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Fact and Rumor.

Prof. Cohn will spend the summer vacation in Europe.

Only seven names have been signed for the '88 class dinner.

Phillips Exeter will play Phillips Andover at Andover on Saturday.

The game with Brown which was scheduled for April 28, will be played this afternoon.

Some surprise - not to say dissatisfaction - was caused over the difficulty of the examination in French 3.

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Students are especially requested not to discuss base-ball games in the reserved-book alcoves in the library.

The single scull race for the prize offered by Messrs. Thayer and Carrol of '85, will be rowed on Saturday.

From to-morrow morning at breakfast, checks must be sent down accompanying all orders in Memorial Hall.

Princeton beat Amherst yesterday by a score of 6 to 2. She has one Williams and one Brown game yet to play.

The nine will play to-day in the same order as in the Princeton game. Nichols and Allen will be the battery.

A movement is on foot to establish an American school of archaeology at Rome similar to the one now at Athens.

The triangular plot of lawn about John Harvard's statue is alive with throwers of the ball every evening after supper.

There will be only two more issues of the Lampoon. The last number, which is to appear on Class Day, promises to be unusually excellent.

The second game in the chess contest between the Columbia and Harvard freshmen chess clubs, will not be played, as the Columbia examinations interfered.

The Oelrichs cup was finally won on Saturday by the New York Club. They have won it four times, and Harvard twice, during the six years it has been open to competition.

It would be interesting to know how many members of the senior class will avail themselves of the opportunity offered them to visit the Harvard Observatory. How many of them know just where to look for it?

In the Yale News' report of the tug-of-war at the Mott Haven games, the following is found: The next and most exciting heat was between Yale and Harvard. The drop was about even, but at the end of the five minutes, Harvard had won by twenty-one inches.

Applications for club tables at Memorial must be made before June 21st. A table at present occupied by a club can be re-engaged, provided ten members, including a majority of the club, apply for such a table before the above date. The association does not bind itself to assign any club tables after October 8th.

The new Harvard launch, to be used in coaching the university eight, was successfully launched at the south yard of the builders, George Lawley & Son, South Boston, yesterday forenoon. The launch is fifty feet long, with bow fore and att, and is equipped with Hereschoff boiler and engines. She is considered capable of making fourteen knots an hour, and during the day made a successful trip down the bay.

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