Fact and Rumor.

The physical examinations were finished Friday.

It is said that the Christmas music of the choir will be very fine this year.

The Glee Club is receiving far more invitations than it can possibly accept.

The last number of the Advocate was far above the average, and contains several sharp hits at the athletic committee.

Only six more days before the Christmas recess, and still the list of mid-year examinations has not been posted in University.

The Index ought to be out. It is very much later than usual, later than last year's Index, which was weeks behindhand.

Captain Phillips has recovered from his injury enough to be out and about. He will return to Cambridge after the holidays.

Turning somersaults in mid air from spring board, seems to be fast becoming the most popular form of exercise in the gymnasium.

The superintendent of the co-operative would be glad to receive suggestions from members about the list of affiliated tradesmen.

Prof. Gosse will deliver his lecture on Thomas Gray this evening, in Sanders Theatre at 7.45. The public are cordially invited.

It is not every American who can be chosen on the same day to the three offices of justice of the peace, public weighted and common councilman. The New Haven election brought this combination about in the case of Louis K. Hull of the Yale Law School, formerly captain of the crew.

Many of the college papers will come out this year with double-sized Christmas numbers.

The Trinity sophomores recently entertained the seniors with a royal punch.

Apparently the result of the Harvard agitation will be to have a referee to watch each man and one to referee the game. Not a bad idea, on the whole.-[Yale Record.

All the books that the library possesses on "Chinese" Gordon have been taken out, probably by studious sophomores for the preparation of the second theme.

The notes in Hist. 13 will hereafter be delivered at the opening of the lectures. Back numbers should be immediately called for at the co-operative rooms.

Several small boys might have been seen Saturday morning taking advantage of the steep and slippery slide near the Chapel, and having a right good time.

The tenth number of the second series of the Johns Hopkins Historical Studies, is "Town and Country Government in the English Colonies of North America, by Dr. Edward Channing of Harvard College.

The Columbia boat club, which was very heavily in debt last year, has reduced its debt so as to be now only four hundred dollars behind hand. W. A. Meikleham has been elected captain of the club for the ensuing year.

Bowling, the great "Freshman elective," is being carried on in the gymnasium bowling allies with great vim and enthusiasm. The alleys are in constant use every afternoon, not one of the eight ever being vacant for more than five minutes at a time.

It is said that Prof. Gosse of Cambridge University, England, who will lecture here this evening, has never attended school or college, but was educated at home, under the careful supervision of his mother, a lady of rare culture and force of character. Under these circumstances his appointment to the chair of English literature at Cambridge was an honor almost unprecedented, and proves conclusively his great ability.