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FACT AND RUMOR.

W. H. Baldwin is rowing with the junior crew.

The hour of the senior-university race will be published tomorrow.

Permission has been granted at Harvard to play professional nines. [Bates Student.

It is probable that all of the University of Pennsylvania's crew this year will be seniors.

The translation of Thucydides will take the place of the regular Tuesday lecture in Greek 7, today.

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The excursion in N. H. 5, which was to have taken place yesterday, will occur tomorrow, Wednesday.

Professor E. S. Dana of Yale, has been elected a member of The National Academy of Sciences.

Bates college has a band and, strange to say, they are not guilty of practicing during study time.

The senior crew has challenged the university to a two-mile race tomorrow. The challenge has been accepted.

Col. W. A. Bancroft, '79, contributes an article on college athletics to the current number of the Christian Register.

Tonight's lecture in the Harvard Historical course will be delivered by Mr. John C. Ropes ; subject, "The Virginia Campaign."

A concert will be given tomorrow evening at New Haven by the combined Yale and Wesleyan Glee Club. As a special inducement, the presidents of both colleges with their families, are to occupy proscenium boxes.

The examination in freshman Algebra will be held Saturday, May 3d. Students will hand in their blue-books this week.

Mr. Isaac Burk, the well-known botanical author, has presented the University of Pennsylvania with his large and valuable herbarium.

Professor A. S. Hill will today continue his course of lectures on Authors of the XVIII and XIX Centuries, by a lecture on Daniel Webster.

The Yale corporation has voted $2,000 to erect a building on the new Yale athletic grounds, for the benefit of the men training on the field.

Professor Shaler read an interesting paper on the old English and Celtic settlers in America, at the last meeting of the Thursday club of Boston.

Mr. Wendell will criticize Theme VI., and explain in detail the analysis of style to be given with this theme to each student, in Sever 11, at 2 o'clock, today.

The following men will compose the remainder of the Hasty Pudding from '85 :

Batchelder, Beaman, Bemis, Billings, Bradford, Briggs, Carnochan, Carpenter, Chadbourne, H. Clark, Cowdin, Coxe, Cushing, Draper, Dunham, Fisk, Fogg, Halbert, Hansen, Hobbs, Holliday, E. Howard, Hull, Johnson, Keith, Krumbhaar, Lane, Lent, Livingston, Marquand, Mills, Nichols, Noble, Norton, Nutter, Onativia, Parker, Paulding, Peirson, Sawyer, Simes, W. W. Smith, Sutton, Swinscoe, Taussig, E. L. Thayer, W. S. Thayer, Wheelright, D. E. White, F. W. White, Williams, Winlock, S. E. Winslow, Young.

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