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Fact and Rumor.

The final number of entries for the CRIMSON cups is nine.

To-day:- Harvard vs. Cochituates, Holmes Field, at 4 P. M.

Providence plays Yale to-day at New Haven.

The Pierian-Glee Club concert will be given on May 13th.

W. H. Rand, '88, has been elected a business editor of the CRIMSON.

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The Harvard Canoe Club will have a ladies' day about May 20th.

C. C. Carmalt, '87, has been elected captain of the second lacrosse team.

Princeton will have essentially the same lacrosse team as last year.

Professor Laughlin has a work in press entitled "The Study of Political Economy."

The lacrosse team will play a return game with the Somervilles in that place in a few days.

To the uninitiated how a base-ball score must lie ! For instance, in Saturday's game Nichols made five runs, and yet the score says that he was at the bat only four times.

The president and vice-president of the Dining Association for the coming year will be elected at dinner to-night.

The Yale Alumni Association of Hartford has been organized. Forty-five members signed the constitution.

Professor Dunbar begins his lectures on the "Financial History of the United States" in Political Economy 1 today.

According to the Boston Traveller, the most notable thing about Mr. Barrett Wendell's new book is its absolute purity of language.

It is rumored that the Index will publish next year a literary supplement which will be delivered free of charge to all subscribers.

The nine designated as the "Suttons" in yesterday's published schedule has changed its name to the "Mount Auburns."

Officers of the O. K. from '86 have been elected as follows: president, T. P. Sanborn; secretary, G. Santayana; treasurer, Fullerton; Librarian, C. M. Thompson.

The game between the Mount Auburns and the CRIMSON, scheduled for this morning, has been postponed by consent of both captains, and will be played on Wednesday, May 6th., at 1.30 P. M.

Rev. Phillips Brooks will continue his lecture on "Tolerance," the first part of which was given last evening, in St. John's Memorial Chapel, this evening. Seats will be reserved for students of the University.

Tufts College has received about $40,000 by the will of Miss Harriet H. Fago of Marlboro. This sum will probably be used to establish a professorship of English literature, a vacancy which the college has long felt.

Thirty-seven courses have been given at the Annex this year;- Greek, Latin, and English, 4 each; German and Mathematics, 3 each; French, Philosophy, and History, 2 each; Political Economy, Physics, and Zoology, 1 each.

The Historical Society was entertained at the house of Mr. Deane, vice-president of the Massachusetts Historical Society, last Monday evening. Col. Lee, who was on Gov. Andrew's staff, and Col. T. W. Higginson, related several reminiscences of the civil war.

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