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Tuesday being a holidy the University will be closed. Ordinarily we remain open in the holidays, but this is a day of especial significance, so we close doors for the occasion. On this day a number of the students are going to take a trip to the mountains in several buses. The Christian Association is to have charge of the occasion; and if I have time I shall probably go.

This morning Prof. Joseph Leconte of Berkeley delivered the sermon and as the chapel was jammed full long before the time of services I had to stand. Dr Leconte is a venerable old man with a shrill, rasping voice; but what he lacked in platform presence he made up in subject and thought. The lecture, for it was not a sermon.