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FACT AND RUMOR.

Robert R. Newell, who died in Cambridge on the 23d inst., was one of the students who left Harvard in 1861 to enter the Army of the North. At the time of his death he edited the Index Reporter and was a member of the Boston bar.

"His Majesty Myself," in the Boston Post says "it was Mr. Boucicault who told Oscar Wilde how to treat the 'bold, bad men' of Harvard, who would fain have broke up the poet's lecture, and for which exploit Oscar has been so much applauded."

The Princeton winter games occurred last Thursday and Saturday. Some excellent records were made, that in pole vaulting being broken by three-quarters of an inch. In the high jump, J. B. Harriman, '85, won by a record of 5 feet 3 inches.

Pach will occupy his studio by the last of this week or the first of next, and will then be ready to continue sittings there. The time for ordering photographs has been extended until the middle of March, in order that the finished photographs may be examined at the studio.

We have received the "Report of the Longfellow Memorial Finance Committee," an interesting pamphlet of twenty pages. The report gives a history of the association, with the reasons that brought about its foundation, besides a complete financial statement. In reference to subscriptions from the college it states that the "undergraduates of Harvard College have in considerable numbers become honorary members of the association." The total number of subscriptions from all sources is 28,860, of which Massachusetts gives 20,010. The total receipts amount to $7,578.51, the amount expended $2,613.73, and the balance of cash on hand $4,964.78. In addition to this there is in the hands of the agents of the association $2,213.

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