Fact and Rumor.

F. Townsend Jr., has returned to college.

Yale is to have a mandolin club before the Easter trip.

At Brown, military tactics have been added to the curriculum.

The Princeton Junior Promenade will be held on Friday, Feb. 10.

Cornell University celebrates its twenty-fifth anniversary next October.

Boston University's new Glee Club is to have a professional instructor.

The Illinois Legislature has repealed the compulsory school law of that state.

The new University of Pennsylvania's paper, the Courier, is to be devoted entirely to athletics.

Cumberland University, Tenn., will soon lay the corner stone of a new building costing $100,000

Indoor tennis and cricket have been started in the Mechanics' fair building under care of Chambers' of the B. A. A. Membership is not confined to B. A. men, but is open to players of this vicinity.

A new chair of oratory has been established at Hamilton College, to which B. G. Smith, Associate Professor of Elocution and Oratory at Cornell, has been appointed. This chair is called the Upson Professorship in Oratory, and was secured through the earnest work of the new President of the college, M. W. Stryker.