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FACT AND RUMOR.

Johns Hopkins has secured, through the liberality of prominent Germans of Baltimore, Dr. Bluntchlis' library, one of the best collections of international law in the world.

Dr. Wadsworth lectures at 2 P. M. today, in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, on "The General and Microscopic Characters of Garnet, Epidote, Nephelite, Apatite, Hauynite, and Nosite."

The N. Y. Post says, in regard to the Agassiz Museum : "By the purchase of the large Schary collection of Bohemian Silurian fossils, and by its own rich amassing in the West and Southwest during the year, the museum now contains one of the finest collections of palaeozoic fossil invertebrates in existence."

A large audience listened to Prof. Cooke's interesting lecture on "Egyptian Antiquities" last evening. The new electric light showed the views to much better advantage than in previous lectures. The special subject was the Necropolis of Thebes, and its tombs and temples were graphically illustrated.

The informal meeting for general discussion of geological subjects occurs today in Sever 7, from 4 to 5 o'clock. The subject for discussion is : "Physical Condition of a Glacial Climate." Present and past members of geological electives are invited to take part.

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The following numbers of "Handbook of Developing Exercises" are ready at the gymnasium office : 1328, 1329, 1342, 1245, 1303, 1348, 869, 921, 117, 764, 702, 1018, 711, 972, 860, 852, 975, 1187, 1378, 1374, 1369, 1370, 1366, 1359, 1352, 1355, 1375.

The Harvard Advocate recommends that their eleven henceforth play the "Yale game." The "Yale game," so far as we can make out from reports of the games recently played, consists in strict adherence to the following rule : "Kill only when absolutely necessary ; in ordinary cases mutilate." - [Argonaut.

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