BREVITIES.

SEVER HALL is to be finished in two months.

THE Class Races will probably take place on May 15.

THE receipts of the Pierian concert amounted to $125.

SEVERAL Junior scullers are training for the Spring races.

IT is reported that a prominent man of '80 has of late turned editor.

THE Elective Pamphlet has been arranged, and will be printed during the recess.

THERE will be an hour examination in Natural History IV., after recess, probably at the second hour.

A. O. JAMESON, '81, has been elected a member of the Finance Club.

IT is hoped that the Gymnasium will be kept open during the recess.

OVER six hundred students have been examined by Dr. Sargent.

THE Junior Crew, though composed of light men, is making a good show.

BY to-morrow night all the names put down for physical examination will be exhausted.

MR. JOHN FISKE has in preparation a work on "America's Place in History."

RUDDOCK is building single sculls for Griswold, '80, Goddard, '82, and F. H. Sears, '83.

FROM all appearances the Senior scull race between Messrs. Griswold and Hall will be very close.

FAULKNER is making a set of oars of a new pattern for the Senior and the Sophomore Crews.

THE prospects of '82 Crew are not so bright as they were before two of their best men left.

THE Freshman barge is expected to-morrow or first of next week. The shell will not come until the middle of the month.

THE statement in the last Crimson that an elective in U. S. History would not be given next year was a typographical error.

THE Freshman Crew went on the river for the first time Monday. They used the University barge, and rowed well for the first trial.

DR. HOLMES and Mr. Longfellow have been elected members of the new Rabelais Club, London. Only two other Americans are members.

ON account of his wife's ill-health, Minister James Russell Lowell has been obliged to leave London for the present and return to Madrid.

THE delegates from Harvard to the Intercollegiate Meeting held on Saturday next, in New York, will be Messrs. M. Crehore, '82, and E. J. Wendell, '82.

THERE will be no hour examinations in Pol. Econ. 2 immediately after the recess as was stated, and it is probable that there will be none before the Annuals.

THE Third nine of the Hasty Pudding Club from '81 are: Fay, Mills, C. Sprague, C. H. W. Foster, R. C. Sturgis, Brewster, Barton, Adams, and G. M. Lane.

THE Combination Concert in Sanders Theatre. Tuesday evening, was a success in all respects, and the receipts fully cover the deficit from the Symphony Concerts.

As two Irishmen were passing a sign-post, one of them, looking up at it exclaimed to his comrade; "Whist, Mike; thread saftly owver the grave o' the dead. He was farteen years ould, and his name was Miles To Boston." - Spectator.

MR. G. B. MORISON, '83, has been elected the second Steward of the H. A. A. from '83.

REPRESENTATIVES of the Yale and Harvard University meet at New London to-day to arrange the conditions of the race which is to take place on the Thames, July 2.

DURING the week the University Crew have been rowing in the following order: Atkinson, (bow), Hooper, Howard, Bacon, Otis, Brigham, Trimble, Brandegee (stroke).

SCENE: LECTURE IN FINE ARTS. Prof. - The Italians retained the horizontal line, never running to verticality, I say never, hardl - (the section begins to snicker) well, seldom ever.

W. A. SMITH, '80 read his prize dissertation on Garribaldi, Wednesday, March 31. J. Quincy read prize dissertation on Lucretius, Thursday, April 1. Other dissertations will be read after the recess.

THE record in boating between Oxford and Cambridge stands nineteen to seventeen in favor of the former. Since 1870 Oxford has been victorious only twice, while during nine years Cambridge never won a race.

STUDENTS are requested to accept their class negatives within one week or the committee will do so. All orders for albums, also all lists, must be sent in by the 5th of April. Lists and sample albums to be seen at our studio, 7 Brattle Street. JAMES NOTMAN.

CAPTAIN HAMMOND, of the Freshman Crew, Captain Eldredge, of Columbia, and Captain Rossiter, of the Columbia Freshman Crew, met at New London, Wednesday, and agreed to row a two-mile straightaway race on the Thames, at noon, Wednesday, July 7.

ADDITIONAL prizes for Bowdoin Dissertations have been awarded as follows: a prize of seventy-five dollars to N. G. Taylor, '80, for a translation into Greek; a prize of seventy-five dollars to J. Quincy, '80, for a dissertation on Lucretius as the Precursor of Modern Positivism and Fatalism.

