Fact and Rumor.

Brine is making the uniforms for the 'varsity nine.

The lacrosse men are to go into training after the recess.

Russell, '87, has returned to Cambridge.

Bingham, '89. sprained his ankle yesterday while practicing. He will be all right in a few days.

The first and second lacrosse twelves will play a match on the common this afternoon at three.

George A. Morrison, '87, has gone to Bermuda to spend a few weeks, under advice of his physician.

Terry, '85, of Yale, was offered the position of second base of the Metropolitan nine, but declined.

The tennis courts are being put in order as rapidly as possible, and the running track is in excellent condition.

After Monday the copies of the outline in History XIII may be found at 63 Thayer, between half past one and two o'clock.

Chamberlain, Clark, Gibson, Hunter and Garrison are putting the shot. All except the second are throwing the hammer.

Mr. Irving O. Whiting, of Boston, will speak tomorrow evening in Holden, at 6.30, on "Mr. Moody's Meetings in the South."

The Longfellow Association has only $13,000 of the $50,000 needed to place a seated statue of the poet upon suitably decorated grounds in Cambridge.

The following have been elected members of the Supreme Court of the Pow Wow for 1886 7: Cowles, Davis, Davidson, Goodale, Hobbs, W. C. Smith, Storrow, Trask and W. Williams.

The Hasty Pudding Club will give the performance of "Pappillouetta" to the club members on Monday night at 8 o'clock.

The heart of Jumbo, Barnum's elephant, weighing 47 pounds, has been presented to the Cornell Museum; the skeleton will eventually be given to the Smithsonian Institute at Washington.

A prominent member of '89 received a letter from a legal firm in Boston bidding him call at once and avoid trouble. He hurried in town in great trepidation and found to his delight and chagrin that there was no firm of the name in Boston.

E. S. Griffing was elected captain of the '89 lacrosse twelve yesterday afternoon, vice A. C. Bent, resigned. Mr. Bent is deserving of much credit for arousing what interest in lacrosse there is at present among the freshmen.

The New Yorks have made arrangements for six games in April with amateur clubs. On the first with the Manhattan College nine, on the 19th and 20th with the Princeton College nine, and on the 22nd and 23rd with Yale.

The Oxford-Cambridge race will be rowed to-day, April 3. There will be six old men in the Oxford boat, while only two of the Cambridge eight rowed last year. The average weight of each crew is about 172 lbs. The crews are very equally matched, but with the advantage slightly in favor of Oxford.

The following men will compose the nines in the game this afternoon. 'Varsity, Austin, p., Choate, c., Smith. 1b., Phillips, 2b., Holden, 3b., Wiestling, s. s., Foster, l. f., Willard, c. f., Allen, r. f., Palmer, sub. Freshmen, Henshaw, p., McPherson, c., Trafford, 1b., Morgan, 2b., McClellan, 3b., Clark, s. s., Litchfield, l. f., Goodale, c. f., Downer, r. f., Austin, sub.

On another page will be found an announcement of the coming concert of the Yale Glee Club on the 9th of April. Judging from their flattering reception elsewhere the concert ought to be very enjoyable. Mr. Darling and Mr. Tourtellot will sing solos, and Mr. Adler will warble, among the other attractions; it is a pity that the recess will deprive many Harvard men of the pleasure of listening to them.

It is reported that the arrangements for the appearance of Booth and Salvini together have been perfected Booth will play Iago, Hamlet and Edgar, while Salvini's parts will be Othedo the King and Lear. The engagement will begin on May tenth at the Boston Theatre.