The reference books in History 2 are out.

The new Chapel at Dartmouth is nearly completed.

Some members of the nine have already begun to practice in the cage.

40 men applied to Mr. Cummings for voluntary instruction in reading.

The meeting of the Shakespeare club on Tuesday evening was not a public one.

The second symphony concert in Sanders Theatre takes place this evening.

The text book which will be used in the voluntary courses in reading by Mr. Cummings, is Seven American Classics.

By the will of the late Dr. Edward Jarvis, Harvard will receive a bequest of $500, and a portion of his library.

Mr. G. Droppers read an essay on Wm. Ellis at the Finance Club on Tuesday Evening.

Quite a number of Harvard men went to Salem on Monday to hear the concert given by the Glee Club and the Salem Oratorio.

An attempt to form a chess club is being made by some Freshmen. Any Freshman who desires to join, is requested to call at 2 Gray's to day.

There will be an excursion in N. H. 4 to day to Marblehead, Swampscott, and Salem. The train will leave the Eastern Depot at 12 o'clock.

President Noah Porter of Yale will preach a sermon in the Prospect Street Church, Cambridgeport, on Thursday evening.

The one hour examination in History 1 has been postponed to Tuesday next. There will be a recitation as usual to day.

President Francis A. Walker of the Technology is a candidate for the school committee of Boston and is supported by all parties.

The first eight of the Pi Eta Society from '86, is as follows: Boyden, C. R. Brown, J. C. Faulkner, Ferry, Payne, Roberts, Simmons, C. R. Thompson.

Over eighteen hundred books have been procured by special orders for students by the co-operative society. This does not include any of the large stock of books regularly kept on hand.

Edmund W. Grosse of Cambridge University, England, has begun a series of six lectures on English Literature of the 17th century, at the Lowell Institute, Boston.

We print to day the first correct report of the Athletic Committee which has appeared. The report which was published yesterday in the Advertiser was marred by some important omissions.

The University crew will continue to row daily upon the river as long as the weather allows. The crew is now without a regular coach, depending upon the captain and the coxswain for instruction.

Mr. Wm. E. Russell, the next Mayor of Cambridge, is a young Harvard graduate of the famous class of '77. He is the youngest mayor that Cambridge has ever had and he was elected in the cause of reform.

The most powerful argument yet produced in favor of more light late in the evening in the halls of the main buildings is a little incident that happened there not long since. An upper classman while coming down stairs from a late recitation rushed up to a co-ed and with a swoop of his right arm encircled her neck, saying, "Hello Bill, old boy. How de do." When the time for red fire and slow music came he might have been seen hanging from the window sill of the 4th story hall blushing like a house afire.-[Michigan Chronicle.