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Fact and Rumor.

Princeton defeated Johns Hopkins at football on Saturday.

Goodwin, of the Yale freshmen, is playing end rush on the university eleven.

A cup will be offered at Columbia next spring for an inter-class baseball tournament.

Dr. James Freeman Clark preached the sermon in Appleton Chapel, last evening.

Haverport college has this year 90 students, the largest number it has ever instructed.

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Trouble at Kings College, Nova Scotia. The president was burnt in effigy by the students.

There were two games of foot ball between various picked elevens on Jarvis Field Saturday afternoon.

There are at Harvard this year 11 candidates for the degree of A. M., and for that of Ph. D., there are 30 candidates.

The Columbia college chess club holds the college championship in that game. The only championship Columbia holds.

The Princeton sophomores had a close shave in their foot ball game with the Columbia sophs. The score was 12-11.

The first lecture in Hist. 13 was delivered Saturday. Dr. Hart, after a long and serious illness, had just returned from his home at Cleveland, Ohio.

The fastest professional time for running 100 yards is 9 1-4 seconds, and was made by George Seward, an American, nearly thirty years ago, in England- [Ee.

In the last Yale-Wesleyan game Terry, the Yale half-back, made a run starting behind his own goal posts and ending with a touch-down, the longest run on record.

There are a great many very good people says an esteemed contemporary, who think that to send a boy to college is to put him straight on "the primrose way to the everlasting bonfire."

A large number of students have already entered their application for admission to Bryn Mawr college. The buildings are nearly completed and it is thought the institution will be opened next year.

Oberlin students celebrating the supposed republican victory serenaded a doctor in the town with horns and tin pans. That gentleman responded with a volley of pistol bullets wounding one of the students.

The students of the University of New Brunswick at Frederickton had decided to leave college in a body on account of certain disciplinary measures of the faculty and were only quieted by a partial withdrawal of the faculty from their position.

At no time has there been better material in the College from which to pick an Inter-Collegiate team, and with proper training Columbia should undoubtedly be represented by men competent to win the Inter-Collegiate cup.- [Acta Columbiana.

The new university at Stockholm has established a professorship of mathematics expressly for a woman. This is Mrs. Dr. Sophie Kowalevski, whose paper on partial differential equations was reorganized as sufficiently important to warrant the establishment of a chair.

The former student committee on the care of Holmes and Jarvis field have all left the college with the exception of Mr. Atkinson of the H. A. A. Therefore a meeting of representatives of the executive committee of all the clubs will be held on next Wednesday to form a new committee to have charge of the grounds.

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