The Finance Club lecture last evening was well attended. The lecture was one of unusual interest, and was most attentively listened to by the audience. At the request of Mr. Atkinson we do not print a report of the lecture.

In answer to numerous inquiries, we wish to state that the lists of names intended for the American "Academy" should include only men-of-letters and not women-of-letters. All lists should be sent us by Friday, March 28, so that they can be forwarded to New York.

At the meeting of the executive committee of the athletic associations last evening, it was decided to send two representatives to the general meeting called by Columbia. This meeting will be held at Hamilton Hall, Columbia College, on Saturday, March 29th. Mr. Burr, '84. and Mr. Sexton, '84, have been chosen to represent Harvard at the meeting.

The week's Nation reviews Professor Greenough's edition of the last six books of Virgil's Aeneid and the Georgics, and Dr. Peabody's translation of "Cicero de Officis." In a view of an English edition of the 'Trinummus' of Plautus the presentation of the play at Westminster School is characterized as a performance which "will light up the 'Trinummus' wonderfully, even for those who read it under the Pope Professor at Harvard College."

The Hasty Pudding Club will visit New York during the spring recess, and give two performances, in the University Club Theatre, Madison square, of the burlesque opera in four acts entitled, "Hernani." The same piece will be presented at the regular spring theatricals of the society next Friday evening, at their room in Cambridge, and will be given in Boston about the middle of April. The opera will, of course, undergo the usual transformation at the hands of the members of the society, and be embellished with many localizations.