BREVITIES.

SIXTEEN new suites in Little's.

THE place for registration is U. 7.

THE new iron stairway in Holyoke will cost about $2,000.

DURING vacation an addition has been made to the President's house.

THE Weld entries have been subjected to a new coat of varnish.

THE Weld Crew have decided on a uniform of gray bound with crimson.

MESSRS. Sykes, Wheeler, Byrne, and Stringham, of '77, have entered the post-graduate course.

MR. WINSOR will be present at the English Conference of Librarians, at London, October 20 - 25.

OLD Little's has been greatly improved by penciling and by carrying the building up two stories.

PROFESSOR ASA GRAY, in company with Sir Joseph Hooker and other English scientists, is botanizing on the Pacific coast.

AT a meeting of the University Crew, held after the race, Mr. W. A. Bancroft was re-elected Captain for the ensuing year.

THE following are elected the members of the Phi B. K. for '78: Bennett, Hamilton, Lucas, Nichols, Shepherd, Shorey, Vickery, Waters.

THOSE subscribers who failed to get No. 10 of the last volume of the Crimson may obtain their papers by calling at the University Bookstore.

A NEW and cheaper edition of "Student Life at Harvard" has been issued. The cover is ornamented by three sketches from the pencil of Mr. F. G. Atwood, '78.

THE Dean desires to state that those Seniors who have attained less than 70 per cent on the last annual scale are liable to have the privilege of voluntary recitations taken away from them, in case the right to cut is abused.

THE following is a list of Freshmen at various colleges: Harvard, * 219; Yale, 209 applicants 2; Amherst, 99; Williams, 67; Dartmouth, 63; Colby, 50; Bates, 40; Tufts, 20; Trinity, 35; Hamilton, 50; Smith, 50.

MR. E. H. HERRICK, '77, came in second in the one-hundred-yard dash at the Intercollegiate contests. The winning time was 10 1/2 seconds, and Mr. Herrick came in three tenths of a second later.

OF the ten who presented themselves for examination at Cincinnati, six were admitted and four were rejected. The same number were admitted at these examinations last year.

WITH this week's issue the Lampoon ceases to be altogether a college paper. Although it still retains the word "Harvard" on its titlepage, an effort will be made - as its editors announce - to "de-localize" it, and it is designed to have it fill, as far as possible, the place which has always been vacant in American journalism, - the place which is supplied in England by Punch.

O. K.President, L. Hancock; Secretary, C. Moore; Treasurer, G. L. Cheney; Librarian, J. H. Morison.

Hasty Pudding.President, E. Blaine; Vice-President, J. Homans; Secretary, W. S. Otis; Treasurer, F. O. de Billier; Kp, L. Hancock.

Signet.President, C. Moore; Secretary, H. C. Hay; Treasurer, J. A. Tufts.

II. H.President, J. A. Mead; Vice-President, J. F. Johnson; Secretary, H. W. Smith; Executive Committee, J. F. Johnson, A. H. Brown, J. Meinrath; Chorister, J. M. Miles; Caterer, W. E. Allen; Stage Manager, C. E. Gowen.

Institute.President, G. Griswold; Vice-President, R. Bacon; Secretary, W. I. Blodgett; Treasurer, A. W. Hooper; Librarian, E. Brooks.

K. N.President, A. B. Weimer; Vice-President, F. J. Kaulett; Secretary, H. N. Perry; Treasurer, D. W. Lord.

St. Paul's.President, R. Jacob, '78; Vice-President, W. T. Cox, '79; Secretary, N. H. Brune, '78; Treasurer, E. L. Baylies, '79; Librarian, W. G. Pellew, '80.

Natural History Society.President, Professor N. S. Shaler; Vice-Presidents, W. L. Fewkes, and R. W. Greenleaf; Corresponding Secretary, Dr. Wm. James; Recording Secretary, Geo. Dimmock; Treasurer, F. F. Daggett; Librarian, C. E. St. John.

The Boat-Clubs.HOLYOKE CLUB. - President, W. M. Le Moyne, '78; Secretary and Treasurer, C. M. Weld, '79; Captain, C. O. Brewster, '79.

HOLWORTHY CLUB. - President, W. E. Russell, '77; Secretary and Treasurer, G. H. Davis, '79; Captain, A. P. Loring, '78.

WELD CLUB. - President, J. I. Coolidge, '79; Secretary and Treasurer, H. Townsend, '80; Captain, Wm. Sheafe, '80.

MATTHEWS CLUB. - President,; Secretary and Treasurer, E. Boutelle; Captain, M. R. Jacobs.

College Telegraph Company.President, H. N. Kinney, '79; Treasurer, J. H. Stebbins, L. S. S.

THE Everett Athenaeum, the Glee Club, and the Pierian Sodality hold elections at the commencement of the year.

* June examination only.