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Fact and Rumor.

Laboratory work in N. H. 3 will begin on Tuesday next.

J. S. Stevens, '88, has gone to Colorado for his health.

Yale has 69 base balls won from various clubs, collegiate and amateur.

An exchange declares that foot-ball flourishes at the Ontario Ladies College.

Prof. Torrey is now able to go about, and will soon resume his lectures as usual.

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Dr. Taussig delivered the lecture in History 13 yesterday, in Dr. Hart's absence.

The Princeton Review, after an existence of sixty years, has ceased to be published.

The Yale crews expect to get on the water in a few days, provided the weather remains mild.

The '85 and '86 crews are exercising with dumb bells, instead of chestweights for a change.

Pain L. S. Fogg, '85, and Frothingham, '86, are going to enter the Technology sports next Saturday.

The Phi Kappa Psi fraternity has revived its chapter at Cornell, after an interval of nine years.

Prof. Hardy, of Mathematics, of Dartmouth College, has refused the presidency of Bowdoin, proffered to him.

The expenses of the Yale boat club during the past year were $7,000; over $1,000 remains to be raised to meet the deficit.

The chess game between Yale and Princeton is progressing very slowly. It is nearly three weeks since Princeton has been heard from.

The Bowdoin Orient publishes tributes to the memory of the poet Longfellow, written by Oliver Wendell Holmes, and Dr. C. A. Bartol.

Three theological students at Yale have brought suit against the selectmen of New Haven for refusing to permit them to vote last fall.

A prominent member of '88 is reported to be reading through the Encyclopedia Brittanica. His has finished the third volume, and is now on the fourth.

L. J. Henderson who was formerly a member of the class of '85, is a prominent member of the troupe which is now supporting Madame Jamisch in Boston.

The race for the Child's Cup, in which most of the four-oared college crews will enter, will be rowed on the Shawmut course; near Philadelphia, on June 18th, 1885.

The sheet of ice that lies on Holmes field is melting slowly. It has been suggested that it be broken up into small pieces, so that the track may be the sooner in use this spring.

At Amherst and Kenyon, students who maintain an average of 75 per ct. in their studies, are excused from regular examinations.- (Ex. How can the average be found without an examination.

There has been a stationery bicycle built in the gymnasium. Judging from the number of men who patronized it as soon as it was in order, we may expect some fine time in the bicycle races this spring.

It is with regret that we are compelled to take notice of the tardiness in returning the marks in some courses It has occasioned great discontent among the students who are in the courses complianed of.

John C. Phillips, a nephew of the late Wendell Phillips, died in Boston on Sunday, of heart disease. He was a Harvard graduate of '58. Among his bequests was a gift of $25,000 to Phillips Andover Academy.

Mr. H. B. Warren, formerly a special student at Harvard, and a pupil of Mr. Moore of the Fine Arts Department, has on exhibition at Chase's gallery, Hamilton Place, Boston, a fine collection of paintings, and watercolors.

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