Fact and Rumor.

E. H. Goodwin, formerly assistant in Government 1, has been appointed assistant secretary of the Civil Service Reform League, whose headquarters are at Washington, D. C.

The College authorities have given up the idea of recasting the bell on Harvard Hall, and a new one will be purchased which will possibly be hung during the Christmas Recess.

Two Bulfinch Memorial tablets have been set up in Doric Hall at the State House. The inscriptions on both tablets were written by President Eliot at the request of ex-Governor Wolcott. One is in memory of Charles Bulfinch, and one is commemorative of the preservation and renewal of the State House.