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Fact and Rumor.

Students in Greek B begin the study of the media to-day.

The Glee Club is to give a concert at Taunton this evening.

The Yale nine will play the Boston team in Boston next Tuesday.

James Russell Lowell sailed for England Thursday, on the Pavonia.

Tilden, of the 'Varsity nine of '85 is playing with the Racine, (Wis.) College team.

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There will be an hour examination N. H. 4. to-day at 12 o'clock in Sever 35 and 37.

In point of speed the bicycle ranks seventh, the baloon, the locomotive, and trotting horses having faster records.

Stevens who won the intercollegiate pole vault last year, only cleared 8 feet 11 3-4 in. at the Columbia College athletic games last week.

A recent edition of the New York World contained an account of a cocking main between birds backed by Columbia and Harvard men.

The following men are now rowing on the sophomore crew: Parker, stroke; Pfeiffer, Dustan, Hight, Markoe, Perry, Hebard, Trafford. Substitutes, Burr, Rantoul, Woodbury.

The base-ball craze in Macon, Ga., has gone so far that the teachers in the schools entertain the pupils with anecdotes regarding the lives of members of the Detroit team. - Cincinnatti Enquirer.

The Columbia Dramatic Club will again present the burlesque "Pocahonlas, or the Gentle Savage," in New York next Saturday evening, for the benefit of the crew.

The Yale Freshman are soon to elect a fence orator to compete with a similar dignitary from the sophomore class, on the occasion of the surrendering of the fence by the sophomores.

During the freshman game at Stamford, an old resident was heard to say: "Is this the same freshman nine that played here last year? I think I recognize one of the players." - Yale News.

The dates of the Yale-Harvard freshmen game have been decided upon. The first game will be played in Cambridge, Wednesday, May 18, and the second in New Haven, Saturday, June 11.

The freshman nine have just received their new uniforms and will wear them for the first time in the game with the Rovers to-morrow. They consist of hats and blazers of broad crimson and white stripes, white jerseys with a crimson '90 worked in the breast, and stockings and belt of crimson.

The first ten of the Institute of 1770 from '90 are: J. P. Hutchinson, N. W. Mumford, C, S. Crehore. R. Tyson, J. C. McCoy, W. H. Dame, P. C. Stewart, T. W. Slocum, W. A. Chanler, R. F. Parker. The honorary members of the Institute of 1770 from '89 are: G. S. McPherson, C. Warren, G. W. W. Brewster, J. B. Ropes, C. C. Batchelder, W. T. Hodges, E. Wardman, H. H. Darling, G. P. Butters, W. H. Butters, C. Greene.

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