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FACT AND RUMOR.

Quincy, '80, has entered the Law School.

W. B. Scofield '87, has been appointed manager of the freshman nine.

There. will be no recitation in Greek 1 Monday.

The steam heating apparatus for the new physical laboratory has arrived.

Ex-Gov. C. H. Bell has written a history of Phillips Exeter Academy.

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The recent warm evenings have given new impetus singing on the fence.-[Yale News.

Three hundred men have subscribed to the Lampoon. A hundred more subscribers are necessary to secure the financial success of the paper.

George has finally beaten his great rival, W. Snook in 4:23 2-3 for one mile. Snook lately beat George in slower time.

All freshmen who have not Yet done so, should put their names down at once for a physical examination.

The men in History 13 have appointed a committee to arrange with the instructor for the publication of a synopsis of the course.

Mr. A. C. Lane requests that his sections in Solid Geometry be prepared for today's recitation on propositions 16, 17. 18 and 19 of the VI Book.

The next meeting for mathematical discussion will be held Wednesday, Oct. 17, at 4 p. m. in U 19.

Messrs. M. G. Haughton and E. H. Nichols '86, were elected honorary members of the institute of 1770 at the last meeting.

Harvard has now the best crew she has ever had, and probably the best college crew in the country. [Dartmouth.

Dr. William Perry, at the age of ninety-five, is the oldest living graduate of Harvard University.

A prize of $3,000 is offered to the student who passes the best entrance examination at Brown. [Columbia Spectator.

Chas L. Colby the founder of Colby University, Waterville, Me., has given $1,000,000 to establish a new university in Wisconsin.

The Harvard representatives at the intercollegiate Lawn Tennis tournament deserve great credit for their success in the doubles as they had played together but once before going to Hartford.

The freshmen eleven has issued challenges for practice games to the following elevens: Boston, Latin, Somerville High, Tufts College, Andover, Easthampton and Exeter.

The relatives of the late Professor Phelps of Smith College, Northampton, express their intention of giving his library as a memorial to the college and measures have been taken by the alumni to obtain a portrait to go with it.

L. B. Hamilton of Yale has improved since he rode at Beacon Park. On Wednesday last at New Haven he won a two mile bicycle race in 6.30 1-2 and was second in a ten mile.

Plasterers and other workmen are engaged in rapidly fitting up the lower lecture room of the old law school building and making it ready for the use of college classes.

The following is the beginning of a story in the last Acta Columbiana: "The speaker was a handsome young senior whose large brown eyes, sparkling with good humor, showed him at once to be one of that happy-go-lucky class of collegians whose whole soul is wrapped up in the present; one whose past has no regrets, whose future causes no uneasiness."

The Co-operative Society is rapidly becoming settled in its new quarters in Dane Hall and will very shortly have both a comfortable and commodious store. The society is doing a greatly increased business over that of last year and naturally is doing it with better facilities. The business of the last two weeks exceeds that of any corresponding period during its existence.

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