MARCH 17. SUNDAY.Appleton Chapel, 7.30 p. m., Rev. George A. Gordon. (The front pews will be reserved for members of the University until 7.30).

Week-day morning prayers begin at 8.45 a. m. No seats are assigned, either for officers or classes.

Rev. Mr. Gordon will conduct prayers from March 11 to March 23.

Mr. Gordon may be found at Wadsworth House 1 every week-day from 9-12.

18. MONDAY.Commencement Parts. Seniors who have not yet chosen their subjects will meet Professor A. S. Hill in Sever 1 between 3 and 4. This is the last appointment.

Babylonian Books. Their discovery by Botta, Layard, and other explorers. Illustrated lecture. Professor Lyon. Jefferson Physical Laboratory. 4 p. m.

Open to the public.

Semitic Seminary. The historical records of the Sargonidae. Professor Lyon. 7 Lowell street, 7.30 p. m.

Cambridge Indian Association. Alaska and its Indians. Address. Dr. Sheldon Jackson, U. S. Supt. of schools in Alaska. Sanders Theatre, 8 p. m.

The public are invited.

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

College Conference Meeting. Chance or Design in Nature. Professor Shaler. Sever 11, 7.30 p. m.

These meetings are intended for members of the University only.

20. WEDNESDAY.English 6. Oral debate. University 2. 3 p. m.

Question: "Should the duty on sugar be reduced and a bounty given for the production of domestic sugar? "

Principal Disputants: For the affirmative, O. M. Anderson and W. D. Clark; for the negative, C. Friend and W. L. Monro.

Divinity School Library. Debate. 4.15 p. m.

Deutscher Verein. "Goethe as Autoblographer." Lecture. Professor A. A. Ripley. Sever 11, 7.30 p. m. Open to the public.

The scientific appliances of the Jefferson Physical Laboratory, and the scientific work now being done there. Illustrated lecture. Professor Trowbridge. Jefferson Physical Laboratory. 4 p. m. Open to the public.

21. THURSDAY.Physics A. Lecture 5. Prime Movers. Professor Hall. Jefferson Physical Laboratory. 12 m.

These lectures are open to all members of the University.

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 about 5.30. The public are invited to these services.

Chamber Concert. The Kneisel Quartet. Sever 11, 8 p. m. Admission by ticket.

22. FRIDAY.Babylonian Books. Their decipherment by Grotefend and Rawlinson. Illustrated lecture. Professor Lyon. Jefferson Physical Laboratory, 4 p. m.

Divinity School Chapel. Preaching service. 7.30 p. m.

23. SATURDAY.English Literature. British Novelists from Richardson to Scott. Smollett (continued). Professor A. S. Hill. Sever 11, 9 a. m.

APPLETON CHAPEL-SUNDAY EVENINGS.March 17th and 24th.- Rev. George A. Gordon.

COLLEGE ROOMS.Saturday, March 30, is the last day for re-engaging rooms for 1889-90.

INTELLECTUAL LIFE OF GERMANY.The remaining lecture in the Deutscher Verein course is:

March 20th. Goethe as Autobiographer.- Professor A. A. Ripley, of Boston.

FORENSICS.The following topics in the forensic pamphlet will not be accepted as subjects for the long thesis: Political Economy 11, 13; History 20; Natural History 10.

The long thesis will be due April 2.

Seniors who wish to substitute Commencement Parts for theses will please give notice to Mr. Conant, before April 2d.

FELLOWSHIPS.Wednesday, March 27, is the last day for filing applications for the Harris, Rogers, Parker, Kirkland, Walker and Paine Fellowships, and for the Tyndall Scholarship.

Wednesday, April 10, is the last day for filing applications for the Morgan Fellowships.

ENGLISH B.A talk on Journalism will be given in Sever 11, on Tuesday, March 19, at 2 o'clock.

Theme X., An Exposition, will be due April 2d.

Theme XI, An Argument, will be due on Tuesday, April 23.

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 or other unavoidable hindrance.

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

THE SARGENT PRIZE.The Sargent Prize of $100 is offered this year for the best metrical version (of sufficient merit) of the Fourth Ode of the Third Book of Horace.

Undergraduates and special students of Harvard College, and students pursuing courses of instruction in Cambridge under the direction of the Society for the Collegiate Instruction of Women, may compete for this prize. The versions must be deposited in the office of the College Faculty on or before May 1st, 1889. For further directions see Catalogue. p. 144.

BABYLONIAN LECTURES.Professor Lyon will give five illustrated lectures on "Babylonian Books," on Mondays and Fridays at 4 p. m., in the Jefferson Physical Laboratory. Doors open at 3.50 p. m. Titles and dates are as follows:

1, Discovery,-Monday, March 18.

2, Decipherment-Friday, March 22.

3, Language-Monday, March 25.

4, Contents, Friday, March 29.

5, A new Harvard collection, presented by Mr. Stephen Salisbury, Monday, April 1

MISCELLANEOUS.The Museum of Comparative Zoology, the Peabody Museum of Archaeology, and the Mineralogical Museum in Boylston hall, are open to the public every week day from 9 a. m. till 5 p. m.

The Botanic Garden is open Sundays, as well as week days.

The Library in Gore Hall is open Sundays during term time from 1 till five o'clock for the use of members of the University only.