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FACT AND RUMOR.

E. A. Thompson, '87, who was in training for the mile run in the inter-collegiate games, has given up training by direction of his physician.

Professor Flagg, of Cornell, has recently printed a "Guide for Students of Greek," in which he severely condemns the use of trots in reading the classics.

A silver cup will be given to any one breaking the Yale record at the running long jump in the coming spring meeting of the Yale Athletic Association.

The officers of the Phi Beta Kappa from '85 are as follows : Webster, 1st Marshal ; Litchfield, 2nd Marshal ; Davis, Dunham, Smith, dinner committee.

For the information of the Yale News, we would say that our recent editorial on Mr. Camp was based on an article published in the last Spirit of the Times, from the pen of the Yale correspondent.

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The Yale Bicycle Club has been obliged to change the date of its races, which were to have taken place May 28th, owing to the fact that the Yale nine is to play a championship game on that date. No new date has as yet been selected.

It has just come to light that members of the Cambridge Bicycle Club have been in the habit of practicing on the Holmes Field track at five o'clock in the morning, a somewhat unusual hour. As no permission has been given this club to avail itself of the track, the action of some of its members would seem to exhibit a degree of "nerve" that is rather surprising.

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