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Fact and Rumor.

It is said that coasting and skating at Wellesley has been very fine.

Chauncy M. Depew is to speak to Princeton students Feb. 18.

The Brown Glee Club is preparing several songs from the Mikado.

There were never so many candidates for the mile walk as there are this year.

Two Yale seniors have contributed five hundred dollars each to the new gymnasium.

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Princeton will be a University within five years by a recent action of its authorities.

It is affirmed on good authority that some new table cloths have been purchased for Memorial Hall.

The next number of the Lampoon comes out Friday. It will contain a list of all the past editors of the paper.

The President of Bowdoin College graduated in the class of '79. He is the youngest college president in this country.

The nine of the University of Pennsylvania has secured an old depot of the Pennsylvania Railroad to practice in.

A pair of goal posts for the use of the lacrosse men has been painted upon the eastern wall of the gymnasium cage.

One of the Yale papers is agitating the subject of toboganning as an amusement for hard-worked under-graduates.

Mr. Lathrop is now giving instructions every afternoon to the wrestlers who intend to take part in the winter meetings.

The will of the late Henry P. Kidder of Boston, of the board of Overeers, includes among other bequests, a gift of $10,000 to Harvard.

The Princetonian vigorously advocates the scheme of Athletic Consolidation, whereby all the organizations may be under one financial control.

The standing high jump, omitted by mistake from the list of events in the winter meetings which appeared in yesterday's CRIMSON will be contested at the second meeting.

Interior decoration is popular at the Annex. One of the rooms of the new rooms of the new building on Garden St. being hand painted in an elaborate manner.

An article on base-ball at Yale which appeared in a Boston paper recently, declared that the Yale freshmen felt tolerably "certain of defeating the Harvard freshman nine next spring.

At the meeting of the Reform Club in Boston on Saturday evening, Prof. Taussig spoke on the "Continuation of Silver Coinage." Gen. F. A. Walker of the Institute of Technology also spoke on the same subject. A letter from Mr. Edward Clark was read.

The Amherst nine has gone into active training. Six members of the '85 nine will probably play this year. Short-stop, pitcher, first-base and one field position are the only vacancies to be filled. There are five candidates for the position of pitcher, of whom Keating, '79 is the most promising man at present. Three men are trying for first-base, three for short-stop, and three for the out-field.

President Adams of Cornell, was in Princeton last week. On Jan. 29, he addressed the Lawrenceville School on "A Night in the House of Commons." Princetonian.

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