There will be a meeting of the CRIMSON to-day at 1.30.

Dr. F. G. Peabody will conduct prayers this week.

The schedule of games to be played by the National League this season has been published.

Professor Loisette has a memory class of 1012 pupils in Baltimore composed largely of professors and students of Johns Hopkins University.

The trustees of Boston University have voted an appropriation for renting grounds for the practice of athletic games.

The Glee Club has accepted an invitation from the Harvard Club of Fall River to sing in that town in the latter part of April.

During the year 1886 there were published 366 papers and books written by Harvard professors, and in 1887 the number was increased to 523.

The lot of land in the Port bounded by Main, Inman and Bigelow streets and extending back 250 feet on the two latter streets has been selected as the site for the new Cambridge City Hall which Mr. F. H. Rindge has offered to build.

Loud complaint is heard on all sides about the wretched ventilation of the library. Even the poor facilities for furnishing the reading-room with fresh air, are not taken advantage of and consequently the atmosphere in the library is abominable.

The Banjo Club plays in Brookline Lower Town Hall on March 8th and in a young ladies' school in Boston on March 9.

Men in English 12 are requested to bring Saintsbury's specimens of English prose to the recitation to-day. This book will be used on Mondays hereafter.

Before the beginning of the championship series the Princeton nine will play with the Washington's, Brooklyn's, Cuban Giants, Athletics, Newark's and Baltimore's.

The annual meeting of the U. S. Lawn Tennis Association will be held in New York on March 9. Mr. R. D. Sears will preside. Officers for 1888 will be elected and the association ball for the coming season will be adopted.

The headings in the Boston Globe are works of art, judging from the following which appear above an account of a prize-fight: "Punched into Slumber"; Science Toys Coyly with Bullheaded Grit."

One of the editors of the Amherst Student, who is president of the newly-formed Amherst Co-operative Society, was in Cambridge Saturday to investigate the working of the Harvard Co-operative Society.

At the meeting of the Deutscher Verein to-night, Dr. Fowler will speak on the "Acropolis of Athens." Dr. Fowler will illustrate his lecture by means of the valuable photographs he collected during his period of study abroad.

There will be no Finance Club lecture this evening as Prof. E. J. James is ill. A week from to-night the Rev. John G. Brooks of Brockton will give an address on "An Object-Lesson in Tariff Reform from the standpoint of the wage-earner."

In the St. John's College (Cambridge, England) sports, which were held a few days ago, the records made were far below the usual standard. The 100-yards dash was made with the aid of a strong wind in 10 4-5s., and high jump was only 4 ft. 11 3-4 in.

Dr. Hartwell, medical director of the gymnasium at Johns Hopkins University is dissatisfied with Dr. Sargent's system and has replaced it by Ling's Swedish system, which in Europe holds the foremost place as a means of physical culture.