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Fact and Rumor.

Mr Taussig will conduct Hist. 13, in place of Dr. Hart. The last lecture by Dr. Hart will be delivered to morrow.

According to carefully prepared statistics, Yale College brings into New Haven about a million dollars a year.

Mr. Wendell expresses the wish that the students in Sophomore Rhetoric will be more prompt in their attendance at lectures.

Sophomore theme V will be due Thursday, March 26: subject, a criticism of some work of Sterne, Goldsmith, Irving, Miss Austen, Scott, or Hawthorne.

The interest in the tug-of-war between '85 and '86 is daily increasing. Both teams are in prime condition, and will make a hard struggle for the championship.

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Yale has organized an anti-swearing society, at least so say the newspapers, in which the penalty for swearing is the payment of drinks for the whole society.

Mr. Samuel Johnson of Boston discussed the tariff before the Finance Club, last evening. The practical workings of the present system were clearly brought out; and the meeting was one of unusual interest.

The College Library with its wonted promptitude in adjusting itself to beneficial suggestions, has had slips of paper printed, serving as book marks, which request those who borrow books in great demand, to return them in one or two weeks, as the case may be.

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