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THE Gymnasium running track is 324 feet, or 17 laps to the mile.
THE Harvard-Yale boat race will occur this year on July 2, instead of in June.
THE main hall of the Gymnasium contains 10,000 feet of floor available for exercises.
THE Yale Glee Club have been giving concerts in the West during the Christmas recess.
PROFESSOR SHALER took advantage of the recess to go to Colorado, in order to inspect the Rocky Mountain glaciers.
THE hours for exercise at the Gymnasium will probably be from 11 A.M. to 1 P.M., from 3 to 5.30, and from 8 to 10, P.M.
THE magazines are arranged alphabetically in their new place, making it easier to find the one wanted if this arrangement is observed.
THE Faculty have assigned Commencement parts to Messrs. Barnes, Canfield, Martin, Tiffany, and Wambaugh of the Law School.
THERE are six men taking private fencing-lessons in the Gymnasium, and classes will soon be formed for instruction in the rudiments.
THE case in which the base balls are kept is very dusty. The steward will have it brushed and put in order if the key is left with him.
PROFESSOR O. C. WENDELL has been elected president of the Bates College Alumni Association, which has just been formed in Boston.
APROPOS to the Glee Club's medals for active and for associate members, it is suggested that "Speech may be silver, but silence is - bronze."
THE dressing-room of the Gymnasium contains 474 lockers, and is heated by steam pipes. Students can use their own padlocks on their lockers if they wish.
VISITORS to the Gymnasium, after work has begun, will be obliged to observe the exercises from a part of the southern end of the hall, which is inclosed by a railing.
THE Library has just received from Mr. Pierce, Charles Sumner's literary executor, an autograph letter of President Lincoln written a few days before his assassination.
AN herbarium building has been added to the botanical department of the College, to be used as a fire-proof library for all the botanical works, except those used in the laboratory.
MR. RIDDLE'S students in elocution are reminded that the subscription which is being raised to heat Sanders Theatre requires less money than is expended in other courses for text-books.
THE bath-rooms of the Gymnasium contain five bath-tubs, fourteen sponge-baths, and sixteen washbasins of white marble, with hot and cold water. Besides the ordinary shower-baths, there are two spray-baths.
THE officers of the Pi Eta Society for the first half year are: President, W. H. Folsom; Vice-president, A. W. Roberts; Secretary, J. C. Rolfe; Treasurer, H. B. Howard; Chorister, H. W. Chase; Stage Manager, C. M. Hemenway.
Bashful Tutor (calling up a gentleman of his acquaintance). - Mr. X., will you please translate?
Mr. X. - Not prepared.
B. T. - Oh, I beg your pardon, sir. Mr. Y., will you go on?
PROFESSOR KO KUN HUA has presented to the Library a volume of his own poetry, entitled "Verses composed in the Hall of Longevity." The volume is a small octavo, printed privately at Ningpo, in 1879, and is unaccompanied by a translation.
OXFORD has a Rifle Corps, and this Rifle Corps has had an exciting skirmish with muckers in the town. If the H. R. C. had done something of this kind, it would have at least made itself useful, and perhaps might have become a more popular institution.
FROM the report of Frederic W. Putnam, Curator of the Peabody Museum, it is learned that "during no preceding year have the operations of the Museum been so extended, nor have larger returns ever been received from explorations conducted under its directions."
ACCORDING to Mr. Gladstone's recent Rectorial Address to the students of Glasgow, of 590 students in Arts, or the Humanity Classes, 199 are independent of any avocation that has to be pursued concurrently with their studies; 391 have to work for their living even while they study for their education. Of these last, 240 work both during the winter season and throughout the summer; 135 work in summer only; while 16 join a business to their winter work as students.
MUSIC RECEIVED FROM OLIVER DITSON & CO.
Songs: Margaret's Cradle Song, Grieg; Sunset on the River and Safe Home at Last, Pinsuti; My Love she is a Kitten, Collier; I would I were a King, Fair Maid, Arthur Sullivan; Around the World with Grant (song with chorus), Thompson; Wandering back to the Old Home (with chorus), Gleason. Piano Music; Le Chant du Coeur, Sudds; The Mill Wheel, Boyton Smith; Polka, op. 212, Carl Faust; Heart Memories, Jungmann; Spring Flower Waltz, Himau; In Dusky Dale (four hands), Merkel.
