Brevities.

THE Harvard Glee Club and the Pierian Sodality will give their first concert of the season at Lyceum Hall, on Tuesday evening, March 25. We learn that the Pierians are playing even better than usual this winter; while, in spite of many obstacles, the Glee Club will, we doubt not, acquit itself well. The Pierians are to play the overture, Le Lac de Fees, by Auber, the Inman Line March, Grafenberger waltzes, minuet by Mozart, solos for the cornet and violoncello, and a piano-forte duet. The Glee Club will try conclusions with May-Night, by Abt, Trooper's Song, by Gade, the Dreamy Lake of Schumann, Love's Call, by Becker, and The Spring again Rejoices, by Durrner. The price of admission tickets will be fifty cents; reserved seats, seventy-five cents.

ARRANGEMENTS have been made by J. R. Osgood & Co. to furnish students with portfolios at a very small price ($2.00 or $2.25), provided fifty or more portfolios are subscribed for. They will be strongly made, with cloth flaps. Their size will be 25 x 30 inches, - which size will hold the largest print. Orders for these should be left at No. 2 Holworthy, and as soon as possible. Frames for the Heliotypes can be obtained at A. B. French's, Palmer Street, between Church and Brattle Streets, Cambridge, in orders of a dozen each, at prices varying from $2.15 to $2.60 for a frame 22 x 24 inches; for frames 14 x 20 inches, from $1.90 to $2.20. These frames are conveniently made, with button-backs, so that the pictures can be changed. These arrangements have been made in order that the students may obtain portfolios and frames at prices corresponding rather to those at which the Heliotypes are sold than to those usually charged at the stores.

A MEETING of the H. U. B. C. was held Tuesday evening last, and considerable business was transacted. It was decided that the class races should be held on Saturday, May 31, hour of the day not set. The Executive Committee considered the proposed plan of presenting the boat-house to the College. The Corporation will vote under what conditions they will receive it. Were it not for the loss which the College suffered by the recent fire, it would probably be received with its present indebtedness; but, as matters now are, this can hardly be hoped for. The original cost of the boat-house was $5,000, its present indebtedness is $2,800; the tax is $78 per year. If the Corporation vote to receive the building, the cost of keeping it in repair and the tax will no longer be borne by the students. The intention of the University crew is to hire boats this year of Blakie, instead of purchasing them. There are several boats which the association will soon sell at auction. The money thus derived will be used in reducing the debt, or in defraying a part of the general expenses. The keys of the boat-house are now ready for members. It is reasonable to hope that the appeal soon to be made to the generosity of the undergraduates will bring forth at least a part of the sum which the Boat Club both deserves and needs.

SOME time since an article proposing the establishment of a German society in college appeared in the columns of the Advocate. We are glad to announce that this suggestion was favorably received, and a society formed, which consists at present of some twenty-five members, the limit of membership being thirty. It meets once a week, at the various rooms of the members; by this means the expense of the society is very much lessened. An hour and a half is whiled away in conversation carried on in German, in the use of which language some have attained remarkable proficiency for so short a time. Since everything connected with this club is to be distinctly German, the collations prepared are of a frugal character, and will probably be entirely dispensed with after the first of May. The object of the society is praiseworthy, and it is looked upon by the Professors of Modern Languages connected with the College as a very useful organization.

A MEETING of the Cricket Club was held last Wednesday afternoon. The club voted to join the State Association of Cricket Players, and to send as delegates to the meeting of the association Mr. Spinney of '74 and Mr. J. G. King of '75. It was also voted not to use the "crease" until, in the opinion of the President of the Club, the ground is in a fit condition. Messrs. Dwight of '74, Wilby of '75, and R. W. Curtis of '76 were appointed a committee to solicit members and subscriptions. Mr. W. C. Riggs was elected Freshman Director.

ONE of our exchanges propounds the following conundrum: -

Why are the Junior theologues like Balaam's ass?

Ans. Because they want to be the best. He-bray-ists in the country. Our Biblical editor admires the joke and dislikes to spoil it, but he must display his knowledge, and inform the author that it was n't that kind of ass at all. Vide Numbers xxii. 25.

THE twenty men from the Senior and eight from the Junior Class, standing highest on the rank-list, have been elected members of the B K Society.

OUR friends who make a tri-weekly pilgrimage to Divinity Hall are at present much interested in the Tall-mud.

THE class of '75 will have a supper at the Parker House on Friday evening of this week. It is expected that the destruction of crockery and glass ware, usual on such occasions, will be dispensed with.

OUR prayers, joined with those of the Advocate, have at length been answered. With great satisfaction we have counted, near Gray, five narrow planks, so skilfully arranged that he who steps thereon repents with wet feet. We have lost a fruitful subject for each number, but is our loss any one's gain? The intention of the College was doubtless good. We hope to see the yard paved with more such good intentions.

BELOW is a specimen of orthography and geography at a recent examination for admission to Bowdoin College. The written papers on Geography contained the following: "Nare ganset," "Pernobscot," "Florady," "Mississuri," "Iterly." The Catskill Mountains were credited by one writer to Vermont; by another to Pennsylvania. The Alps to Asia, by a third. Berlin was set down as the capital of Spain; Geneva was transferred to Italy. The Rhine was said to flow into the Atlantic, the Danube into the Baltic. An example comes to our mind of a candidate for admission to Harvard College giving the width of the Amazon River at its mouth as about two miles, and the length of the Mississippi as ten thousand miles; another confidently affirmed Maine to be a coffee-growing State. We recently saw a paper directed to the Reading-room "Herveford College."

IT may be news to some to learn that Chas. S. Sargent, Professor of Horticulture in Bussey Institute, makes the highest-priced butter sold in the United States. Price $1.15 per pound the year round.

A FEMALE student in a Michigan Medical College, getting tired of living single, bought a man for $20 last month. He was dead, and she wanted him to cut up and study over, a piece at a time.

MEMBERS of the Thayer Club surmise that after the departure of the snow they will be regaled with a great deal of spinach.

THE oration and poem of the H. P. C. will be given in Massachusetts Hall, on Friday evening, March 28, M. H. Swett, Orator; C. A. Prince, Poet.

SCENE, History Recitation.Instructor (reading). At this point the king of England came up behind with his foot, and - (Turning leaf.)

Breathless suspense of division.