IT is rumored that the Directors of Memorial had something to do with setting fire to Wadsworth on Wednesday. Powder has been discovered leading from the Bursar's office to the roof. What would we have thought had we seen our esteemed friend hurled into mid-air!
A STRONG demand in favor of co-education has thrown open the doors of many of our universities and colleges to women, and the college press, thinking it a poor rule which will not work both ways, is insisting that Vassar admit men. Hear! Hear! - Chronicle.
THE engravings of pictures at the Pennsylvania Academy Exhibition make the Art Amateur for May a very valuable number. But these are not all which it contains. There are very fine illustrations of some stained-glass windows, besides other matter in which every one will doubtless be interested and wish to see the magazine for himself.
Now that English 2 has been made a two-year course, we hope to see more systematic Shakspere study at Harvard than ever before. The Echo's commendation of Professor Child was by no means undeserved, and it is to be hoped that a large number of men may decide to elect a course that is, on the whole, the most satisfactory in College.
THE paper on "Hume" by Mr. R. W. Lovett, '81, in English 7, last Wednesday, was a very fair and accurate statement of the position of that author in our literature. Mr. Lovett happily avoided the wholesale commendation which is so common a fault in all forms of biography, and justly deprecated many of the errors of Hume's Philosophy, while admitting the purity and worth of his private character.
SPORTING ITEMS.MR. WM. B. CURTIS of the Spirit of the Tim's has been invited to act as referee and time-keeper at our Spring Games on the 19th.
THE Committee for fitting up the Meeting-Room in the new Gymnasium consists of Dr. Sargent, Mr. E. W. Atkinson, '81, and Mr. E. J. Wendell, '82. Any one who has any old photographs of Harvard Nines, Crews, Teams, or athletes, which he is willing to dispose of for this purpose, is earnestly requested to confer or correspond with any of the above-mentioned gentlemen, as soon as possible.
THE Harvard Athletic Association will hold their annual championship meeting on Thursday, May 19, 1881, on Jarvis Field, beginning at 2 o'clock P. M. The class meetings will be held as follows : Junior meeting, Thursday, May 12; Sophomore meeting, Friday, May 13; Freshman meeting, Monday, May 16; Senior meeting, Tuesday, May 17. The entries for ALL of the above close on Tuesday, May 10, after which no entries will be received.
THE winners of the class meetings will be eligible to compete in the championship meeting, as well as any competitor in a class meeting who has equalled or bettered the record of the winner in any other class meeting; and the winner of the championship will receive a gold medal representing the championship of the University. Any winner of a class meeting, who does not win the championship, will receive a silver medal representing the championship of his class. The second man in the class events will receive a bronze medal, provided three men finish the contest.
IN addition, a gold best-on-record medal will be given to any Harvard athlete who breaks a best American college record, a table of which will be found in our Sporting Column of this week.
IT is to be hoped that an intercollegiate tennis tournament may be arranged before the close of the season, as a series of matches in a game so universally popular could not fail to prove of great interest to all collegians.