Among the many beautiful things which art and taste and money combined to furnish for the holidays nothing surpassed the Christmas cards of L. Prang & Co. In design, coloring and finish it is difficult to see how they could be improved. It will interest those of our readers who expect to visit the New Orleans Exposition to know that all Messrs. Prang & Co.’s former prize cards and the frames, with consecutive proofs of a reproduction, have been sent to the Massachusetts department at New Orleans by special invitation of the State Commission. The collection of prize designs recently exhibited in New York and Boston by Mr. L. Prang is now, by special invitation, shown in the Art Institute in Chicago, and, in response to a similar request made by the managers of the Museum of Fine Arts at St. Louis, this collection of paintings will be sent to that city later on.

The banquet of the C. L. S. C. Alumni, which was to have been in Boston in February, will be held at Lake View, Wednesday, July 22. The committee decided upon this change when it was found that Chancellor Vincent, Professors Hurlbut and Holmes, also Prof. Sherwin, could not be present in February.

Important to members of the Class of 1888. The first article on “How to make Home Beautiful,” which was published in Alma Mater No. 2 last year, will be mailed to all members of the class of 1888, during the present year, 1884-5. We were unable to have this article reprinted in time to accompany Alma Mater No. 3, which was sent last month to all members of the C. L. S. C.

J. H. Vincent.

The last copy of The Outlook published by the class of 1884 appeared in December. It contains much news of interest to the class, the class list of graduates as made up to November 1st, including 1,387 names, and the editor’s farewell. The Outlook has been a faithful and zealous advocate of the interests of the “Irrepressibles.”

People of all denominations loved and honored Bishops Simpson and Asbury of the M. E. Church. At the recent centennial celebration of that church a fitting souvenir to these two noble men was displayed in the form of medallions, on which were embossed the heads of the two bishops. These medallions were mounted in a leather case lined with satin. It forms a beautiful object for any one’s collection of souvenirs.

’82 Class Motto.—Members of the Pioneer class are reminded that the selection of a motto was remitted to a committee. Any member prepared to make a suggestion in the matter is invited to send it to Lewis C. Peake, Drawer 2,559, Toronto, Canada. The general feeling of the class was that the motto should be in English.

The Chautauqua Musical Reading Club is a new department of Chautauqua work. The course has been thoughtfully arranged in consultation with many among the most cultured musicians in the land, and is of such recognized merit that, with the hearty approval of the faculty, it has been adopted in the New England Conservatory of Music at Boston. Information may be obtained concerning the C. M. R. C. by addressing W. F. Sherwin, Director C. M. R. C., Boston, Mass.