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FACT AND RUMOR.

The freshmen will begin Analytic Geometry today.

On account of the resolutions, no games for the nine have been arranged.

The candidates for the freshman nine are being coached by Winslow and Nichols of the 'Varsity.

Professor Greenough's Latin reading, announced for this evening, has been postponed.

Professor Lovering will lecture on "Electricity and Magnetism," this afternoon.

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The auditor of Memorial Hall will receive after this year $1200 as his annual salary.

The subject for the next theme in English 5 will be an analysis of the character of some person in history or in fiction.

Greek 3 has begun book XXIV of the Odyssey, on the completion of which book X. of the Iliad will be taken up.

Professor Roebrig of Cornell, has adopted the recent Sanscrit Reader by Professor Lanman, as the text book for his Sanscrit class.

Inter-collegiate baseball meeting at Springfield, on Friday, March 14th. Messrs. Coolidge, Crocker, LeMoyne and Thayer, will represent Harvard.

The University of Pennsylvania will endeavor to arrange a race with Harvard. Should her attempt fail, she will claim the championship.

Professor-"Mention an oxide." Student-"Leather." Professor-"Oxide of what?" Student-"Oxhide of beef." Professor looks anxiously around for an eraser.-[Ex.

The editor of the London Times has just passed his thirtieth year. He is reported to have won many prizes at Oxford, and to have written the prize poem.

Ex-Governor Chamberlain, of South Carolina, is to reply to the Phi Beta Kappa oration of Mr. Adams, at the 53rd annual meeting of the American Institute of Instruction.

Mr. F. J. Stimson, the author of "Guerndale," a novel of Harvard life, has written another novel, which will be published in the spring, along with a volume of short stories.

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