TICKETS to the Sophomore theatricals in aid of the University Boat Club can be procured at 1 Holyoke St., Room 5, every week-day, from 2 to 6 P.M., except Saturday, from 9 to 12. "Ivanhoe" will be given on April 22; "Der Freischutz," on April 23; and "Ivanhoe," matinee, on April 24.

SEVERAL contemporaries, tired of politics and short of other topics, are discussing the propriety of including the art of newspaper making among college studies. "A class in Journalism" is what they call it. The Cincinnati College of Music is an easy subject compared with this one. The only school in which anybody can learn how to make a good newspaper is a newspaper office. - N. Y. Evening Post.

TICKETS for the Theatricals in New York, April 9th, 10th, 12th, can be obtained at 1 East 40th Street, and at the Harvard Club. Price two dollars. No reserved seats.

ALL graduates of Adams Academy and others are invited to the Exercises in Speaking for the Adams Gold Medal, in the Town Hall Quincy, on April 3, at 10 15 A. M.

IN May, Mr. John Fiske will go to London to deliver, before the Royal Institution of Great Britain, a course of lectures on American political ideas. The headings of his lectures are: "The Town Meeting." "The Federal Union," and "Manifest Destiny." It is said that Mr. Fiske is the first American asked to lecture before that body.

IN the Elective Pamphlet for next year several changes have been made. Philosophy 5 will be a course in Psychology; History 8 has been divided into two alternate courses; what is now Greek 4 will be Greek 4 and 5, that is, there will be three courses in Greek composition; German 8 is to be a one-hour course in German Literature, consisting of lectures by Prof. Hedge: and Prof. Shaler is to have an advanced course in Geology.

A COMMITTEE consisting of Prof. Asa Gray, Prof. George L. Goodale, and Mr. Alexander Agassiz have issued a circular asking for $80,000 to place the Botanic Garden upon a "sufficient and independent foundation." $25,000 has already been subscribed: of this sum, Frederick S. Ames gave $5,000; John C. Phillips, $2,500; H. H. Hunewell $1,000; Miss Marion Hovey, $100; Alexander Agassiz, $5,000; Theodore Lyman, $5,000; Theodore Lyman, $500; Quincy Shaw, $5,000; E. W. Hooper, $200; A. P. Chamberlain, $100; John Amory Lowell, $1,000; H. P. Kidder, $1,000; a conditional subscription, $25,000; John Cummings, $1,000.

THE Executive Committee of the Boat Club desire to call the attention of students to the following rules regulating the use of boats: ??? Any member of the University who subscribes for the support of the University Crew thereby becomes a member of the Club. 2. Members of the Club can have the use of the boats upon payment of three dollars for the Fall, or five dollars for the Spring season. These amounts include a key to the boat-house. 3. All damage done to the boats must he made good, and it is only with this understanding that the boats can be hired. The Executive Committee hope that members will use the property of the Club as carefully as possible. Tickets for the use of boats and lockers can be obtained of George Smith, at the boat-house.

By order of the Executive Committee,

PRESCOTT EVARTS, Secretary.OVER one hundred members of the University were present at the second meeting of the Harvard Union, in Boylston Hall, on Wednesday evening. After a long discussion a Constitution drawn up by a committee was adopted with slight changes. This Constitution is very brief, and provides that all persons connected with the University shall be eligible for membership. The following officers were elected for the remaining half-year: Pres. W. R. Thayer, '81; Vice-Pres., J. G. Thorp, L. S.; Sec., I. Panin, '82; Treas. C. G. Washburn, '80. Committee, F. Warren, '82, G. C. Van Benthuysen, '82. April 15th was decided upon for the next debate, the subject of which is : Resolved, That a third term, on general principles, is advisable. Affirmative, Evarts, '81. Washburn, '82; Negative, Ivy, '81, Firman, '82.

Important to Pres. and Prof. Our latest publication, " Moses as a Geologist," is meeting with immense success. Last summer one student, who was very shrewd and energetic, succeeded in earning his board. We need a large number of canvassers, and if you will recommend to us pupils of yours, we engage, on our part, to send you for every canvasser a prize-package and full-size tin-type of the celebrated sandlots agitator. - Henry Bill Pub. Co.