Fact and Rumor.

There is a thesis due in History 14 on January 7.

The Red and Blue of the U. of P. will publish a special Christmas number.

Leland Stanford, Jr., University is the only American College giving free tuition in all its branches.

Mrs. Joseph Reynolds, of Aurora, III. has given a quarter of a million dollars to Chicago University.

The first number of the Wharton School Bulletin a new paper published at the U. of P. appeared Dec. 1.

Caspar Whitney says in Harper's Weekly that Cornell is the leading college in aquatics in the country.

In the Yale-Princeton debate Yale will choose the date while Princeton will have the choice of the subject.

J. O. Rodgers '94, right tackle on this year's team, has been elected captain of the Andover eleven for next year.

Each male student of the University of Chicago is required to spend thirty minutes three times a week playing football.

The Chicago Club of Yale will hold a banquet before the Junior Promenade to which Harvard and Princeton men from Chicago will be invited.

Two theme cards are due in English 12 on the 22nd, one bearing the subject of the seventh fornightly theme and the other the subject of the fornightlles for the second half year.

Prize runs will begin at Princeton next Wednesday afternoon, and will be held every Wednesday and Saturday thereafter.

The article on owls by Mr. Frank Bolles published in July Popular Science has been translated for La Revue Scientifique of France.

The receipts from the bazar held in Boston last week, in the interest of the Teachers' Benefit Association, amounted to $40,000.

The B. A. A. has received word to the effect that the Yale Athletic Association will accept the offer to enter four men for a team race with Harvard at the annual games to be given by the Boston Athletic Association on Feb. 11.

Mr. Charles L. Flick, who was injured by the falling of the open stand at Eastern Park two years ago, has brought suit for $15,000 against Ridgewood Park Land and Improvement Co. and the Yale and Princeton Foot Ball Association.

The Princeton Graduate Advisory and Executive Committee held their annual meeting last Saturday evening. It was decided to build larger grand stands on the athletic field, which when finished will increase the seating capacity by 80 per cent.