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Fact and Rumor.

Miss Margaret J. Evans, preceptress of Carleton College, Minnesota, has been offered the presidency of Wellesley College, at a salary of $5,000, but will probably decline.

There is a man in Harvard College who translated a sentence at his Latin recitation the other day, and then asked the instructor, "Have some more?"- Tribune.

The Harvard Union is troubled to find a way to raise the standard of debate. The Sun advises the debating men of Harvard to organize a Mock Congress and the trouble will be ended. -Cornell Sun.

The last Cambridge Tribune speaks of the promptness with which books are furnished at the University Library. It says that for this reason citizens of Cambridge take great pleasure in using the college library instead of the Boston city library.

The association of New England Colleges is now holding its annual session in U. 5. It began yesterday afternoon. The president and one delegate are present from Amherst, Williams, Trinity, Boston University. Tufts, Wesleyan, Brown and Yale. The meetings are private, but members of our faculty have been invited to attend.

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The matches of the Shooting Club, which were finished last week resulted as follows:-

Match A-First prize, Greene; second prize, R. H. Post.

Match B-First prize, W. K. Post; second prize, tie.

Match C-First prize R. T. Paine; second prize, tie.

The tins in matches B and O will be hot off later.

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