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Fact and Rumor.

English II finished Macbeth yesterday.

The spring recess begins to-morrow, and ends Tuesday, April 7.

The fall of snow has caused a suspension of practice on Jarvis for yesterday and to-day.

The plan proposed by the Conference committee will be discussed by the faculty this afternoon.

To-day is the last day for receiving applications of candidates for Second-Year Honors.

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Theses are due to-day from all Seniors and Juniors. They will be received in Sever 8, between 2 and 4 P.M.

Blank forms for application for rooms for the coming term will be ready for distribution on April 7, at the Bursar's office.

The first lecture of the course by Professor Cooke on "Egypt and her Monuments," will be given on Tuesday, April 7, at 7.45 o'clock.

The first issue of the CRIMSON of next term will contain a description, taken from the Architect's plan, of the new Hilton dormitory.

Prof. Torrey will give all of the lectures in History XV for the rest of the year, with the exception of a few lectures in May which will be delivered by Dr. Channing.

An innovation was carried into effect last evening. The student members of the Shakspere Club were invited to the reception tendered to Mr. Irving by Pres. Eliot.

The Freshmen of the Institute of Technology tried to raise a flag bearing the figures '88, but their attempt-was defeated by the janitor of the Institute building.

The Lampoon will be out this afternoon. An examination of the proofsheets shows that the good record made by the Lampoon is well sustained in this coming number.

Storrow, '87, succeeded in obtaining an excellent negative of the gymnasium and the audience Saturday afternoon. Photographs will be on sale at Amee's, after the recess.

Mr. Hilton has promised to give to Leavitt and Pierce, one sample of each kind of coins found while excavating for Mr. Hilton's new building. They will soon be on exhibition in their window.

Prof Morse of Salem, whose lectures on Japan are so popular, and whose collection of Japanese pottery is well known, visited the college yesterday with three or four Japanese young men.

The juniors who have written theses in History XIII were informed last Saturday that this work could not be counted toward their marks for this year, but that arrangements would probably be made whereby these theses would be accepted as half or full courses for the coming year.

Student Life, the periodical published by the students of Washington University, St. Louis, says "The future of the University is bright; she is in all the vigor of youth, and it is only a matter of a few years when we who are now receiving instruction in her classic halls can point with pride to her as the most 'superbly endowed' American University."

The Annex club has at last received a name. It is called the "Hedonian." It is surprising that these staid and intellectual young maidens should thus publicly announce that, after all, they are seeking for mere pleasure, that they have sworn allegiance to Epicurus, and that they can think of nothing more noble than the principles of the Cyrenaics.

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