BREVITIES.

THE Freshman nine will play Brown '82 to-morrow at Providence.

THE Everett Athenaeum will elect the first ten from '82 to-night.

THE Lacrosse Club play their third game with the Union Club to-morrow.

THE Umpire in the game to-morrow is Mr. Nickerson, of Brown.

BOTH the University and Freshman crews have come out in their straw hats.

IT is reported that the Medical School must have $200,000 before women can be admitted.

TICKETS for the H. P. C. dinner can be obtained at Sever's until Saturday evening. Price, $2.50.

MR. G. H. DAVIS has been appointed toast-master, and Mr. W. Sheafe chorister, for the Pudding dinner.

IT is now stated that Mr. James Russell Lowell has no intention of returning to this country this summer.

MEMBERS of the Bicycle Club can obtain their shingles at 14 Thayer.

THERE will be an examination to make up conditions in Metaphysics in U. E. R. Saturday, May 24, 9 A. M.

THE II. H. Spread will be given in Upper Massachusetts, and the Signet's in the middle entry of Thayer.

THE Yale men positively refused to play in Boston, so the game to-morrow will be played on Jarvis Field, at 3 P. M.

AN interesting half-mile brush between '79's crew and the Law School crew on Wednesday ended in a dead heat.

MR. CHARLES S. PEIRCE, who is to give the next lecture in the Philosophical Club Course, is a son of Professor Benjamin Peirce.

THE members of the Hasty Pudding Club from '79 are requested to meet at the rooms of the Club on Monday afternoon at 4.15.

ENTRIES for the H. A. A. will positively close on Tuesday, May 20. Each entry, one dollar, to be returned to all who cover the distance.

A WRITER in Thursday's Advertiser recommends Colonel T. W. Higginson to the graduates as a capable and suitable man for Overseer.

THE six Testudines Tabulatae which were on exhibition in front of the Museum of Comparative Zoology last Friday came from Trinidad.

THE ushers from '80 for the Pudding celebration in Sanders Theatre are: Messrs. Allen, Bacon, Hooper, Jackson, Lamson, Roosevelt, Shaw, and Trimble.

THE officers of the Art Club are as follows: President, C. A. Coolidge, '81; Secretary, E. L. Opdycke, '80; Treasurer, J. Quincy, '80; Curator, W. R. Richardson, '80.

MR. JOHN FISKE has been invited to deliver his course of lectures on American History, in England, this summer; he will undoubtedly accept the invitation.

INSTRUCTOR IN LOGIC TO MR. H. By what method of reasoning do you infer that a bullet is hot after it strikes a target? - MR. H. By picking it up, sir. - Yale Record.

THE Hon. Hugh McCulloch will lecture this evening in Sanders Theatre, on "Taxation." The last lecture in this course will be given May 20. Subject: "Capital and Labor."

THE University Club has become an established fact in New York. The treasurer has received $20,000, and the Club-house will be ready for occupancy by the first of June.

THE prizes for the Athletic Meeting are to be much more valuable than any heretofore given. The first and second will probably be medals suitably engraved, and the third will be a cup.

THE third lecture of the Philosophical Club Course will be given Wednesday evening, May 21, by Mr. Charles S. Peirce, of the U. S. Coast Survey. Subject: "The Relations of Logic to Philosophy."

PROFESSOR PAINE will pass his summer vacation in Europe, returning about the first of November. Mr. Fenelosa will probably have charge of his classes during the first two or three weeks of the fall term.

THE Harvard Bicycle Club have received their caps; gray cloth, with the monogram H. B. C. in crimson and blue. The Club will have no meet tomorrow. About ten machines are kept in the Club-room.

THE Museum of Comparative Zoology has just been enriched by a magnificent collection of deep-sea animals taken from the waters adjacent to the islands from Cuba to Trinidad inclusive, and also by a collection made on land, in order to compare the representations of these islands. The collection is a result of Professor Agassiz's Coast Survey work.

ALL persons who would have conflicts caused by an interchange of the hours of Fine Arts 2 and 5, will confer a favor by sending their names to 48 Grays.

THE referee's tug leaves the Harvard Boat-house at 9 A. M. to-morrow, and the Union Boat-house at 9 1/2. Those who have tickets can go on board at either point.

THE Freshman crew have the glorious reputation of having made the worst time on the river. The men in the bow seem to be unable to get over the trick of looking out of the boat for admirers.

THE second of the lectures given in Boylston Hall, under the charge of the Philosophical Club, was delivered by Professor Howison, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Wednesday evening. Subject: "The Scope and Value of Philosophy."

