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Fact and Rumor.

Harvard assembly to-night.

The directors of Memorial Hall will meet on Friday, at 1.30.

An Oxford graduate is coaching the Columbia crew this spring.

Russell is again rowing with the sophomore crew.

A Harvard-Yale exhibition game is talked of for next week.

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No game for Saturday in Cambridge has as yet been arranged.

The Roberts Hall assemblies closed last evening. They have all been very successful.

The bicyclers in training for the Mott Haven team rode for the first time on the track last Tuesday.

Mr. W. B. Phillips being unable to play ball this season, has been appointed scorer to the university nine.

The nine has received a new lot of bats, the handles of which are covered with a white composition resembling hardened rubber.

The seniors and juniors have been rowing in shells for several days. The new sliding seats ordered for the sophomores have not yet arrived, so that they are still rowing in their barge.

The proceeds of the third performance of the Hasty Pudding Club play, "Joan of Arc," will be added to the club building fund.

A notice relative to the N. H. 4 excursion to-day to Blue Hill, will be posted in University by 9.30 this morning.

Competitors for the Boylston prizes for elocution are requested to send their names to Mr. Briggs before the last Thursday in April.

Lectures by Professor Dunbar on the Financial History of the United States, in Political Economy 1, will begin on April 27th.

In several trials of speed yesterday between the sophomore and the university crews, the latter crew was repeatedly left behind.

The last two of Mr. Godkin's lectures, April 17 and 21, will be devoted to discussions of the "Economic Objections to Protection."

The Galop, a periodical "devoted to dancing, music, etiquette, and fashion," says, "We feel flattered when such a man as Dr. Sargent endorses our oftrepeated assertion that music and dancing should be introduced, and go hand in hand in our public schools and colleges."

The university crew has changed about considerably during the last few days, in order to give Penrose a trial for the position of stroke. At present the men are seated as follows: bow, Storrow; 2, Mumford; 3, Keyes; 4, Colony; 5, Burgess; 6, Brooks; 7, Yocum; stroke, Penrose.

The companies of the 65th battalion called into service to suppress the Riel Rebellion are composed entirely of students from the Quebec Medical and Law schools. The professors fear that they will have to discontinue their work, as the schools are so depleted.

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