BREVITIES.

THE editors of the Advocate have requested us to correct the statement in their last number, to the effect that Professor W. Everett would address the United Sophomore Societies. It was inserted on imperfect information. No such address is in contemplation.

NOTWITHSTANDING the fact that Professor Agassiz is already overworked, he has consented to deliver a course of lectures in Washington this winter; gave a lecture in Fitchburg last Thursday evening; and will throughout the present academic year deliver a lecture every Friday forenoon, at II o'clock, to the students of the College. Those who have not hitherto attended these lectures are wasting excellent opportunities to hear the theory of "evolution" discussed very thoroughly.

THE season has come for remarks on board-planks to be in order. Why should we not take the matter into our own hands? Fifty cents from every student in College is all that would be needed.

REV. HENRY W. FOOTE will preach in Appleton Chapel Sunday evening, December 14th, in place of Rev. Mr. Hale.

THE Natural History Society have granted the use of their rooms in Stoughton to the C. T. Co. The first meeting in their new rooms was held last Wednesday night, when Mr. Robert W. Sawyer, '74, was elected President, and Mr. J. C. Holman, '76, Vice-President. The company adjourned for a month.

A NEW sub-committee of the Committee of the Overseers for examining the Academical Department has been established. Its duty is to examine the "discipline" of the College.

SCENE: RECEIVING-TOMB OF BOSTON THEATRE. -

SENIOR solus. To him enter sturdy YEOMAN.

YEOMAN. Does Salvyny act this aft'noon?

SENIOR. Certainly, sir.

YEOMAN. Does Salvyny speak all his piece in I-talian?

SENIOR. I presume so, sir.

YEOMAN. Then I would n't give two cents to hear him.

THE active members of the C. T. Co. number twenty-one at the present time, and there are forty-one machines on private line in the College buildings.

THE Glee Club attended a coffee-party at the Shepard Church, Wednesday, enjoying the evening, and singing with their usual success.

A NEW German society, entitled "Die Hallis Tafelrunde," has been formed, the membership of which is limited to the Senior Class.

SCENE: FORENSICS. - PERMIXTUS (reading). And it is to be observed that in this country large fortunes seldom remain in the hands of one person for more than a single generation. (Division coincide with their feet.)

FOR the benefit of those students in the Academic Department who wish to know the times and subjects of the first-year lectures at the Law School, and by whom delivered, the following list is printed: Forenoon Lectures begin at eleven o'clock; those on Monday and Tuesday are on Real Property, given by the Hon. Emory B. Washburn; those on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, on Contracts, by Professor J. B. Ames. Afternoon Lectures begin at three. The lecture Monday afternoon is on Crime and Procedure, by Professor Washburn; Tuesday, on Torts, by Professor Lathrop; and Friday, on Civil Procedure (either an explanatory lecture from "Stephen, On Pleading," or a practical case in pleading).

HEREAFTER the Advertiser's "Tabular View" and "Companion Table" cannot be published by any enterprising student who wishes to do so, a copyright to it having been recently granted.

A NINETY-per-cent man at Commons really wants to know, and no fooling, how macaroni does grow, anyway.

THE directors of the C. T. Co. have succeeded in uniting their line with the Western Union Company, making the connection by running the wire to the post-office.

SEVERAL Seniors in History V. can't find Utopia on the map.

AT 11 o'clock to-morrow forenoon, and every following Saturday, the officers and instructors of the Museum meet to discuss the previous week's work and to perfect plans by which each department may know what the others are doing, thus enabling all to work more intelligently.

IN view of the success of the French and German clubs, steps have been taken to form an English society. We hope it will receive the hearty support it deserves.

THE Museum has recently received parts of a large cuttlefish some eighty or ninety feet in length.

THOSE interested in the Gray Heliotypes will be glad to hear that there will be an opening of about fifty new subjects in a fortnight or less at the University Bookstore. The subjects of the heliotypes have been carefully selected by Mr. Osgood, and, though most of them are modern (Toschi's engravings after Correggio, and others after Titian and Raphael), there will be found Durer's "Life of the Virgin" and probably the whole of Blake's "Job."

THE large central room at the Museum, intended for the reception of mounted specimens, will soon be finished. This will give to that portion of the Museum open to visitors a much more attractive appearance. Two other rooms for the same purpose are to be added as soon as possible.