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Fact and Rumor.

It will be somewhat interesting to compare the rules that the colleges of Princeton and Yale will play foot ball under, in the coming season.

The Harvard School of Divinity has seven professors, but only eleven students.-[Ex. This is a mistake, as it has some 26 students altogether.

Speaking of the CRIMSON, the editor of Student Life, with a pleasing originality of rhetoric, remarks-"A college paper has no business being a daily."

Any Amherst student who has spent two hours in preparing a lesson, but has failed to learn it in that time, can, by reporting the fact, be excused from reciting.-[Ex.

The sections in Greek 5 having finished the Pax of Aristophanes, will immediately begin to read the Trachiniae of Sophocles. Text books should be procured at once.

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The recent sale of the Duke of Wellington's Library is declared to be the greatest book sale on record. It continued for over a month, and the total receipts were some $850,000.

In imitation of the custom, almost universal in France, of celebrating the birthday of Victor Hugo, a lecture was given in Sever, yesterday, commemorative of the great author, to which the students of the advanced French courses were invited. The lecturer, Mr. Cohn, will finish his remarks on Saturday, at 9.

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