University Calendar.

Appleton Chapel, 7.30 p. m. Rev. Lyman Abbott, D. D. (The front pews will be reserved for members of the University until 7.30).

Weekday morning prayers at 8.45 a. m. No seats are assigned, either for officers or classes.

Rev. Francis G. Peabody will conduct prayers from February 17 to March 15.

The preacher conducting morning prayers may be found at Wadsworth House 1 every weekday during his term of service.

Mr. Peabody may be found at Wadsworth house 1, every weekday from 11 till 12 a. m.

17. MONDAY.Seniors entitled to Commencement Parts, whether under the provisional assignment, or on the ground of honorable mention, will meet Professor A. S. Hill at 4 p. m. in Sever 5.

Semitic Seminary. Subject: Does Genesis contain mythological material? Mr. H. A. Henshaw. Sever 6, 7.30 p. m.

A French View of Bismarck. Lecture. Professor Cohn. Sever 11, 7.30 p. m. Open to the public.

18. TUESDAY.English Literature. (Course for freshmen). John Dryden. Professor A. S. Hill. Sever 11, 12 m.

College Faculty. Meeting at University 5, 4 p. m.

College Conference. Medicine as a Profession. Professor Blake. Sever 11, 7.30 p. m.

The conferences are for members of the university only.

19. WEDNESDAY.The Study of Homer. Lecuture. Professor Wright. Sever 11, 3 p. m.

This lecture, though intended especially for freshmen in the Greek courses, is open to the public.

Divinity School Chapel. Conference. 4.15 p. m.

Academic Council. Stated meeting at University 5, 8 p. m.

20. THURSDAY.Physics A. (Course for freshmen). Sound, with especial reference to the telephone and phonograph. Professor Trowbridge. Jefferson Physical Laboratory, 12 m. Open to all members of the university.

English 6. Oral Debate. University 2, 3 p. m.

Question: "Resolved, That the World's Fair should be held in New York."

Principal disputants-Affirmative: C. P. Blaney, '90, and R. M. Washburn, '90; negative: R. J. Carey, '90, and K. Fairbank, '90. Open to all students of the university.

Vesper Service. Appleton Chapel, 5 p. m.

Vesper services will be held on Thursday of each week in term time until further notice. Each service will begin promptly at 5 p. m., and close about 5.30. The public are invited to these services.

Thomas Jefferson as a Country Gentleman. Bowdoin Prize Dissertations. Mr. Charles Warren. Sever 5, 7.30 p. m.

Readings of Bowdoin Prize dissertations are open to the public.

31. FRIDAY.Divinity School Chapel. Preaching service. 7.30 p. m.

22. SATURDAY.Washington's Birthday: A holiday in all departments of the University.

APPETON CHAPEL-SUNDAY SERVICES.February 16-Rev. Lyman Abbott, D. D.

February 23-Rev. Theodore C. Williams.

March 2-Rev. T. T. Munger, D. D., of New Haven.

March 9-Rev. Robert Collyer, of New York.

ENGLISH B.A talk on Exposition will be given in Sever 11, on Tuesday, February 18, at 12 o'clock.

Theme VI. will be returned to the writers from 3 until 4 o'clock. Themes not called for at that time will be kept for one week at Grays 18, where the writers may call for them during office hours. After the expiration of one week no theme will be returned to the writer.

Theme VII., a literary criticism, will be due on Tuesday, February 18.

Themes are to be deposited in the wooden box outside of Grays 18, not later than 4 o'clock. By the regulations no overdue theme will be accepted unless the writer satisfies the secretary that his failure to present it at the appointed time was caused by serious illness or other unavoidable hindrances.

Every student is required to follow implicitly the direction in regard to paper, folding, endorsing etc., given in the printed rules of the course.

COLLEGE CONFERENCE MEETINGS.On six Tuesdays evening in February and March, lectures will be given on some of the more important professions as follows:

February 18-Medicine. Professor C. J. Blake, of the Medical school.

February 25-Law. Hon. Jeremiah Smith, late of the Supreme Court of New Hampshire.

March 4-Ministry. Rev. Brooke Herford.

March 11-Public Life. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, of the United States Civil Service Commission.

March 18-Teaching. Edwin Seaver, superintendent of the Boston public schools.

March 25-Business. Charles S. Smith, Esq., president of the New York chamber of commerce.

A FRENCH VIEW OF BISMARCK.On Monday, February 17, Professor Cohn will deliver a lecture on "A French view of Bismarck." The lecture will be given in Sever 11, at 7.30 p. m., and will be open to the public.

LECTURES ON DETERMINATIVE, CRYSTALLOGRAPHY AND CRYSTAL OPTICS.Professor Cook began a course of instruction on "Determinative Crystallography and Crystal Optics" on Tuesday, February 11, at 12 m. The lectures will continue on Tuesday and Thursday of each week until further notice. Students desiring to attend the course are requested to apply personally or Professor Cooke.

ANCIENT RELIGIONS AND CHRISTIANITY.A course of six evening lectures will be given in the chapel of the Divinity school by officers of the university who are not teachers in the school, as follows:

Feb. 25.- Archaeolegical Evidence of Ancient Religious Rites in the Ohio Valley. Frederick Ward Putnam, A. M., Curator of the Peabody Museum, and Peabody Professor of Archaeology and Ethnology.

March 11.- The Roman Worship of Mars, Jupitor, Juno in the Earlier Times. Frederick DeForest Allen, Ph. D., Professor of Classical Philology.

March 25.- Everyday Religion of the Greeks. John Henry Wright, A. M., Professor of Greek.

Aprill 22.- The Religion of the Upanishads. Charles Rockwell Lanman. Ph. D., Professor of Sanskrit.

May 6.- The Ancient Scandinavian Belief in a Future Life. George Lyman Kittredge, A. B., Instructor in English.

May 28.- The Relation of Christianity to Modern Life. Lyman Abbott, D. D., Preacher to the University.

The lectures will begin at 7.30 and will be open to the public.

PHYSICS A. (Lectures to Freshmen).

Thursdays at 12 m. beginning February 20. These lectures are open to all members of the university.

Feb. 20.- Sound, with especial reference to the Telephone and Phonograph. Professor Trowbridge.

Feb. 27.- Light, with especial reference to Photography. Professor Trowbridge.

March 6.- Light, with especial reference to Spectrum Analysis. Professor Trowbridge.

March 13-Relations of Light, Heat, and Electricity. Professor Trowbridge.

April 17.- Prime Motors and their Sources of Energy. Professor Hall.

April 2s.- The Steam Engine. Professor Hall.

May 1-Dynamo-Electric Machines. Professor Hall.

May 8.- Electric Lighting and Electric Railways. Professor Hall.