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Fact and Rumor.

G. L. Peabody, '86 has returned to college.

Cornell is building a magnetic observatory.

The Yale Bicycle Club races will be held May 29 and 30.

Princeton intends to present a Latin comedy at some near date.

There is a college to every hundred miles of territory in the United States.

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A Chinese student at Yale has taken the first prize for English composition.

The first female college in the world was the Wesleyan in Georgia, opened in 1838.

Yale students are allowed six unexcused absences per term, and Princeton twenty.

The time kept by the University crew in its exhibition on Saturday was excellent.

The aggregate attendance at the colleges this year, is reported to be less than it has been for years.

At the Amherst College observatory about fifty photographs of the eclipse of the Sun were taken on Monday.

The Princeton students have asked to have the study of Blackstone added to the list of optionals for the senior year.

The exhibition of scientific sparring on Saturday, was the subject of much unfavorable comment from the audience.

'85 has never beaten '86 in the tug-of-war. In 1883, '86 pulled six inches from '85, and this year equaled the former performance.

The Brown nine is to have a new uniform, consisting of gray trousers, light brown coats with black stripe and brown stockings.

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