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FACT AND RUMOR.

Marks are out in Fine Arts 3 and 7.

The marks in Sophomore Rhetoric will be out next week.

The examination books in History 13 will be returned next Thursday.

The Co-operative Society already has 160 members for the new year.

Mr. Hart expects to give out the marks in History 12 on Thursday next.

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Dr. Sargent has completed the physical examination of the university crew.

About fifteen men began training for the university baseball nine on Saturday. [Yale News.

Five years are required to complete a course at the University of Pennsylvania. [Adelphian.

The Cornell undergraduates have formed a baseball association, in many respects similar to our own.

Out of the 303 colleges in this country 155 use the Roman, 144 the English and 34 the Continental pronunciation of Latin.

A new sidereal clock has just been mounted in Columbia College Observatory. It was made in Boston and cost over $500.

Mrs. Garfield has given to Hiram College a bust of General Garfield. The memorial has been placed in the College Chapel.

Union College will send two delegates to the New York meeting of the Inter-collegiate Association to renew its membership.

The Cornell Era denies the current report that the tendency at that college is to substitute the study of Science for that of Greek and Latin.

Football has been abandoned at Amherst and hereafter the effort, of the college will be entirely directed towards the improvement of the nine.

Columbia College has one Annex notwithstanding the faculty's vote. A young lady graduate of Wellesley Colis pursing astronomical studies in the observatory.

At Columbia it is reported that it has been found necessary to appoint officers to remain on watch continually in the library, to prevent the students from mutilating and otherwise damaging the books.

Rutgers College has resolved to join the new baseball league formed by Lafayette, Stevens, and the University of Pennsylvania. It is said that Harkins, the pitcher of the Clevelands, will train the Rutgers nine.

The amount of money, by the Ellis bequest, which will eventually revert to the university for the endowment of professorships in the Medical School, after the subtraction of the bequest for scholarships, is estimated at $150,000.

Of the instructors in the "Correspondence University," eight graduated at Cornell, six at Harvard, three at Yale, two at Amherst, and one each at Univ. Mich., Mich. Agricultural Col., Worcester Free Inst. Tech., Johns Hopkins, Vassar, Marietta, Brown, Columbia, and University of Lewisburg, besides several from abroad. Many, also, had taken P. G. courses in Johns Hopkins.

At the dinner of the Bowdoin College Alumni Association, in Boston, on Wednesday evening, the venerable Prof. Alpheus S. Packard, speaking of the new jury system of college discipline, said that he could not say that it had worked at all. Speaking of the endowment, he said that the college which has any life in it will always be wanting something. The relief which Bowdoin has received has come largely from outside, especially in the Stone and Winkley Professorships, founded by the late Mrs. Valeria G. Stone, of Malden, and Mr. Henry Winkley, of Philadelphia. Nothing was known of Mr. Winkley before he made this gift. One day, Prof. Packard said, he saw a gentleman looking about the grounds. He asked him if he would like to look at the buildings. He said he should, and then inquired for President Chamberlin, and remarked that he had a check in his pocket for the college. He was told that he was in Europe. Prof. Packard said he paid attention to the stranger, being particularly desirous to learn more about the check, "and I got it into my house." [Ex.

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