There will be no meeting of the St. Paul's society this week.

G. M. Pudor, M. S., has been appointed assistant house officer of the Boston City Hospital.

The Chess Club has as yet been unable to secure a room, but expect to have one before long.

A new class in practical anatomy under the direction of Dr. S. J. Mixter begins work today at the Medical School.

The annual convention of the Theta Delta Chi fraternity is now being held at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, N. Y.

Professor Adelphe Cohn will give the first of his four readings from Moliere at 25 Chestnut St., Boston, today.

Professor Shaler will deliver a lecture on "The Effect of Geographical Conditions on Life," this evening in the Lowell Institute course.

On Thursday, Friday and Saturday some interesting Indian skeletons and relics were found at Winthrop by men excavating under the direction of Professor Putnam of Harvard.

Professors Charles Eliot Norton, H. A. Hagen, and Francis G. Peabody, spoke on the temperance question last evening at the Prospect St. Church, Cambridgeport.

At the theatres this week the special attraction for students will be at the Boston Theatre where the Howard Athenaeum Star Specialty Co. offer a rich variety bill.

The concert of the Glee and Banjo Clubs and Pierian Sodality will take place in Sander's Theatre Thursday evening, December 20th.

The Harvard-Yale foot-ball dispute was to have been settled last evening, but owing to the fact that the telephone wires between Cambridge and Boston were not in working order last night, the CRIMSON could get no information in regard to the decision.

The Rev. George Bushnell of New Haven has been elected to fill the vacant place in the corporation of Yale. The corporation at present consists of twenty members, ten of whom must be Connecticut clergymen. Of the others six are elected by graduates of five years' standing, two are always the Governor and Lieutenant Governor of this State, and the remaining two the President and Secretary of the university. Dr. Bushnell takes the place of the late Rev. G. J. Tillotson.

The Tufts College catalogue for 1888-89 will be issued today. The faculty remains unchanged from last year. The students number 139, which is a slight increase. The range of electives is somewhat enlarged. Those who take modern languages in place of Greek have a choice of electives the first year. The regulars are not permitted to elect any of their studies until the second year. The sophomores have three, the juniors nine, and the seniors ten hours of elective work per week. In all there are fourteen elective courses.