With the initial basketball games and hockey matches tonight and the first swimming meet this Thursday, the winter House athletic program will begin in earnest this week.

In basketball, Eliot meets Leverett, and Adams faces Dadley. Tonight's hockey matches will see Winthrop playing Kirkland, Eliot playing Adams, Dudley fighting Dunster, and Leverett facing Lowell. Tomorrow's basketball schedule will match Dunster with Lowell and Kirkland with Winthrop. The three-way duel Thursday night will present the following swimming meets: Adams, Dudley and Dunster; Eliot, Kirkland and Leverett; Lowell and Winthrop.