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University Calendar.

October 6, Sunday.Appleton Chapel, 7.30 p. m. Rev. President Francis J. Patton, D. D., of Princeton University.

Students of the University only should enter at the south side-door. Officers of the University and their families enter at north side-door. The public are admitted at the front doors. Seats are reserved for members of the University until 7.25 p. m.

Weekday morning prayers begin at 8.45 a. m. precisely. No seats are reserved.

Rev. Francis G. Peabody, D. D., will conduct prayers from Oct. 7-12.

The preacher conducting prayers may be found at Wadsworth House 1 every weekday during his term of service.

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Dr. Peabody may be found at Wadsworth House 1 daily from 11-1.

7. Monday.Seminary of American History and Institutions. Materials and Methods of Research in American History. Professors Channing and Hart. University 20, 3.30 p. m.

Seminary in Economics. Economics in Italy. Professor Taussig. University 23, 4.30 p. m.

8. Tuesday.Faculty of Arts and Sciences Meeting at University 5, 4 p. m.

Geological Conference. Papers: The Fedorow Universal Microscope Table, Professor Wolff; Stratigraphic Succession of the Rhode Island Coal Measures, Mr. J. B. Woodworth. Mineralogical lecture-room, University Museum, 7.45 p. m.

Open to all members of the University.

9. Wednesday.Board of Overseers. Meeting at No. 50 State St., Boston, 11 a. m.

Divinity School. Conference. Divinity Chapel, 4.30 p. m.

10. Thursday.English 6. Oral Debate. Harvard 1, 3.30 p. m.

Question: "Resolved, That the Southern States ought to take steps to disfranchise the negroes, through the State constitutions."

Principal Disputants-Affirmative: H. L. Belisle and H. A. Bigelow.- Negative: J. T. Cooper and S. P. Delany.

Open to all students of the University.

11. Friday.Geological Excursion to Hoosac Mt. Professor Wolff.

Members leave Union Station by Fitchburg R. R. at 3 p. m. for North Adams, Mass.; returning to Cambridge Saturday evening.

Starting Saturday morning, the excursion will climb the west face of Hoosac Mt., studying the Cambrian and Pre-Cambrian formations, then visiting their contact on top of the mountain, and thence going to the central shaft of the tunnel where the dumps illustrate many varieties of these rocks. In the afternoon, proceeding over the crest of the mountain to the station at the east portal of the tunnel, something will be seen of the topography of the area between the Connecticut and Hoosac Rivers.

Open to all members of the University. Intending members will communicate before Wednesday with Mr. T. A. Jaggar, 60 Perkins Hall.

Divinity School. Preaching Service. Mr. J. N. Woodman. Divinity Chapel, 7.30 p. m.

Open to the public.

Harvard Forum. Debate. Harvard 1, 7.30 p. m.

Question: "Resolved, That the peaceful annexation of Cuba would be desirable."

Principal Disputants.- Affirmative: H. W. Dutch '97, and C. B. White '96,- Negative: W. S. Appleton '96, and G. L. Paine '96.

Open to the public.

Appleton Chapel-Sunday Evenings.Oct. 6.- President Francis J. Patton, of Princeton University.

Oct. 13.- Rev. Brooke Herford, D. D., of London, England.

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. Jagger 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 traveling expenses, etc.

Excursion 1.- Saturday, Oct. 5. Mr. L. S. Griswold. The eruptive and sedimentary rocks of Nantasket and Hingham.

Excursion 2.- Friday, Oct. 11. Professor J. E. Wolff. The Cambrian and Pre-Cambrian rocks of Hoosac Mountain.

Excursion 3.-

Excursion 4.-

Excursion 5.- Friday, Nov. 1. Professor W. M. Davis. The relations of the Triassic sandstones and lava beds at Meriden, Conn.

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. Hereford 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.

Miscellaneous.The Museums of Comparative Zoology and Botany are open to the public on weekdays from 9 o'clock till sunset, and on Sundays from 1 o'clock till sunset.

The Mineralogical Museum is open to the public Wednesday, Saturday, and Sunday afternoons, from 1 o'clock till sunset. The collections may usually be seen at other times by applying to the porter.

The Peabody Museum of Archaeology is open to the public every weekday from 9 o'clock till sunset.

The Semitic Museum, in the new wing of the Peabody Museum, is open to the public during the same hours.

The Botanic Garden is open Sundays, as well as weekdays.

The Ware Collection of Blaschka Glass-

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