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Fact and Rumor.

The final game in the handball tournament which was to have been played this afternoon has been indefinitely postponed.

The banner won by Harvard in the one mile relay race in Philadelphia on Saturday has been hung in the training table room of the Union.

The deciding match of the final interclass shoot between the Juniors and Freshmen has been postponed until after the intercollegiate shoot.

The monthly interclass debate between the Junior and Freshman Debating Club teams which was to have taken place this week has been given up.

J. Parker '96, head coach of the fencing team, won the national fencing championship in New York on Saturday. S. Cabot, another coach, won fourth place.

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Two wooden buildings, about eighteen by ten feet, are being constructed on Holmes Field, west of the Rotch Building to be used as laboratories for classes in astronomy.

Six large framed photographs and three plaster casts have recently been given to the Union by the ladies of the Faculty, and have been hung in the ladies' dining room.

At the spring meeting of National Academy of Sciences, held in the United States National Museum in Washington, April 15 to 18, the following were among the speakers: Professor T. W. Richards on "The Atomic Weight of Caesium," and "The Significance of Changing Atomic Volume;" Professor Alexander Agassiz on "Coral Reefs;" Professor C. S. Minot on Dr. H. P. Bowditch's "The Physiological Station on Monte Rosa;" Professor E. C. Pickering on "The Distribution of the Stars and the Variability in Light of Eros."

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