Fact and Rumor.

Professors Lowell and Torrey have been placed on the retired list.

The University Beat crew will begin rowing in the gymnasium at once.

The Princeton faculty allow the students a vacation of two weeks at Christmas.

A large number of students enjoyed the fine skating on Fresh Pond yesterday afternoon.

George Sands' Nanon will be begun, and Michelet finished at the next hour in French 8.

The Columbiad, published by the junior class of Columbia College, will soon be ready for sale.

The first seven of the Signet from '88 are Bailey, Manning, Mason, Moore, Pulsifer, Rogers, Sempers.

The recitation rooms were well filled yesterday, considering that our long vacation had but just come to an end.

The rumor spread around college before Christmas that several freshmen had been dismissed from college, is entirely groundless.

An article has appeared in the Nation by E. T. Sanford, '85, treating of the subject of the dismissal from office of Republicans by President Cleveland.

There is a plan afloat at Yale to build a tank large enough to contain a stationary shell, in which the crew can get practice in rowing on water during the winter.

Boston Latin School '84, has its annual reunion and dinner at the Revere House to-night. Bennett, '88, is the president, and McCleary, '88, the secretary of the class.

The play "Tangled Lives," which is being represented at the Fifth Avenue Theatre, was written by Robert Kelley, '79, a founder of the Yale News and a prominent athlete.

It is a great pity that sand has been sprinkled on this walks in the yard, thus destroying the skating and sliding which is so dear to "ye Harvard student."

The girls at Bryn Mawr College, Pa., have recommended their faculty to wear the Oxford cap and gown. Trust the girls for having all that belongs to a college costume.

The Christmas number of the Columbia Spectator was an especially praiseworthy one. We wish to congratulate our E. C.'s both on their ability as editors and on their talent as artists. They do say, however, in this number, that Edward Burgess lectured before the Harvard freshmen on yachts.

It is stated that the Princeton faculty have under consideration the advisability of changing Princeton College into a university after the fashion set by Yale. One of the strongest arguments in favor of the proposed change is the ease with which it can be accomplished.