ENGLISH C.The first forensic will be returned immediately after the Christmas recess. The second forensic will be due January 12.

After December 1 Mr. Baker and Mr. Thompson will be in the Library from 3-4 30 Tuesdays and Thursdays.

APPLETON CHAPEL.-SUNDAY EVENING SERVICES.Dec, 14.- Rev. Leighton Parks, D. D., of Boston.

Dec. 21.- Rev. W. E. Huntington, D. D., of Boston University.

Jan. 4 and 11.- Rev Brooke Herford, of Boston.

MODERN LANGUAGE CONFERENCE.The next meeting of the Conference will be held on Monday, December 15, at 7.30 p, m., in Sever 2. The following papers will be read: The Origin of the names of the English Alphabet. Professor Sheldon.- Diderot's Influence on Goethe. Mr. C. H. Page.- David Mallet's Literary Forgeries. Mr. W. L. Phelps.- these meetings are open to all members of the University Modern Literature and Philology.

MODERN PHILOSOPHY.The following are the remaining topics of the lectures:

11. The Inner Life and Laws of Nature.

12. The Philosophy of Evolution.

13. Optimism and Pessimism.

THE PSYCHOLOGY OF MUSIC.A course of eight public lectures on the Psychology of music will be given by Mr. Benjamin Ives Gilman in Sever Hall during January, February and March. The purpose of this course is to Inquire into the operations of the mind concerned in the hearing of music. An examination of the sensation of tone will be followed by an outline of Helmholtz's theory of the quality of musical notes and of recent opinion as to the nature of consonance and dissonance. The main structural characteristics of music will then be discussed psychologically, and a reference made in conclusion to the emotional and ideal elements which enter into musical effect.

The topics and dates of the lectures are as follows:

Jan. 16-I. Pitch.

Jan. 21-II. Timbre.