FACT AND RUMOR.

Mr. George Riddle is at present in Boston.

The bell is now rung at Memorial at nine o'clock.

Tom is now actively at work laying out tennis courts.

Baker, '84, was out with the 'Varsity nine yesterday.

There will be a meeting of the Pi Eta Society this evening.

So far but twenty men have reported to Mr. J. Robinson.

There was a meeting of the Christian Brethren yesterday.

Henry James, Jr., will start for his beloved England early in May.

Mr. Wheeler, formerly instructor in Greek and Latin, is visiting in Cambridge.

There will be a concert by the Princeton Glee Club in Washington this evening.

Mr. G. L. Kittredge '82, read his Bowdoin prize essay, "Carlyle as a Historian," last evening.

There will be an hour examination in Philosophy 4 next week, probably on Tuesday, the 18th inst.

The marks were given out in freshman trigonometry. The number of men conditioned is less than usual.

Games between the Princetons and Metropolitans at New York, and between Yale and the Alaskas at New Haven, are set for tomorrow.

The Harvard club of New York holds its regular monthly meeting at Delmonico's tomorrow; and the Albany Harvard club meets on the same date.

The 'Varsity nine practised yesterday on Jarvis and the freshmen on Holmes. The lacrosse team was out in full force, and some tennis players also appeared.

The hymn sung by the chapel choir yesterday morning was a decided variation from the selection given out. It is to be regretted that Professor Allen's enunciation is occasionally very indistinct.

Franklin Goodridge Fessenden, LL. B., has been appointed instructor in criminal law, and Lewis Dembitz Brandeis, LL. B., instructor in evidence in the Law School for the ensuing academic year.

A condensed history and biography of Longfellow will be issued tomorrow by the Tribune Publishing Co. It comprises critical estimates of his works by the best writers of the day, together with the history of certain poems.

The next meeting of the Harvard Union will take place Wednesday, April 19, instead of the following Thursday. The disputants are all '82 men. Affirmative, Messrs. Wait and Sewall; negative, Messrs. Hoar and Eaton. The question is: Resolved, That Webster's position as defined in his 7th of March speech was justifiable. As the disputants are all fine speakers, and the subject has been recently discussed in the papers, the meeting will be one of unusual interest.

PARLOR BED. PAINE'S new parlor bed is very convenient. A number of very fine dressing case beds are now being placed in the warerooms at the manufactory, 114 Friend street, Boston.