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Fact and Rumor.

There are ninety endowed scholarships at Princeton.

The University of Pennsylvania has organized a lacrosse team.

The first woman's University in Germany is soon to be established.

Williams College will celebrate its centennial anniversary next October.

Six of Princeton's eleven of last year have left the college for various reasons.

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A cup is to be offered at Princeton for competition in punting and goal-kicking.

Princeton and the U. of P. will run a team race in their annual games on May 13.

The Yerkes Observatory of Chicago University, will be placed at Geneva, Wis.

The last track athletic meet of the University of Pennsylvania takes place today.

A reunion of Phillips Exeter Alumni will he held at Chicago during the World's Fair.

For the first time in the history of Yale, courses in physical culture will be offered next year.

The Michigan Legislature will pay the expenses of the exhibit of the University at Chicago.

Some sixty honorary guests have been invited to the Yale-Harvard debate on next Tuesday.

George P. Carpenter, 86 formerly instructor in English here and later associate professor as the Tech. has gout to Columbia College a professor of English.

One-sixteenth of the students in American colleges and universities are studying for the ministry.

The Cornell and Columbia freshman crews will row at New London about the middle of June.

This year there are almost twice as many students taking French 8 as there ever have been before.

The date for the annual joint athletic games of Columbia and Princeton has been fixed for May 20th.

It is said that ex-President Harrison will be asked to accept the presidency of the University of Indiana.

W. C. Lane '81, formerly assistant librarian of the college, has been chosen librarian of the Boston Athenaeum.

Harvard, Cornell and Princeton are the only institutions in America where lectures in Archaeology are delivered.

Courtney, now coaching the Cornell crew, will go West this summer to coach the crew of the Leland Stanford, Jr., University.

It has been finally decided that the Cornell-University of Pennsylvania race will be rowed on Lake Minnetonka, Minneapolis.

There are two traveling scholarships at Harvard, two at Columbia, and one recently established at the University of Pennsylvania.

Yale has expressed her desire-to complete arrangements for the four-cornered shoot with Harvard, Princeton and the University of Pennsylvania.

The students in the Mechanical School at the University of Michigan have made a full set of machines, which they will exhibit at the World's Fair.

The oldest living college graduate in America is James Hutchens of Philadelphia, who graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in the class of 1914.

The make-up of the Cornell crew is far from settled. The men have been rowing as follows: 1, Shape: 2, Burr; 3 Hager; 4, Kranz; 5' Wagner; 6. Troy; 7, Gibson; 8, Hall.

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