Fact and Rumor.

The Advocate came out yesterday.

The second number of the Law Review will appear in a f w days.

The third theme in English B is due today. Subject.- A Description.

Columbia has appropriated $15,000 to buy new books for the library this year.

All the sections in Pol. Econ. 1 will meet tomorrow in Mass. 3, at nine o'clock.

The Massachusetts College of Pharmacy has appointed J. W. Baird, M. S., professor of pharmacy.

The first meeting of the Conference Franchise will be held tonight in the old Pudding building.

Compulsory gymnasium work has begun at Exeter and will be continued during the winter term.

Williams will soon have a new dormitory from the Hopkins University fund, which has reached $34,000.

Students are invited to participate in the Republican celebration at Natick tonight. Train leaves Albany station at 6.35 p. m.

Professor Norton is having his large estate on Kirkland street cut through by streets. Part of it will soon be for sale in building lots.

In thei?? terscholastic series of games yesterday, the Roxbury Latin School beat Nichols, Hale and Stone's team by a score of 16 to 12.

Professor Atwater of Wesleyan, Professor Merrill of Andover and probably Professor Shaler of Harvard, G. W. Cable and George Kennon will deliver lectures at Williams this winter.

Leavitt and Peirce's store was broken into Sunday night and seventy-five dollars' worth of meerschaum pipes were stolen. The thief has been arrested.

There is much dissatisfaction among Harvard graduates in New York over the action of the athletic committee in refusing to allow the Yale-Harvard game to be played on the polo grounds. A great many had made arrangements to support the team by their presence on Thanksgiving day.

S. W. Sturgis, '90, has resigned the position as Secretary of the Intercollegiate Chess Association. Bliss, '88, was elected to this position last spring, but as he was unable to serve, appointed Sturgis to succeed him. Harvard will not have any representative on the executive committee of the Association at present.

The second meeting of the Historical Society will be held Thursday evening in Dr. Hart's room in Hollis. Professor Ladd, President of the University of New Mexico, will make an address on the Indian policy of the United States government. Professor Ladd has charge of an Indian school in connection with the University at Santa Fe.

The subjects chosen by the Boylston medical committee for the prize dissertations on medical science have been announced. The first, to which a prize of $200 is attached, is "May the cause of typhoid fever in the human species originate in animals other than man?" The second, for which a prize of $150 is offered, is "The effect of desiccation on animal and vegetable tissues." In determining the prize essay, preference will be given to the one exhibiting original work. All dissertations must be placed in the hands of the secretary on or before Wednesday, April 3, 1889.