Advertisement

FACT AND RUMOR.

Prof. Norton will probably be able to lecture today.

Charles river is frozen over between the Cambridge bridges.

Mr. Lutz's German readings will be given at 7.30 P. M. today in Sever 11.

The first German at the Dorchester Yacht Club rooms was given Saturday night. Several students attended.

A number of seniors have availed themselves of Mr. Notman's offer of "complimentary" photographs in return for a sitting.

Advertisement

At the legal meeting to organize the Associated Charities of Cambridge, Dr. A. P. Peabody was chosen president and President Eliot was chosen first vicepresident.

The seventh edition of Liddell & Scott's famous Greek Lexicon has just been published. Prof. Goodwin, of Harvard, is mentioned as one of the chief contributors and revisers.

Dr. F. Max Muller's series of lectures on "India: What Can it Teach Us," which have been delivered before the students of the University of Cambridge, will be revised and published shortly in book form.

The Vassall Club will give a benefit entertainment next Monday in Lyceum Hall, in which will be presented "Artist's Dream," "Poor Pillicoddy" and "The Loan of a Lover." Several Harvard men, members of the club, will take part.

The Yale graduate advisory committee, at a meeting at New Haven Saturday, decided not to agree with the appointment of a conference committee on matters in dispute between the Harvard and Yale University crews, until Harvard formally accepts Yale's challenge to race. The Yale crew went into training Saturday.

The Yale Glee Club are said to have lost money by their last trip. Bad weather and consequently small houses greeted them. In consequence of the near approach of Lent, all sorts of entertainments were in full swing each night of their singing. The houses at Boston and Brooklyn, however, were very large and enthusiastic.

The new college at Cambridge University in England, Selwyn College, bids fair to be as brilliant a success at Cambridge as Keble has been at Oxford. Only sixty students can be accommodated so far, as the L38,000 originally subscribed did not suffice to build more than the first block. Selwyn is the first college added to the university during the present century.

The following card has been provided by the library authorities, and will be sent whenever inquiries for any book then out will warrant: "The librarian would remind you that there have been several inquiries for the book named below, and has no doubt that when informed of this demand you will desire to return it as soon as your use for it is over."

The Nation says of Life: "It is, by evolution, an offspring of the Harvard Lampoon, whose most genuine designer, Mr. F. G. Atwood, is here represented by a cartoon and by some clever initial letters and head-pieces. The drawings and the fun are much above the average of the Lampoon, and would be respectable anywhere. Is there adequate support for a decorous and monochromatic Puck?"

In regard to the occupations, or professional destinations of 1226 recent graduates, the survivors of ten classes (1867-1876), as stated in the class reports issued (with one exception) three years after the year of graduation, the following interesting table is given in President Eliot's report: Law, 36 per cent.; medicine, 10 per cent.; theology, 5 per cent.; scientific, 6 per cent.; teaching, 9 per cent.; business, 21 per cent.; unknown and miscellaneous, 13 per cent.

A London paper states that the choruses composed by Dr. G. A. Macfarren for the recent performances in Greek at Cambridge and Eaton of the "Ajax" of Sophocles are in unison throughout, with accompaniment for harp (representing the lyre), and a small orchestra, reinforced by a drum. The music which the late Sir Sterndale Bennett was writing for the same tragedy is conceived more in the style of Mendelssohn's Greek tragedies ("Antigone" and "OEdipus") than in that adopted by his successor at Cambridge University. Only two pieces, unfortunately, were left complete - the overture and funeral march. - [Ex.

Advertisement