HARVARD DINNER IN NEW YORK.

THE annual dinner of the Harvard Club of New York took place at Delmonico's on Friday last. The after dinner speech of the President of the Club, Mr. Rufus H. Choate, was witty and entertaining; and the remarks of President Eliot and Professor Benjamin Peirce are of interest to all undergraduates as well as graduates.

President Eliot said he was opposed to any admission to the bar, except after public examination, and that he thought no law school needed special privileges in regard to the admission of its students. He also considered, as in the English civil service, not only the learning of the candidate, but his character and antecedents, should be inquired into. This of course means that every person presenting himself to the bar for examination be required to bring a certificate of good moral character.

Professor Peirce, after considering the question of the intellectual progress of our College during the past years, and the great advances that have and are continually being made in literature and science, spoke of the original investigations in science which are going on among us, but of which certainly few undergraduates have any knowledge. Professors Gray, Whitney, Gibbs, Lovering, Cooke, Shaler, Trowbridge, and Jackson are all at work in their several departments making scientific researches, and writing up the results they have obtained. Motley has been elected a member of the French Academy; Professor Newcomb, a graduate of our Scientific School, has received honors from four foreign societies; while Dr. Gould, another astronomer, has been elected a member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences at St. Petersburg.

If so good a record is not shown twenty years hence, it will be laid to the pessimistic effect of the Nation.

The Harvard Club in New York has one hundred and eighty-two members. Besides the annual dinner, reunions are held on the third Saturday in each month.