thus making it very convenient to work with the new photo-micrographic apparatus purchased last year.

The apparatus with which the department is provided is of the best, and it is very gratifying that at last we have a laboratory worthy of it. The students of the College of Liberal Arts now have facilities for biological studies unsurpassed in this part of the country.

THE DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY.

The rooms allotted to the Department of Chemistry are on the second floor. The main laboratory accommodates a single division of about seventy, and there is a smaller laboratory, reached by a convenient stairway, which has room for about twelve students. Both laboratories have the double-locker system, thereby providing ample space for nearly one hundred and seventy students. These rooms are well lighted, ventilated, and equipped with all the appliances needed for individual work. A balance-room, connected with the smaller laboratory, contains four balances used in the quantitative work, which is done in this laboratory. Adjoining the main laboratory is a supply-room containing a small laboratory bench, hood, apparatus for distilling water, and shelves for the supplies constantly needed in the main laboratory. This room can also be used as a private laboratory. A small office for the professor of chemistry is situated between the supply-room and the storeroom. The latter is provided with a work-bench and shelves for the storage of apparatus and chemicals.

The gas, water, and drainage have been installed with unusual care. This equipment is thoroughly modern, easily regulated, and liberally distributed. Each student has the exclusive use of two drawers and a locker, a set of reagents, a gas-jet, and a water-faucet, while a very large drainage-pipe permits the joint use of conveniently located sinks. Special draft-pipes in the hoods assure the complete removal of offensive and noxious gases.

Each student has ample space for work, while the broad aisles allow unrestricted passage to and from the supply-shelves, hoods, and tables.

The department is now adequately provided with accommodations and equipment which make it possible to maintain the high standard of the University and to give all the courses in chemistry demanded by students who are acquiring a liberal education.

THE DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS.

With the removal of the College of Liberal Arts to the Boylston Street building comes the opportunity of offering to its students the advantages of a new and firstclass physical laboratory.

The rooms of the department, located, with but one exception, upon the top story of the building, are commodious and remarkably well adapted to the needs of a department of physics. The main laboratory, a large corner room, has sixteen windows and two large skylights, and is equipped with all the usual appliances. In it stands also a motor-generator set of approximately 5-K.W. capacity, which is capable of furnishing an alternating current of 50 amperes at approximately 100 volts. A dynamotor furnishes a low-voltage direct current and charges a storage battery for general laboratory use.

The lecture-room is also a large and well-lighted room; and the lecture-desk is equipped with 220, 110, and 10 volt direct-current circuits, 110-volt alternating, and an 18-volt storage-battery circuit; with two lanterns- one the ordinary stereopticon,

the other suitable for spectroscopic work; and also with the ordinary gas and water taps.

In the stock-room, a large interior room amply lighted by a skylight, is stored the major part of the apparatus; an adjoining room with two windows serves as a tool and work room, and in it are placed an electrically driven No. 5 Barnes lathe and a cabinetmaker's bench; while a second adjoining room with two windows is used as the instructor's study.

In the rear on the same floor are three smaller rooms, which are now being equipped as spectroscopic, sound, and photometric laboratories.

In the basement a large room will eventually be devoted to the work of a research laboratory, and in it are available direct and alternating currents. A dark-room, built into this large room, will be used to meet the needs of the department along photographic lines.

With this ample space and the lecture and laboratory equipment, which is new and in excellent condition, there is no reason why there should not be offered at the College of Liberal Arts high-grade courses in physics. That the department may keep abreast of the times, substantial additions to this equipment will be made yearly.

The objects of the courses offered in physics are two in number-first, in the course in General Physics, to give the student a broad conception of the science by discussing briefly the most important physical phenomena, and, secondly, in the Advanced Physics, to train him for service in after-life as teacher and instructor

Through the courtesy of the Pastor and the Trustees of the Old South Church, the opening chapel service on Friday, September 20, was held in the chapel of the Old South Church. The service, which was led by President Huntington, derived additional interest from the fact that one of Dr. Huntington's ancestors, the Reverend Joshua Huntington, was a minister of the Old South Church, from 1808 until 1819. At the conclusion of the chapel service the students returned to the college building, where the work of registration was resumed.

Until the completion of the new chapel morning prayers will be held in Room 46, one of the larger halls of the main college building on Boylston Street.

The Young People's Association of the Mount Vernon Church in Boston gave, on Tuesday evening, October 8, a reception to students who are carrying on their school work in Boston and vicinity. The association was very cordial in its hospitality to the students of Boston University, and it made a special effort to extend its invitation to all of the college students who have come to Boston from distant homes.

