Harvard-Yale Assembly.

The fifth annual Harvard-Yale assembly will be given in the Springfield City Hall, Friday evening. It will be the finest ball ever given in Springfield and the decorations will surpass anything ever before attempted. A new feature will be the electric decorations in crimson and blue, the colors of the two colleges; these will be used profusely all over the hall. Besides this there will be elegant floral decorations in palms and chrysanthemums.

The music will be furnished by the Philharmonics, an orchestra of fifty men from among the best musicians in New England.

The patronesses are Mrs. Chas. B. Chapin, Mrs. Dwight Holland, Mrs. James A. Rumrill, Mrs. Elisha Morgan, Mrs. Walter H. Meffon, Mrs. Henry M. Phillips, Mrs. Frederick Harris.

There will be many prominent men from all over New England, Lieutenant Governor Wolcott of Massachusetts, Governor Buckley of Connecticut and others, besides many college men.

There will be a reception for about an hour beginning at eight o'clock, and then dancing till one.