A Baseless Rumor.

In regard to a statement from San Francisco to the effect that President Eliot was about to resign and that President Benjamin I. Wheeler of the University of California would succeed him, Mr. Charles Francis Adams said yesterday morning: "There is absolutely nothing in it. The rumor is entirely without foundation."

Dr. Henry Pickering Walcott, when asked last night about the rumor, said: "President Eliot has not the slightest intention of resigning, and the Corporation has not the slightest intention of accepting his resignation even if he should wish to do so." Dr. Walcott had just received a letter from President Eliot, in which he said nothing about resigning.