The Prospect Union will open its seventeenth year of work in Cambridge on Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock. At that time brief addresses will be made by Mayor Wardwell, Professors F. G. Peabody '69 and J. L. Coolidge '95, and H. Abrahams, secretary of the Central Labor Union. A brief announcement of the plans for the year will be made by A. H. Elder 2L., educational director of the Prospect Union.

The evening classes this year will include a variety of new courses. The outline of the courses, together with the names of teachers, follows: speaking and reading, G. L. Harding '10: grammar, S. F. Peavey 3L.: Composition. J. C. Bills '09: literature, H. F. Hossack '09: elocution. O. L. M. H. Lyding '09: elementary French. W. F. Dolan '09: advanced French. E. A. Thompson 3L.: elementary German. W. F. Hall '09: advanced German. P. N. Crusius '09: physics, S. Withington: chemistry, H. C. Chapin 2L.: hygiene and physiology: penmanship. R. H. Dickson: stenography and typewriting. J. O. Wicks 2L.: economics. G. H. Howard 2L.: commercial law. J. C. Mcchem 2L.: comand investments, L. W. Churchill: bookkeeping. A. C. Coughlan 2L.: elementary arithmetic: H. B. Platt 1G.: advanced arithmetic. J. S. Miller '10: algebra: geometry; civics, I. N. Linnell; music, L. O. Cummings '10; American history, E. R. Lewis 2L.; mechanical drawing, E. T. P. Walker '09.

The Prospect Union is an institution conducted entirely by Harvard men. It aims to bring together student and workingman on a basis of mutual helpfulness. All the workingmen of Cambridge and suburbs are invited to take advantage of the opportunities it offers. The membership fee is $2, and this entitles men to the free use of the library, game room and shower baths, and gives free admission to all classes, lectures, and smoke talks.

Several new courses, including elocution, economics, banking, investments, and civics were applied for last year, and these have accordingly been added. An effort is also being made to adapt the courses in advanced arithmetic, physic chemistry and mechanical drawing to the practical needs of the skilled workmen and mechanics who take such courses.

It is anticipated that some of the classes will be so large that additional teachers will be needed. Men who would like to give one evening a week to this work can secure further information about the classes by addressing A. H. Elder, Prospect Union. The classes will meet one hour weekly except during vacations, from October 12 to about April 15.