Dinner to Professor Lovering.

Last Tuesday evening, Professor Lovering's numerous friends assembled at the Vendome Hotel in Boston to observe in a fitting manner the fiftieth anniversary of Professor Lovering's connection with Harvard as professor of physics. The affair consisted of a reception and banquet and was highly successful. About two hundred guests were present, amongst them being naturally many Harvard professors. President Eliot presided, and speeches were made by the following gentlemen: Professor Joseph Lovering, Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Dr. George E. Ellis, Rev. Dr. Phillips Brooks, Dr. A. P. Peabody, General Charles Devens, Col. T. W. Higginson, Professor W. W. Goodwin, Augustus Lowell, Professor W. G. Farlow, C. F. Choate, Dr. Clarence T. Blake, Justin Winsor.