Fact and Rumor.

There will be a meeting of the CRIMSON board to-day at 1.45 p. m.

Prof. Peabody will conduct prayers this week.

The tuition fee at Yale has been increased $10.

There will be an hour examination in Political Economy 4 to-day.

There will be an hour examination in N. H. 8 on Wednesday, Dec. 21, at 10 a. m. in room 2, M. C. Z.

There will be an hour examination in N. H. 4 on Wednesday, Dec. 22, at 12 o'clock in Sever 35 and 37.

The Technique, the annual publication at the M. I. T., will appear in a few days.

E. H. Rogers, '87, was present at the Glee Club concert last Friday evening and sang in his old place as first tenor.

Professor Hall will meet the students in Physics B this Monday evening from 8 to 10 o'clock in the laboratory.

In N. H. I to-day there will be a lecture from 9 to 10 a. m. instead of the regular laboratory work.

There will be an hour examination in N. H. 14 on Wednesday, Dec. 21, at 9 a. m. in room I, M. C. Z.

One of the most distinguished lecturers of the West, Professor Wright, of Oberlin Seminary, has recently been delivering a series of lectures in the Lowell course in Boston on the subject of "Glaciers and their Action." He has kindly consented to give a lecture this evening before members of the University on the subject of "Recent Discoveries in Glacial Geology," using for illustration a selection from his views of glaciers, thrown on the scene in Boylston by Professor Cooke's powerful lantern.

The Conference Frangaise and the Deutscher Verein get on better together than the nations they represent, since they are to occupy the same room in Dane Hall. Tribune.

It is probable that a marine biological station will be established in the Bahamas through the efforts of the expedition which was sent out from the University of Pennsylvania.

In all our contests, Harvard has been a most formidable rival. She has had advantages in point of numbers, and it is only by virtue of our greater enthusiasm and harder work that we have won.- Yale News.

President Eliot says in regard to President Cleveland's message that "The views on the tariff question and the reduction of the surplus are sound economically, sagacious politically and thoroughly patriotic."

The last Tech has a long editorial on the advantages and disadvantages of the purchase of the M. I. T. by Harvard. It says, "On carefully going over all the ground it seems to us that the only advantage of any real practical value would be the increased amount of money the institute might get to improve its facilities for teaching."

Speaking about the cricket eleven that is to visit the West Indies this winter, the New York Times says: "A new feature will be introduced next season. The colleges are taking an interest in the game. Harvard has challenged Yale for next season, and, should the challenge be accepted, Columbia will also put a team in the field."

This week's Nation contains a very interesting description of the recent production of the Greek tragedy, "OEdipus" at Cambridge, England. Comparisons are drawn between the styles of the various actors there and at the performance of the same play here in Sanders Theatre a few years ago. The author closes his remarks by "I would say that the difference between the two representations of 'King OEdipus"- apart from the music of which I have already spoken-is the difference between painting and sculpture. The American play was sculpturesque and the English play was picturesque."