Fact and Rumor.

There are nineteen in training for the Amherst nine.

The Yale nine will take 13 players on the Easter trip.

The University of Pennsylvania nine will be chosen April 8.

There are 149 American students in the University of Berlin.

Soule of last year's Bangors has been engaged to coach the Bowdoin nine.

The Glee Club will sing at the Boston Art Club next Saturday evening.

Ten men from Williston will enter the freshman class at Princeton next fall.

Princeton has two regular members and three substitutes of the '86 nine in college.

One of the largest endowed colleges of the West is the Utah State College, a Mormon institution.

Matthews, of the Athletics, is coaching the candidates for the University of Pennsylvania nine.

The Bowdoin College nine will make a trip to Massachusetts Fast-day week and play various college nines.

The Maine State league will be composed of the Bates, Bowdoin, Colby and State College clubs this season. The latter has superior for a club this season.

A monument to Gen. McClellan will probably be erected at Princeton.

The University of Pennsylvania has received a gift of ten thousand dollars toward the erection of its new library.

The Princeton nine will open the base-ball season on April 2, playing at Princeton against the University of Pennsylvania.

The first regular salary paid a president of Princeton College was pound150, and the first professors' salaries pound40 a year. - Princetonian.

The custom of stamping in recitations whenever anything ridiculous or in any way peculiar occurs seems to become more and more prevalent every year. - Cornell Sun.

The anniversary dinner of the DAILY CRIMSON at the Quincy House, Boston, will take place this evening at half-past six o'clock.

The thirty candidates for the Yale freshman nine practice every day from 4 to 6 o'clock in the Lincoln rink and the Yale gymnasium.

The statement that tickets for the Glee Club-Pierian concert on the 18th in aid of the American school at Athens, can be had of the patrons and patronesses is not true.

For the benefit of several correspondents who have written to the CRIMSON on the subject of the plank walks, we will say that we owe the overseers, and not the faculty, thanks that our prayers have been answered at last.

The library of P. Vanderbilt Spader, an alumnus of Rutgers, was presented to the college last Tuesday. It contains between 4,000 and 5,000 volumes valued at $15,000. The library is particularly rich in illustrated works on art, local histories, biography, and books of reference. - Ex.

The subject of Yale and Harvard withdrawing from the league and playing 10 games - five at Yale and five at Harvard - is thought a good scheme in New Haven, and one that would create an extraordinary interest in the sport and be of great financial advantage. The president of the Yale team thought favorably of it, and one prominent athlete is of the opinion that if Harvard was similarly inclined, Yale would almost unanimously vote to join her. - Boston Herald.