BREVITIES.

TWO eights are training for the Freshman crew.

MR. FAULHABER has declined the German mission.

THE Freshman Football team has been photographed.

MR. LE BARON BRIGGS will read the Sixth Iliad next Wednesday evening.

THE Sophomore Class Supper will not take place till after the semi-annuals.

LADIES of the Port assemble on Main Street in the afternoon to see the Freshman crew run.

SUBSCRIPTIONS for Vol. XIII. of the Crimson may be paid now at the University Bookstore.

THERE is a rumor that instructors have it at their option to hold recitations or not on the three days preceding the semi-annuals.

TWENTY-FOUR Princeton students were arrested a short time ago for making night hideous, and fined $ 3.80 apiece. Total deficit, $ 91.20.

AT the last meeting of the Natural History Society, Dr. W. James read a very interesting paper on "The Evolution of the Perception of Motion."

THE second eight of the Pi Eta from '80 are: M, Barrows, C. B. Blair, A. F. Breed, W. H. Cook, E. Fuller, G. R. Kelley, W. A. Pew, F. E. Whiting.

PETITIONS granted this week: 32 Seniors, 49 Juniors, 69 Sophomores, and 61 Freshmen. '81 is still ahead, but '82 is proving a formidable rival.

THE Rev. Phillips Brooks will give the last lecture of the Course before the S. Paul's Society, Tuesday evening next, in Christ Church, at 7 1/2 o'clock. All are cordially invited to attend.

PROFESSOR DUNBAR, Professor Shaler, and Mr. Laughlin were elected members of the Finance Club at its last meeting. A committee has been appointed to make arrangements for some lectures.

IF the recovery of the bones of Theseus from the island of Scyros gave a great impulse to the development of the Arts in Athens, query, would the recovery of Stewart's body have a like effect in New York?

A CERTAIN Freshman who has been in the habit of spending the Sabbath in the bosom of his family during the past half-year, has aroused the admiration of his native town by appearing at church with a smoking cap and a cane.

A complete list of the periodicals and serials received by the various libraries in the University and by the principal libraries in Boston has been issued in uniform style with the Library bulletin.

THE first nine of the Hasty Pudding Club from '80 are: Robert Bacon, Richard Trimble, William Hooper, Charles Ware, Theodore Roosevelt, Henry Jackson, Henry R. Shaw, Andrew Miller, Charles Morgan.

As the statue of Josiah Quincy was being raised on the costly and beautiful pedestal which the College has provided for it, Snodkins remarked that it was the first time he had ever known of a President of Harvard College being suspended.

THE President says in his report that the first scholarship in Harvard College was founded in 1852. This will be news to William Browne of Salem, who gave pound 100 to the College in 1687 "for the bringing up of poor scholars."

THE annual meeting and dinner of the Dartmouth alumni in Boston and vicinity occurred Wednesday evening at the Revere House. A large company was present, and speeches were made by President Bartlett and a large number of other gentlemen.

THE following is the programme of the first Chamber Concert to be given in Boylston Hall: Quartette in E minor, op. 59, Beethoven; Quartette in Bb, Mendelssohn. Mr. George Osgood will sing. The Concert will begin promptly at 7.45, and the doors will be kept closed during the first piece.

THE report that the apparatus of the old Gymnasium would be used in furnishing the new one is without foundation. Those who have the matter in charge say that all the furniture of the Hemenway Gymnasium will be new, as the old apparatus is totally unfit for even its present use, and, if taken apart, could never be put together again.

IN the "Notes and Queries" at the Library appear the following questions: What is the derivation of milk-punch? What is the source of the quotation, "Jehovah needs very few chore-boys"? How can I get Joseph Cook's lecture on "Ultimate America"? To this last question some one has answered, "By asking Joseph." The "Notes and Queries" are truly a great institution.

A SERIES of Three Chamber Concerts will be given at Boylston Hall on Thursday evenings, Feb. 13, March 13, April 10, 1879, by the New York Philharmonic Club, Mr. Richard Arnold, Leader. The programmes will be selected from the Chamber Music of Mozart, Beethoven, Schumann, Mendelssohn, and other great masters. The Concerts will begin at a quarter before eight, and end before half past nine o'clock. A few tickets, at $ 300 for the Course, may still be obtained at Sever's.

CONVERSATION yesterday morning at the entrance of Holyoke:-

FIRST SOPHOMORE. I say, Tom, how do you like this foggy weather?

SECOND SOPHOMORE (who is nothing if not English). O, very well, Bob, very well. It's so English, you know.

MR. WINSOR'S first annual report as Librarian of Harvard University has been printed. Mr. Winsor discusses the subject of catalogues, and speaks of the improvement of the Library bulletin, of the growth of the Library, and of the work done by the Library service. He recommends that some arrangement be made for the use of the reading-room in the evening.

"How far can the government of a college or boarding school control its students in vacation time?

COLLEGIAN.[Institutions differ, but we are of the opinion that none of them claim jurisdiction over students in vacation outside the college precincts. There are cases, we presume, where the government of an institution might feel authorized to exceed its legitimate authority in the control of students whose parents or guardians were at a distance.]" - Transcript.

THE committee appointed to read the Bowdoin prize dissertations has made the following awards for philosophical and literary articles: Eugene M. Wambold, resident graduate, $75, for a dissertation on the "Demonetization of Silver by Western Nations";

Walter Allen Smith of the Junior class, $100, for a dissertation on the "Distinction between Human Reason and the Instinct of Brutes"; William Warren Case, $75, for a dissertation on "Sir Philip Sidney as a Writer"; Arthur Hale, Junior class, $50. The report on classical and scientific subjects will be made next week.

THE number of gentlemen desiring to study and practise Vocal Music warrants the formation of two classes for beginners, one meeting at 3.30, and the other at 4.30, on Thursday afternoons, at Boylston Hall. Gentlemen may therefore come at either of these two hours. Mr. Carey will also form a class for practice in part singing by those who read music, at 2.30 on the same day, provided there is a sufficient number of tenors to make it practicable. Terms, $ 3.00, for the remainder of the Academic year.

THE instructor in German who has previously determined the marks by the curve system has just adopted a new method. He has bought a roulette table at some expense, and settles each student's mark by rolling the ball round, and noting the place at which it stops.