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Fact and Rumor.

Junior theme II is due to-day.

The catalogue will appear this week.

There was a cut in Political Economy 4 yesterday.

There will be a cut in English 5 on Wednesday.

The next sophomore theme is due on Dec. 3. It is to be "A Description."

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The new rooms in Manter Hall are now occupied.

The 'Varsity were out in their shell last week.

The freshman crew now run around Jarvis, instead of up North Avenue.

The rush line of the Exeter eleven averages 170 pounds.

The Columbia seniors are not to be marked this year.

One day, as usual, will be our Thanks-giving holiday.

The Shooting Club will probably open its winter matches next week.

Lee, Yale, '87, gave a lecture on Yale last evening, at West Newton.

Henry George is writing articles on protection for the N. Y. Star.

Buffalo and Providence have been forced out of the National Base-Ball League; the Nationals of Washington replace Providence, and the successor of Buffalo is yet undetermined.

About forty Harvard men went down to New Haven to see the game on Saturday.

The Scientific School pamphlet has appeared, and shows a greatly enlarged and improved curriculum.

Section I in Chemistry I will have two hours laboratory work this week, and section II will have three hours.

Harvard was well represented last night at Mary Anderson's opening performance at the Globe.

Lamar, to whose skill Princeton owes her victory, is a nephew of Secretary Lamar.

Owing to the bad state of the weather yesterday, the '86-'88 game was postponed. It will probably be played to-day.

The Lasell Leaves congratulates itself that the girls are now allowed to walk without the accompaniment of a teacher.

There has been a complete remodeling of Freshman German. There is one lecture a week to the whole class, and two recitations in sections.

The last communication on the religious controversy which appeared in the Nation loudly denounces sectarianism in college government.

Those who saw the Yale-Princeton game say that Princeton's tactics during the second half were to pass the ball to Lamar and let him run with it.

The American twenty-four hour bicycle record was broken Saturday by Munger of Detroit, who accomplished 259 13-16 miles in the given time.

Harvard is still the largest college in the country; Oberlin comes second, and Columbia has fallen to third place; Michigan is fourth, and Yale fifth.

The athletic club of the Institute of Technology holds its first in-door meeting of the year on Saturday, Dec. 19. The following events will be contested: Fence vault, putting shot (16 pounds), running high kick, running high jump, standing high jump, pole vault and parallel bars. Tugs of war will be contested by the different classes; '86 has held the class championship in this since its sophomore year, and the prospects are that it will hold it throughout, although '87 expects to win.

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