ALL members of the Class of '79 who can write verses are invited to prepare words for the Class Song, and to hand them to the chorister or to any member of the Class Committee on or before May 28. A stanza of six verses may be used, if preferred, but four verses are required.

THE order of exercises of the H. P. C. celebration next Monday is as follows: Members meet at the Pudding Rooms at 4.15, and march to Sanders Theatre. An oration and a poem will then be delivered. There will be music between the exercises.

THE judges at the Boylston Speaking divided the maximum mark of 100 as follows: Manner, including Attitude and Gesture, 20; Voice, Enunciation, and Pronunciation, 20; Intelligence, 30; Feeling, including Pathos, Passion, and Force, 30.

THE Institute Supper will take place on Thursday. May 22, at 7.30 P. M., at Young's Hotel. Tickets can be obtained at 13 Holyoke from 11 to 12, Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. The officers are: S. Hammond, President; W. R. Thayer, Toastmaster; C. M. Van Buren, Orator; P. Evarts, Poet; J. S. How, Chorister; and Messrs. Sanger, Upham, and Browne, Committee.

THE last debate in English 6 takes place on Thursday, May 23, at half past one. The following question will be discussed: "Resolved, That unrestricted Chinese immigration is detrimental to the welfare of the United States." The debaters are Messrs. Ayers, Evans, and Thorp, in the affirmative, and Messrs. Keyes, Macfarlane, and Mulligan in the negative. All members of the University are invited to attend the debate, and all who intend to take the course next year are requested to do so.

INSTRUCTOR in Optics: "Yes, gentlemen, you may experience this curious phenomenon of seeing double by gazing fixedly at any object for a short time. I myself have frequently observed double lampposts." Class woods up. (Fact.)

THE third proof of the examinations is as follows:

Monday, May 26. Latin 7; English 2; German 2; History 2; History 7; Chemistry 2; Grad. 17; Grad. 36 (Palaeontology).

Tuesday, May 27. Greek 9; English 1; German 3; French 3, 4, 6; Grad. 12.

Wednesday, May 28. Hebrew; English 4; Philosophy 5; Music 4.

Thursday, May 29. Greek 1; German 7; Philosophy 2; Chemistry 3.

Friday, May 30. Music 1; Fine Arts 2; Physics 5. P. M. Greek 2.

Saturday, May 31. Greek 8; History 5; Mathematics 8; Physics 4; Chemistry 1; Natural History 2.

Monday, June 2. Latin 5, 9; Italian 1. P.M. Natural History 6; Fine Arts 1.

Tuesday, June 3. Latin 4; German 6; Italian 2; History 6; Mathematics 7; Natural History 4.

Wednesday, June 4. Sanskrit; Philosophy 1; Grad. 24. P. M. German 1; Physics 2.

Thursday, June 5. Greek 5; French 1; French 2; Philosophy 3; Music 3.

Friday, June 6. Greek 4; Chemistry 4; Natural History 3; Fine Arts 3.

Saturday, June 7. Freshman Chemistry; Philosophy 6, 7; Mathematics 4; Chemistry 5.

Monday, June 9. Prescribed History; Latin 6; Music 2; Grad. 23.

Tuesday, June 10. Freshman Math.; Latin 8; Physics 1.

Wednesday, June 11. Greek 7; Spanish 2; History 4; Natural History 1.

Thursday, June 12. Prescribed Rhetoric. P. M. Freshman Physics.

Friday, June 13. Comp. Philology; Greek 6; Latin 3; German 8; Philosophy 4; History 3; Mathematics 6.

Saturday, June 14. Freshman Latin; Latin 1, 2.

Monday, June 16. English 3, 5; German 4; Italian 3; Mathematics 2, 5; Grad. 36.

Tuesday, June 17. Freshman Greek; Spanish 1.

Wednesday, June 18. Freshman French; German 5; Mathematics 1; Natural History 7.

Thursday, June 19. Prescribed Logic; Freshman German.

The only change from the second proof is in the day of Physics 2.

THE expenditures and receipts of the Harvard Dining Association for the month of April were as follows:-

Dr.

Bills paid $10,063.71

Water charge 28.13

Gas bill 91.58

Interest on debt 279.35

Interest on advances 245.71

Reduction of debt 166.67

Insurance 18.75

Summer repairs 175.00

Crockery assessment 101.84

Sunday absences 251.10

Stock on hand April 1 1,927.77

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$13,349.61

Cr.

Stock on hand May 1 $1,709.77

Sale of bones 35.11

Sale of swill 31.12

Sale of grease 261.40

Sale of cold food, etc 36.22

Gas and coal furnished Theatre 5.85

Extra dishes ordered 843.45

Crockery charged to surplus 111.65

Balance 10,315.04

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$13,349.61