Fact and Rumor.

J. Frailey Smith, L. S. S., has returned to college.

The junior promenade was held at Amherst last night

Dr. Sargent's class numbered fifty yesterday afternoon.

A chair of marine architecture will probably be established at Johns Hopkins University.

Professor Newcomb of Johns Hopkins has been made a member of the Royal Academy of London.

Leland Stanford University has a cooperative society open to students and instructors at $2.50 a share.

University of Pennsylvania, Johns Hopkins, Lehigh, and Stevens Institute have formed a lacrosse association.

Elaborate preparations are being made at Williams for the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the college in 1893.

Captain Hartwell of the Yale crew was in town the other day and carefully inspected the new Harvard shells now building at Davy's.

Political Economy students at U. of M., have the alternative of taking an examination at the end of the term or reading and reviewing a book on some economic theme.

Foot ball in every form has been prohibited by the University of Heidelberg, Germany. They draw the line at duelling and will permit nothing more dangerous to students. - Ex.

Stevens Institute is trying to form a foot ball league to consist of Brown. Rutgers, Trinity, M. I. T., Stevens. Tufts wishes to form a league with Brown and Bowdoin, but it is probable that Stevens' plan will be carried through.

Vredenburgh, Downs Harvard '90, and Christie are all three entered for the 300 yard event at the indoor meeting of the Amateur Athletic Union, to be held next Saturday in the Madison Square Garden. The total number of entries is 207.

The past week was the great social week of the year at Cornell. The program was as follows: Wednesday evening, Sophomore Cotillon; Thursday evening, a concert by the Glee, Banjo and Mandolin Clubs; Friday evening the junior ball.

Herbert Mickelson, Ph. D., professor of physics at Clark University, has accepted an invitation from the International Bureau of Weights and Measures to spend the summer at its establishment, Brentel, near Paris, to determine a new standard for the metric system, based on the vibrations of waves of light. - Ex.