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FACT AND RUMOR.

At a meeting of the Harvard Club of San Francisco, Cal., held Jan. 19, at the Palace Hotel, Hon. Horace Davis was chosen president, and the following new members were elected from '81: John F. Davis, Chas. H. Jackson, F. W. Sharron and Roderick Stebbins; also Thomas H. Pinkerton, Medical School.

By the terms of the contract with Mr. Pach, seniors are furnished with cabinets at the following rates: If a private order is given, the price is $3.50 per dozen, the pictures to be delivered in ten days or two weeks; while if a man makes up his order off the class list, the price will be $3.00 per doz, or fifteen cents each, but the pictures will not be delivered before June 10. The most common practice seems to be to give a limited order for present uses, and to defer the general claims of "exchanges" until June.

The new Dean of Westminster, G. G. Bradley, is a graduate of Oxford and former master of University College. The London World, in a sketch of his life, has this sentence: "He would sit with a kindly smile for all comers, a playful affectionateness toward his children, and a gentle tolerance even for those rowdy and athletic undergraduates, whom he struggled all his time to comprehend!"

At an adjourned annual meeting of the trustees of Dartmouth College, last evening, it was voted not to accept the resignation of Professor Sanborn, but to engage Ex-President Brown of Hamilton College to assist in his department. It was decided to arrange with Dr. John Lord for a course of historical lectures. It was voted to celebrate Webster's centennial next summer, and Gov. Bell and Ex-Gov. Prescott were appointed a committee on the matter.

Cornell is now having afternoon recitations.

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