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Fact and Rumor.

The candidates for putting the shot and throwing the hammer are now at work out of doors.

The Freshman Glee Club have decided to give their concert after the April recess.

Professor Farlow has an article in the current number of the Political Science Monthly.

The freshman crew at Harvard are so confident, that they have relaxed their training. - Yale News.

The first American college paper was published in 1810, at Dartmouth college; name, "Dartmouth Gazette." - Ex.

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$1,850 was raised for the Williams college nine within an hour after the books were opened Monday evening.

The time at which the next thesis in English VIII will be due has been postponed until a week from next Wednesday.

The nine will take a trip to Philadelphia during the spring recess. They will play the University of Pennsylvania.

There are in the German Universities 167 professors between eighty and ninety years of age who still continue to give lectures. - Ex.

Michael Davitt recently lectured before the students of Oxford. He was obliged to remain in one of the college buildings over night and in the morning found his door screwed up. He was compelled to make his exit through a window, letting himself down by sheets tied together.

Mr. Studd whose meetings this week have been very interesting and largely attended, will hold his last meeting tonight in Holden from 6.30 to 7.15. He will also give a Bible Reading in the rooms of the Christian Brethren from 1.30 to 2 p.m. A cordial invitation to attend these meetings is extended to all members of the university.

The alarm of fire from box 78 at 10.50 last night brought more than half the men in college to Fresh Pond. Those who took the two mile run over fields, fences, ditches, and barbed wire, were well repaid for their trouble by one of the grandest sights that has been seen around Cambridge for a long time. For over an hour four large ice houses were a mass of flames. There was no ice in the buildings, but there was a quantity of sawdust which added to the brilliancy of the conflagration.

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