Miscellanea.

The weekly price of board at Memorial has averaged four dollars for the first half-year.

"The Future of the Mississippi Valley" is the title of an article contributed by Professor A. B. Hart to the February number of Harper's Magazine.

The following Harvard men will give lectures in the Fifth Annual Series of Conferences, which are being held this winter by the Comparative Literature Society at the Carnegie Lyceum, New York: February 3, "The Kalevala," by Professor G. L. Kittredge, illustrating the Finnish Epic; February 17, "Epic Poems of the Heroic Age of India," and March 3, "Stories of the Mahabharata and the Ramayana," by Professor Charles R. Lanman, illustrating the Sanskrit Epic; March 17, "The Origin of the French Popular Epics of the Middle Ages," by Professor A. R. Marsh, illustrating the Mediaeval French Epic; and April 14, a paper by Dr. F. N. Robinson on the Irish Epic.