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Fact and Rumor.

The 9th Reg. A. A. will give games on April 6th.

It has been proposed to turn Columbia's campus into an athletic field.

The class of '94 won the most points at Andover's Winter Tournament.

The Princeton A. A. will hold its annual spring games on May 9th.

R. S. Rounds has been elected president of the senior class at Columbia.

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Captain King of Princeton began foot ball practice with his Spring squad last Tuesday.

The gymnasium at Brown is open every evening to enable men to train for the coming exhibition.

The dedication of Princeton's new athletic club house, the gift of Professor H. F. Osborn, occurred yesterday.

The New England Tennis Championship Tournament will be held at the grounds of the New Haven Lawn Club June 13.

The board of management of the Yale Infirmary has purchased ground upon which will be erected a $60,000 home or infirmary.

Professor E. H. James, of the U. of P., has declined President Harper's offer of $7,000 to teach political economy at Chicago University.

There are only four entries for the racker championship of the B. A. A., R. D. Sears, H. C. Leeds, H. H. Hunnewell, Jr., T. R. Wheelock.

The new Amherst Catalogue is out. Several important changes, regarding entrance examinations, and the introduction of the elective system, are explained.

Edward Augustus Freeman, the celebrated historian, died in Spain last Wednesday of small pox. He was born in 1823, graduated from Trinity College, Oxford, at the age of 22, and since devoted himself to literature, his greatest work being the "History of the Norman Conquest of England."

The candidates for the Princeton freshman base ball team are: Catcher, C. Bissell, T. Frenchard; pitcher, T. Van Nortwick, H. Anderson, G. W. Barr, W. H. Snyder; first base, R. W. Francis, G. T. Gould, L. F. Pease; second base, W. Davis, F. R. Thompson, R. S. Dilley; third base, Captain Rufus Choate; short stop, S. House, C. Porter; fielders, G. Payne, F. Reynolds, K. Blair, W. C. Neill. The team will play Yale '95 in May at New Haven, and arrangements are being made for a game with the Harvard freshman nine.

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