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FACT AND RUMOR.

A druggist, dependent largely for his support on the patronage of Yale students. advertises as follows: "Arnica, sticking-plaster, splints, bandages and other base-ball goods."

The results of the Yale-Amherst and Harvard-Princeton ball games today, will be posted immediately after the games; also the result of the Mott Harven sports, at Leavitt and Peirce's.

It has been suggested that, if the results of today's contests are in Harvard's favor, each man in the yard illuminate his room by lighting all the gas burners and drawing aside the curtains.

The Canoe Club burgee has arrived and gives general satisfaction. It is triangular in shape, and is made of crimson silk, on which is a gold shield surrounded by a circle. On the shield is painted in ivory black a large H.

The medical students at McGill University have been disgracing themselves. A professor raised the standard of his examinations and was snow-balled in the class-room till he was forced to leave.

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There are but three persons in the United States who have received the three degrees of Doctor of Divinity, Doctor of Laws, and Doctor of Literature. These are Prof. Wilson of Cornell, President Barnard of Columbia, and President McCosh of Princeton.

In the game against the Tremonts of Boston, May 3d, in the forenoon, Springfield, of the Dartmouth College club went seven times to the bat and made five runs and five hits, with a total of 17. He made a single and four home runs. In the afternoon of the same day he went six times at the bat, and made five hits, with a total of 11. His total for the day was nine runs, 10 hits and 28 bases.

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