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FACT AND RUMOR.

Freshman recitations close on the 24th.

Columbia's first athletic meeting occurs today.

Freshman Maximum Greek sections begin the Odyssey next week.

The marks were given out in Greek 9 yesterday. They were very high.

Rev. Brooke Hereford of Boston will preach in Appleton Chapel Sunday evening next.

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Harding, '86, of Yale, who played so well in foot-ball last fall, has left that college.

Prof. Norton was unable to lecture in Fine Arts 4 and 5 Wednesday, but expects to do so today.

Twenty fellows are training for the Exeter nine. The middlers at Exeter have twenty-one recitations a week.

The myths alluded to in the "Birds" of Aristophanes has been added to the list of subjects to be written upon by members of Greek 1.

At Bowdoin candidates for the college nine are in daily training. A series of fifteen games has been arranged between Bowdoin, Bates and Colby.

The lecture in Greek 9 on Saturday will be devoted to illustrations of the "Frogs" of Aristophanes. The Greek lyrics will be taken up on Tuesday.

Two professors from West Point are soon to visit Harvard and other American colleges, in order to investigate any improved methods of instruction which may be introduced at West Point.

Lafayette has two of the best college literary societies in the country. Each has a good library adjoining the society's room, and the rooms themselves are fitted up magnificently in Pardee Hall.

An artist connected with the Century Magazine recently examined the Bowdoin collection of drawings, and declared it to be the second best in the country, being excelled only by the Manhattan collection of New York city.

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