FACT AND RUMOR.

Mr. Miner, '85, has returned to college.

Mr. Sheldon, the instructor, was recently married.

Several men at Yale are sick with the measles.

It is rumored that the sophomore crew will row but once a day hereafter.

Mr. B. B. Thayer of the junior crewis suffering with an abscess on his hip.

Mr. Kendall, late of '84, has entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

St. Paul's School has held championship and handicap racquet tournaments.

Several Harvard undergraduates have subscribed liberally to the new chapel at St. Paul's.

At Dartmouth it is a regular practice for members of the faculty to subscribe to the college nine.

Mr. B. B. Thayer, No. 4 on the junior crew, will be unable to row again this year on account of illness.

Baker will play with the nine in the Brown game on Friday. It is hoped that Lovering will recover by that time.

The Columbia crew has not begun hard work yet, although their race with Harvard comes off a week before ours. [News.

The new base-ball and athletic grounds in Boston, at Dartmouth street, will be a great addition to the opportunities for recreation for the lovers of exercise. The diamond is sodded, the track is well under way, and a high fence and seats are being built. Games of ball will soon be played there.

Contestants for the Yale Mott Haven team begin training at the new athletic grounds Saturday, under the direction of Mr. Camp.

Some of the lacrosse twelve practiced on Saturday with the newly organized Cambridge lacrosse club on their grounds at Pearl street.

The sale of tickets for the third public performance of "Hernani" will begin this morning at Mr. Gordon Abbott's room, 11 Weld.

The uniforms of the nine. although very handsome, are hardly crimson in color. Their jerseys are the darkest we have seen in college.

The number of men who drew for rooms and failed, are now heard muttering about a new dormitory and more accommodation in the yard.

Banjo playing is becoming so popular at Dartmouth that the college paper facetiously remarks that: "Dartmouth will yet be famous as a musical conservatory."

Ball nines are being talked of by several of the tables at Memorial. Club tables outside of the hall will also put forward scrub nines as the evenings grow longer.

The elective pamphlet for next year will soon be ready at the office. Several radical and important changes will be made from the schedule of this year.

One of the members of the Yale Bicycle club severely sprained his arm while riding during the recess. A team refused to turn out for him and forced him down a ten feet embankment. [Ex.

Hopes are entertained that the appropriation for perfumes has run out, and that hereafter the college will restrain its employs from sowing discord between the students and their rulers.

The University Club whose members are taken from the corporation, fellows and professors of the whole university held their first social gathering of the year at the medical school building on last Friday.

Bad weather has not been hard upon our base-ball nine alone. The Dartmouth nine during their recent spring recess started on a trip to play several games ; but the weather was so bad that they had to disband until term began again.