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FACT AND RUMOR.

Professor Sumner's lectures on political subjects are largely attended by the young ladies of New Haven.

Owing to unaccountable delay, the engraver will be unable to furnish the shingles of the shooting club until next week.

In the Merchant of Venice much more applause was bestowed upon Miss Ellen Terry than upon Henry Irving.

Murray, the walker, is going to England next spring to enter the championships and Delaney is going to the same place to race George, the runner.

Members of the Shooting Club, wishing to practice with the rifle, will meet at the Lowell depot, at 11.45 today. Lunch can be obtained on the range.

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The seventh ten of the Institute of 1770 from '86, is as follows:-Felton, Cobb, G. Woodbury, Mygatt, S. Coolidge, Lyman, Riddle, Beal, Edgerly, Santayana. Honorary members; Brunner, Upham, Lovering.

Ex-President Thomas Hill, of Harvard College, has prepared an almanac for 1884, in which the computations have been made according to the new Eastern standard time. [Times.

Superintendent Roberts of the association gymnasium in town has placed looking-glasses at each pulley-weight so that one can see just what muscles are being exercised. It might be interesting to have this done on some of the machines in our gymnasium.

The eighty-second annual catalogue of Bowdoin College shows that the whole number of students is 202, of whom 108 belong to the academical department and the remainder to the medical school. The faculty numbers twenty-three, thirteen belonging to the academical department.

In his speech before the Yale alumni in New York, on Saturday, Hon. Wm. M. Evarts regarded coldly the liberal education as compared with the classic, and said with emphasis: "We'll stand by our college while it stands by Greek and Latin," a sentiment which was received with applause.

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