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Fact and Rumor.

Brown and yellow have been proposed as the college colors of Lehigh.

The Cornell polo team has just won its series of games with Ithaca.

G. R. Carpenter, '86, has been appointed assistant in English for 1885-1886.

An autograph letter of Thomas Jefferson is to be framed and hung in the Jefferson Laboratory.

The last Pennsylvanian has a timely article on "The Treatment of Sunstroke."

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The average salary of a college professor in the United States is $1530. - Ex.

An effort is being made at Washington, to pass a law reducing the postage on all college catalogues and publications, together with those of missionary societies, to the pound rate, making it about one sixth of the present cost. - Yale News.

The name of Brewer, '88, was omitted from the candidates for the broad jump in yesterday's paper.

A marble bust of the late Dr. E. H. Clarke has been placed in the Medical School, where he was formerly professor.

Mr. John Eliot Thayer, '85, has given the college the sum of $15,000 to establish a publication fund in the department of Political Economy.

According to the Yale News the reviewers of Webster's Dictionary have a private house on Temple Street, New Haven, for their use.

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.

The Crimson, Yale News and Princetonian are much read at the reading-room, where we have placed them by request of the association. - Williams Fortnight.

English A. In the second half year, there will be five sections for the work of the "third hour" as follows:

I. Tuesday at 12.

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