Brevities.

OFFICERS of the several College Societies for the present half-year :-

H. P. C.Pres., W. G. McMillan; Vice-Pres., A. Clifford; Sec., W. C. Sanger; Treas., J. J. Minot.

H. H.Pres., H. C. Merwin; Vice-Pres., F. O. Vaille; Sec., J. Parson, Jr.; Treas., G. O. G. Coale; Chorister, A. W. Foote.

Signet.Pres., E. A. Angell; Sec., O. H. Everett; Treas., W. Raymond.

Institute of 1770.Pres., C. W. Wetmore; Vice-Pres., N. H. Stone; Sec., J. O. S. Huntington; Treas., M. L. Willard; Chorister, H. W. Broughton.

Everett Athenaeum.Pres., A. S. Thayer; Vice-Pres., J. H. Appleton; Sec., E. P. Elliot; Treas., F. P. Fish.

Christian Brethren.Pres., F. H. Foster; Sec., W. F. Cheney; Treas., F. O. Vaille; Librarian, G. F. Young.

Glee Club.Pres., E. S. Dodge; Vice-Pres., R. H. Dana; Leader, A. W. Foote; Treas., F. H. Lombard; Sec., J. W. Farlow.

Pierian Sodality.Pres., W. Raymond; Vice-Pres., P. Dana; Sec., J. R. Ranney; Treas., P. Dana; Director, W. T. Barker.

Thayer Club.Pres., J. F. Simmons; Vice-Pres., R. W. Sawyer; Steward, F. Snow; Sen. Director, G. G. Walbach; fun. Director, F. H. Lombard; Soph. Director, N. Taylor; Fresh. Director, W. M. Bradley.

THE College "Theory of Rent" has for a long time been a mystery, but it is now found to be modelled upon Ricardo's; for the rent has been steadily increasing while the "Margin of Cultivation" has been descending.

THE reading for the Lee prizes took place last week, and the following prizes were awarded: First Prizes, C. A. Dickinson, E. Bicknell, F. W. Griffin; second prizes, W. Tappan, A. A. Wheeler, and E. E. Parker.

PROFESSOR SHALER will return from Europe the latter part of May. He will assist in managing a summer school at Nantucket, in which Professor Agassiz, and other eminent naturalists of the College, will lecture. The design of the school is to give field instruction to those who intend to become teachers of Natural History. Board will be cheap, and the tuition-fee probably about $20.

FIRST FRESH. (who has waited two weeks for the college carpenter to mend his windows). Why am I like Milo?

SECOND FRESH. (not well up in the classics). Give it up!

FIRST FRESH. Because I have found a lier-in-Waitt.

(Prolonged cachinnation from both.)THE Harvard Natural History Society wishes to give notice to members that its meetings take place bi-weekly, and not semi-annually.

Per Order.