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FACT AND RUMOR.

The senior crew rowed at 12 (noon) yesterday.

The three upper classes at Yale give Germans, Feb. 13.

A number of Yale men have entries in the New Haven kennel show.

At Yale interest is charged on unpaid term bills.

The Natural History society is waking up. Its members recently had an evening entertainment.

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The Yale Lit editors from '85, are Baldwin, Buchgeman, Doggert, Richards, Shipman.

Professor Williams of Brown University is engaged upon a new translation of the German epic, the "Nibelungelied."

The result of the examination to remove entrance conditions in English Composition can be learned at the office.

Very few men handed in the last junior theme on time, as the instructor said it would do if he had them before the examinations are over.

In accordance with the will of the late Lewis Morgan, $100,000 will go to Rochester University, to be used for the education of women. [Ex.

The following officers of the Advocate for the ensuing year have been elected: President, George R. Nutter, '85; secretary, Stephen S. Bartlett, '85.

Yale is said to be anxious to hear some able protectionist refute the arguments by Prof. Sumner in a lecture on Free Trade.

New men seem to be needed more this year for throwing the hammer and putting the shot than for any other events for the Mott Haven team.

Wright and Ditson have published a book entitled, "Foot-ball Records of American Teams," by Walter C. Camp.

One of the Boston restaurants advertises 18 carrot soup. [Ex. That's nothing-we have soup of the first water at Memorial.

The men trying for the Mott Haven team are divided into two squads, those from '84, and '86, exercising under Mr. Goodwin, and those from '85, and '87, under Mr. Atkinson.

A curious thing in connection with the opening of Cornell University this year is the fact that more students have registered the second term than in the first, an occurrence without parallel in the history of the institution.

The University of Vermont has received a bequest of $115,000. A handsome gymnasium is to be erected. A bronze statue of Lafayette, who laid the corner-stone of the university, is soon to be unveiled on the campus.

The practice boat used by the Cambridge (Eng.) University eight is clinker built, on a lighter style than the eights usually used as practice boats, and is made of spruce. She is fitted with all the latest improvements, and may be termed a racing boat.

The De Pauw University in Greencastle, Ind., is to have eight more buildings-a law college, a medical college, a theological college, an observatory, two dormitories, and other structures, to be erected without delay.

Representatives from Stevens, Rutgers and Lafayette colleges will meet at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York, on Feb. 9, for the purpose of forming a base and foot-ball league of students in the institutions named and in one of two other colleges. The University of Pennsylvania and the Wesleyan University will also be included in the league.

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