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Lectures on Literature.

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The subjects and dates of Mr. Copeland's remaining lectures are as follows:

Mar. 24. Robert Burns.

Mar. 31. The Short Story.

Apr. 7. Shakspere in certain relations to our own time.

Apr. 14. Recollections of a Country Library.

These lectures will be given in Sever 11, at 8 p. m., and will be open to all members of the University, but not to the public.

St. Paul's Society.Lenten Sunday Sermons in Christ Church, 10.30 a. m.:

Mar. 22. Rev. W. L. Robbins, D. D., Dean of All Saints Cathedral, Albany, N. Y.

Seats are reserved for members of the University, all of whom are most cordially invited.

During Lent the St. Paul's Society holds daily evening prayer at 7 o'clock in 17 Grays. All students are cordially invited.

Lectures on Greek Philosophy.On the invitation of the Classical Department, Professor Goodwin will deliver a course of five lectures upon Socrates, Plato and Aristotle and the Earlier Greek Philosophy, in the Lecture Room of the Fogg Museum, at eight o'clock on successive Friday and Wednesday evenings, beginning March 20.

March 25. Socrates and the Sophists.

March 27. Plato.

April 1. Plato (continued).

April 3. Aristotle.

The lectures are open to the public.

Harvard Memorial Society Lectures.The Harvard Memorial Society has arranged for the following evening lectures, to be given in Sanders Theatre:

Mar. 27. Harvard in the Fifties. President Charles W. Eliot '53.

April 3. Harvard in the Sixties. Hon. Moorfield Storey '66.

April 10. Harvard in the Seventies. Judge Robert Grant '73.

Seats on the floor and parts of the first balcony will be reserved for officers of the University, members of the Harvard Memorial Society and their firiends. (Tickets for these reserved seats will be issued for the whole course of three lectures. Applications for these tickets should be made to A. M. Kales, 1256 Massachusetts avenue, on or before March 21).

On the afternoon before each lecture, between 4 and 6 o'clock, tickets admitting to the rest of the first balcony and to the second balcony will be given out at No. 3 Thayer Hall to students of the University. Five minutes before the lecture the public will be admitted.

Lectures on Oxford University.Joseph Wells, M.A., Felow and Tutor of Wadham College, will deliver a lecture on "The Oxford of Today," on Thursday evening, March 26, at eight o'clock, in the Lecture Room of the Fogg Museum. The lecture will be open to the public.

Harvard Catholic Club Lectures.In April there will be two public Lectures given under the auspices of the Harvard Catholic Club, the first in Sanders Theatre, the second in the Lecture Room of the Fogg Museum, beginning at 8 p. m.

April 7. Astronomical Science Not Opposed to Christian Faith. Rev. G. M. Searle, C. S. P., Ph.D., Director of the Observatory in the Catholic University, Washington, D. C.

April 30. A Visit to a Dead City in the Baltic. (Illustrated with stereopticon). Dr. Hasket Derby, of Boston.

Lectures on the Fine Arts.Arrangement has been made for a course of four lectures on the Fine Arts, to be given in the Lecture Room of the Fogg Museum, on successive Tuesday evenings, at 8 o'clock, beginning March 31, as follows:

March 31. The Early Mediaeval Architecture of Italy. Mr. C. A. Cummings.

April 7. The Venus of Melos. Mr. Edward Robinson.

April 14. The Country House. Mr. R. S. Peabody.

April 21. The Construction of the Parthenon. Professor H. L. Warren.

These lectures will be open to the public.

Exhibition of Photographs.The first exhibition of the Gardner Collection of Photographs (maintained by the income of a fund given in 1892 by George A. Gardner, Esq. of Boston) will be made by the Department of Geology and Geography in Massachusetts Lower Hall, from Wednesday to Saturday, March 25 to 28 inclusive. The Hall will be open each day from 2 p. m. to 6 p. m., and from 7.30 p. m. to 9.30 p. m., also on Saturday, from 10 a. m. to 1 p. m.

Officers of the Department will be present to point out views of special interest and to answer inquiries.

Geological Excursions, Spring of 1896.A series of general excursions will be conducted by officers of the Departments of Geology and Geography, and of Mineralogy and Petrography, during the months of April and May; in these excursions instructors and students in the Geological Departments of other New England Colleges (for men) are cordially invited to participate. The excursions from Cambridge are under the immediate supervision of Mr. T. A. Jagger, Jr., who is prepared to give information as to travelling expenses, etc., from 9 to 10 a. m., Mondays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays, Room 6, Museum of Zoology, or at the Geological Conference on Tuesday evenings. On or before the Wednesday preceding each excursion, members of Harvard University may purchase special railroad tickets from Mr. Jaggar at mileage rates. The books relating to the principal points of interest visited in these excursions will be found on the table specially reserved in Room 2, Museum of Zoology.

The following list is provisional and subject to change; details about trains, etc., will be announced in the Calendar from week to week, and postponement in any case will be announced before noon Friday on the Bulletin in University Hall.

Saturday, April 4, 1896. Excursion to Monadnock Mountaln, N. H., conducted by Mr. J. B. Woodworth.

Saturday, April 11, 1896. Excursion to New Haven, Conn., in charge of Professor H. S. Williams, of Yale College.

April recess, April 17-25, 1896. Excursion to the Middle Susquehanna district, Pa., in charge of Professor W. M. Davis. Object: Study of the deflected tributaries of the Susquehanna (see Rivers and valleys of Pa., Nat. Geogr. Mag., I, 1889, 241-243).

Saturday, May 2, 1896. Excursion to Conanicut Island, R. I., conducted by Professor J. E. Wolff.

Saturday, May 9, 1896. Excursion to Cape Ann, conducted by Professor N. S. Shaler.

Saturday, May 16, to Monday, May 18, 1896. Excursion to Provincetown, Mass., in charge of Professor W. M. Davis.

Saturday, May 23, 1896. Excursion to Mt. Tobey and Bernardston, in charge of Professor B. K. Emerson, of Amherst College.

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