Wednesday, Dec. 19.

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

Semitic Conference. The Babylonian Deluge Story. Professor Lyon. Sever 8, 4.30 p. m.

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

**St. Paul's Society. Address by the Rev. J. O. S. Huntington, O. H. C. Brooks House, 7 p. m.

**Sophomore Debating Club. Debate. Sever 11, 7 p. m. Question: "Resolved, That the granting of ship subsidies in the United States is desirable." Affirmmative: Sears's Camp. -- Negative: Hinckley's Camp.

*Ingersoll Lecture. Life Everlasting. John Fiske, LL.D. Sanders Theatre, 8 p. m.

Thursday, Dec. 20.

*Vesper Service. Appleton Chapel, 5 p. m.

*Lecture. The United States Doctrine of Citizenship and Expatriation. Hon. Oscar S. Straus, United States Minister to Turkey. Sanders Theatre, 8 p. m.

Friday, Dec. 21.

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 members of the University.

Divinity School. Christmas Service with Sermon. Mr. V. J. Emery. Divinity Chapel, 7.30 p.m.

Lectures on Recent Discoveries in Crete. III. Old Knossos and the Labyrinth of Minos. (Illustrated by the Stereopticon.) Mr. Louis Dyer, of Oxford. Lecture Room of the Fogg Museum, 8 p.m.

Sunday, Dec. 23.

The Christmas Recess begins on this day and ends on January 2, 1901.

Thursday, Dec. 27.

Boston Symphony Orchestra Concert. Sanders Theatre, 7.45 p.m