Fact and Rumor

This is the last day for signing for the junior dinner.

Dr. A. P. Peabody will occupy the college pulpit to-morrow evening.

The first special report in History 17 is due on Tuesday, March 6.

The Tech sports take place this afternoon at 2 o'clock in Winslow's Rink, near Hotel Brunswick in Boston.

Professor Hill's English Literature lecture to freshmen today on "Oliver Goldsmith."

A new order list appeared at Memorial in which the variety of "extras" has been reduced.

Dr. Wm. Everett will lecture before the Philosophical Club on Monday evening on "Spinoza."

Curry, '89, has recovered his health and has returned to college from the Bermudas.

H. Byrd Page, the champion high jumper of the world, has entered the high jump today at New Haven, but may not contest.

The number of students in the German universities this year is 26, 945. The University of Berlin alone has 5, 478.

There is an attempt being made to establish an annex in the shape of a college for women under the protection of Columbia.

Copies of "The Winter's Tale" for English 2 may be obtained at Couples, Upham and Co.'s, corner of School and Washington streets.

An English university has invited John L. Sullivan to give an exhibition before its students.

Mr. R. D. Sears has been elected president of the Longwood Cricket Club, of Boston.

At the indoor games of Co. A., 23rd Regiment in New York, on April 7 there will be a tug-of-war confined to college teams. Yale, Princeton to college teams. Yale, Princeton and Columbia have already entered.

The Yale News has a long article on the Harvard University crew which is made up of errors, and names many men as candidates who are not trying at all.

A. S. Walcott has resigned his position as captain of the freshman lacrosse team, since he will be unable to play this season. His place will not be filled at present.

The annual Oxford-Cambridge cricket match will be played this year at Lord's, on July 2, 3 and 4. Mr. W. Rashleigh is the Oxford captain and Mr. C. D. Buxton, the Cambridge captain.

The fourth annual bench show of the New England Kennel Club will be held in Mechanics' Hall, Boston, on April 3, 4, 5 and 6. The cash prizes offered amount to $3,500 and there are challenge cups to be given in the mastiff class.

Ex-President McCosh of Princeton is now devoting himself to a literary work, and will soon produce a volume entitled "First or Fundamental Principles," which he thinks will be the most enduring of his achievements in philosophy.

The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston has just received a fine specimen of the rare monuments of the Hyksos Kings of Egypt, under the last of whom Joseph was prime minister. It is a headless sphinx of black granite and bears the rare monumental name of Setnekht, the last monarch of the dynasty of Rameses II.

All the best reserved seats, that is the south floor and west gallery front seats, are sold for the second meeting on March 17. There are yet a number of good seats left for the last day. Part of the tickets at the Co-operative store have been taken to Bartlett's and may be obtained there.