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Fact and Rumor.

There will be a cut in Political Economy 4 on Friday.

Bob Ingersoll will lecture to-night at Yale on "Myth and Miracle."

Dr. Goddard will mark the recitations of his class in Greek B. on Friday.

Prof. Palmer addresses the Society of Christian Brethren this evening.

The clock on Holyoke House is again in running order.

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Tufts has a total attendance of 135 students.

The next numbers of the Advocate and Lampoon will appear to-morrow.

The tickets to the Pierian Glee Club concert are nearly all disposed of.

The catalogues of Brown and Williams show that they each contain 258 students.

A large number of men who take Philosophy 2 are attending Dr. Carpenter's lectures on Mesmerism in Tremont Temple.

Lasell Notes. - The battledore and shuttlecock team is at a training-table. . . . Birdie Smith expects to return to Lasell soon for a short visit at her cousin Sadie's. . . . A handkerchief marked "Alfonso," has been found in Pinky Thompson's room. Ah, there, Pinky! - Courant.

A course of lectures on hygiene will soon be given under the auspices of the university.

Six of the Canadian foot-ball team, that met with such marked success in this country, are members of Toronto University.

The prize cups of the Shooting Club are displayed in Leavitt & Peirce's window. They are very tasty and ornamental.

The American Canoe Association has offered a cup valued at $300 as a prize for an inter-national canoe contest to be sailed in New York Bay next summer.

The trees on Boston Common are again labelled with their names, common and systematic, as was the case many years ago when Gould, the naturalist, was alive.

There is great complaint that the captains of the various crews are not as considerate of each other as might be; the rowing room is often occupied longer than is at all necessary, and other crews kept in waiting.

The pool tournament at Leavitt & Peirce's is attracting many visitors; it is very well contested, yet it has not progressed very far, but an extended account of it will be found in our columns as soon as it is concluded.

The leading scores in yesterday's matches of the Shooting Club were made by the following: Match A, Meade 7; F. B. Austin, 6; W. L. Smith, 6. Match B, F. S. Palmer, 6; W. Austin, 5; W. L. Smith, 4. Match C, F. S. Palmer, 7; F. S. Meade, 6; F. B. Austin, 5.

The Sheffield Gun Club has not definitely accepted the Shooting Clubs' challenge yet, but the Yale News thinks that an acceptance is very probable. The conditions of the challenge are "there shall be an 18 yard rise, the pigeons shall be thrown from a trap at five angles, and each team shall consist of from four to eight men."

The Harvard Lampoon loses none of its originality. As is often the case, its illustrations are superior to its literature. Particularly good is the representation of a Harvard student of 1900 sitting calmly unmoved and coldly indifferent while a Memorial Hall waiter is pouring soup down the back of his lordship. - Brunonian.

LOCKER NOTICE. All those wishing to be provided with lockers should make immediate application at the office. Unless a sufficient number apply by Saturday-noon, no more lockers will be put in this season.

N. H. SOCIETY. Meeting in Mass. 2 this Thursday evening at 7.30 p.m. Communication - Geological Sketch of Mt. Desert, by W. C. Appleton, '87. Members of the university not belonging to the society are invited to attend.

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