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University Calendar

*Open to the public. **Open to the University.

Sunday, Nov. 25.

Appleton Chapel, 7.30 p. m. Rev. Endicott Peabody, of Groton. Mr. Peabody will conduct morning prayers from Nov. 26 to Dec. 1. He may be found at Wadsworth House 1 daily from 9 till 12.

Monday, Nov. 26.

President and Fellows of Harvard College. Meeting at No. 50 State street, Boston, 10.30 a. m.

Seminary of Economics. Civil Service Reform in Australia: its Successes and its Failures. II. New South Wales. Mr. H. R. Meyer. University 23, 4.30 p. m.

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**Harvard Religious Union. After Commencement--What next? Dr. Edward Everett Hale. Brooks House, 7.30 p. m.

**Educational Conference. The Brookline School System. Mr. George I. Ald.ich, Supe intendent of Schools, Brookline. Seve, 17, 8 p. m.

Tuesday, Nov.27.

**Senior Senate. Discussion of a Resolution condemning the present educational qualifications for franchise in North Carolina. Harvard 6, 7 p. m.

**Sophomore Debating Club. Debate. Lecture Room of the Fogg Museum, 7. p. m. Question: "Resolved, That President McKinley's administration has been advantageous for the country." Affirmative: A. Black, D. P. Lockwood, and H. H. Atwood. Negative: P. B. Olney, J. J. Mahoney, and J. T. Sears.

**Geological Conference. Papers: The Falls of the Ohio. Major W. J. Davis.-- Note on the Passage around Cape Horn. Professor Ward. Rotch Building, 8 p.m.

*Lectures on Education. I. The Mutual Responsibilities of the Home and the School. Professor Hanus. Harvard 1, 8 p. m.

Wednesday, Nov. 28.

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

**Christian Association. Devotional Meeting. Brooks House, 6.45 p. m.

*William Bolden Noble Lectures. I. The Church System. The Hon. and Very Rev. W.H. Fremantle, D.D., Dean of Ripon. Brooks House, 8 p.m.

Thursday, Nov. 29.

Thanksgiving Day. A holiday in all departments of the University.

Friday, Nov. 30.

Last day for receiving applications for the Cheever and Hayden (medical) Scholarships.

Afternoon tea. Brooks House, 4 to 6 p. m. The Parlors of Phillips Brooks House will be open on Friday afternoons throughout the winter from four to six. Mrs. Shaler, Mrs. C. L. Smith, Mrs. E. C. Pickering, and a few other ladies, together with some instructors in the University, will be present every week, and will welcome there, in a quite informal way, any member of the University.

*Reading from the Old Testament. Mr. Copeland. Sever 11, 4 p. m.

*William Belden Noble Lectures. II. The Bible as used in Church. The Hon. and Very Rev. W. H. Fremantle, D.D., Dean of Ripop. Brooks House, 8 p. m.

Saturday, Dec. 1.

Last day for receiving applications for aid from the Loan Fund.

Public Readings from the Bible.

On Friday, Nov. 30, at four o'clock, Mr. Copeland will read from the Old Testament, in the King James translation of the Bible; on Friday, Dec. 7, from the Psalms and the New Testament. These readings will be given in Sever 11, and will be open to the public.

The Immortality of Man.

The Ingersoll lecture for the current year will be given by John Fiske, LL.D., in Sanders Theatre, on Wednesday, Dec. 19, at 8 p. m., and will be open to the public.

Symphony Concerts.

Thursday evenings, Dec. 6, Dec. 27, 1900; Jan. 10, Jan. 31, Feb. 14, Mar. 14, April 11, May 2, 1901.

Lectures on Germanic Studies.

The Department of Germanic Languages and Literature has arranged for a course of three lectures on fundamental aspects of Germanic studies to be given as follows:--

Dec. 7. Language as an element of Germanic studies. Professor William H. Carpenter, of Columbia University.

Dec. 14. Literature as an element of Germanic studies. Professor Horatio S. White, of Cornell University.

At a later date. The history of Civilization as an element of Germanic studies. Professor Henry Wood, of Johns Hopkins University.

William Belden Noble Lectures.

The William Belden Noble Lectures for 1900--01 will be given by the Hon. and Very Rev. William Henry Fremantle, D. D., Dean of Ripon, England: General Subject. "The Bearing of Christian Ordinances on Social Progress." These lectures will be open to the public, and will be given in Phillips Brooks House, at 8 p. m., on the following dates:

Nov. 28.--The Church System.

Nov. 30.--The Bible as used in Church.

Dec. 3.--The Sacraments.

Dec. 5.--The Creeds and Confessions of Faith.

Dec. 7.--Public Worship and Preaching.

Dec. 10.--Pastoral Work.

Recent Discoveries in Crete.

Mr. Louis Dyer, of Oxford, England, will deliver three illustrated lectures on the Recent Discoveries in Crete in the Lecture Room of the Fogg Museum, at 8 p. m., on Dec. 17, 18, and 21. These lectures will be open to the public.

Four Lectures on Education.

Professor Hanus will give four lectures on Education, on successive Tuesday evenings, at 8 o'clock, in Harvard, 1, on the following dates:--

Nov. 27.--The Mutual Responsibility of the Home and the School.

SECONDARY EDUCATION IN A DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY.

Dec. 4.--I. A Brief Historical Survey of Secondary Education in Massachusetts.

Dec. 11.--II. Contemporary Problems and Tendencies.

Dec. 18.--III. Contemporary Problems and Tendencies (concluded).

These lectures will be open to the public.

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