Fact and Rumor.

R. Boyden is now a candidate for the senior crew.

The third Sophomore theme is due today.

Blue books are in order, now, in almost every course.

There are twenty-one women in Wesleyan University.

The chemical-laboratory in Boylston will be open during the midyear examinations.

Cornell students enjoy the privilege of having physical examinations taken by Dr. Hitchcock.

The Art School has at length been started at Princeton under charge of Prof. Marquand.

Prof. Sumner's lecture on the Tariff, at the Old South Church comes this evening.

Junior themes were handed in yesterday. Sophomore themes are due this afternoon.

The run up North Avenue to Porter's Station will probably become unpopular for a day or two.

A large number of men are now to be seen at the office every afternoon, effecting changes in their electives.

As a result of the semi-annual examination at West Point, 25 per cent. of the fourth class has been dropped.

L. M. Chipman, professor of physics in Trinity College, died on Sunday at the home on his father in New York.

Prof. Goodale in the lecture in N. H. 3 on Tuesday gave out about 100 questions on various topics contacted with the course, from which some 20 or 25 will be selected for the mid-year examination.

The discourtesy of several men in taking bathrooms out of turn at the gymnasium, should meet with the severest reproof.

Yesterday's Advertiser contained a long letter from Owen Wister, the accomplished musical man of '82, on the Boston Symphony Concerts.

The members of history 13 feel aggrieved because they are required to hand in three historical maps of the United States, before the midyears.

Mr. Withington of the Seminary is to take charge of the Princeton gymnasium for a while in place of Mr. Goldie, resigned.

The University of Cairo, Egypt, is said to be 900 years older than Oxford. It has 10,000 students who are educated for missionaries of the Moslem faith.-[Ex.

H. Holiday, '85, has been compelled on account of ill health to sever his connection with college. He will depart in two weeks to spend a few years in Europe.

There have been recently formed at Yale, Bible classes, which meet at stated intervals for the discussion of special topics. The Seniors and Juniors have each four classes.

A squad of lacrosse men is at work on the chest-weights in the gymnasium. "Change!" cries the captain. "Oh, never mind the change." answers a voice from toe running track overhead.

The following extract shows the business manner is which a Cornell paper is carried on: "We mail to the address of all students entering the University this term a copy of the Cornell Daily Sun. If you do not wish to subscribe please notify us at once."

As only one-third of the year's work in Eist. 13 has been accomplished up to the present time, the examination in that course will last but two hours and count 40 per cent. of the year's mark. The examination will cover everything up to the beginning of Jefferson's second administration.

In the New York Herald of Tuesday morning appeared an article headed "Scare at Yale," in which it was stated that an epidemic of measles threatened the college. Only one man was sick, however, and fortunately there seems to be no danger that the disease will spread.