March 16th, the Bishop of Albany March 28th, and the Bishop of New Hampshire March 30th. A cordial invitation is extended to the public.

ENGLISH D.The Senior Thesis will be due March 22.

ENGLISH C.The first Junior Forensic will be returned Monday, March 21.

The Junior Thesis will be due April 26.

Mr. Gates can be consulted by Juniors in regard to the choice of topics, on Thursdays from 1.30 to 2.30, in closed Alcove 25.

ENGLISH B.A lecture will be given on Tuesday, March 15, at 2 o'clock, in Sever 11.

Theme IX. will be due on Tuesday, March 15. Subject: An Exposition. It must be deposited in the wooden box in Sever 3 before 4 o' clock.

Theme X. will be due on Tuesday, April 5. Subject: An Exposition. Theme XI. will be due on Tuesday, April 26. Subject: An Argument. For Themes X. and XI. may be substituted a Double Theme, of not less than ten pages, comprising both Exposition and Argument. The Double theme will be due on Tuesday, April 5.

By the Regulations, 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 Grays 18.

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