Fact and Rumor.

Columbia University last year received gifts of money to the amount of $460,311.

C. O. Swain '00 has been appointed head coach of the Amherst football team for next year.

The Hon. Richard Olney, L. S. '8 has been appointed to the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution.

Pennsylvania and Yale are to give a joint gymnastic exhibition in Witner-spoon Hall, Philadelphia, on February 22.

Edward Elbridge Sahsbury, for sixty years professor of Arabic and Sanskrit at Yale, died yesterday of pneumonia at the age of eighty-seven.

Cornell won the intercollegiate relay race at the Knickerbocker Athletic Club games. Columbia was second, and the College of the City of New York third.