A FRENCH VIEW OF BISMARCK.On Monday, February 17, Professor Cohn will deliver a lecture on "A French View of Bismarck." The lecture will be given in Sever 11, at 7.30 p. m., and will be open to the public.

ENGLISH B.Theme VII., a literary criticism, will be due on Tuesday, February 18.

COLLEGE CONFERENCE MEETINGS.Upon six Tuesdays after the mid year period, lectures will be given on some of the more important professions as follows:

February 15-Medicine. Professor C. J. Blake, of the Medical school.

February 25-Law. Hon. Jeremiah Smith, late of the Supreme Court of New Hampshire.

March 4-Ministry. Rev. Brooke Herford.

March 11-Public Life. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, of the United States Civil Service Commission.

March 18-Teaching. Edwin Seaver, superintendent of the Boston public schools.

March 25-Business. Charles S. Smith, Esq., president of the New York chamber of commerce.

FRENCH 1.On Friday morning, February 14, at 9 o'clock, Professor Cohn will lecture on "Thinking in Foreign Language." The lecture will be open to all members of the university.

LECTURES ON DETERMINATIVE CRYSTALLOGRAPHY AND CRYSTAL OPTICS.Professor Cooke will begin a course of instruction on "Determinative Crystallography and Crystal Optics," on Tuesday, February 11, at 12 m.

The lectures will continue on Tuesday and Thursday of each week until further notice. Students desiring to attend the course are requested to apply personally to Professor Cooke.

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 till 5.

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 5 o'clock for the use of members of the university only.

The rooms of the Fine Arts department in Sever hall are open to the public on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 2 to 5 o'clock.