All the tickets for the Doumic lectures have been disposed of and 190 stage tickets are going to be issued,

Mr. C. K. Bolton '90, has been elected librarian of the Boston Athenaeum, to take the place which Mr. Lane left on his appointment to the Harvard Librarianship.

About twenty-five men met M. Gibbe yesterday afternoon in the Ware Hall gymnasium and went through a short rehearsal in competition for parts in the Cercle Francais play.

A bill which has just been introduced in Congress provides for the competitive examination of graduates of institutions where military drill and science are taught, and for the appointment to the grade of second lieutenant in the regular army of at least six of those who shall pass the best examination. Such appointment is not, however, to conflict with the promotion of graduates of the Military Academy or of enlisted men.