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Fact and Rumor.

The Collegian contains a chronological list of 110 American colleges, headed by Harvard, founded in 1638, and ended by Richmond college, founded in 1882.

The first three volumes of the "Narrative and Critical History of the United States," which Mr. Justin Winsor and others have been preparing, will soon be published.

In our article on "Yard Rooms," printed in yesterday's issue, the percentage of freshmen who room in college dormitories should have been given as 38, instead of 48.

Prof. Goodale, in N. H. 5, has taken the same course as he took in N. H. 3, in reference to the examination-viz., giving out a large number of questions from which certain questions will be chosen for the examination papers.

In addition to the list of members of the Harvard Historical Society, published in the Index, the following should be named: Messrs. C. Isham, '76, H. E. Scott, '80, Dr. Francke, Dr. Cohn, Mr. E. E. Hale, Jr., '83, and Mr. E. Cummings, '84.

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It seems that our statement that the Theta Delta Chi society has no members except those printed in its list of officers in the Index, was a mistake. For reasons best known to itself, the society did not choose to insert its membership list. It has fifteen members.

The recently organized American Historical Association, of which President Andrew D. White, of Cornell University, is the president, and Professor Herbert B. Adams, of Johns Hopkins University, is the secretary, proposes to publish, in the form of serial monographs, original contributions to history. From these monographs, which will be paged consecutively, volumes will from time to time be made up.

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