Brevities.

ALL books must be returned to the Library on or before June 17.

THE Glee Club gives a concert in Union Hall on the Wednesday before Class Day.

A SOPH. thinks that the College is biassed by its religious tendencies in adopting the Unitarian theory of chemistry.

o B. K.

Orator, Prof. C. C. Everett, D. D.; Poet, C. P. Cranch, both of Cambridge.

II. H.

President, Paul Butler; Vice-President, E. P. Elliot; Secretary, J. C. Lane; Treasurer, G. H. Bird.

Cercle Francais.

THE officers are, President, Prof. Bocher; 1st Vice-President, G. R. R. Rivers; 2d Vice-President, H. H. Drake; Secretary, W. Bell; Treasurer, F. J. Stimson.

AT a meeting of the Thayer-Weld Boat Club, O. W. Wetmore was chosen Captain, F. S. Watson, '75, President, W. N. Swift, '77, Secretary.

TICKETS for the Institute supper at Parker's, Thursday, June 18, will be for sale at Richardson's until Saturday the 13th. First ten will procure their tickets of the Treasurer.

AT the dedication of Memorial Hall, Charles Francis Adams is to be the orator, and Oliver Wendell Holmes, poet. A chorus of two hundred, directed by Mr. Paine, will furnish the music.

TICKETS for Class Day will be ready for distribution at 60 Thayer on Wednesday June, 10. No tickets will be delivered until the assessment of ten dollars has been paid. All persons who do not intend to take their tickets will confer a great favor upon the Class Day Committee by informing them of it as soon as possible.

GOLDEN gleams the gathering darkness,

Like the ashes' dying glow.

Softly sings the silvery river

Of its source amidst the snow.

Languid lowings from the cattle

Hastening to their even rest;

Tuneful tollings from the chapel

Answering echoes in the breast.

Whispered vows find willing credence

In the beating, bursting heart.

Heavenly, holy tears, uncalled for,

In the azure fountains start.

Darkness, deepening o'er the picture,

Drops the curtain on the scene;

Vows and cattle, bells and river

Fade into the evening sheen.

Grinding for History VI.- 1st SENIOR. "When was the war of 1812?"

2d SENIOR (after meditation). "By Jove, I've forgotten that again! I'll put it down and ask my tutor."

THE following members of the Senior Class have Commencement Parts to deliver: E. F. Fenollosa, W. R. Tyler, F. J. Stone, T. L. Sewall, C. F. Withington, G. Wigglesworth.

SOPHOMORES and Juniors, anticipating required studies next year, have for the basis of their examinations the ground gone over this year. Sophomores may anticipate History, Political Economy, Physics, Rhetoric, and French. Rhetoric and Philosophy may be anticipated by Juniors. The examination in History will include Freeman's Historical Outlines (Chaps. VI. - XIII), and Guizot's History of Civilization (pp. 61 - 237, omitting pp. 189 - 192). The books on Political Economy are Mrs. Fawcett's Political Economy for beginners, and Alden's Science of Government (Chaps. VI. - XVIII., and pp. 262 - 264). In Physics the books are Balfour Stewart's Lessons in Physics (pp. I - 263). In Rhetoric there is required Whately's Elements of Rhetoric (Part III.), Campbell's Philosophy of Rhetoric (pp. 162 - 268, omitting pp. 185 - 186, 216 - 218, 227 - 237). In French a fair knowledge of Grammar and some ability to translate easy French. In Junior Rhetoric the text-book is Whately from the 56th to 388th page, omitting the chapters on Presumptions, and the Lectures on the Professions. A short Outline to be had at Sever's contains all the required amount.

OF the four courses in Chemistry we would advise the student to study well his tastes before making his selection, for the courses differ materially in object. Sophomore chemistry gives a good average knowledge of the province of ordinary inorganic chemistry. While it gives him a little practical and experimental work, it takes him a step into the field of theory and gives him a foretaste of its higher branches. The laboratory work is confined to the study of the most important elements and acids. Junior qualitative analysis is mostly a laboratory course, requiring some manipulation and a fair memory. It consists of lectures on the most prominent bases and acids with experimental practice in the analysis of liquids and solids. Mineralogy is also a laboratory course of blow-pipe analysis; it requires a good memory and some experience in drawing crystals and geometrical figures. In it a good memory is sure of success. Quantitative analysis is for the steady hand and patient brain. It teaches and requires delicacy of manipulation; is concerned with the measuring by weight of the compounds studied. It requires and trains the hand and eye to great nicety, and is of some service to the physician, as well as both of the two laboratory courses above noticed. Lastly, organic chemistry carries us into the higher fields of the science. It is but a step, yet enough to get some glimpse of its extended prospect. It is almost wholly theoretical, the course of lectures being illustrated by experiments performed, at need, by the student. On it is based all of the advances made by the science in our day. It requires rather an inquiring and philosophical mind than delicacy of manipulation, as it has to do with the theory of chemistry.