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Fact and Rumor.

The Cornell nine has arranged games with Williams, Princeton, Lehigh. University of Michigan, University of Toronto and Cuban Giants.

Tan Kee, a Chinese lecturer, has presented to the University of Texas a library of 38,000 volumes, referring to China. A gift valued at $150,000.

The freshman class at Columbia has promptly responded to the needs of their crew. So far, about $800 has been pledged, of which $150 has been collected in the School of Arts.

Leland Stanford Jr. University will have an "eight" to row in the regatta at the World's Fair next summer. Senator and Mrs. Stanford have subscribed $800 for a shell.

Hon. Stephen A. Douglas, the son of the "Little Grant" of American politics, has been selected to deliver the Washington Birthday Oration, at the University of Michigan.

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A new prize of $50 has been offered at Boston College for the best English composition on the following subject: Whittier and Tennyson: the Moral Influence of their Writings.

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