Fact and Rumor.

Boston Harbor has been frozen over this week for the first time since 1844.

The freshman lacrosse team will begin training after the mid-years.

The Williams nine is being coached by Casey, of the Philadelphias, and twenty-one candidates are in training.

A cricket coach has written to the Yale cricket club offering his services for the coming season.

Taylor, '90, is soliciting subscriptions for the new building of the Cormthian Yacht Club.

F. Hunting has been elected temporary captain of the Yale freshman nine.

From present indications, Harvard will have one of the best freshman nines she has ever had.- Yale News.

Rawson, '90, will manage the 'Varsity lacrosse team his year in place of Taylor, '90, who has resigned.

There is great need of a pair of scales in the Yale gymnasium. The University owns but one pair of scales, and that is in use by the 'Varsity crew.

Lafontaine's Fables, Book 3, will not be required of those who have recited them, in the examination in French 2.

Members of Political Economy 3 and 9 who have failed to hand in their blue books should leave them with Mr. Bolles at once.

Dr. Hall will meet students in Physics B at the Jefferson Laboratory, Monday afternoon from 4.30 to 5.30, as well as in the evening from 8 till 10.

Powdoin has withdrawn from the inter-collegiate athletic association of New England colleges, and has entered the Maine league.

Williams College Base-Ball Association has arranged games for the spring vacation in the following places: Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, Newark and Brooklyn.

The Yale Athletic Association is holding a handicap contest in putting the shot and high jump. The first was last Tuesday evening and the next will be on Tuesday, Jan. 31.

The semi-annual dinner of the CRIMSON board will occur on Friday evening, Feb. 17. All past editors who wish to attend are requested to visit the sanctum and sign as soon as possible.

In the February number of Lippincott's Magazine will be started a series of one hundred questions in literature and matters of current interest. A prize of $100 is offered for the best answer to these questions.

"In the second of the Saturday afternoon athletic contests at Harvard last week, only two contestants appeared for the shot and pole-vault."- Yale News. Yale men are on the alert for any seeming indifference in our athletics.

E. T. Conneff, the champion Irish runner, who defeated E. C. Carter, of the New York Athletic Club, in England last summer, will give an exhibition run in the winter games of the Manhattan Athletic Club in Madison Square Garden this evening.

At a recent meeting of St. Paul's Society the following officers for the half-year were elected: President, H. Page, '88; vice-president, A. D. Hodges, '89; secretary, R. D. C. Ward, '89; librarian, E. F. Fitzhugh, '91; chorister, A. V. Woodworth, '91.