Fact and Rumor.

Alexander, ex '89, and Knapp, '87, have been recently married.

Columbia plays Harvard this afternoon on Holmes Field at four o'clock.

Amherst beat Columbia on Monday by a score of 9 to 0.

The commencement week at Yale begins Friday, June 22.

This is Professor Lovering's fortieth year in the University.

The West End cars are running to Brookline over Beacon street.

Examinations are over at Columbia, and the college class day comes on the 11th.

The books of Philosophy 5 will be found in Sever A with the total year's mark in blue pencil on the covers.

The Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute has prohibited the publication of all periodicals by the students.

The proposed game between Princeton and Cornell, at Ithaca, has been postponed indefinitely.

Mr. Watson, of the Graduate Advisory Board, has recently returned from his Western trip.

The sophomore class at Columbia celebrated last Monday night their "Triumph Over Legendre."

The Columbia freshman crew left on the 4th inst. for their training quarters at New London.

Princeton defeated the University of Pennsylvania at base-ball last Monday by a score of 10 to 5.

"The Krank" is the title of another book on base-ball. It is written by Thomas W. Lawson, published in Boston, and is supposed to be humorous.

According to the New York Herald, Mr. P. T. Barnum is most likely the donor of the $150,000 for the new building at Yale.

Prof. Drisler is now acting president of Columbia College. Prof. Sloane of Princeton has declined to accept the Chair of Latin at Columbia.

The last Cambridge Tribune has a report of the oration given by Prof. Chas. E. Norton, at Memorial Hall, Decoration Day.

Crom, of Oxford University, England, recently ran 600 yards in one minute, twelve and four-fifth seconds, thus beating the best English amateur record.

Arthur Michael, professor of chemistry of Tufts, is about to start on a trip around the world. he will be gone about 18 months, and during his absence Paul C. Freer, Ph. D., M. D., will have charge of his classes.

Prof. Cohn will be in Sever 19 on Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday from 9 to 10 a. m., to consult with men who wish to take French courses next year. By mistake the CRIMSON announced that Prof. Cohn would be at his own house on these days.

It is very probable that the Phillips Exeter Literary Monthly will be obliged to suspend publication next year, owing to a lack of editors. The periodical has been only two years in existence, but has won for itself an enviable position among the college literary magazines.

On May 17th, 18th and 19th, Cambridge University defeated at Cambridge, the Gentlemen of England by two runs and six wickets. The score was: Gentlemen of England, 1st innings, 79; 2nd innings, 114. Cambridge University, 1st innings, 85; 2nd innings, 110 for 4 wickets. A few days later-May 21st, 22nd and 23d, the game at Oxford between the Gentlemen of England and Oxford University resulted in a draw, somewhat in favor of the former. The score was: Gentlemen of England, 1st innings, 190; 2nd innings, 447; Oxford University, 1st innings, 294; 2nd innings, 160 for 5 wickets.