Open to the public.
Harvard Forum. Debate. Harvard 1, 7.30 p. m.
Question: "Resolved, That the Tory victory at the last general election was for the best interests of Great Britain."
Principal Disputants.- Affirmative: H. G. Gray '96, and F. R. Steward '96.- Negative: N. J. Brumbaugh '96, and G. Thomas '96.
Open to the public.
Graduate Club. Reception to members of the Graduate School. Colonial Club House, 8 p. m.
Open only to active and honorary members, and to invited guests.
19. Saturday.Geological Excursion to Nahant. Messrs. J. B. Woodworth and T. A. Jaggar.
Members leave Union Station, Eastern Division, at 8.33 a. m. for Lynn; returning, leave Lynn at 3.51 p. m. Roundtrip tickets.
Intending members will please communicate before Wednesday with Mr. Jaggar, 60 Perkins Hall.
Geological Excursions.A series of geological excursions, open to all members of the University, will be conducted by the officers of the Departments of Geology and of Mineralogy and Petrography during October and November. It is desirable that persons wishing to take part in any of these excursions should send notice of their intention, not later than Wednesday of the week in question, to Mr. T. A. Jaggar, 60 Perkins Hall. Mr. Jaggar may be consulted daily from 9 to 10 a. m. in Room 2, Geological Department, M. C. Z., and will be prepared to give information concerning travelling expenses, etc.
Excursion 3.- Saturday, Oct. 19. Messrs. J. B. Woodworth and T. A. Jaggar. The Lower Cambrian Rocks, the coast erosion, and the structure of the beaches, at Nahant.
Excursion 4.- Saturday, Oct. 26. Mr. J. B. Woodsworth. The Cambrian and Carboniferous rocks of Attleboro, Mass.
Excursion 5.- Friday, Nov. 1. Professor W. M. Davis. The relations of the Triassic sandstones and lava beds at Meriden, Conn.
Excursion 6.- Saturday, Nov. 9. Professor W. N. Davis. The Terminal Moraine of Rhode Island.
Dudleian Lecture.The Dudleian Lecture for the current year will be given in Appleton Chapel on Oct. 16, at 7.30 p. m., by the Rev. Brooke Herford, D. D., now of Hampstead, London, lately minister of the Arlington Street Church in Boston, and Preacher to the University from 1890 to 1892.
The subject for the year is the third of the series of four subjects prescribed by the Founder, Judge Dudley, in 1750, namely:- "For the detecting, and convicting, and exposing the idolatry of the Romish Church, their tyranny, usurpations, damnable heresies, fatal errors, abominable superstitions, and other crying wickednesses in their high places, and finally that the Church of Rome is that mystical Babylon, that man of sin, that apostate church spoken of in the New Testament."
Dr. Herford will state "The answer of modern Liberalism to the claims of the Roman Catholic Church."
Symphony Concerts.Thursday evenings, Oct. 31, November 21, December 12, 1895; January 2, January 16, February 6, February 20, March 12, April 9, and April 30, 1896.