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Fact and Rumor.

The February number of the Atlantic Monthly is out.

Bowdoin numbers 35 successful journalists among her graduates.

Yesterday was enlivened by several dashing snow slides from the roof of Sever.

The Hamilton College Monthly issued a very attractive Christmas number.

A recent recitation in Music 3 was devoted to a hasty review of the year's work.

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Lectures on special topics are being delivered in History 14 by members of the section.

At the first meeting of the Sheffield Gun Club, at Yale, only 39 clay pigeons were broken, out of 90 shot at in the match.

A double quartette from the Glee Club is to sing at the rooms of the Boston Art Club, this evening, by special invitation.

In spite of the inclement weather, Harvard was well represented at Prof. Sumner's lecture on the Tariff Reform series, last evening.

An inquiring student was surprised on counting to find that the number of gas jets used to light Memorial Hall every evening is 336.

The examination in Hist. 13 will extend through the 2nd administration of Jefferson and not to it, as was reported in yesterday's issue.

The vacant judgeship in the court of Alabama claims has been given to John Davis, assistant secretary of state and a young Harvard graduate.

The Advocate, which is out today, takes up the chronological record of the year at the point where the CRIMSON left it, and carries it on to July 1.

The Tufts College alumni of Boston, have a club which holds monthly meetings during the winter season, at which papers are read and dinners eaten.

A correspondent suggests that the German law, which makes aggressive piano-playing a criminal offence, be incorporated into the statutes of the university.

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.

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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