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Fact and Rumor.

Cuts in Philosophy I and IV yesterday.

Dr. Hart will give the remaining lectures of this term in History XIII.

There have been seven of the new iron chest weights put into the gymnasium.

The entries for the feather and lightweight sparring are somewhat few this year.

J. A. Frye, '86, and E. E. Hamlin, '86, have been elected honorary members of the Harvard Bicycle Club.

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The Irish students at Rome are counted among the best who attend the institutions of learning in that city.

E. W. Frost, L. S, took the Tappan prize of $150, for an essay on "The Foundation and Prospects of the Dominion of Canada."

An amateur photographer took the University crew on Saturday, and there is a great demand for the pictures as the proofs are unusually good.

It was impossible to publish the list of entries for Saturday's meeting this morning, but to-morrow the programme will be published in full. Contestants for the two-hand fence vault are requested to be at the gymnasium to-day, between 3 and 4 o'clock.

There is an unusual interest among the students concerning the lecture of Henry Irving, and the demand for tickets has been unusually large.

There was a rehearsal of the brass band yesterday, in the old Pudding building. Hereafter the band will rehearse every Thursday at 4.30 until further notice.

The ice on the scratch race-course in front of the boat house, was sufficiently broken up yesterday afternoon to allow members of the University crew to paddle about in pair-oared boats.

The man who got his seat for the Irving lecture in the back row of the second gallery, should blame his hard luck only. The tickets were mixed together before they were given out.

Two freshmen have offered to give an exhibition of German duelling at one of the winter meetings. In this form of duelling no mask is worn, and the point is to gash the face, and not to make thrusts at the body.

Mr. Hilton will not erect a dormitory on Holyoke St. as at first contemplated, but will build an addition to West Hilton Block upon the lot formerly occupied by Mr. Noera. The store occupied by Mr. Noera has been moved to the vacant lot on Holyoke St.

The omission of exhibition base-ball games between Yale and Harvard from the list as now arranged has caused some comment. President Mulvane said that the reason is that the faculty will only allow the nine cuts for the regular games. Some exhibition games may however be played just after commencement.

After Dr. McCosh had read to the students, in his library on Saturday evening, the paper with which he had previously met President Eliot before the 19th Century club, in New York, Prof. Duffield quietly remarked that there was "No doubt about the issue of this inter-collegiate championship." The press of the country seem to be of the same opinion.

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