Fact and Rumor.

The Lampoon was out yesterday.

The text books in history is expected here the latter part of this week.

The Ames-Gray law club holds its moot-courts every Monday evening.

A new law club has been organized by the students of the Law School.

Some of the men have already left for home.

The section in French 9 will be examined to day in Sever 23, at 3 P. M.

The freshman eleven were photographed in uniform on Tuesday.

Conjectures are now rife as to where the next plank walk will be laid.

The Dining Association proposes to enforce the rule against carrying fruit from the tables.

The new system of recording attendance by handing in slips of paper has been adopted in N. H. 4.

The entering class at Vassar is small this year, numbering only forty-five members.

Some conferences between students and faculty or instructors are rumored to be probabilities of the near future.

Before the snow came the Amherst students in the different sections had several spirited foot ball matches.

Thomas Nast, the caricaturist, is booked for illustrated lectures at many of the other colleges during the coming winter.

Yesterday was the end of the first collegiate term at Princeton. Today the Christmas holidays begin. Happy Princeton.

A set of photographic views of buildings, laboratories, etc., of Amherst college is being prepared for exhibition at the New Orleans Exposition.

The H. S. A. P., or more familiarly the Photo. Club, have now a membership of 24, an increase of 7 since the club was started a week ago.

The first division in required French will be examined to-morrow (Friday), in Sever 35, at 9 A. M., the second division in Sever 19, at 10 A. M.

There is talk of reviving boating at Trinity. The college owns a convenient boat house and a number of shells, which for some time have been unused.

Several students of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are contemplating a trip to the New Orleans Exposition during the January vacation.

The latest number of Jingo, the comic paper, has a highly edifying (?) double page colored cut of Scientific Foot Ball as exemplified by the Yale-Princeton game.

R. F. Fiske, who rowed bow in the Harvard-Columbia freshman race, last spring, has been elected captain of the sophomore crew, in place of G. S. Mumford, resigned.

The Princeton papers, the Princetonian and Nassau Literary Magazine, are crying for some plan of student self-government like that in vogue at Amherst and Bowdoin.

In the latest number of "Life" is an article, evidently by a Harvard man, on "Entrance Examinations to Colleges." The illustrations are by F. G. Atweod, '78, the old "Lampoon" editor and artist.

Copies of the prayer petition have been sent to the students who live outside the college dormitories; these copies are printed on postal cards, which the students are asked to sign and return, whether they happen to live outside prayer limits or not.

The meeting of the Harvard Union this evening, will be devoted to the discussion of the following proposition : "Resolved, that the enfranchisement of the negro, as accomplished by the 15th amendment, was a mistake." For the affirmative : Messts. J. W. Merriam, '86, J. M. Garrison, '88; for the negative, Messrs. B. G. Davis, '85, P. S. Stevisbergh. '87.