December 20. Sunday.Appleton Chapel, 7.30 p. m. Christmas Service. Rev. Francis G. Peabody, D. D., of Cambridge.

Students of the University 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.

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

Rev. Francis G. Peabody, D. D., will conduct prayers December 21 and 22.

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

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

21. Monday.Lecture. The History of Classical Studies. IX. Professor Allen. Harvard 1, 2.30 p. m.

Open to all students of classics.

Seminary of Economics. British Capital and American Resources, 1815-1850. Mr. G. S. Callender. University 23, 4.30 p. m.

Harvard Religious Union. Self Reliance and Non-Conformity. Parlors of the First Parish Church, 6.45 p. m.

Botanical Club. Paper: Variation in Typhalatifolia and T. Angustifolia. Mr. J. W. Blankinship. University Museum, Room 12, 7.45 p. m.

Open to all members of the University.

22. Tuesday.Divinity School. Faculty Meeting. 17 Quincy St., 8 p. m.

23. Wednesday.The Christmas recess begins this day and ends Jan. 2, 1897.

31. Thursday.Symphony Orchestra Concert. Sanders Theatre, 7.45 p. m.

January 1 1897. Friday.Last day for receiving dissertations for the Boylston Medical Prizes.

Appleton Chapel-Sunday Evening.Dec. 20.- Rev. Francis G. Peabody, D. D., of Cambridge.

Dec. 27.- Christmas Recess. No service.

Symphony Concerts.Thursday evenings, Dec. 31, 1896; Jan. 14, Feb. 4, Mar. 4, Mar. 18, Apr. 8, Apr. 29, 1897.

Cercle Francais, Department French.Two lectures will be given in the Lecture Room of the Fogg Museum, on the second and third Fridays in January, at eight o'clock in the evening. The subjects will be:

Jan. 8.- Goldsmith and Marivaux. Professor de Sumichrast.

Jan. 15.- French Nasal Vowels and American Nasality. Professor Grandgent.

These lectures will be in English and open to the public.

Fine Arts of the Renaissance.Professor Moore will give a series of evening exhibitions of lantern slides illustrating the Fine Arts of the Renaissance, in the Lecture Room of the Fogg Museum, beginning on the evening of January 11, at eight o'clock, as follows:

Jan. 11.- The Architecture of the Renaissance in Italy.

Jan. 18.- The Architecture of the Renaissance in France and England.

Jan. 25.- The Sculpture of the Renaissance.

Feb. 1.- Italian Painting from Cimabue to Perrugino.

Feb. 8.- Italian Painting of the Renaissance.

Feb.15.- Venetian Painting of the Sixteenth Century.