FACT AND RUMOR.

There will be no lecture in N. H. 7 tomorrow.

The Boston Journal has reduced its price to two cents.

Keith and S. Coolidge of the senior crew will probably not row this year.

The lectures in History 12 have been especially interesting during the past week.

The Christmas theatricals of the Hasty Pudding Club take place tonight at 8 P. M.

The reading-room will be opened immediately after the Christmas recess, in Mass. 2.

The section in German 6 will take up "Soll and Haben" at the next recitation. The first lesson will be Chapter I.

The section in Phil. 3 yesterday voted unanimously not to have any hour examination before the semi-annuals.

A number of Harvard men, graduates of Andover Academy, attended the theatricals given at Quincy last night by the students of the academy.

The Lampoon, as it deserves, is meeting with universal commendation from the college world, and is everywhere recognized as a credit to Harvard.

Special notice should be taken of the regulation that students who leave Cambridge for the recess must first return all books borrowed from the library.

We have received definite information from New Haven that Yale has been unable to secure any reduction whatever this year in the matter of railroad fares.

An arrangement has been made by which members of Greek 7 and 9 who are not candidates for honors are allowed to substitute theses for forensics.

Prof. J. W. White requests the members of Greek 7 and 9 who intend to substitute theses for forensics to notify him of their subjects by postal before Christmas.

The "Salvation Army" has invaded Cambridge. A "post" has been established at the Cottage street M. E. Church. Harvard's Christmas vacation begins in two days.

"How Hazing was Stopped at Harvard," which has been going the rounds of the outside press for almost a year, is now introduced to the college world as an original production by the Marietta Olio.

Freshman Greek examinations today as follows: Sections I. and II. to Fraser in Sever 37; II. from Fraser in U. E. R.; III. and Minimum in Mass. 1; IV. in Mass. 3. Conditioned men will go to Mass. 3.

The members of N. H. 6 are required to write a thesis for tomorrow's recitation, but at present each one is in a predicament as regards the exact subject given out. The result will probably be a great amount of variety, if not of spice, in the essays.

Dr. Wadsworth delivers his lecture in Lithology at the Museum of Comparative Zoology today at 2 P. M. The subject is: "The General and Microscopic Characters of Magnetite, Chromite, Rutile, Zircon, Limonite and Wad." The next lecture will occur on January 10.

It appears that arrangements have been made by which all members of the Co-operative Society going to western points can do better in the matter of having direct routes, and in encouraging a system of reductions in railroad fares, by dealing directly with the managers of the society.

Dr. Snow in his lecture yesterday, speaking of the civil service, declared that, in his opinion, Senator Pendleton's bill struck at the root of the whole civil service abuse. The other bill, fixing the tenure of office at four or six years, he considered as extremely detrimental to the interests of the system.

Table 31 at Memorial celebrated their last dinner of the term by a farewell feast last evening. The table was elaborately decorated,-likewise the waiter. The cuisine was taxed to its utmost, and the result was highly satisfactory, there being a display of edibles which caused the mouths of many less favored boarders to water. Last of all the fatted pig, roasted entire, was brought on and served to the banqueters.

A Dartmouth professor is going to the Sandwich Islands for the purpose of exploring volcanoes. If the gentleman wishes to explore a really first class volcano in good working order we would recommend him to as interview with the Advocate editorial board on the subject of Memorial Hall.