Mr. James D. MacNair, '05, was married on Wednesday, June 12, at Biddeford, Me., to Miss Grace Eunice Tibbetts. Mr. and Mrs. MacNair will reside at Sonyea, N. Y.

Miss Ella M. Fletcher, '07, is teaching Latin and French in the Upton, Mass., High School.

Miss Sara L. MacCormack, '99, was married in Newton Centre on Thursday, September 19, to Mr. James W. Algeo, of Providence, R. I. The ceremony was performed by President W. E. Huntington. Mr. and Mrs. Algeo will reside in Providence, R. I.

This leaves about $5,000 of the $25,000, the sum originally fixed for the alumni to raise. The outstanding pledges consist largely of instalments not yet due. Most of these subscribers would be willing to pay the whole amount at once, if they are able and are requested to do so.

There are nearly one thousand graduates of the College of Liberal Arts. Of these, only about one-half have as yet subscribed to the fund, although annually and otherwise intermittently urged to do so. In some of the older classes more than this proportion have contributed, and generously; while the recent classes are not so well repre sented, possibly because the members are not yet receiving settled incomes. In the prospect of being relieved of these dunning letters, perhaps many of these non-contributors will help clean up the whole matter this year. In the forthcoming edition of The Epsilon, the detailed statement of the contributions to date received from each class will be published.

At the June meeting there was a unanimous determination to raise the balance of the twenty-five thousand dollars before June, 1908; and we are assured that the Trustees will meet us more than half-way, to cover the increase in the amount which must now be invested in order to furnish a revenue that will support a college professorship. For twice twenty-five thousand dollars (the alumni were to raise one-half) will hardly net a sufficient income nowadays.

With this purpose in mind, of completing the alumni subscription this year, a special committee was appointed, consisting of Mr. Blackett, Mr. Nazarian, Mr. Avery, Mr. Peffers, Mrs. O'Brien, and Mrs. Pearson, who will work for this object. They expect to be assisted by the class committees, which are being enlarged, and by individual efforts along the lines of entertainments and private solicitations. A pull together will attain the much-desired result; but each one must do his part generously. MARSHALL L. PERRIN, Treasurer.

At the annual meeting of the Epsilon Chapter last June a committee consisting of Mr. Herbert S. Avery, '04, Dr. Charles W. Blackett, '88, Dr. Arakel H. Nazarian,'92, Mrs. J. Everett Pearson, '97, Mr. Myron P. Peffers, '05, and Mrs. Robert L. O'Brien, '91, was chosen "on ways and means of raising money for the Alumni History Professorship Fund." This committee met a few days after Commencement and authorized Miss Grace B. Day, of the class of 1895, to proceed with the execution of a plan which she presented for the consideration of the committee.

Since the meeting of the committee which gave her full power to carry out her plan Miss Day has been indefatigably at work, and arrangements have reached so complete

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a stage that there has been issued the following circular, which clearly indicates the scope and aim of the proposed public entertainment:

For the benefit of the Alumni History Professorship Fund of the College of Liberal Arts, Boston University, Miss Grace B. Day, '95, announces the performance of the musical comedy, "Happy Medium," libretto by Juliet Wilbor Tompkins; music by Gilbert Tompkins,— to be given under the direction of the composer at Jordan Hall, Huntington Avenue and Gainsborough Street, Thursday and Friday evenings, November 21 and 22, 1907, at eight o'clock. "Happy Medium" is the story of a modern communistic settlement founded on principles of equality. The libretto abounds in clever dialogue and amusing situations, and the music is most appropriate.

The soloists, the mixed chorus of fifty voices, and the orchestra will be drawn from the alumni, undergraduates, and friends of the University.

Among the soloists will be Miss Jessie Arine Morse, '04, Miss Marguerite Morawski, Miss Adalyn Riley, Miss Josephine E. Fletcher, Mr. Ray Finel, and Messrs. Leon E. Baldwin, '97, Russell T. Hatch, '10, Webster A. Chandler, '02, Fred H. Lawton, 'oz, of the University Quartet. Tickets are $1.50 and $1.00, according to location, and may be obtained by sending cheque or money-order to Miss Grace B. Day, Park Vale, Brookline; Telephone, Brookline 2736-2.

