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Fact and Rumor.

The late Henry N. Hudson, the Shakespearean scholar, bequeathed one third of his library to St. Paul's school.

Some Princeton men are earnestly working to have the old college cheer regenerated there, and made the regular cheer in preference to the one now in use.

All students interested in the study of Political Science will be glad to hear of the appointment of Dr. Taussig as Assistant Professor of Political Economy.

The tenth ten of the Institute of 1770 were elected last night as follows: Miner, Astor, H. H. Furness, Bliss, Baldwin, Francis, Ullrich, D. C. Holder, Livingood, Blossom.

An alarm from box 54, Memorial Hall, at 8.40 last evening emptied the dormitories inside of two minutes. The fire proved to be in the old barn which stands near the Physical Laboratory. It made a very pretty blaze.

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Canon Farrar's "Sermons and Addresses in America" have been published in book form. The sermon delivered in Appleton Chapel, and the opening address at Johns Hopkins University are included in this volume, and will be particularly interesting to Harvard men.

G. D. Baird in Cyclist and Athlete says of the Manhattan A. A. games: "The most remarkable event was the running of Wells of Harvard, in the quarter. He ran the first 300 yards very slowly and finished the race in a long continued spurt which would take Myers to equal, and which would have won him the race but for an unfortunate tumble of the leaders at the finish."

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