Fact and Rumor.

18,061 young women are in college in the United States.

There are five freshmen trying for the Princeton Mott Haven team.

Union College is indulging in a fair, for the benefit of her ball nine.

The late Isaac Farnsworth has left $100,000 to Wellesley for an Art School.

The examination in German 3 will include as much as the class has read in "Le Cid."

One of the oration men of the junior class entered college with nine conditions. - Yale News.

The '87 board on the Yale Lat. consists of Messrs. Pomeroy, Kent, Gates, Livingston and Phelps.

"The new candidates for the sophomore crew have gone into active training." - Pennsylvanian.

The new officers of the Lampoon will enter upon their duties after the completion of the present volume.

G. D. Baird in the Spirit of the Times declares that a man can never become an athlete without brains.

The examination in Philosophy 2 will consist of Jevon's Logic and the first hundred pages of Bain.

The next Sophomore theme will be due February 18th. The subject and manner of treatment is left to the writer.

The University of Pennsylvania is very much absorbed in the Greek play which it will put on the stage in the spring.

The examination in Philosophy 3 will extend to the third section of the second book of Royce's Religious Aspect of Philosophy.

Harvard College paid $18,000 last year as taxes to the city of Boston. The property of Yale is by law exempt from taxation. - Yale News.

Dr. Farnham announced in his last lecture that a man who drinks two gallons of beer every day and a pint of whiskey needs no other nutriment.

The progressive and liberal spirit which has characterized the actions of Cornell in educational matters is again shown by the manner in which the Cornell Snn takes up the question of the "True University."

Punctuation is still a lost art to a few society lights, thinks the Boston Beacon. An elderly lady who had invited a favorite nephew to spend New Year's day with her did not understand from his written apology that he was suffering from an attack of erysipelas. The note read: "Dear aunt, I should certainly have been with you had I been well; even now I am in great pain while I write with my nose." It is presumable that a man who could successfully accomplish the feat of writing with his nose would be easily forgiven for a breach of etiquette. - Ex.