October 26. Saturday.Geological Excursion to Attleboro. Mr. J. B. Woodworth.
Members leave Park Square Station at 7.20 a. m.; returning same evening. Tickets for Plainsville, Mass. Take luncheon.
The following features will be shown: The Plainville fault, the Goat Rock monoclonal fault-block, the North Attleboro faulted diabase dikes, the sediments of the Wamsutta Group, the Attleboro syncline and the Perrins anticline. Cambrian and Carboniferous fossils may be collected at Hopin Hill and Perrins, respectively.
Open to all members of the University. Intending members will please communicate before Wednesday with Mr. Jaggar, 60 Perkins Hall.
27. Sunday.Appleton Chapele, 7.30 p. m. Rev. S. M. McConnell, D. D., of Philadelphia, Penn.
Students of the University only should enter at the south side-door. Officers of the University and their families enter at the north side-door. The public are admitted at the front doors. Seats are reserved for members of the University until 7.25 p. m.
Week-day morning prayers begin at 8.45 a. m. precisely. No seats are reserved.
rev. E. Winchester Donald, D. D., Will conduct prayers from Oct. 28 to November 2.
The preacher conducting prayers may be found at Wadsworth House 1 every week-day during his term of service.
Dr. Donald may be found at Wadsworth House 1 daily from 9-11.
28. Monday.President and Fellows of Harvard College. Meeting at No. 50 State street, Boston, 11 a. m.
Seminary of American History and Institutions. The Materials of American History to 1783. Professor Channing. University 20, 3.30 p. m.
Seminary in Economics. Financial Operations by the Loyal States during the Civil War (186-65). Mr. H. H. Cook. University 23, 4.30 p. m.
29. Tuesday.Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Meeting at University 5, 4 p. m.
Geological Conference. Papers: Some Features of the Arizona Plateau (illustrated by stereopticon), Mr. L. S. Griswold, Description of Excursion to Meriden, Professor Davis. Geological Laboratory, Room 2, M. Z., 7.45 p. m.
Open to all members of the University.
Harvard Catholic Club. Election of Officers. Sever 5, 7.30 p. m.
All Catholic members of the University are invited.
Lecture. The Scenery of the Neighborhood of Boston (illustrated by stereopticon). Mr. C. Eliot. Jefferson Physical Laboratory, 8 p. m.
The first of a series of lectures provided by the Committee on the Reception of Students, and intended primarily for new-comers to the University.
Open to the public.
30. Wednesday.Freshman Debating Club. Debate. University 16, 7 p. m.
Question: "Resolved, That Harvard University be subdivided into minor colleges after the fashion of the English Universities."
Principal disputants-Affirmative: W. C. Roper, E. E. Perry and S. T. Sears.- Negative J. L. Marx, S. W. Merrell and G. E. Adams.
Cercle Francais. A French Literary Court of the Twelfth Century, 7.45 p. m.
Open to the public.
31. Thursday.English 6. Oral Debate. Harvard 1, 3.30 p. m.
Question: "Resolved, That the United States Government should in every lawful way encourage the revolution in Cuba."
Principal Disputants- Affirmative: H. F. Knight and A. G. Lewis.- Negative: B. C. Mead and F. R. Steward.
Open to all students of the University.
Christian Association. Weekly meeting. Our Christianity. Mr. C. E. Noyes. Holden Chapel, 6.45 p. m.
Open to all members of the University.
Symphony Orchestra Concert. Sanders Theatre, 7.45 p. m.
November 1. Friday.Geological Excursion to Meriden Conn. Professor Davis.
Members leave Boston and Albany Station at 4 p. m.; returning to Cambridge Saturday evening. Tickets for Meriden, Conn.
This excursion will visit characteristic exposures of the Triassic sandstone and Lava beds of the Connecticut Valley. The special points of interest will be quarries in the faulted lava beds, a portion of the great fault here crossing the valley with a throw of about 3,000 feet; further the bed of ashes and lava blocks between Meriden and Berlin, and Chauncey Peak, whence a general view of the region may be obtained.
Open to all members of the University. Intending members will please communicate before Wednesday with Mr. Jaggar, 60 Perkins Hall.
Divinity School. Preaching Service. Mr. R. W. Stimson. Divinity Chapel, 7.30 p. m.
Open to the public.
Harvard Forum. Debate. Harvard 1, 7.30 p. m.
Question: "Resolved, That high license in Cambridge would be preferable to prohibition."
Principal Disputants.- Affirmative: H. Whitmore L., and H. G., Dorman '96. Negative: W. E. Blodgett '96 and R. C. Thomas '96.
Open to the public.
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. Z., and will be prepared to give information concerning travelling expenses, geological literature, etc.
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. M. Davis. The Terminal Moraine of Rhode Island.
Appleton Chapel-Sunday Evenings.Oct. 27.- Rev. S. M. McConnell, D. D., of Philadelphia, Penn.
Nov. 3.- Rev. President W. Dew. Hyde, D. D., of Bowdoin College.
Nov. 10.- Rev. S. J. McPherson, D. D., of Chicago, III.
Nov. 17.- Rev. S. J. McPherson, D. D., of Chicago, III.
Nov. 24-Rev. E. Winchester Donald, D. D., of Boston.
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.
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