The next special report in History 13 is due February 1.

A. R. Perry, '92, has left college on account of illness.

The second Harvard assembly was held last night.

Professor Childs is ill with the prevailing influenza.

The candidates for the Exeter nine have already begun training.

Grover Flint, Harvard '88, is studying art under Bougerean, in Paris.

Hereafter the doors in Fine Arts 4 will be closed at seven minutes past the hour.

The result of the recent examination in N. H. 4 will be announced today or Monday.

Samuel Weld, of Roxbury, Harvard, '38, died at his home in Roxbury Wednesday morning.

The Conference Francaise will meet this evening. Assistant Professor Sanderson will speak.

The Tufts college Glee and Banjo clubs will give a concert in Union hall, Central square, January 16 at 8 p. m.

Professor R. B. Richardson of the Greek department at Dartmouth will be the next annual director of the American school of Classical Studies in Athens, and will sail in June to assume the duties of the position.

The marks in History 1 will not be announced separately, but will be merged in the mid years marks.

The Princeton Glee and Banjo clubs on their Christmas trip, gave concerts at Baltimore, Washington, Richmond, Wilmington, and Charlestown.

Professor Paine is confined to his bed with a severe attack of the influenza. There have been no recitations in his courses for the last few days.

The poet and orator for Washington's birthday at Princeton college have both declined their elections, and H. W. Hathaway and G. McF. Galt have been elected in their places.

The recent Diman bequest of $10,000 to Brown university for the purchase of books on American history is albeing used. About $300 for this department will be available this year.

There will be lectures in N. H. 4 on Mondays, in addition to the regular lectures on Wednesdays and Fridays, until after the mid years. These Monday lectures will take the place of four Friday recitations in May.

The Brookline concert of the Glee and Banjo clubs will be given in the Town hall, instead of Pierce hall as announced before. The evening promises to be a very pleasant one. There will be dancing afterward as heretofore in the Brookline concert.

This evening, at 7.30 there will be a meeting of the freshman class in Holden chapel, for the purpose of hearing the report of the manager of the football eleven and of discussing the advisability of giving cups to the members of the eleven.

Professor S. W. Burnham, chief of the eclipse expedition sent from the Lick observatory to South America has announced that the observation of the eclipse of the sun December 22 was entirely successful and that the expedition is now on its way home.

Mr. H. G. Kittredge, of the Boston Journal of Commerce, delivered a lecture Wednesday evening before the Finance club, on the subject of the tariff in relation to wool. He reviewed the condition of the woolen industry from 1840 to the present day, and the effects of the various tariffs upon it.