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FACT AND RUMOR.

There will be no recitations in Latin 1 this week until Friday.

The fourth senior forensic is due from the whole class April 18.

The freshmen are requested to take encouragement from the example of Mr. Carnochan last Saturday. "O, wad ye tak' a thought and mend."

The summer course in Phaenogamic botany, announced in the University Catalogue, will not be given owing to the absence of Professor Goodale.

The law schools are determined to attract attention. This time, it is the catalogue of the Boston University Law School which has been received by every senior.

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Professors A. S. Hill, Paine, and Lanman have been elected honorary members of the Pi Eta Society. They will be received at the seniors' farewell on Friday next.

Eleven hundred dollars of the fund asked in aid of Mrs. Ko and her family have been subscribed. Almost $2000 have been raised to aid in the education of the children.

Columbia has finally consented to join with the American Institute of Archaeology, in connection with many other colleges, in the project of an American School at Athens.

In Saturday's meeting of the New York Athletic Club in Tammany Hall in the heavyweight boxing between Jas. Pilkington and R. Guiteras the judges decided in favor of Pilkington after a close and exciting contest. Guiteras was loudly applanded.

The events for next Saturday, March 18, ladies' day, are fencing, light and feather-weight sparring, standing high jump, two-hand vault, club swinging (legitimate), tug-of-war, '82 vs. '83, teams of four men, and the final bout in middle-weight sparring, postponed from last meeting.

The Yale Record comes out in a new and tasteful cover. The Record agrees with the Crimson and Advocate in their theory of college journalism, and thinks "It is, too, rather self-possessed in a student to wish to vie with Herbert Spencer, or something of the kind." (!) A sentiment entirely commendable if not very lucid.

We have received a copy of the manuel of the Harvard Club of New York. The officers of the club for 1882 are president, Francis M. Weld; secretary, N. S. Smith, and treasurer, T. F. Brownell, besides an executive committee of five and five vice-presidents. The club now numbers 263. Members from the class of 1881 are Charles McVeigh, J. S. Melcher and E. D. Hawkins. Its next monthly meeting occurs March 18th.

FURNITURE. Parlor, chamber, dining-room, library and office furniture. An immense stock in the warerooms of PAINE'S manufactory, 48 Canal street, opposite Boston and Maine depot.

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