BREVITIES.

THE Freshmen at Amherst intend to wear Oxford caps.

THE Juniors are to have a Nine in the field this spring.

SEASON tickets for the University games will be ready this week.

MR. EDMANDS hurt his foot in the game last Saturday with the Bostons.

MR. G. C. BUELL, '82, has handed in his resignation as editor of the Crimson.

THE "Song of the Cribber" in the last Crimson should have been credited to the Columbia Spectator.

EACH of the members of the Chorus of the Greek play has been presented with a copy of the OEdipus, containing both the original and the translation.

THE managers of the Harvard Assemblies from the class of '82 are Woodbury Kane, George Edmuud Waring, Frederic Warren, and Evert Jansen Wendell.

THE Harvard Union announces a lecture on "Student Life at Oxford," to be given under its auspices in Sever Hall, on Thursday, May 5, by Mr. Charles P. Parker.

BY an act of the General Assembly of Rhode Island, the name of George Edmund Waring was changed for business purposes to Guy Waring. The change becomes legal on the 2d of May, 1881.

MR. GEORGE WRIGHT came out Thursday to coach the Cricket Eleven.

MR. LOEB, '83, has been elected Secretary of the Pierian Sodality.

THE University Nine plays the Worcester Nine Saturday, April 23, in Worcester.

THE Acta Columbiana is yet to be found at the old stand. No Yale men need apply.

THE writer of the article on Mr. Moses King in the Sunday Herald was Rev. Julius H. Ward.

THE N. Y. Evening Post prints a very sensible editorial article upon Dr. Brooks's call to Harvard.

MR. W. H. DUNBAR, '82, read a thorough and appreciative paper on "Burke," in English 7, last Wednesday.

THE subscription book of the University Boat Club has been placed in Bartlett's, for the convenience of those who were not at the meeting last Wednesday night.

THE game between the 'Varsity and Freshmen, which was to have taken place last Monday, was deferred on account of Mr. Folsom's inability to pitch.

THE Amherst Glee Club is fast acquiring a notable reputation. It has even travelled to Oberlin. We wonder that the Faculty of that back-action college allowed such levity within its hallowed walls.

THE music to the OEdipus Tyrannus of Sophocles for male chorus and orchestra, by Professor John Knowles Paine, Op. 35, is for sale at the store of Arthur P. Schmidt, 146 Tremont St.

'TIS not the gold of your hair, sweet maid,

Nor your silver voice that my heart doth win;

'Tis not the flash of your wit of steel,

But 'tis - your dear, sick, old papa's tin.

THE Glee Club Concert is to take place on Wednesday evening, May 4, at 8 P.M. We understand the tickets are selling well, and judging from the programme we can expect the best concert ever given.

THE story, "Rebecca's Tendency," in the Vassar Miscellany for April, can hold its own beside any short story in the current magazines. The Miscellany is to be found in the Harvard Union Reading-room, on the magazine table.

SEVENTEEN Yale editors have started out in pursuit of "Smintheus." New York beer-saloons anticipate a lively trade. It is rumored that President P-rt-r has offered them their degrees outright, if they will not return to New Haven.

THE Harvard Union meets next Tuesday, April 26, at 7.30 o'clock, in Sever Hall. The question is: Resolved, That the construction of the proposed Panama Ship Canal, under the auspices of and through a charter from any foreign government, is hostile to the established policy of the United States; is inconsistent with the spirit and declaration of the Monroe doctrine; and cannot be sanctioned or assented to by the United States Government. The disputants are, for the affirmative, Messrs. Jameson, '81, and Bradley, '82; for the negative, Messrs. Hart, '80, and White, '83. The public is invited.

THERE was a rumor current in Cambridge yesterday, that President Eliot had resigned.

THE membership-fee of the New Shakspere Society is $6.00. Professor Child is the American Secretary, to whom all communications should be sent.

THE subscription book to the Junior Class Dinner is now at Bartlett's, and all Juniors are requested to subscribe as soon as possible.

LAST Wednesday was a holiday in Cambridge, but not in Harvard. A college which does not celebrate Washington's birthday can hardly be so provincial as to celebrate the holiday of a single city.

SHAKSPERE ON BASE BALL.Now let's have a catch. - Merry Wives.

And so I shall catch the fly. - Henry V.

I will run no base. - Merry Wives.

After he scores. - All's Well.

Have you scored me? - Othello.

The world is pitch and pay. - Henry V.

These nine men in buckram. - Henry IV.

What works my countrymen?

Where go you with bats and clubs? - Coriolanus.

Let us see you in the field. - Troilus and Cressida.

I will fear to catch. - Timon.

More like to run the country base. - Cymbeline.

- Bowdoin Orient.MR. P. T. BRYAN has been elected captain of the Princeton Football Team.

THE Pi Eta Society, graduates and others, played "Our Boys" at Waltham on Wednesday last before a large and brilliant audience.

HAD Dr. Brooks accepted the professorship at Harvard, the students would have gained something more than the advantage of his presence. For, with his arrival, prayers and church attendance would have been made voluntary, as he would have made this a condition of his acceptance of Harvard's call.

WE give the following items from the Sporting Column, which was crowded out of this issue and also of the last: -

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.D. '83. In regard to your questions: "I. What is the record of P. Davin of the Carrick-on-Suir F. B. C., at the running high jump? 2. What is his height? 3. What is his weight in fair condition? 4. Does he run at the bar straight or diagonally?" We give the following answers, on the authority of the athletic editor of the Spirit: 1. 6 ft. 2 3/4 in.; 2. 5 ft. 11 3/4 in.; 3. 166 lbs.; 4. Perfectly straight.

Runner, '83. 1. What is Myers's height? 2. What did he weigh when he made his quarter-mile in 49 1-5 s.? Ans. 1. 5 ft. 7 3/4 in.; 2. 114 lbs.