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Fact and Rumor.

Marks in History XI are out.

Cox, '87, of Yale, attended the winter meeting Saturday.

Rooms must be re-engaged for 1885-6 before one o'clock to-morrow.

Mr. C. C. Foster, '81, (Medical School, '84) is studying medicine in Paris.

The University of Pennsylvania will have a ball nine in the field this season.

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E. M. Gill, '86, has left college with the intention of going into journalism.

A party of seniors will spend the recess on a shooting trip to Martha's Vineyard.

The official announcement has been made that the spring recess will extend from April 1st to 7th.

The demand for tickets for the lecture this evening has made it necessary to use the music balcony.

The defeat of Hanlan, the oarsman by Beach of Australia, last Saturday, was a great surprise to the ex-champion's friends.

Dr. Hart has given his last lecture for this year in History XIII. He intends to spend the coming six months in Italy and Switzerland.

Mrs. Mary A. Livermore will speak under the auspices of the Total Abstinence League some evening in the second or third week of April.

Science Hall, the building of the University of Wisconsin, which was destroyed by fire a short time ago, is to be rebuilt at an expense of $150,000.

The Medical and Law Schools have shown more than usual interest in the winter meetings this year. At least one man has entered from each at each meeting.

In the April number of the Popular Science Monthly is a very interesting article by Professor Laughlin, on "The Character and Discipline of Political Economy."

The spring theatricals of the Hasty Pudding Club occur this evening, at 8.30 P.M., in the society building on Holmes field. Present and past members are cordially invited.

Fogg was the hero of the third winter meeting, winning in all four cups. Two were for breaking records, and the other two for the running high jump, and running high kick.

Barring the German duelling and the running high jump, the number of prizes won by the several classes is as follows: First prizes, '85, four; '86, six; '87, six; '88, two; second prizes, '86 two; '87, one.

In the 42nd university boat race between Oxford and Cambridge on Saturday, the Oxonians defeated the Cantabs by three boat lengths, the time being 21m. 36s. This gives Oxford 23 victories, and Cambridge 18, the race in 1877 having been a dead heat.

In the announcement of the Tennis Association in our Saturday's issue, a typographical error caused some ambiguity in the meaning. In the sentence, "and it shall be the duty of this boy to collect these tickets and the necessary amount," the word and should be changed to. Subscriptions should be sent to No. 12 Holworthy.

Prof. Edward J. Phelps, who has just been appointed minister to England, to succeed James Russell Lowell, was enthusiastically serenaded by Yale students Saturday night. Prof. Phelps appeared and thanked the students for the compliment they had paid him, after which a hugh bonfire was kindled on the campus.

For the Irving lecture to-night, the doors will be open at 7.15, for those holding reserved seat tickets. Those who have admission tickets will be admitted at twenty minutes of eight. Reserved seats will not be kept after the lecture begins. Holders of reserved seat tickets are requested to come before twenty minutes of eight.

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