"Fact and Rumour" is composed of excerpts from a column by that name published in "The Daily Crimson" 50 years ago. The items are here reproduced as they were printed then. The dates in parentheses indicate the dates of the issues in which the excerpts appeared.

The cost of board at Memorial during April was $4.01 a week. (April 25, 1890)

Harvard admission examinations will be held at two places this year: St. Mark's School, Southborough, and Minneapolis, Minnesota. (May 1, 1890)

Treasurer Hooper estimates that the wealth of Harvard University has doubled once in every twenty years since its foundation. (May 2, 1890)

At their last meeting the Overseers spent several hours in discussing the question of a three years' course, but no action was taken. (May 8, 1890)

F. D. Kalopothakes '88 has translated a number of English hymns into modern Greek, preserving the original meter. (May 10, 1890)

The Freshman nine was measured for suits yesterday. (May 14, 1890)

Forty members of the Zeta Alpha Society of Wellesley College are to be entertained by the Pierian Sodality next Monday afternoon in the rooms on the third floor of the north entry of Matthews. (May 16, 1890)

Professor Channing, in the five remaining lectures in History 1, will follow briefly the course of history from the beginning of the eighteenth century up to the present day. (May 19, 1890)

Professor William James has been appointed census taker of hallucinations in America in behalf of the Society for Psychical Research. (May 24, 1890)

J. H. Sears '89, was in town Thursday. (May 31, 1890)

Prof. William James has finished his work on "The Principles of Psychology", and it is now in the hands of the printers, Henry Holt & Co., New York. The volume, which will contain more than one thousand pages, will be issued next fall. (June 8, 1890)

The cost of board at Memorial for the month of May was $4.04 per week. (June 6, 1890)

J. M. Hallowell '88 had an interesting article in yesterday's Boston Post on the question of a three years' course at Harvard. The writer thinks that diminishing the length of the course will lower the intellectual atmosphere of the place. (June 7, 1890)

The executive committee of the rowing club has passed a rule forbidding members going in swimming from the boat house without suitable garments on penalty of expulsion from the club. (June 10, 1890)