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Fact and Rumor.

De Billier, '88, has returned to college.

The cage will be ready foreuse this morning.

Sophomore theme IV is due to-day. Subject: A Narrative.

The sale of the last issue of the Lampoon has been unusually large.

Plain glass is to replace the ground glass in the windows of the rowing room.

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The thesis in Philosophy IV will be due a week from to-day. Subject: Mills'"Liberty."

Mr. Hammond, '80, formerly captain of his class crew, watched the practice of the university crew, yesterday.

Mr. C. A. Strong, '85, has been elected president of the Philosophical Club, and Mr. Coggeshall, '85, Secretary.

Mr, T. I. Carpenter has been elected president of the Hasty Pudding Club in place of Mr. Thayer, resigned.

Political economy 2 will devote the recitations of the next few weeks to the consideration of some special topics.

The Cornell crew and nine are following a series of regulations as to diet and conduct, prepared by Dr. Edward Hitchcock, Jr.

The junior crew is now rowing in the following order : 1, Latham; 2, Vogel; 3, Ayer; 4, Dewey; 5, Codman; 6, Brown; 7, Roberts; 8, Huddleston; 9, Hamlin; Stroke, Harris. The final selection for stroke has not yet been made.

The Annex has increased in attendance nearly 50 per cent. since it started 6 years ago, while Vassar has fallen off 100 students since 1874.

Many students in Greek 2 use the libretto edition of the "CEdipus," which was published at the time that the play was given in Sanders Theatre.

The new flooring of the cage in the gymnasium is nearly done. It will have trap room to allow men to stand on the earth while practicing pitching.

Mr. W. H. Bishop, the novelist, who is talked of for the professorship of English literature in Yale, was class poet, and a Delta Kappa Epsilon man while a student there.

Junior theme IV will be returned today as follows: the first and second third of the class (Abbot to Frost, and Frye to F. S. Palmer), from 2 to 4.30 o'clock in Sever 1 and 5 respectively.

Mr. Yeomans, the champion mile runner of the N. Y. A. A. C., was here on Saturday. He said that their new gymnasium was entirely eclipsed by our own, and that he had no idea that ours was so handsome. He says he considers it the finest gymnasium in America.

"Harvard and Yale are endeavoring to get each others views on the new pitcher's rules adopted by the league, so that their pitchers can train according to the rules which will be adopted by the convention. It would seem, that there was no great need of a convention," says the Student.

A student at the University of Texas, being short of funds, wrote to his father: "Send me $100. He who gives quickly gives double." The old gentleman replied, enclosing $50, with the remark that, as he had responded promptly, the $50 enclosed were equivalent to the desired $100.-(Ex,

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