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FACT AND RUMOR.

According to the Globe, several Harvard athletes have entered the Union sports.

Sparring, for which gold medals will be awarded, is to form a feature of the U. A. C. games.

An owner is wanted for an unsigned sophomore theme, entitled "A Lecturer opposed."

The graduates of Bowdoin College residing in Boston and vicinity will have a reunion and dinner early in February.

The following gentlemen have been elected associate members of the bicycle club: Messrs. B. B. Thayer, '85, Marquand, '85, and Peirson, '85.

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Some new tall pulley-weights are being placed in the gymnasium near the basement stairs, and chest-weights put in the places formerly occupied by them.

The officers of the Christian Brethren for the ensuing half-year are: President, Frost, '84; secretary, Hill, '85; treasurer, Loyd, '86; librarian, Knapp, '87.

Dr. William Perry, of Exeter, N. H., the oldest surviving graduate of Harvard College, celebrated his ninety-sixth birth birthday on the 20th ult. He is in remarkably good health.

The portion of the Corean Embassy which remained in this country to learn the language and customs, is under the instruction of Mr. G. C. Choate, of Salem, formerly a special '85.

The catalogue of the State Agricultural College contains the names of thirteen past graduates, ten graduates of 1883, five seniors, nineteen juniors, twenty-one sophomores, and forty-one freshmen, total 111.

At the last regular meeting of the Harvard Total Abstinence League the secretary announced that thus far 40 new members have been admitted to the league this year. A small special assessment was voted to meet current expenses.

A new bicycle track is soon to be laid in Philadelphia. The track will be circular, nine laps to the mile, and will be made of cinders and cement, with a grade of one foot from the centre to the outer circumference, and will be twenty feet in width. Electric lights are to be placed around the track. During June there is to be a tournament and series of races held there.

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