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Fact and Rumor.

Thesis in Philosophy 4 is due to day.

Prof. Child will conduct Eng, 7, after Christmas.

Pennypacker '88, is now a candidate or the University crew.

There will soon be a one hour examination in History 1.

There will be no recitation in Greek 5 Friday.

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About twenty Sophomores are trying for the Sophomore crew.

The text book ordered for History 1 will be here about Dec. 1.

The third theme in English XII is due tomorrow at 12.

Photograph of the police squad in front of Austin Hall, at 1.30 P. M.

The game with the "Graduate" eleven will not be played today as expected.

Mr. Notman expects to move into his new studio in the Moses King building on next Tuesday.

There will be a meeting of the committee chosen to form plans for a permanent track committee, at 1 Grays, Friday at 1.30.

The Brown University Athletic Association has at length been formed, and a constitution with numerous bylaws adopted.

As next Wednesday will be the day before Thanksgiving, there will be no recitation in Eng. 7. The theme due on that day will be handed in on Dec. 10th.

Cornell has a class in dumb bells and club swinging, and at the winter meeting of the athletic association expects to witness an exhibition, accompanied by the festive sounds of the piano. This is certainly a novelty outside of a female seminary.

The first Sophomore theme is due today. All themes must be dropped in the box in Sever 3 by 4 P. M., or elsent to the instructor at the students risk.

The spectacle which occurred in a Senior committee meeting of a man voting for himself in sixteen straight ballots is both ludicrous and sad.-[Amherst Student.

Slips on which absences are written in Prof. Palmer's course in English were due yesterday. These slips can be obtained at the office and must be left at 27 Hollis, to day or to-morrow.

Mr. Noera has now a very complete establishment, having obtained possession of the entire building in which his store is located. It is his intention to devote the upper portion of his store to athletic work.

It is said that the number of freshmen at Oxford this term is unprecedentedly large. Students of narrow means are much more numerous than twenty years ago; in fact, in this respect, Oxford seems to be returning to the sixteenth century, when the sons of persons in what in England is called the lower middle class-yeomen, shopkeepers, etc.-made up much of the university.

The next Mathematical Seminar will be held to day in U. 19 at 4 P. M. Mr. A. C. Lane will read a lecture on "The Grammar of Mathematics." The following will be the subjects for discussion: I. An equilateral triangle, square and regular hexagon are in scribed in the same circle. Show geometrically that the square is equivalent to the difference of the squares on the sides of the triangle and square. II. Find the condition that the four points of intersection of two conics lie in a circle.

At Williamstown one evening last week, the Democrats had an enthusiastic rejoicing with speeches, torchlight parade and fireworks. After the procession started, two hundred Republican students commenced blowing horns, hooting and otherwise disturbing the procession. The parade stopped in front of Professor Perry's house and he attempted to speak. The students started a yell and drowned his voice. The cavalry in the procession then charged the students and drove them away. One old man flourished a revolver, but it was taken from him. Finally the procession moved off quietly.-[Herald.

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