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Fact and Rumor.

Over 70 names are now signed to the junior dinner book.

Latin 5 will to-day finish the eleventh book of Tacitus.

The Columbia crews now run half a mile twice a week.

A Glee Club has been organized in the freshman class at Cornell.

The note books in N. H. 5 have been submitted to Prof. Goodale.

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There will be a regular meeting of the St. Paul's Society, this evening.

Mr. McAllister, '86, will possibly enter the light-weight sparring, next Saturday.

The new series of shot gun matches is to be opened at Walnut Hill, this afternoon.

The Ornithological Club will meet Friday evening, in the rooms of the Natural History Society.

The room of R. D. Smith, treasurer of the H. A. A., was entered recently, and the sum of $85 stolen.

Now that the freshman Glee Club has become an established institution, it is suggested that it sit on the fence and sing, to celebrate freshman victories, after the manner of the Yale club.

Mr. Carnochan, '85. will not be able to get under weight in time to enter the feather-weight sparring.

Mr. D. B. Chamberlin, '86, has so far recovered from his recent injuries as to be able to walk without crutches.

It is said that the university crew will give an exhibition of rowing on the first Ladies' Day, Saturday next.

Mr. F. W. White, '85, the quartermile runner, has been advised by his physician to give up sprint running.

Mr Taussig will conduct Hist. 13, in place of Dr. Hart. The last lecture by Dr. Hart will be delivered to morrow.

According to carefully prepared statistics, Yale College brings into New Haven about a million dollars a year.

Mr. Wendell expresses the wish that the students in Sophomore Rhetoric will be more prompt in their attendance at lectures.

Sophomore theme V will be due Thursday, March 26: subject, a criticism of some work of Sterne, Goldsmith, Irving, Miss Austen, Scott, or Hawthorne.

The interest in the tug-of-war between '85 and '86 is daily increasing. Both teams are in prime condition, and will make a hard struggle for the championship.

Yale has organized an anti-swearing society, at least so say the newspapers, in which the penalty for swearing is the payment of drinks for the whole society.

Mr. Samuel Johnson of Boston discussed the tariff before the Finance Club, last evening. The practical workings of the present system were clearly brought out; and the meeting was one of unusual interest.

The College Library with its wonted promptitude in adjusting itself to beneficial suggestions, has had slips of paper printed, serving as book marks, which request those who borrow books in great demand, to return them in one or two weeks, as the case may be.

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