THE hounds for the race to-morrow are Messrs. Manning, '82, and Thacher, '82. Mr. Trimble, '80, is whipper-in.

NOTWITHSTANDING the warning to trespassers, the halls are still infested by pedlers. Janitors should not sleep all day.

MR. W. R. Thayer, '81, has been elected to the vacancy in the Crimson board, caused by the resignation of Mr. Burdett.

THE Yale University crew has lost one of its best men in J. W. Keller, who leaves college. He was an editor of the Yale Daily News.

PRESIDENT ELIOT was a guest at the dinner given, on Wednesday, to Oliver Wendell Holmes by the publishers of the Atlantic Monthly.

STUDENTS are warned not to give clothes to a young man who shows a letter of recommendation. and mentions the name of a Crimson editor as a reference.

FRESHMAN EXAMINATIONS. - Dec. 11, Greek; Dec. 13, Latin; Dec. 16, German, French; Dec. 18, Solid Geometry; Dec. 20, Latin Lectures, Greek Lectures.

PROF. BENJAMIN PIERCE will deliver a course of three lectures on Ideality in Science, in Sanders Theatre, on Tuesdays, December 2, 9, and 16, at 7.30 P. M.

ALL who wish to try for the University Nine are requested to present themselves at the new Gymnasium on Monday, at two o'clock. Entrance through the engine-room.

SCENE: Section in Themes.

Mr. K's theme reads as follows: "Here was the Parthenon, there the Erectheium, yonder the Theatre" -

Prof. - Stop: that sounds too much like a guidebook of Athens. Leave such matters to Mr. King.

The section applauds assent. (Fact.)

REV. PHILLIPS BROOKS will preach in Appleton Chapel, under the auspices of the Society of Christian Brethren, on Sunday evenings of January 25, February 8, April 18, May 16.

OUT of three hundred and twenty-five Yale men examined by Dr. Jeffries, only five were found to be color-blind. Two of these were violet blind, a very rare form of color-blindness.