BREVITIES.

Two hundred men daily attend the Gymnasium.

THERE is an epidemic of dramatics at Cambridge.

THE number of students at Memorial Hall is now 642.

BOTH of the outer doors of University are now left open.

THE Yale crew have begun to board at a training-table.

THREE companies are now playing Pinafore in Boston.

THE Rev. A. C. Hall addressed the S. Paul's Society last Wednesday evening.

PORTER'S HOTEL is to remain unoccupied for a season, that it may be remodelled.

COPIES of the Constitution of the H. A. A. can now be had at Sever's for twenty-five cents.

THE marks in Philosophy 6 look as if the "curve system" had been extended to that elective.

IT is reported that Professor Ferris has refused the position which was offered him in the new Gymnasium.

THIRD Nine of the H. P. C.: Skinner, Peters, Allen, Townsend, French, Ellis, Suire, Learned, and Stow.

THE German reading in "Undine," appointed for Tuesday evening, March 4, was postponed for one week.

PROFESSOR N. S. SHALER has an article in the International Review for March, on "Sleep and Dreams."

THE promptness with which some of the instructors have returned the marks on the semi-annuals is commendable.

ALL the students of St. Stephens College, on the Hudson, eighty in number, have been suspended for a fortnight.

IT is reported on good authority that one of the French professors has borrowed the German marking-machine.

PETITIONS granted March 3: Seniors, 44; Juniors, 44; Sophomores, 59; Freshmen, 56. '81 again comes to the front.

THE lectures in Historical Italian Grammar were resumed last Tuesday. They are given in U. 10 at 3 1/2 P. M.

MR. T. W. PRESTON has been elected Captain of the Senior Class Crew, and Mr. R. P. Clapp, Treasurer.

MR T. W. HIGGINSON contributes to the Woman's Journal an exposition of the scheme of education for women at Harvard.

THE ladies who gave an open-air concert in the Yard on Monday evening were not a delegation from the new Women's College.

FIRST tenors are wanted for the Glee Club. Apply at No. 5 Matthews between half past six and seven P. M., any day before Monday.

MR. EDWARD ATKINSON has offered to deliver another lecture before the Finance Club on "American Competition with Europe."

THE Earl of Beaconsfield has telegraphed his acknowledgments to the Advocate, and ordered fifty copies for distribution among his friends.

IT is to be hoped that those who enter for the boxing, fencing, and wrestling contests of the H. A. A. will succeed in "covering the distance."

SEVER HALL will contain a lecture-room that will seat about three hundred people. Much want is now felt of such a room.

FALSEHOODS OF THE FORTNIGHT.

IT is not true that the Advocate has decided to discontinue the "Lies of the Week."

NEITHER is it true that the last lot was excruciatingly funny.

IT is not true that the Advocate is the organ of the University Crew, whatever else it may be giving us.

IT is not true that the Borsair stepped on a copy of the Advocate, and was buried in the hole in front of Wadsworth.

IT is not true that an Advocate editor has been engaged to conduct this department on account of having greater familiarity with the subject.

IT is not true that the Freshman class of the Bussey Institution has given up the idea of becoming a farmer.

IT is not true that the College postman has passed a vote of thanks to the author of that article in the last Advocate.

IT is not true that this will be a regular department of the Crimson in future, so subscribers need not discontinue.

IT is not true that these "Falsehoods of the Fortnight" are put in to fill out the Brevity column.

MR. PERRY'S lectures will be open to all members of the University. The first one will be on Pope.

THE next lecture in the Natural History Society Course will be given next Thursday evening by Dr. Clarence J. Blake, on "The Ear and the Telephone."

TWENTY-FIVE HUNDRED tickets have been given out for the Natural History Society lectures. Nearly all the lectures will be illustrated by stereopticon views.

THE annual Commencement of the Boston University School of Medicine was held at Tremont Temple on Wednesday afternoon. The number of graduates was thirty-five.

ALL the entries for the contests of the H. A. A. are now made in sealed envelopes, so there is no longer any reason why men should hold back to see who else enters.

BY leaving their names at the office, all who wish to do so may attend morning prayers at St. John's during Lent, instead of at the Chapel. The service begins at 8 o'clock.

PROFESSOR JOHN FISKE will give next month, in the Old South Church, a course of new lectures on "Early American History." In April he will repeat the course in New York.

THE statue of Josiah Quincy will probably be removed from its present position. The loss on the pedestal will not be very great, even if the bricks cannot be used to make another.

A MEETING of the class of 1877 was held at the Parker House a short time ago, at which appropriate action was taken in regard to the deaths of Warren H. Mead and Albert G. Hancox.

THE following men are now trying for the '79 class crew: Aldrich, Brewster, Burr, Cobb, Cowdin, Houston, Ives, Keyes, Meyer, Preston (Captain), Taussig, Thomas, and Trimble.

THE following subjects have been assigned for the sixth Sophomore theme: Washington's Course in the Case of Andre; The Marking-System; What English Poet of this Century do you prefer?

THE officers of the H. U. F. B. C. for the coming year are as follows: President, L. Cushing, '79; Vice-President, R. Winsor, '80; Captain, R. Bacon, '80; Manager, W. Hooper, '80.

DAVID A. WELLS has sent a letter to the Finance Club, regretting that he will not be able to deliver a lecture before them this year on account of ill-health, and hoping to be able to give one next year.

AT the meeting of the Finance Club on next Monday evening a paper on "Tax Exemption" will be read. The club now numbers about twenty-eight members.

A RELIGIOUS society in Brookline have offered prayers for the Faculty of Harvard College. One of their requests is that the Faculty may lighten the work of the students.

Two Sophomores enter a horse-car; the first takes the only vacant seat, and the second sits in his lap. Presently a young lady enters, and the second Soph, rising, says, "Take my seat, madam." (Fact.)

ARRANGEMENTS have been made to run a line of coaches from Cambridgeport to Boston for half the rate of fare of the Union Railway Company, and there is a prospect that this line will be extended to other parts of Cambridge.

MR. MOORE, '73, of Philadelphia, has recently presented the Peabody Museum of Ethnology with a case of specimens, which consist of Egyptian Antiquities, and a collection from the Swiss lakes, that represent the flint and bronze ages.

THE Yale Alumni held its sixth annual reunion and banquet in New York City last week, Justice Strong presiding. Professor Thacher of Yale College was among the honored guests. Addresses were made by Chief Justice Waite and others.

PROFESSOR CHILD is giving a course of readings from Chaucer. He began last Tuesday evening with the " Clerk's Tale." Mr. Hale will read Catullus early in March, on Wednesday evenings. Mr. Dyer will read the Ajax of Sophocles after the April recess.

FROM the Notes and Queries in the Library:

What celebrated English prince was descended from a cardinal?

Answer. Don't you mean what celebrated cardinal was descended from a prince, as cardinals ought not to marry?

OWING to a desire expressed for a course of lectures on English Literature, Mr. Perry has kindly consented to deliver such a course, beginning with the writers of Queen Anne's time. The first lecture will be given in No. 3 Mass., Tuesday, March 11, at 11 o'clock.