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Fact and Rumor.

Brown '89 has three married men.

The will be a cut in English 5 to-day.

The price of board to be charged on the fall term bills will be $4.00 per week.

In the chess game lately in progress with Yale, Harvard has been forced to resign.

A young Indian has applied for admission at west Point; he is the first of his race who has ever done so.

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An unusual number of students at Dartmouth have gone out teaching for the winter.

There was a cane rush at Trinity, Thursday, in which the sophomores were victorious.

General Butler has intimated that he will bequeath his fine library to Colby University.

Prof. Thayer, of the Law School, has been ill for about a week, and there have been cuts in all his subjects.

Exeter has just had a very successful junior promenade; Messrs. Valentine, Meeks and Rhodes were the executive committee.

The Phillipian and Exonian do not seem to meet with much success in their project of an interscholastic base-ball league.

Senior elections at Princeton: "The senior elections were characterized by an admirable spirit of harmony, and everything passed off pleasantly. During the intermissions in the voting, singing and dancing and instrumental music amused the seniors." - Princetonian.

Some Trinity College students, on Friday evening, gave a progressive euchre party to their friends, in some of the rooms of the new building. -Ex.

A Mathematical Seminar will be held to-morrow. Mr. Osgood will lecture on some singularities of plain curves; the 15 puzzle will also be described.

The Crescent Athletic Association of Brooklyn is soon to be organized. Graduates of Yale, Harvard, and Princeton are among the charter members.

The Manhattan Athletic Club of N. Y., has decided to erect a club house to cost $450,000. It will be the finest and largest building of its kind in the world.

At the last meeting of the Photographic club, prizes for groups and portraits were awarded to Messrs. Buckley, Hubbard, Cammann and Sellers.

Yesterday's Times stated that "John Hayes, the ex-catcher of the Brooklyn nine, has been engaged by a Yale student, at $20 per weak, as an instructor in the art of self-defence." -News.

There will be examinations in N. H. 8, Dec. 21, at 10 a. m., at 2 Museum; N. H. 4, Dec. 18, 12 M.; N. H. 14, Dec. 18, 9 a. m., 1 Museum. Each examination will be one hour and ten minutes long.

The sound of pistol shots in the vicinity of the Jefferson Physical Laboratory appears to have excited some students who have recitations in the Lawrence Scientific School. They have no reason for anxiety; it is only the members of Physics C, trying to find out how fast sound travels.

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