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FACT AND RUMOR.

The universities of Norway are now open to women, and any Norwegian girl may strive for the highest degrees that her country has to offer as a reward for scholarship. Harvard and Yale will eventually fall into the line of progress. [Ex.

Ex-President Hopkins said in New York city last month that Williams was the first college to form an association of alumni, and to give the alumni a part in the college government.

The class rushes at the Yale Sheffield School are not noted for their tameness. One fellow, some time ago, was completely stripped of his clothing and forced to scramble to his room with a long ulster wrapped around him.

The Harvard Club of Chicago will give a dinner during the present month, to which President Eliot, several Harvard professors and prominent graduates, together with the Glee Club, have been invited. It is understood that President Eliot will be present and has expressed his willingness that the Glee Club should also attend.

The librarian of Harvard University, in acknowledging the receipt of a copy of Bent's "Short Sayings of Great Men," says, "I am glad to have at my elbow in my own study - as I have had for some days - in a convenient nook in my official den, another good friend of a book, to make me seem to others wiser than I am, and to show me to myself more deficient than ever." - [Ex.

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