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Fact and Rumor.

The students of Cornell have set out to raise $2000 for the purpose of furnishing an eight-oared crew for the races. $500 has already been raised.

Dr. Huebner, the noted Latin scholar of the University of Berlin has been elected to fill the place of Professor Newton Warren in the Johns Hopkins University.

At Cornell recently the freshmen won the cane rush after a desperate two-hours' conflict. The victory was celebrated by a procession through the streets of Ithaca. There were nearly 800 students in the rush.

The following statistics have been gleaned from the 101 voters in the senior and junior classes of Princeton. There are 62 Republicans, 27 Democrats, 3 Prohibitionists, 6 doubtful, 2 did not care, and 1 Socialist.

The Princeton eleven has arranged for nine practice games, six of which will be played at Princeton. Two will be with the U. of P., two with Rutgers, and one with Johns Hopkins, Lehigh, Crescents of Brooklyn, Stevens, and Lafayette.

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The disorder and "rush" that marked the opening of Columbia College was not very creditable to the students or the institution that permits it. "Rushes" and hazing are two "sports" that all sensible men wish to see abolished. There is nothing amusing or instructive or smart about them. They don't even develop a student's biceps, and about all they accomplish is to give the tailors plenty to do in repairing the damage done to clothes. The Columbia faculty ought to come down upon the guilty young men like avenging angels.- New York Star.

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