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Fact and Rumor.

The CRIMSON has not as many subscribers as it should have.

President Eliot has returned to his duties.

Klapp, '89, has been elected captain of the Columbia 'Varsity crew.

The Yale Chess Club will soon hold a tournament.

Exeter vs. Harvard today at 2.30 o'clock.

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Bradlee, '88, has given up football playing.

Yale's Glee Club has thirty-five active members.

Cornell is considering the plan of having a co-operative bookstore.

The Cornell sophomores beat the freshman at baseball by a score of 23 to 3

The Massachusetts legislature has just appropriated $100,000 for the Institute of Technology.- Ex

Mr. C. C. Bullock, of Chicago, has been nominated as a director of Memorial Hall from the class of '91.

The 128 State scholarships at Cornell are all filled, something which never happened there before.

Great interest is shown at Cornell in Henry George and his theories and a "Henry George" club has been formed.

Wagenhurst, captain of the Princeton eleven, is still laid up with an injured tendon.

The composite picture of the class of '87 of Amherst College is said to be an exact likeness of Guiteau as he appeared on the day before his execution.

Tickets for the Dickens reading on November 1 are now on sale at Leavitt and Peirce's. Harvard students may procure the best seats in the hall at half rates.

The broad jump contest postponed from the freshman meeting was won by R. S. Hale with a jump of 18 ft. 10 in. Mason was second.

The second eleven at Princeton is called the "scrub" and positions on it are eagerly sought. It goes to a training table and is to receive football costumes.

Billings, '84, F. H. Gray, '87, Sheffield, R. G., Smalley, R. G. and Henderson, R. G. were made honorary members at the Historial Society, last evening. B. W. Palmer was elected librarian.

The action of the Harvard seniors in passing a resolution deeming it inadvisable to row Columbia before the Yale-Harvard race was ungenerous and unfair. The matter will be more fully discussed in our next issue.- Columbia Spectator.

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