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FACT AND RUMOR.

The sixth ten of the Institute of 1770 is as follows; Littaner, Taylor, Dewey, Bradford, F. B. Smith, Harrison, McAllister, W. L. Smith, Longfellow, Bradley.

Mr. Matthew Arnold lectured at Yale on "Literature and Science" Wednesday evening, and the next morning after chapel delivered a short address to the students.

The Rev. William Lawrence, son of Mr. Amos Lawrence of Boston, has been appointed to the chair of Homiletics and Pastoral Care, at the Episcopal Theological School in this city.

All subscribers who have any complaints to make in regard to the delivery of the HERALD-CRIMSON will please communicate them at once to us, as a revision of the delivery book is now being made.

There is a chance that the intercollegiate games next year will be held on the new Manhattan Athletic Club grounds, which are on the corner of 80th Street and 9th Avenue. The track is a quarter of a mile in circumference.

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A BAD WORD FOR HARVARD.Yale and Harvard are the growth of generations, and we cannot hope to produce a similar institution in less time. Both have been constantly and most liberally aided by donations and bequests, and one of them may be said to be a State institution. We don't propose to rival them immediately, but we hope to begin the movement now from which may spring the university of the future. As I am represented as having said "the higher branches at Yale and Harvard are calculated to alienate Catholic young men from their religion," it is proper for me to state that I said no such thing. What I did say was that Catholics could obtain the higher branches at Yale and Harvard, but what I did not clearly explain perhaps, was the additional fact that our prelates wisely hold that we should direct and control such branches in a university of our own. I don't know who the priest is who so jauntily declares that "the danger of alienating our youth from Catholicism" is not very great as the result of a Harvard or Yale course. But this I will say, that in my time I have met many Harvard men and found but one a sincere Christian. With the rest of them the pursuit of a secular knowledge seemed to have led to skepticism and a thinly disguised contempt for all things sacred. [T. B. Connery, N. Y. Times.

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