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FACT AND RUMOR.

Dartmouth opens today.

Mr. R. B. Fuller, '83, will soon leave for New Mexico.

Commencement at Vassar will be two weeks earlier than usual this year.

A large number of students were seen on the Brighton road yesterday.

President Stockbridge of the Amherst Agricultural College has resigned.

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One day this week there were 276 men at work in the gymnasium at 5 P. M.

The Crescent Bicycle Club of Boston is to give a party in Odd Fellows Hall Feb. 1.

It is rumored that a number of Harvard men will attend the Arion ball next Monday evening.

The annual reunion of the Dartmouth Alumni Association of New York takes place this morning.

The second eight of the '83 crew will row as heretofore at 5 o'clock P. M. instead of 3 o'clock.

All contributors who wish to grumble, can find ground for complaint between Boylston and the library.

About five hundred names have been signed to the civil service reform petition recently circulated at Yale.

The New York Yale Alumni Association hold their annual meeting at Delmonico's next Friday evening.

Mr. George Lyon, Jr., of the Divinity School, gave a very successful reading in Arlington last evening.

Those who attended chapel yesterday morning enjoyed a very fine vocal duett by Messrs. McCagg and Pendleton.

A young lady accustomed to steam radiators writes to ask "What our stove smokes?" Why, the stove pipe of course.

Mr. Wilson, a graduate of Harvard, is reported as about to assume Prof. Lyman's duties for the rest of the term. - [News.

Lost - A dark, reddish-brown woollen glove, for right hand. Finder will please leave at table No. 7 Memorial, or at Drury's.

The centennial celebration of the birth of Daniel Webster was held at Parker's last night. Many distinguished men were present.

The annual dinner of the Alumni Association of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology will be held at Young's Hotel this evening.

The first entertainment of the Boston Bicycle Club will be given Jan. 25, at the new club house on Union Park. The entertainment will be a mosaic musicale.

In spite of the atmospheric frigidity, Harvard still seems to attract almost as many visitors as usual. Always be ready to sacrifice yourself to acting the guide-post or cicerone.

Much difficulty is found at the gymnasium in getting a pleasurable mean of temperature in the water in the shower-bath room. It usually seems determined to be either scalding hot, or icy cold.

Oscar Wilde's poems and aesthetic lecture have been issued in the Seaside Library, 10 cents. We suspect Oscar is now in favor of international copyright. He will visit Boston the latter part of this month, and we hope may be induced to call at Harvard.

In the basement of the gymnasium is a repository for all small articles which have been found from time to time. There has already accumulated a curious collection of gymnastic impedimenta, from which one could easily select a complete gymnastic outfit.

THE HERALD PRIMER.Is not this a glad face?

Oh, yes; it is a glad face.

Why is the face glad?

Because it is a tu-tor's.

Why is the tu-tor's face glad?

For the same rea-son that the proc-tor's face is glad.

Yes; I see you re-mem-ber your les-sons;

What is a tu-tor?

A man who puts cards on fen-ces and trees and boards and -

Yes; that is right; now tell me in one word about all tu-tors.

They are all com-pe-tent.

And where do they come-from?

They come from Ger-man-y.

CLASS PHOTOGRAPHS.Mr. Pach offers to furnish cabinet photographs of the senior class and former members at fifteen cents each, provided that fifty members order the whole class and some former members, say from 190 to 200 class portraits. Those desiring to take advantage of this liberal offer will send in their names, as soon as possible, to the committee, No. 10 Hilton's Block, or at Pach's Studio.

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