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Fact and Rumor.

It is said that the audience at the games last Saturday, numbered 1400.

The University of Madras has graduated 899 students, of whom not one has been a Christian.

Eighty-six is improving upon its record of last year, having already placed three prizes to its credit.

The conditions of the new series of shot gun matches to be opened Wednesday, will be published to-morrow.

The substitution of planed boards in place of the usual rough seats in the gymnasium is thoroughly appreciated.

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The Japanese government has sent a student to Johns Hopkins University to study history and political economy.

Owing to a press of other matter, the University Calendar will be omitted form the columns of the CRIMSON today.

For three successive years the sophomores have met with defeat at the hands of the freshmen in the tug-of-war.

On account of the Junior dinner, the Everett Athenxum minstrel show has been postponed to Tuesday evening, March 24th.

The first boat race of the present century took place in England in 1824 on the Lock between Exeter and the 'Varsity eight.

Mr. Guild, '86, while contesting the final bout of the middle-weight wrestling, wrenched his right arm severely, but pluckily finished the bout.

Simeon Newcomb, the well-known astronomer, has recently been elected to the chair of Mathematics and Astronomy, at Johns Hopkins University.

It is said that the marks on the midyear paper in Hist. 1 will not, as has been the former custom, be counted as of equal value with the marks on the final paper.

Enough men have signed for the '86 class dinner to insure its success. It is hoped, however, that as many as possible may add their names to the list to-day.

The freshmen found an outlet for their enthusiasm in exploding numerous cannon crackers in the yard, Saturday night, and in burning a liberal supply of red fire.

Mr. Henry Irving's lecture under the auspices of the Shakspere Club, will take place in the evening, and not in the forenoon, as some of the Boston papers have announced it.

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