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Fact and Rumor.

There are several men in training for the feather-weight boxing in the winter sports, and the event promises to be as interesting and well contested as it was last year.

President Gates, of Rutgers has refused permission to the students to give a minstrel entertainment for the benefit of the Athletic Association. Prof. Gates thinks it beneath the dignity of students to blacken their faces and appear on the stage.

Mr. James Russell Lowell is the next lecturer in the Lowell Institute courses of Technology, delivering six lectures on "Old English Dramatists," beginning Tuesday, March 8. A duplicate matinee course will be delivered on Wednesday and Saturday afternoons, beginning March 9.

Photograph lists were sent yesterday from Pach's Studio to all members of senior class. This is a catalogue of all the photographs of class-mates and college personages and views which a senior would be likely to purchase, down to John the orangeman and Ko Kum Hua's children. According to Pach's estimate the present senior class numbers 240. The class has lost 46 members since its entrance.

Considerable amusement was occasioned in the auditor's room at the hall the other evening by the peculiar movements of a party of visitors. A student (presumably a freshman), while conducting a couple of ladies down from the gallery, so far lost his presence of mind as to continue his descent after reaching the floor of the hall. It was not until the party arrived in the cellar, and found themselves surrounded by the gloomy instruments of torture for which this part of the building is celebrated, that the unfortunate mistake was discovered and corrected.

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