BREVITIES.

THE Nine will play the Worcesters April 7.

FRESHMAN examination will begin on the 27th.

THE Lacrosse Club will hold their first meeting in April.

THE Pierian have been invited to give a concert in Lowell.

R. H. WHITE & Co., Boston, will furnish the Nine with their suits.

OVER three hundred tickets were disposed of for the Pierian Concert.

THE Nine will play the Bostons, April 10 and 17, on the Boston Grounds.

THE Freshman Nine play the Exeter Nine at Exeter, May 15.

THE Spring Recess will extend from the fourth to the thirteenth of April, both days included.

ALTHOUGH the Nine have been sent to get their suits, the men have not been chosen definitely.

PROFESSOR WILLIAM EVERETT gave, last Friday evening, an interesting lecture to the Institute on Cambridge.

THE Glee Club will give a short concert at the annual coffee party to be held in Lyceum Hall on 31st March.

THE Sophomore Theatricals for the benefit of U. B. C. will be given April 22, 23, and 24, probably at Horticultural Hall.

MR. HENRY CABOT LODGE is delivering a course of lectures before the Lowell Institute, on "The American Colonies in 1760."

THERE will be but few changes in the electiv pamphlet. An elective containing a history of the United States will not be given

THE Yale Record speaks of the bad financial condition of the Y. U. B. C., and advises all those whose subscriptions are due, to pay them.

THE Junior Class at Yale gave a theatrical performance for the benefit of the Boat Club at the theatre in New Haven, on Tuesday.

THE 115th Commencement of the Medical School of the University of Pennsylvania took place at the Academy of Music, in Philadelphia, on Monday last.

IT is very probable that Richmond will accept the position of catcher on the Worcesters, and therefore be debarred from playing in the intercollegiate games.

THE debate next Thursday, at the meeting of those who take English 6, will be at three o'clock. The subject for discussion will be: Resolved, that Cabinet Officers should be admitted to the floor of Congress. Mr. Gamaliel Bradford will open the discussion. All members of the University are invited.

THE "singles" ordered by the H. U. B. C. are expected next week. as well as a new Whitehall boat.

THE Herald, last Sunday, gave a very good account of Professor Benjamin Pierce, and his work as the first of American Mathematicians.

THE H. U. B. C. held a meeting Tuesday evening, concerning Yale's having a professional coach, and decided to refer the matter to the Executive Committee.

MR. THOMAS HUGHES lectured recently to the Workingmen's College of London on "James Russell Lowell." He spoke highly of Mr. Lowell as a man of letters.

THE Junior Crew were on the river for the first time Wednesday. Hemenway pulled stroke; Brewer, 7; Swan, 6; Elliott, 5; Foster, 4; Mueller, 3; Swinburne, 2; and Hammond (Capt.), 1.

THE Fifth Annual Convention of the Intercollegiate Athletic Association will be held April 3, at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York, at 9.30 A.M. Each college belonging to the Association is entitled to be represented by two delegates.

THE Society of Christian Brethren, having obtained No. 18 Stoughton, have been able. through the benevolence of past members and friends of the Society, to refurnish their room. They will hold their first meeting in it Thursday evening, March 25, at 6.30. Professor Palmer is expected to take charge, and a hearty invitation is given to members of the University to be present.

THE Yale College Catalogue for 1879-80 shows that the students at the college number 1,003, including 581 in the academical apartment, 175 in the scientific school, 88 in the theological school, 32 in the medical college, and 74 in the law school; the rest being divided between the students in the school of fine arts and those pursuing a graduate course. The list of Faculty and instructors includes one hundred names.

THE Class Day Committee invite all members of the class to compete in writing the words for the Class Song. Copies must be handed to the committee or the chorister before May 1. The music selected requires eight lines to a stanza, and the number of stanzas is usually three. The following will serve as a specimen of the metre: -

"From this fair point of present bliss,

Where we together stand,

Let me look back once more and trace

That long and desert land.

What had I then? A hope that grew

Each hour more bright and near, -

The flush upon the eastern skies

That showed the sun was near."

THE new room of the Society of Christian Brethren (18 Stoughton) has been handsomely papered by the Society, and painted in party-colors by the College. The furniture has been renovated and partly renewed, a new carpet has been put down, and very handsome curtains hung. The expenses of removal have been borne by past and present members of the Society and by several members of the Faculty. The room will probably not be occupied till after the recess.

THE second subject for Jun. B., Theme VI., should have been "The Year's Work," not "The Grand Work," as it was printed in the last Crimson.

