BREVITIES.

A "LA CROSSE" club has been started by the Freshmen.

THE prizes given by the H. A. A. will not be presented at Beacon Park.

THE Freshman Crew were out in a shell on Friday last for the first time.

A RUMOR is current that the "pocket athletes" - more generally known as Lawn-Tennis players - are to open a grand College Tournament. The event will doubtless make a great racket.

THE Freshmen have ordered a paper shell of Waters at Troy, N. Y.

THE Field Meeting of the H. A. A. will take place at 4 30 P. M. on Friday May 24.

MR. PALMER has returned to Cambridge and resumed the charge of his courses.

MESSRS. S. BUTLER, '77, H. G. Danforth, '77, and F. W. Thayer, '78, will act as judges in the Athletic sports.

THE Rifle Corps has elected M. H. Morgan, '81, Quartermaster; and G. T. Dexter, '81, Quartermaster Sergeant.

Those having Nos. 1 and 2 of the Crimson, Vol. X. will be paid the retail price for them if they will be kind enough to leave them at Sever's.

TICKETS to the Field Meeting of the H. A. A. can be obtained, any day next week, of the Secretary at 17 Holworthy, between 12 and 1 P. M.

SEVER HALL will have forty recitation-rooms and two lecture-rooms. Its location will be probably between Appleton Chapel and Gore Hall.

MR. H. R. W. BROWNE has been chosen coxswain of the Freshman crew, in place of Mr. MacVeagh, who has left college on account of sickness.

THE gentlemen of Mr. Donaldson's club table, at Mrs. Browne's, have subscribed for a handsome prize to be given to the winner of the mile walk next Friday.

THE first ten of the Everett Athenaeum from '81 are as follows: Ballou, Burdett, Folsom, Chase, G. F. Morse, Munroe, Hemenway, Ivy, Wright, Fessenden.

THE report which is now circulating, that all petitions are to be sent to parents at the end of the year, originated in the mind of some conscience-smitten undergraduate, and has not the sanction of those in authority.

NOTICE. - Monday next will be the last day upon which contribution of words for the Senior Class Song will be received. Such contributions may be left with any member of the Class Committee, or at 30 Matthews.

TABLE of tides at the Boat-House for the next fortnight. It will be high-water

May 18 at 1.19 P. M. May 25 at 6.54 P. M.

May 20 at 2.56 May 27 at 8.52 A. M.

May 21 at 3.44 May 28 at 9.41

May 22 at 4.30 May 29 at 10.30

May 23 at 5.17 May 30 at 11.20

May 24 at 6.07 May 31 at 12.08 P. M.

THE Stewards of the H. A. A. for Friday next are as follows: Messrs. H. G. Otis, '78; W. S. Otis, '78; G. v. L. Meyer, '79; F. M. Ware, '79; W. Hooper, '80; R. Bacon, '80; and W. A. Slater, '81.

THE entry-book for the Beacon Park races, to be held next Friday afternoon by the Athletic Association, will be opened at the Gymnasium to-morrow morning. All entries must be made before 10 o'clock Thursday, May 23.

THE editor of the Sporting Column having offered a prize for the bicycle race, another gentleman connected with the Crimson offers a gold medal to the winner of the hundred yards' dash, conditional on his equalling or beating 10 1/2 seconds.

MR. SHALER will give any required information concerning Nat. Hist. 1 and 4, the Post-Graduate courses in Physical Geology, the Post-Graduate courses in Palaeontology, and the summer school of Geology in his lecture-room in the Museum of Comparative Zoology (northeast corner), on Wednesday the 20th; also on Wednesday the 27th, at 11 A. M. - Bulletin Board.

THE following is the order of events of the H. A. A. next Friday: 1. half-mile run; 2. mile walk; 3. one hundred yards' dash; 4. running broad jump; 5. one mile run; 6. hurdle race (120 yards); 7. one fourth mile run; 8. potato race; 9. three-legged race; 10. bicycle race (three miles). Contestants are reminded that if they do not appear within five minutes after the bell is rung, they will positively be excluded.

THE following are final changes that have been made in the schedule of the Annual Examinations. Each examination will begin at 10 A. M., except those that take place in the afternoon. Music 4, 5, Wednesday, June 5, instead of June 14; the examinations on Friday, June 7, and those on Thursday, June 6, have been transposed; Phil. 3 is fixed for June 8 instead of May 30; examinations fixed for June 14 and 8 have been transposed; Italian 2 begins at 2 P.M. June 11; and Junior Metaphysics at 9 A. M.

