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Fact and Rumor.

Schwyer, the suicidal freshman at Amherst, is said to be recovering.

A lecture on Volapuk was given to the Yale men on Monday evening.

Union College has been without a president for nearly four years.

Mr. Bolles has returned from his vacation.

Cornell has a new publication, called the Cornell Literary Magazine.

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The Glee Club, of Phillips Andover, will go on a vacation trip this spring.

The New York Alumni of Exeter met at the Hoffman House last evening.

Mr. George Riddle finished his readings at Chickering Hall, Monday. He will now go to Chicago.

Slade, '90, sprained his ankle while jumping in the gymnasium day before yesterday.

There will be no lecture in History 16 to-day. A lecture will be given on Saturday of this week.

Princeton has a minstrel club.

The Trinity Tablet has been placed in charge of the three upper classes, instead of only juniors, as formerly.

Professor Bocher will resume his course in French 5 next Tuesday, and probably French 3 soon after.

The annual banquet of the Psi Upsilon Club will be held to-night in New York.

The Institute of Technology intends to establish a summer school among the mines of Pennsylvania.

It is said that a New Haven citizen has offered $50,000 to educate Josef Hoffman provided he be taken from the stage.

Five sophomores have been suspended indefinitely at Cornell for complicity in the recent troubles between the freshman and sophomore classes.

A monogram scarf pin has been found on the steps of University. The owner may obtain it at the secretary's office.

Professor Goodale lectured last evening in Association Hall, Boston. The subject of the lecture, which is one of a popular scientific course, was "Seeds."

Bowdoin has withdrawn from the Inter-collegiate Athletic Association of New England colleges and has entered the Maine league.

At Yale's weekly meeting on Tuesday evening, H. G. Shearman, '89, broke the Yale record in the running high jump with a jump of 5 feet 7 1-2 inches.

Denver, Col., is to have a college for women, modeled after Wellesley or Vassar. The Ladies' College Society, which has the matter in charge, is to be incorporated, and will work to raise $750,000 in real estate and cash.- Ex.

An authors reading has been arranged by the Alumnae of Wellesley College, in aid of the Norumbega fund of the college. Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Rev. Edward Everett Hale, Mr. Arlo Bates, Mrs. Louise Chandler Moulton and others will read selections from their own works and Mrs. Alice Freeman Palmer will preside. The reading will take place in the parlors of the Revere House on Monday, Feb. 13, at 3 p. m.

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