OCTOBER 28. SUNDAY.Appleton Chapel, 7.30 p. m., Rev. George F. Fisher, D. D., of Yale University. The front pews will be reserved for members of the University until 7.30).

Weekday morning prayers begin at 8.45 a. m. No seats are assigned, either for officers or classes. Rev. Dr. Hale will conduct prayers from October 29 to Nov. 1; and Rev. Dr. Brooks from Nov. 2-17.

The preacher conducting prayers may be found at Wadsworth House 1 every week-day from 9 to 12.

29. MONDAY.Dudleian Lecture. Professor George P. Fisher, D. D., of Yale University. Appleton Chapel, 7.30 p. m. The public are invited.

30. TUESDAY.Conference Francaise deL' Universite Harvard. Monsieur Coquelin. "L' Art du Comedien." (Lecture in French.) Sanders Theatre, 4 p. m. Admission by tickets only.

Divinity Faculty. Meeting at 17 Quincy street, 8 p. m.

31. WEDNESDAY.Last day for receiving applications for Final Honors in 1889.

English 6. Oral Debate. University 2. 3 p. m.

Question: "Resolved, That presidential electors ought to be chosen by districts instead of by general ticket."

Principal disputants-Affirmative: W. D. Clark and M. A. Kilvert; negative: C. H. Black and T. Woodbury. Open to all students of the University.

Divinity School Library. Debate. 4.15 p. m.

Board of Overseers. Adjourned meeting at No. 50 State street, Boston, at 11 a. m.

NOVEMBER I. THURSDAY.Last day for receiving dissertations for the Bowdoin and Chauncey Wright prizes.

Last day for receiving applications for the Freshman Scholarships.

Orchestral Concert. Boston Symphony Orchestra. Sanders Theatre, 7.45 p. m.

26. FRIDAY.Divinity School Chapel. Preaching Service. 7.30 p. m.

APPLETON CHAPEL.- SUNDAY EVENINGS.Sunday evening services will be conducted as follows:-

Oct. 28-Rev. Professor G. P. Fisher, D. D., of New Haven.

MOSLEM CIVILIZATION.Professor Toy will give four lectures on Tuesdays in November at 7.30 p. m., in Upper Boylston, on "Moslem Civilization." The titles of the lectures are:

1. Mahommed and the Koran.

2. History of the Mahommedan Religious Ideas.

3. Arabic Literature.

4. The present Outlook.

The lectures will be illustrated with stereopticon views.

FORENSICS.Mr. Conant will be at the closed alcove in the Library, for consultation with Seniors, on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 3 to 4.30 p. m.

Mr. Baker will be at the same place, for consultation with Juniors, on Wednesdays and Fridays at the same hours.

Professor Royce's lectures will begin about November 1st. The first forensic will be due about December 1st. Exact notice of the dates will be given in the Calendar.

Seniors who have not already received their Junior theses will find them at Sever 3 on Saturday p. m.

DUDLEIAN LECTURE.On Monday evening, October 29, Professor George P. Fisher, D. D., of Yale University, will deliver the Dudleian lecture for 1888, the subject-the fourth of those prescribed by the founder-being: "The fourth and last lecture I would have for the maintaining, explaining, and proving the validity of the ordination of ministers or pastors of the churches, and so their administration of the sacraments or ordinances of religion as the same hath been practiced in New England from the first beginning of it, and so continued at this day.- Not that I would any ways invalidate Episcopal ordination as it is commonly called and practised in the Church of England: but I do esteem the method of ordination as practised in Scotland, at Geneva, and among the dissenters in England, and in the churches in this country, to be very safe, scriptural and valid: and that the great Head of the church, by his blessed spirit, hath owned, sanctified and blessed them accordingly, and will continue so to do to the end of the world. Amen."

The lecture will be given in Appleton Chapel at 7 30 p. m., and will be open to the public. The last Dudleian lecture was delivered by the Rev. Rollin H. Neale, D. D., in 1857.

ENGLISH B.A talk on reading will be given in Sever 11, on Tuesday, October 30, at 2 o'clock.

Theme I. will be returned to Cumnock-Franklin in Sever 11, on October 30, at 3 o'clock; to other students at Grays 18, during Mr. Wendell's office hours, until November 13.

Theme III.: A Description will be due on Tuesday, November 13. At the same time Theme I., corrected or rewritten, is to be handed back to the instructors.

Themes are to be deposited in the wooden box in Sever 3 not later than 4 o'clock. 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 of other unavoidable hindrance.

Every student is required to follow implicitly the directions with regard to paper, folding, endorsing, etc., given on the English Composition card.