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FACT AND RUMOR.

The University Bulletin is now ready. Price twenty-five cents.

Harvard has supplied Williams College with two professors.

The first year men in the Law School have begun on Part II. of Torts.

The new St. Paul's School at Garden City, L. I., will be opened on Feb. 1.

The Andover concert of the Pierian Sodality is very highly praised by the Phillipian.

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The candidates for the freshman tug of war team are now practising in the gymnasium.

Dr. A. P. Peabody spoke at the meeting of the Williams College Alumni Tuesday evening.

Mr. S. C. Jones has been elected captain of the freshman lacrosse team, vice Bradley resigned.

Messrs. J. D. Bradley and A. P. Gardner of '86 have been elected to the Crimson board.

Unbound periodicals taken out over night from the library must be returned Sunday at one o'clock.

Waldon, the captain of Yale's '81 nine, is in the Law School and will play his old position of second base in the spring.

Messrs. J. G. Mumford. J. H. Noble and J. K. Paulding have been elected to the editorial board of the Crimson from '85.

A freshman suggest that Memorial Hall be lighted by electricity from "Prof. Cooke's battering-ram" in Boylston Hall.

The "arks" of the Union Railway, which everyone fondly believed had disappeared forever, appeared again in active service yesterday.

The momentous question is settled. There is no further need of the Republican party. The Yale freshman debating society have decided that such is the fact.

Prof. Lyon lectures in the Divinity Hall Upper Lecture Room at 12 M. today, on "The Babylonian Pantheon (continued) - Deities mentioned in the Hebrew Scriptures"

One of the instructors in Natural History has been guilty of a most atrocious pun. "Monsieur Le Cocque has a name," he said, "which is Gallic in more senses than one."

There is an item going the rounds of the papers stating that the first race with Yale was rowed in 1850. That was the date of the organization of the university crew. The first race with Yale was not rowed till 1852.

The fourth orchestral concert of the Boston Symphony Orchestra will be given in Sanders Theatre this evening. The programme will be found in the advertisement of the concert in another column.

Mrs. Joseph Cook has been giving interesting lectures to the students of Wellesley on her travels around the world, and Prof. Niles, of Boston University, lectured before them on "The Alps," recently.

The heliotype album now on exhibition at Pach's is 10x12 in size, bound in half morocco and marked with gilt letters, "Harvard, '83." It contains specimens of the the pictures, four on a page, with face simile autographs beneath.

The Lotus Glee Club, composed of graduates of Harvard, rendered several selections at the annual meeting of the Boston Bar Association. Among the songs was a chant of chap. 2, sec. 7, of the constitution of Massachusetts, defining the powers of the governor.

The following notice is posted in the north entry of Thayer: "The musical gentlemen of the entry are doubtless unaware that upper class-men are at present engaged in grinding for the 'semis' and that under such circumstances even the sweetest sounds become extremely unpleasant. A word to the wise, etc., etc.' "

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