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Fact and Rumor.

The Freshman Glee Club gave a concert in Brighton last evening.

Harvard will play Marlboro this afternoon at 4 o'clock on Jarvis.

The first American college paper was published at Dartmouth in 1810.

There was a cut in History 1 yesterday.

Pfeiffer is now rowing number six in the junior crew.

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Luce and Henshaw will be the battery in to-day's game with the Marlboros.

Professor Norton asks us to state that there will be no lecture in F. A. IV. today.

The final examination in N. H. 4 will last two instead of three hours, and will cover the work of the whole year.

The Monthly will be out today. The usual review was crowded out of this issue, but will appear tomorrow morning.

There will be a grand Beethoven matinee this afternoon in Chickering Hall, Boston, at 3.30. Mr. Ernest Perabo will have the valuable assistance of the following artists: Miss Gertrude Franklin, soprano; Signor Enrico Gargiulo, mandolin player to her Majesty, the Queen of Italy; Messrs. B. and Fritz Listeman, violins; Mr. Charles Mole, flutist; Mr. Hermann Gunzel, bassoon, and Mr. Henry A. Greene, double bass. All the selections will have their first public performance, excepting the closing Trio, Op. 1, No. 3.

Trinity College defeated the University of Pennsylvania in a well-played baseball game, Monday, by a score of 6 to 4.

The junior crew have received their new shell from Waters, and took a practice spin on the river yesterday afternoon.

At a meeting of the Board of Overseers, yesterday, it was voted to print both the majority and minority reports on the petition of the alumni in favor of allowing the nine to play with professionals.

An amateur tug-of-war contest is being held every night this week at Union Hall, Cambridgeport, including the Bradfords, Riversides, Unas, Ivys, and all the best amateur teams in this part of the State.

The Freshman Glee and Banjo clubs will give a concert in behalf of the '91 crew in Lyceum Hall, on Friday, April 27th. Tickets may be procured of any of the members of either of the above clubs.

The next of the series of discussions on economic subjects, under the auspices of the Finance Club, will probably be a debate on tariff reform. Mr. William Lloyd Garrison, of Orange, N. J., will speak for a reduction of the tariff, and Mr. J. H. Walker, of Worcester, will defend the protectionist system.

Some inquiring mind has put a slip among the "Notes and Queries," in the Library, asking: "How many men at Harvard are in favor of prohibition? If you don't know, guess." There are several answers, denoting a varied process of guesswork: 96 per cent.; 2 per cent.; 47 per cent.; 53 per cent.; 90 per cent.; 10 per cent.; 66 2-3 per cent.; 33 1-3 per cent.; 0 per cent.; 1-5 per cent, and 1-100 per cent.

The following is the programme for the Kneisel Quartette concert in Sever 11 this evening: 1, W. A. Mozart Qnartette, C major (Kochel's Catalogue 465) -Adagio, Allegro; Andante Cantabile; Menuetto, Allegretto; Allegro molto. 2, (a) F. Mendelssohn, Canzonetta; (b) J. Haydn, Serenade; (c), Boccherini, Menuetto. 3, L. v. Beethoven Quartette, F major, Op. 59, No. 1-Allegro; Allegretto vivace sempre scherzando; Molto adagio e mesto; Thema Russe, allegro.

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