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Fact and Rumor.

There was a cut yesterday in History 11 and 2.

The first Roberts Hall Assembly takes place a week from tonight.

The Williams Glee Club is to give a series of concerts in some of the cities in the interior of the State of New York.

One of our exchanges thrills the life blood of its readers by announcing that "much money was lost and won in the late election."

The officers of the Harvard Historical Society for the ensuing year are: Prof. Emerton, President, and F. L. Carpentel, '83, Secretary.

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The tender Lasell Leaves says that the Aileen of the Yale Courant, on "Love and Tennis," to certainly a pressing form of moralizing.

A chess Club has been formed at Williams. It is expected that a tournament will be held soon, and it is also expected that there will be some intercollegiate games.

From the poetry in the Harvard Advocate, we should judge that the editor at one time in his the Harvard sweetheart, and that she proved to be inconstant.-[Stancht Late.

The Delta Upsilon Fraternity will hold its Sehn Cencenhial Convention in New York, December 4th and 5th. A number of the Harvard chapter, besides the regular delegates, will attempt.

The vole for director of the During Association from 87, resulted as for lows: F. Voge; 61; A. C. Coolidge, 37; J. H. Pean, 8; Seachering, 6. Mr. Vogen is therefore eveceau director.

The prospectus of the Atlantic Monthly for 1885 has been published, and contains the names of large number of noted writers, including Profs. Norton and Shaler of Harvard.

On Field Day at Michigan University, the hammer slipped from the hands of one of the contestants in the hammer throwing, and went into the crowd. Strange to say, no one was hurt.

Hon. S. A. Smith has donated $30,000 to McCill University, to be employed in holding sepanale classes for the higher education of women. This makes the total amount controlled by Mr. Smith $100,000.

The Dartmouth Base Ball Association, notwithstanding the extensive travelling which the Dartmouth nine has to do, has a gratifying surplus of two or three hundred dollars in the treasury.

A highly startling and instructive item has been going the rounds of the collegiate press for the last few weeks, to the effect that out of about 600 graduates of Vassar, less than one-third have married. This piece of news seems to have a magnetic fascination for the average college editor.

An indoor meeting of the Technology Athletic Club will take place at the gymnasium wither on the 13th or 20th of this month. The events will be as follows: Rumming high jump, standing high jump, running high kick, parallel bars, horizontal bars, fencing, fence baud, putting sling, Indian clubs, and middle, high and teacher weight sparring.

Almost any sunny day, writes a Vilhalnslown correspondent of the New York Evening Lost, one may see under these shades a venerable form who is recognized as the central figure in the annals of Williams-ex-President Mark Hopkins. It will be fifty years, in 1886, since he became president of the college, and, although the harden of years caused hun in 1872 to resign the presidency, he sold this the chains of Utiseland thecology and of motal and interlectual philosophy, and is a counselor of weight in an the allies of the college. Much of What is ulsoncelle and behelicent-and there is much of it-in the atmosphere of williams to day is admideny and to this long administration of President Hopkins.

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