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"Happy Medium" will be given under the patronage of President and Mrs. William Edwards Huntington, Dean and Mrs. William Marshall Warren, Professor and Mrs. Augustus Howe Buck, Professor and Mrs. Borden Parker Bowne, Professor and Mrs. Thomas Bond Lindsay, Professor and Mrs. Judson Boardman Coit, Professor and Mrs. James Geddes, Jr., Professor Marshall Livingston Perrin, Professor and Mrs. Joseph Richard Taylor, Professor and Mrs. Foy Spencer Baldwin, Professor Malvina Bennett, Professor and Mrs. Ebenezer Charlton Black, Professor and Mrs. Lyman Churchill Newell, Professor and Mrs. Dallas Lore Sharp, Professor William Goodwin Aurelio, Professor and Mrs. Alexander Hamilton Rice, Professor and Mrs. Robert Ernest Bruce, Professor and Mrs. Norton Adams Kent, Professor and Mrs. John Patton Marshall, Professor and Mrs. George Howard Fall, Miss Emily Frances Allen, Mrs. Edward Herbert Atherton, Mr. Herbert Spaulding Avery, Hon. John Lewis Bates, Dr. Charles Wesley Blackett, Mrs. Charles Wesley Blackett, Miss Alice Stone Blackwell, Mr. Frank William Kimball, Dr. Arakel Hovhannes Nazarian, Miss Elizabeth Crocker Northup, Mrs. Robert Lincoln O'Brien, Mrs. Jacob Everett Pearson, Mr. Myron Proctor Peffers, Miss Sarah Gertrude Pomeroy, Miss Hazel Marion Purmort, Mr. Raymond Adams Robbins, Miss Hila Helen Small, Mr. Edward Ray Speare, Miss Katharine Aldrich Whiting.

The Boston Evening Transcript of Tuesday, October 8, has this to say about the recently established teachers' courses:

"The teachers are already making their plans for college and university work the coming season. Harvard and Boston University offer many attractive courses especially for teachers, and when hours permit, some can enter classes with the regular students. Now that it is becoming possible to count on these courses toward the degree of A.B. and A.M., much more interest is evident on the part of teachers in service. The committee appointed at Chairman Storrow's request to look into the matter will no doubt be able to influence the college to be even more considerate in providing for those teachers who wish to gain a degree without resigning their positions. The superior quality of an experienced teacher's work ought to weigh heavily in the balance against quantity."

COURSES FOR TEACHERS.

First Semester, 1907-1908.

The full list of courses offered by the College of Liberal Arts for the first semester is as follows:

Anglo-Saxon. Professor M. L. Perrin.

The subject will be treated somewhat philologically, but more from a literary and linguistic point of view. The course will cover an elementary knowledge of the grammar, and the writings of Aelfred, Cadmon, and Cynewulf (second term, Beowulf). Saturday, 9 A.M.

English. Professor E. Charlton Black.

1. History and Principles of English Versification. Saturday, 10 A.M.

2. Shakespeare's earlier plays. Saturday, II A.M.

3. Advanced Composition. Saturday, 12 M.

German. Professor M. L. Perrin.

1. Beginners' Course: Grammar and Easy Reading (continued through the year). Saturday, 12 M.

2. Composition, Pronunciation, and Conversation (through the year). Saturday,

II A.M.

3. Rapid Reading in Modern Literature. Saturday, 10 A.M.

Greek Literature. Professor J. R. Taylor.

1. Greek Literary Criticism. Aristotle, Poetics; Longinus, On the Sublime. In this course, designed for teachers of ancient and modern literature, the stress is laid upon the subject-matter, and the text may be read in Greek or in English at the option of the student. Saturday, 10 A.M.

2. History of Greek Literature, to the end of the Attic period. Fowler's History of Greek Literature will be used, with collateral reading in standard English translations. This course does not require a knowledge of Greek, but provision will be made for those who wish to do the collateral reading in the original Greek. Saturday, 11 A.M.

Latin. Professor T. B. Lindsay.

1. Latin Prose Composition. Practical work,- the translation from English into Latin. Grammatical discussions to bring out the essentials of syntax and style. Writing Latin from rapid dictation, notes to be filled out at home. Monday, 4 P.M.

2. Advanced Reading Course. Selections from authors not commonly read in the schools, arranged to show the historical development of Latin Literature. Reading to be done for the most part without translation, that the thought may be followed directly. Wednesday, 4 P.M.

Other courses may be arranged upon request.

Music. Assistant Professor John P. Marshall, and Mr. Samuel W. Cole.

1. Elementary Harmony. Intervals, Scales, Triads, Dominant Seventh Chords. Harmonization of basses and melodies. Hour to be arranged.

2. Theory and Practice of Teaching Music in Schools. Designed for those already teaching or intending to teach music in schools. Hour to be arranged.

Enrollment.

Students in these courses are enrolled as special students in the College of Liberal Arts. Upon meeting the requirements for regular standing, they may count full credits