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BREVITIES.

NOW, '80, make for Holworthy.

SHALL we or shall we not have pinnacles on Memorial tower?

THE Nine will play the Bostons again on Tuesday afternoon next.

THE price of board at Memorial Hall during March was $4.25 per week.

Now is the time when the prudent Senio bethinks himself to gird up his loins for his A. B.

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Mr. BOND, '78, and not Mr. Holmes, as stated by the Advocate, is scorer for the University Nine.

AT New Haven, on Saturday, the Yale Nine played a game with the Hartfords, which was won by the latter, 7 to 6, in twelve innings.

THE Rifle Club have challenged Yale and the Cambridge Club. A number of new men have joined the club, and it is in a very prosperous condition.

THE committee on the Sophomore Class Supper wish to have it distinctly understood that those wishing tickets must get them at Sever's before next Monday noon.

TICKETS for the Thursday night performance of the theatricals, to be given in aid of the Boat Club, at Union Hall, can be had at 53 Matthews, between 1.30 and 2.30 P.M.

DURING the last recess the interior of Memorial has been swept, dusted, and cleaned, by the unemployed service of the Hall. The exposed woodwork on the outside is to be protected by the application of some kind of paint.

THE field back of the Scientific School has been levelled and laid out for a ball-ground, and the seats are put up. Coupon-tickets, securing the holders admission to the games, will be furnished to subscribers, as was done last year.

THE University crew has gone to a training-table at Memorial Hall. Dinner is served to them at one o'clock and supper at half past six. The price of board is not to exceed $8.00 a week. If the club crews will also form training-tables, the board can be considerably cheapened.

OUT of two hundred and sixteen College graduates now in attendance at the Columbia L. w School, forty-eight graduated at Yale, thirty-seven at Columbia, thirty-one at the College of the City of New York, seventeen at Princeton, and thirteen at Harvard. Of the one hundred and twelve College graduates at the Harvard Law School, sixty-nine graduated at Harvard.

PROFESSOR PAINE'S recitals will given in Boylston Hall, commencing Thursday evening, April 26.

THE article in the May Atlantic entitled "The Wagner Music-Drama" was written by Mr. Henry T. Finck, '76.

GENTLEMEN who have subscribed for the support of the Crew are requested to hold themselves in readiness to pay their subscriptions to the treasurer or collector, who will call within a few-days. It is important that the subscriptions should be paid as soon as possible.

ON the evening of April 11 the Goethe Club of New York gave a dinner to Professor Hedge at Delmonico's. Dr. A. Ruppaner, the President of the Club, presided, and among those present were William Cullen Bryant, Bayard Taylor, Rev. Drs. Bellows and Osgood, W. R. Alger, and others.

THE last three lectures of the course on Ethnic Religions will be given in the lecture-room of the Divinity School, by James Freeman Clarke, at twelve o'clock on Tuesday, April 24, May 1, and May 8. Subjects: The Scandinavians and their Religion; The Jews and their Religion; Christianity and all Religions.

AT a stated meeting of the Board of Overseers on April 11, the Hon. Martin Brimmer resigned his membership, having become a Fellow of the Corporation, and the election of the Rev. Joseph Henry Thayer, D. D., as a Fellow of the Corporation, was presented and referred to the Rev. Messrs. Brooks and Hale and the Hon. Mr. Holmes.

HIGH tide at the boat-house for the next two weeks is as follows: -

April 21 6.20 P. M.

April 22 7.35 P. M.

April 23 8.35 P. M.

April 24 9.20 P. M.

April 25 9.50 A. M.

April 26 10.50 A. M.

April 27 11.35 A. M.

April 28 12.20 P. M.

April 29 1.20 P. M.

April 30 2.05 P. M.

May 1 2.50 P. M.

May 2 3.35 P. M.

May 3 4.20 P. M.

May 4 5.20 P. M.

PROFESSOR JOHN MCCRADY has handed in his resignation as professor of zoology, in consequence of the conviction that there is an irreconcilable difference of opinion between the University authorities and himself as to the scientific standard to be maintained in the study of zoology, and because he is conscientiously unable to adopt a more popular standard than that which he has hitherto maintained. - New York Evening Post.

THE foot-ball interest this spring is centred in the game with Princeton, to be played on Jarvis Field, at 3 P.M., Saturday, April 28. Tickets for the game may be obtained at 2 Beck Hall or 48 Matthews, and at Whiton's. The team has not yet been definitely selected. The captain especially desires all who have played on the fifteen to improve every opportunity for practice. Practice together has been the chief cause of former successes, and is now more needed than anything else. Mr. Barlow, '79, has been elected treasurer in place of Mr. Russell, resigned.

IT is proposed to raise among the pupils and friends of the late Rev. Dr. James Walker, President of Harvard University, the sum of from five thousand to ten thousand dollars to endow a scholarship in that University, and to provide a suitable memorial of him in Memorial Hall. Considerable subscriptions have already been made to the fund. Mr. John A. Lowell, of Boston, heads the committee, and has such associates as Charles W. Eliot, Phillips Brooks, Francis E. Parker, and Henry W. Foote. The New York members of the committee are Samuel Osgood, Joseph H. Choate, and James C. Custer.

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