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FACT AND RUMOR.

Curtis of the University is coaching the senior crew.

The lecture in Torts was omitted yesterday at the Law School.

Important meeting of the '83 Pi Eta tomorrow evening at 7.15.

The Williams nine is trying to arrange a game with Harvard.

Prof. Palmer reads the 11th book of the Odyssey in Sever 11, at 7.30 this evening.

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Mr. Sibley, librarian emeritus, is still very ill, and little hope is entertained of his recovery.

Williams is to have $2500 for the purchase and improvement of new athletic grounds.

It is probable that Raht, Schofield, Chase and Swartout will constitute the Cornell crew.

The Harvard Lacrosse team plays the team from New York University in New York, next Saturday.

The seniors rowed over the regular course yesterday morning, but did not make particularly good time.

The annual spring concert of the Pierian Sodality and Glee Club will probably be given on May 15.

Over one hundred of those instructed at Johns Hopkins University during the six years of its foundation, have become professors in colleges and academies.

The race between the University crew and Union eight on the day of the class races, Thursday, May 10, will be rowed in barges through the courtesy of the Union eight.

The spring tennis tournament will begin Monday, May 14. Prizes of rackets will be given, and the winners of last fall's annual championship tournament are to be barred.

Ward of the New Yorkers, one of the best players of the league, expects to enter Harvard next year. He is a graduate of a small college, and only plays ball to obtain money for pursuing his studies.

A lawn tennis association has been organized at Brown.

The college papers of Illinois have formed a Press Association.

The average graduate of Ann Arbor spends $1,750 during his course.

American colleges, it is claimed, derive two-fifths of their income from their students, while English colleges only derive one-tenth from that source.

The junior opening of the Pi Eta Society occurs on Friday evening. "King Charles the Second, or the Merry Monarch," and a farce will be given. The dress rehearsal occurs tomorrow at 3 P. M.

For several years past it has been a custom of the authorities of Middlebury College to give the students a day every spring in which to go off after maple sugar, but this annual sugar-hunting day is omitted this season because there is no sugar to go after.

The standing committee of the electors of Harvard college have given notice that they will, during the month of May, receive nominations for candidates for the board of overseers. Each elector may send a list of not more than five names, that being the number of vacancies to be filled, and must send his ballot, signed with his name and year of graduation, to Samuel M. Quincy, secretary, Old State House, Boston.

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