To the student seeking amusement after his sumptuous dinner at Memorial Hall, the Rifle Corps, which appears on Holmes Field, in its new uniform, every Monday evening, offers a spectacle at once pleasing and edifying. Some persons, who used to drill in the Boston School Regiment when they were little boys, are inclined to make invidious comparisons, but of course such comparisons are entirely out of place. It has not been decided yet when the Corps will "go into camp," but it is generally understood that Chelsea is the spot selected.

TWENTY thousand "manilla slips" are used in the Library every month.

SCORE at Lowell yesterday Lowells 6, Harvard 0; base-hits, Lowells 12, Harvard 4; errors, Lowells 2, Harvard 6.

PRIZES have been offered by private gentlemen for the following events, conditional on the appended time being equalled or beaten: One fourth mile run, 56 s.; one hundred yards' dash, 10 1/2 s.; one mile run, 4 m. 55 s.; one mile walk, 8 m. The prize for the bicycle race is made conditional on five men starting; the H. A. A. will add a handsome second prize if five men finish the race.

MOSES KING'S new edition of "Harvard and its Surroundings" bears the evidence of careful revision and judicious alteration. The heliotypes of the different buildings (numbered) are arranged in the same order as the letter-press description, and the map of the Yard is so numbered as to enable the visitor to make its circuit with the book in hand, without being confused by the mystical directions that are found usually in guide-books. A better selection of college interiors than in the last edition is noticeable in the present volume.

"The vacancies in the Board of Overseers of Harvard College to be filled at the election on Commencement Day, June 26, 1878, are as follows: Five for the full term of six years, in place of Dr. Edward H. Clarke, deceased, and of Dr. Le Baron Russell, Rev. Alexander McKenzie, and Messrs. Darwin E. Ware and George W. C. Noble, whose term of office expires on Commencement Day. Messrs. Ware and Noble are not eligible for re-election, having been elected for two successive terms. Messrs. Russell and McKenzie are eligible for re-election. The Standing Committee of the association will receive ballots during the month of May; these should be addressed to William R. Ware, Secretary, 2 Pemberton Square, Boston. Each ballot should contain the names of not more than five candidates, and must be signed by the voter who offers it. The electors are not limited, in making nominations, to the names proposed by the committee. The Overseers are required to be 'all inhabitants within the State.' No member of the Corporation, and no officer of government or instruction in the College, is eligible as an Overseer, or entitled to vote in the election. All other graduates of the College of five years' standing, and all persons not graduates who have received from the College any honorary degree, are entitled to vote." - Transcript.

THE base-ball editor of the Advocate had a thought last week which must have owed its parentage to a wish! The thought was, that in the four games played by our Nine with the Manchesters, the record stands eleven to eleven. Unfortunately for him, according to his own figures, which by the way are incorrect, the sum total amounts to twelve to eleven in their favor. But in addition to his careless mathematical error, he seems to have forgotten entirely that the score of the second game was ten to four in our favor; and that the sum total as corrected stands fourteen to eleven, in favor of our Nine, who have made 0, 10, 3, 1, to their 0, 4, 3, 4.

PROGRAMME of the Club Races for the Graduates' Cup for sixes, and the races between the Harvard University Boat Club and the Union Boat Club, Charles River Course, Saturday, May 18, 1878. Time, 2.30 P. M.

SINGLE-SCULL RACE (2 miles).F. Peabody, T. Houghton, C. Wilde, U. B. C.; G. H. Benyon, N. B. C.; W. N. Goddard, G. Griswold, Jr., H. U. B. C.

SIX-OAR RACE (2 miles).Matthews: P. Keyes, '79 (bow), Captain; F. B. Hall, '80, E. Fuller, '80, G. B. Hatch, '80, L. F. Woodward, S. S., G. K. Boutelle, '78, H. W. Mason, '78 (coxswain). Weld: P. Tuckerman, '78 (bow), H. Townsend, '80, D. O. Ives, '79, A. W. Hooper, '81, W. Trimble, '79, R. Trimble, '80 (stroke), F. H. Allen, '80 (cox).

FOUR-OARED RACE (2 miles).Union: T. Houghton, C. H. Williams, Jones (bow), F. Peabody (stroke), Williams, 2d. (cox.). Harvard: W. Kessler, '78 (bow), T. W. Preston, '79, J. Parker, '78, L. N. Littauer, '78 (stroke), G. L. Cheney, '78 (cox.).