The committees of the Harvard Memorial Society, which have been at work since the beginning of the year, have accomplished a great deal and the society is now ready to place several memorials in the Yard. Mr. W. G. Brown, the architect of the society, has been engaged for some time in tracing the occupants of Massachusetts Hall since its erection, and he has prepared a long list of names. From these names, a number of the more distinguished will be selected and these will be inscribed upon tablets which it is proposed to place upon the side of the Hall facing the Yard. These will be two in number, and will be made of bronze. First will be inscribed the name of the hall, then the date of its erection and finally the names of distinguished men who had rooms at some time in the building.

The tables will be handsome in appearance and will cost the society several hundred dollars.

In the sand-stone slab which forms a kind of balustrade to the steps at the entrance to Harvard Hall, the society intends to have an inscription cut at once. It will contain the name of the Hall and the dates of its erection and the dates of the erection and destruction of the two buildings which had before been located on the site of the present hall.

Among other memorials which it is the intention of the society to erect in the course of time are a monument or marble block on the spot in front of Austin Hall where President Langdon prayed for Prescott and his men before they set out for Bunker Hill; a memorial tablet on Wadsworth House; a properly inscribed granite block on the site near Dane Hall, of the old church where Washington, Andrew Jackson and many other famous men were received; an inscription explaining the significance of the Liberty Tree; and a tablet marking the spot where the first Harvard man fell in the Revolution. These memorials will be rather elaborate and will require a considerable sum of money for their erection.

The society also intends within a very short time to restore the finger of the old sun-dial on Massachusetts Hall which has been so long missing, to mark the site of the first Stoughton Hall, to restore some almost effaced lettering on one of the corner stones of Hollis, and to place transmittenda in several of the college rooms which have been occupied by famous men.

The work of the society is necessarily slow and somewhat elaborate but will be of a lasting nature.

The tablets and inscriptions are very expensive and require a large amount of money. It is hoped by the members of the society, that all students will be willing to contribute something to the work of the society. Any student having in his possession anything of historic value in connection with a distinguished graduate, and who would be willing to give the same as a transmittendum, is requested to notify the curator of the society, G. L. Paine, 20 Little's block.

Any student, moreover, who is occupying a room which he knows to have been held by a famous graduate is asked to notify the secretary, A. C. Train, 3 Thayer, who is engaged in recording and making a list of all the rooms thus rendered of interest.

The society is in a flourishing condition, and has succeeded in securing a distinguished body of lecturers for the winter course on Harvard's History.

The lectures will begin on March 13, in Sanders Theatre, and will be given every Friday for four weeks. The following will be the order in which the lecturers will speak: Colonel Thomas Wentworth Higginson '41, President Charles W. Eliot '53, Hon. J. C. Roper '57, Lieutenant-Governor Wolcott '70.

These lectures will be of unusual interest, as they are really the first of their kind ever given at Harvard.

What the society needs at present more than anything else is money, and without money it can do nothing. It, therefore, begs all those who are interested in perpetuating the association and interests of Harvard, and to honor the names of the famous men who have dwelt in their midst, to contribute towards the work of the society. Subscriptions may be sent to Charles Dickinson, 1 Hastings Hall.