BREVITIES.

MR. CROCKER is now coaching the Freshman Crew.

THE Nine will play the Live Oaks at Lynn on Fast Day.

FRESHMAN examinations began on Thursday, March 21.

CORNELL has written to Captain North that she desires to row at Saratoga.

THE Nine and substitutes will sit for a group at Mr. Pach's studio to-morrow.

THE first edition of Mr. Henry Cabot Lodge's work has been sold, and a second edition will soon be published.

THE Field Meeting of the H. A. A. will take place on Saturday, May 4. The time of day will be made known hereafter.

As a proof of the interest in athletics at Harvard, two men witnessed the performances of the Tennis Club last Tuesday.

AT the meeting of the Rifle Club Tuesday last the following officers were elected : President and Captain, H. W. H. Powel, '79; Secretary and Treasurer, F. Simpson, '79; Marshals, T. Lee, '79, T. Russell, '79, C. Brigham, '80.

MR. POWEL, '79, has offered a cup to the H. U. R. C., to be shot for by members of the club, under conditions to be fixed hereafter.

MESSRS. ATKINSON, bow, Foster, Hammond, Freeland, Howard, North, Binney, Hawkins, stroke of the Freshman Crew, with Mr. Crocker as coach, were on the river in an eight on Friday last.

THE officers of the H. P. C. from '79 are : President, Mr. J. A. Wright; Vice-President, Mr. W. Sheafe, Jr.; Secretary, Mr. J. T. Coolidge, 3d; Treasurer, Mr. J. T. Bowen.

MR. H. E. GUILD, '80, has been appointed Secretary of the Holworthy Boat Club in place of Mr. F. H. Allen resigned. Those who wish to join the club will find him at Hollis 32.

THE Art Club at their meeting last night discussed Turner's Slave Ship. Mr. William Hunt has kindly invited the club to visit his studio some evening. The invitation will probably be accepted for Saturday.

THE second nine of the Hasty Pudding Club from '79 is as follows : H. W. H. Powel, C. Brigham, G. V. L. Meyer, F. M. Ware, J. E. Cowdin, W. B. Van Rensselaer, W. Trimble, F. Donaldson, H. S. Le Roy.

THE first University games with Princeton and Yale are arranged for Saturday, May 11 and 18, at Princeton and New Haven respectively. The second game with Yale will be played in Cambridge, on Saturday, May 25.

THE edition for Seniors of "Harvard and its Surroundings" has been exhausted. Other copies may be subscribed for at 3 Stoughton and at the University Bookstore; only the number subscribed for will be printed.

THE young ladies of Vassar feel quite at home in studying chemistry. They are at once on friendly terms with Sal Ammoniac, Sal Soda, Sal Prunelle, Mag Nesium, Moll Ybdenum, Ann Timony, Cad Mium, Ruth Enium, Pete Roleum, Al Uminum, Doll O'Mite, Bessi Mer's Process, Mary Otte's Law, 'Emma Tight, and Ann Alysis.

SCENE, Recitation Room. Artful Student (who wishes to make a favorable impression on his French instructor, just before the Semiannuals). Monsieur, will you be good enough to tell me what books you would recommend me to read at sight outside of the class? Acute Instructor (who has been caught in the trap before). If you want something to read at sight, sir, I should recommend the books we have been using in the class.

MR. PACH, the Senior Class photographer, offers his albums at remarkably reasonable prices. The album contains 30 leaves, arranged as follows : 25 leaves for cabinets, 8 on a leaf; 3 leaves for views, 4 on a leaf; 2 leaves for groups, 4 on a page. The Album is placed at $88.30, or, with 6 per cent discount, at $83.00.

ON Saturday morning the University Nine played a closely contested game with a picked nine; the latter having the advantage of Ernst's and Tyng's valuable services. The game resulted in favor of the picked nine by a score of 7 vs. 4 in six innings. Base-hits, Picked Nine, 6, University 4. Hooper and Dwyer played respectively pitcher and catcher for the University.

THE following is the result of the billiard tournament at Lovell's, which ended March 15. The games were of 250 points.

Games won. Games lost.

Cory 4 0

Miller 3 1

Slater 2 2

Burrill 1 3

French 0 4

COMPANY officers of the Rifle Corps : Company A, Captain, J. B. Field, '80; 1st Lieutenant, H. W. Savage, '80; 2d Lieutenant, J. Mitchell, '80; 1st Sergeant, E. H. Squibb, L. S. S.; 2d Sergeant, A. H. Bowen, '79; 3d Sergeant, F. E. Cabot, '80; 4th Sergeant, R. Bradford, '80; 5th Sergeant, B. S. Turpin, '80. Company B, Captain, L. M. Clark; 1st Lieutenant, C. Guild, Jr.; 2d Lieutenant, R. Sturgis; 1st Sergeant, J. H. Seaverns; 2d Sergeant, F. B. Holden; 3d Sergeant, E. W. Atkinson; 4th Sergeant, P. S. Morse; 5th Sergeant, M. H. Morgan; all of the Freshman Class.

THE Treasurer of the H. U. F. B. C. presents the following report : -

The chief expenses were,

April to June, 1877 $341.35

McGill Supper 222.10

Tickets to New York 190.00

Hotel and Stage 131.57

Berths 70.00

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The total expenses were $1,073.51

The chief receipts were,

April to June, 1877 $358.10

Tufts Match 93.15

McGill Match 272.36

Princeton's Guarantee 200.00

Columbia's Guarantee 100.00

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The total receipts were $1,105.61

Balance in the treasury $32.10

IN accordance with the vote passed at the O. K. dinner last year, the committee then appointed have made arrangements for a second dinner and reunion of the past and present members of the society, on Tuesday evening, April 2, 1878, at Young's Hotel, in Boston. Rev. George L. Chaney, the first president of the society, will preside. The tickets for the dinner will be $2.50 each, and they can be obtained from any of the undersigned, by personal application or by mail. If members will purchase their tickets at an early day it will greatly facilitate the efforts of the committee to make all the arrangements satisfactory. The dinner will be served at 6 P. M. Joseph Healy, 35 Congress St., Boston; Godfrey Morse, 40 Water St., Boston; Arthur L. Ware, 67 Charles St., Boston; John T. Wheelwright, 890 Main St., Cambridge; Barrett Wendell, 9 Linden St., Cambridge.

THE subject for the next Senior Forensic, 1st division, Is ridicule a test of truth? References : Shaftesbury's "Essay on the Freedom of Wit and Humor"; Akenside's "Pleasures of the Imagination," note on 3d Book; Bentham's "Works," Vol. 11. pp. 114, 360. Specimens of ridicule employed argumentatively : many of Swift's Works, The Spectator passim, British Essayists, Petroleum V. Nasby's Letters. Time, second Monday in May. 2d division : Are we justified in pursuing sports which have for their aim or issue the suffering and death of the lower animals? References : Works of Soame Jenyns, Vol. III. p. 186 et seq.; Memoirs of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society, Vol. I. p. 341 et seq. Time, third Tuesday in May.