ONLY seventy-five of the two hundred Freshmen at Yale entered without conditions.
FIFTY members of Yale's Freshman class are from Connecticut, forty-six from New York, and eighteen from Pennsylvania.
THE Board of Overseers have voted to concur with the President and Fellows in inserting the name of Edmund Trowbridge Dana in the class of 1799.
THE next addition to the building of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, which is to be built by means of the Agassiz Memorial Fund, will be almost wholly devoted to laboratories, lecture-rooms, and work-rooms, and will furnish necessary facilities for instruction in biology and geology.
A POLITICAL canvass of the Law School gives the following result: Proportion of Republican votes, 58 per centum; of Democratic votes, 42 per centum. On the presidential question: for Bayard, 38 per centum; Sherman, 14 per centum; Grant, 10 per centum; Edmunds, 7 per centum; Blaine, 7 per centum; Hayes, 6 per centum; Evarts, 6 per centum; "anti-Grant," 6 per centum; scattering, 6 per centum. The polls were open for a week, and hard work was done for Grant.
RULES AND REGULATIONS FOR THE HEMENWAY GYMNASIUM.
1. The Hemenway Gymnasium is open to all students of Harvard University daily, from 11 A.M. to 1 P. M., from 3 to 5.30 P. M., and from 8 to 10 P. M., except Saturday, when it closes at 1 P. M.
2. The Director's Office will be open for consultation, &c., from 2 to 3 P. M., and from 7 to 8 P. M.
3. The Main Hall and Meeting Room are open to visitors daily, during the regular hours, and the entire building is open for public inspection on Saturdays, from 1 to 2 P. M.
4. Students not engaged in active exercise, or dressed for the same, will be regarded as visitors, and must keep outside of the balustrade.
5. Smoking is strictly prohibited.
Base-Ball Room. - 1. This room is for the exclusive use of the Ball Nine, Lacrosse Team, and Tennis Club.
2. The Base-Ball players have the first choice of time, and the other organizations in the order named above.
3. Every student who exercises within is requested to provide himself with a pair of slippers, which must be worn through the Basement, Hall, and Dressing-Room.
Bath-Rooms. - 1. The Bath-Rooms are open during the exercising hours.
2. Students are requested to use the Bath-Rooms nearest their box sections.
3. The Bowls are free to all, but the Tub Baths and Shower Baths can only be used by those having tickets.
4. Tickets may be procured at the office by showing a certificate from the Director.
Bowling-Alleys. - 1. Students desiring to use the Alleys must procure tickets from the office, and confine their bowling to the Alleys designated.
2. Any particular Alley may be engaged in advance at the office, and the right of use will be in order of application.
3. Balls must be Bowled, and not Pitched or Dropped, and must be returned on the tramways by their own weight.
4. Walking on the Alleys and bowling from opposite ends are strictly prohibited.
5. Records must be kept on the registers, not on the walls.
Dressing-Room. - 1. No persons are allowed in the Dressing-Room except the box-holders, and those who have tickets for baths.
2. Everything deposited in the boxes will be at the risk of the Lessee.
3. The boxes must be locked on leaving them. Any articles found outside will be taken to the office and retained for identification.
4. Every Student is expected to provide himself with a Flannel Shirt, a Webbing Belt, and a pair of Slippers. A rough Turkish Towel and a heavy Flannel or Towel Ulster are advised for those who bathe freely.
5. Students who are members of any Athletic Organization are requested to wear the Uniform of their Club. In every case, while in the Main Hall, the entire person must be covered.
Running-Track. - 1. The Running-Track is free to all, but a preference will be given to regular organizations.
2. Any Club, Squad, or Division, desiring to use the Track at any regular specified hour, will be allowed the right of way during the time specified.
3. Students who use the Track frequently will find it to their advantage to wear rubber-soled slippers, and to reverse, statedly, the order of running.
4. In order to avoid the liability to accidents in turning the corners, Students are requested not to run fast.
5. When two or more are running on the Track at the same time, in opposite directions, the rule is to turn to the right.
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