Fact and Rumor.

Harvard plays Princeton today at 3 o'clock on Holmes Field.

Dr. E. E. Hale will conduct the services at Appleton Chapel, Sunday evening.

Bates has struck out forty-five men in the three Princeton games.

Yesterday occurred the commencement exercises of the Yale School of Fine Arts.

Three tons of old Lampoons were sold yesterday to a junk dealer at three-quarters of a cent a pound.

There are forty more men dining in Memorial Hall this year than at the corresponding time last year.

The "Excelsior," the largest of the Yellowstone geysers, has resumed operations after many years of inactivity.

Make-up examinations in Latin 1 and 8 will be neld Friday, June 8, in U. E. R.

Briefs in English C were due yesterday; and the blue books for the course must be handed in before June 6th.

The principal female colleges in the country are Wellesley with 620 students, Smith with 367, Vassar with 283, and Bryn Mawr with 79.

The juniors of Williams College will produce two amateur plays during commencement week, as follows: "A Pack of Cards" and "Freezing Out a Mother-in-Law.

The Rev. Bishop Newman, of the M. E. Church, will deliver the baccelaureate sermon before the members of the Boston Conservatory of Music.

A prize of $100,000 has been offered by the Russian National Academy for the best work on the life and reign of Alexander I.

Will the writer of the forensic signed "Cujus" please leave his name at 40 Matthews. The subject: "Was the Expulsion of the Academicians Justifiable?"

A volume of poems containing the productions of students, past and present, of the University of Kansas is shortly to be published. It is to be hoped the edition will be limited.

An arch built of massive blocks of tufa, and supposed to be the Porta Trigemina, has been unearthed at the foot of the Aventine Hill, near the Forum, in Rome.

In the College League, the following is the percentage of games won by the different nines:-

Percentage

Won. Lost. games won.

Harvard. 3 1 .750

Yale. 2 1 .666

Princeton. 1 4 .200

There are seven Japanese students at Yale College, where they are general favorites, and one of the brighest of them is Shinkichi Shigerri, who is only ninety pounds in weight and about four feet tall-or, rather, short. He will graduate with honors at the approaching commencement, but will not go back to Japan.

A summer school of photography will be added to the regular number of summer schools connected with Columbia College, provided the trustees give their consent. The faculties of both of the schools of Arts and Mines have recommended the school to that body, and if at their meeting on Monday the trustees will give permission the school will be started on June 15 under Dr. L. H. Landy, the assistant professor of chemistry in the School of Mines.