Fact and Rumor

Today is the last day for signing for the Institute dinner.

The last theme in English B is due tomorrow.

The Harvard-Columbia freshman race will probably be rowed on Thursday, Thursday, June 28.

There will be an important meeting of the CRIMSON board at 1.30 p. m. today.

It is said that the Harvard boat-house at New London was badly damaged by the great blizzard of last winter.

Crom. of Oxford, England, recently ran 600 yards in 1 minute 12 4-5 seconds, beating the amateur English record.

The old Sudbury tavern, made famous by Longfellow's "Tales of a Wayside Inn," has been sold for the price of its old timbers.

Dr. Brooks occupied the chapel last evening. His sermon treated of the discontents and mistakes of the misunderstood man and the means of escape from discontent which lie within the power of such a man. Mr. G. Frank Monroe, the tenor, was the soloist. Dr. Brooks will conduct prayers during the week.

Owing to the lack of space it was impossible to print in Saturday's issue the result of the Harvard Union canvass for president. The result was as follows:-First choice-Cleveland. 413; Blaine, 251; Sherman, 48; Depew, 46; Lincoln, 41; Gresham. 19; Hawley, 15; Carlisle, 6. Second choice-Sherman, 106; Depew, 97; Cleveland, 54; Blaine, 40; Lincoln, 55; Carlisle, 40; Edmunds, 32; Hewitt, 34; Gresham, 36.

At the annual meeting of the Harvard Union the following officers were elected:-President, C. M. Thayer, '88. vice-president, E. E. Shoemaker, '89; secretary and treasurer, D. C. Torrey, '90. The various reports showed the Union to be in good financial condition, and accomplishing good work. It was voted to have a committee appointed the advisability of holding a joint debate with Yale next winter.

Tyng, formerly the celebrated pitcher of the Harvard nine, has signed with the Philadelphias as athletic director and pitcher.

General Sheridan lectured before the students of the Ohio Wesleyan University last week, his subject being "An Attack on Ingersoll."

The field day of the N. Y. S. I. A. A., comprising Columbia, Hamilton, Hobart, Madison, Syracuse and Rochester, will be held at Rochester, May 25th.

The Columbia Spectator complains of the "muckerish" treatment the Columbia nine received at the University of Pennsylvania.