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FACT AND RUMOR.

All the crews rowed again in the gymnasium yesterday.

Copies of the supplement may be found at Leavitt and Peiree's.

History and Methods of Classical Study. Professor Allen. Sever 14, 11 A. M.

Members of N. H. 1 will visit the Boston Signal Service office today, accompanied by Mr. Davis.

Mr. Davis is about to issue a work on Meteorology, including the substance of the work done in N. H. 1.

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It is rumored that Professor Cyrus Northrup, of Yale, will accept the presidency of the Minnesota University.

The hundred names required for the senior heliotype albums were not handed in before the time was up on last Wednesday.

A mass meeting of the undergraduates is to be held Monday night. The time and place will be announced in Monday's issue.

Some of the telephone and telegraph wires about the yard and square have been broken by the heavy weight of snow resting on them.

The question of a junior dinner for '85 continues to be agitated, and meets with considerable favor among the members of the class.

There are at present nineteen men training daily for the Yale freshman nine, of whom three are also trying for places on the university nine.

Dr. Royce will give three lectures under the auspices of the Harvard Philosophical Club, on the evenings of March 3, 6 and 10, in Sever 11.

The cold snap of yesterday was a gentle reminder that winter was still here, and caused a little delay to the other class crews going on the river.

More interest ought to be taken in the members of the different classes in the tug-of-war teams, so that the teams may have better chance for practice.

The electric light is being introduced into the University Press building on Brattle square. It is proposed to light Harvard square from the same machine.

A new university has been located at Chattanooga, Tenn. It will be the central Methodist University in the South, and $80,000 will be spent on it this year.

As the floats at the boat-house are not yet in place, the crews already on the river will have to resort to the old process of launching, known commonly as "wading."

Mr. Claflin, '86, is one of the committee appointed by the League of American Wheelmen to take action as to the advisability of establishing an organ for that body.

The meeting of the Inter-collegiate Baseball Association meets in New York today. Our delegates are, Messrs. T. J. Coolidge and LeMoyne, '84, and Crocker, '85.

Charles Dudley Warner, of the class of 1871, in Hamilton College, has been invited to deliver the oration before the alumni of that institution at the next commencement.

Final arrangements are being made by the Yale Bicycle Club concerning the hiring of Hamilton Park, and if the terms they offer are not satisfactory, the project of the races will be given up.

The proportion of Harvard students and professors among the audience at the performances of Irving and Helen Terry has been very large. This goes to prove that educated men appreciate good acting and patronize it.

Still more chest weights are being placed in the gymnasium. At the rate of progress made this winter in squeezing needed apparatus in every available corner, there will soon be scarcely a foot of wall or floor uncovered.

Winfred A. Stearns, acting curator of the Agricultural Museum at Amherst, Mass., propose to start a monthly scientific journal at Amherst, to be devoted exclusively to the interests of Massachusetts natural history, and called the Bulletin of the Natural History of the State of Massachusetts, with the approval of the faculty and under the auspices of the college.

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