Junior (to unsuspecting Sophomore). - I suppose Sargent ordered you a salt bath, did n't he? He ought to have, of course.

U. S. - Salt bath! No, he did n't; why should he?

Junior (combining a reason and an answer). - Oh, you are so fresh!

THE catalogue of the Harvard Club of New York City, for 1880, has been received. The Club "was founded in 1865, to advance the interests of the University, and to promote social intercourse among the Alumni residing in New York and its vicinity." All who have been connected with any department of the University are eligible for membership; the Admission Fee is $10, and the Annual Dues are also $10. The Club now numbers 210 members, and appears to be in a prosperous condition.

THE following gentlemen have kindly volunteered their services for the grand popular concert at Sanders Theatre, March 30: Ole Bull, the world-renowned violin virtuoso; George L. Osgood, tenor; Arthur Foote, pianist; W. D. Locke, pianist; Gustave Daunrenther, violin; Henry Heindl, viola; Wulf Fries, 'cello; the Glee Club. The tickets - including reserved seats - will be placed at 75 cents, and can be obtained at the University Bookstore. Most of the performers are artists of established reputation, that of some being national, while the fame of Ole Bull is world-wide.

A GAME between the Harvard Chess Club and the Boston Club was begun February 28. The moves played up to Wednesday, March 17, were as follows: -

WHITE (Harvard).

1. P. K. 4.

2. P. K. B. 4.

3. Kt. K. B. 3.

4. K. B. Q. B. 4.

5. P. K. R. 4.

6. P. Q. 4.

7. Q. Kt. Q. B. 3.

BLACK (Boston).

1. P. K. 4.

2. P. X. P.

3. P. K. Kt. 4.

4. B. K. Kt. 2.

5. P. K. R. 3.

6. P. Q. 3.

7. Q. Kt. Q. B. 3.

THE latest addition to the London University is a Professorship of Hygiene and Public Health.

THE Oxford-Cambridge race takes place to-morrow at 7.45 A.M. The last English papers state that the betting, which had been 10 to 7 in favor of the latter, is now even, owing to the changes in the Cambridge crew.

NUMEROUS cases of brain-fog and actual insanity from over study have recently occurred in England. Ten per cent of the young men who passed the competitive Civil Service Examination for Indian service showed, when they afterwards applied for health-certificates, that they had been affected injuriously by the strain of the examination.

NOT long ago, an examiner at the London University, speaking to another examiner, boasted of the puzzling questions he had been ingenious enough to ask, whereupon the other replied, to my great satisfaction, "You should try and find out how much, not how little, the students know." I should have no fear of questions being unreasonable put by a wise, common-sense professor like this, whereas some learned men expect a student to reach in a few months the level of their own mature knowledge. - D. Hack Tuke, F. R. C. P., before the British Med. Ass'n.

SCHEDULE OF GAMES OF AMERICAN COLLEGE BASE BALL ASSOCIATION FOR THE SEASON OF 1880.

May 8. - Harvard vs. Dartmouth, at Hanover.

May 8. - Brown vs. Princeton, at Princeton.

May 12. - Harvard vs. Amherst, at Amherst.

May 14. - Brown vs. Dartmouth, at Hanover.

May 21. - Harvard vs. Princeton, at Princeton.

May 22. - Harvard vs. Princeton, at Jersey City.

May 25. - Harvard vs. Brown, at Providence.

May 26. - Brown vs. Amherst, at Amherst.

May 27. - Dartmouth vs. Harvard, at Cambridge.

May 29. - Dartmouth vs. Brown, at Providence.

June 1. - Dartmouth vs. Princeton, at Princeton.

June 1. - Brown vs. Harvard, at Cambridge.

June 2. - Dartmouth vs. Amherst, at Amherst.

June 3. - Princeton vs. Brown, at Providence.

June 4. - Princeton vs. Harvard, at Cambridge.

June 5. - Princeton vs. Harvard, at Cambridge.

June 7. - Princeton vs. Dartmouth, at Hanover.

June 8. - Princeton vs. Amherst, at Amherst.

June 9. - Amherst vs. Dartmouth, at Hanover.

June 15. - Amherst vs. Princeton, at Princeton.

June 16. - Amherst vs. Brown, at Providence.

June 23. - Amherst vs. Harvard, at Cambridge.

Harvard-Yale Series.

May 15. - Harvard vs. Yale, at New Haven.

May 29. - Yale vs. Harvard, at Cambridge.