FACT AND RUMOR.

German 1 will probably be divided into two sections after the mid-years.

Five members of the sophomore class of Bowdoin College have just been indefinitely suspended for hazing.

There are nineteen candidates for the Yale nine - among them Camp, Hubbard, Hopkins and Jones of last year's team.

"Harvards' insolent position" on the race question, is the pleasant phrase of the Yale correspondent of the Boston Transcript.

Harvard, Johns Hopkins, Lehigh, Cornell and Amherst now have gymnasiums arranged according to the plans of Dr. Sargent.

Prof. Gurney will be at University 20, Wednesday, Feb. 7, and Thursday, Feb. 8, at 2 P. M., to meet members of his sections who may desire to ask questions.

"Time will tell," says the News, impressively, "whether Harvard or Yale is to furnish the first practical demonstration of the fact that her dormitories are death traps."

Of Life, Progress says: "Those interested in the paper are, I understand, Harvard graduates, and it must be said that Life has the look of college journalism about it," - which may be taken as a compliment to college journalism or otherwise, as you choose.

Of the Boston papers sold at Memorial, the Herald has the largest circulation, about sixty, including morning and evening editions, being sold each day. The Advertiser comes next, with a sale of thirty. The Journal and Transcript sell the next largest number, while the Globe and Traveller are the lowest on the list. In Cambridge the sale of Globes is smaller than that of any other Boston daily.

The superintendent of a library in New York city, speaking to a newspaper reporter, said of Harvard: "From the first Boston has had Harvard College at its doors, and that has given a tone to the whole city. Until a comparatively recent date commencement day at Harvard was a general holiday in Boston, banks and stores being closed. Imagine the Stock Exchange closing its doors, and the banks suspending business in this city because there was a commencement at Columbia or the University of the City of New York!"

'85 - "Yes, I am taking a French course this year under Prof, Bocher; but at present he is ill, and instead of having cuts, we have Prof. Jaquinot."

'86 - "Cuts? Who is he? I haven't heard of him before."

The following named men will probably spar at the winter meetings: Feather weight, Heilbron, '83, and Baker, '84. Light weight, O. G. Smith, '83, and E. K. Butler, '83. Middle weight, W. H. Page and Richmond, '83, and R. D. Smith, '86. Heavy weight, Baxter, '83, and Appleton, '84. Mr. Guiteras will probably not spar.

If any one doubts that our young men in college are not straining every nerve to finish their educations and fit themselves for the active duties of life, let them ponder over the fact that the deep theme to be written upon by the sophomores of Harvard College is, "The Comparative Merits of Base-Ball and Foot-Ball." - [Ex.

Next month will be published the second part of Prof. Francis J. Child's work, "The English and Scottish Popular Ballads," the first of which has just appeared. Each ballad has a carefully prepared preface by the editor, or one of his contributors, excepting in the case of those ballads which the English have in common with other nations. And of these an account is appended of all related traditions. A general introduction, a careful glossary and full indices will be provided. The edition is printed on large paper, and limited to 1000 copies.