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Fact and Rumor.

The third section of English 5 will meet Mr. Wendell to-day.

The Conference Committee meets to-day in Sever 27 at 4.30 p.m.

The President's report can not be obtained by the students before to-morrow.

The Co-operative began yesterday a three days sale of watches and useful jewelry.

Maj. Hotchkiss gave a very interesting lecture yesterday to the students in History 13.

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Capt. Mumford has forbidden members of the 'varsity crew sparring in the winter meetings.

Prof. John Fiske will deliver his course of lectures on American History in New York beginning to-day.

The second eight of the Pi Eta from '87 is: Henning, L. C. Jones, J. H. Knapp, Litchfield, Parmenter, W. S. Robinson, A. C. Thayer, Truslow.

Mr. James Russell Lowell will contribute to the new Princeton Review the only article which he can be induced to write for a magazine. The poet Gray is the subject of the article and it will appear in the next number.

The text books in Philosophy 4, Kant's Theory of Ethics, have arrived and can be obtained at the Co-operative.

Prof. Lovering's lectures to the freshmen on Electricity and Magnetism begin to-morrow at 12 o'clock in the Jefferson laboratory.

Students in Fine Arts 5 were presented, yesterday, with tickets to the exhibition of architectural drawings, now being held in Boston.

Those who expected that tickets to Monday night's lecture sent through the mail would be delivered were sadly mistaken, owing to the anniversary of George Washington's birth and the closed post-office.

Synopsis of Dr. Farnham's 10th lecture. Effects of physical exercise on respiration. Evils of re-breathed air. Some affections interfering with respiration. Mortality due to affections of the respiratory organs. Reduction of death-rate from improved sanitary conditions. What amount of disease does the death-rate indicate?

Alarm 61 struck at about ten o'clock last evening. The Cambridge Fire Department gave an excellent exhibition to half of Harvard and the whole of Cambridge. The fire was in a small shop back of the Cambridge car stables.

An effort was made on Saturday to photograph the Yale freshman class with their "bangers"; however, the wily sophomores frustrated the attempt by pelting the photographer with cannon-crackers, etc., putting him to flight.

English XII. Mr. Wendell will soon give each man in the course a written result of the analysis of his work done up to the present time. For the purpose of giving out this written result, Mr. Wendell has divided the class into four sections and will meet them at the usual time and place as follows:

Adams to DeVeau, (inclusive) Feb. 25.

Dexter to Jackson, March 2.

Jewitt to Quinby, March 4.

Rantoul to Winthrop, March 9.

As the second theme is due before the latter half of the class can receive this analysis, any of the men in the third and fourth sections may hand in the theme one week later than they otherwise would.

The students of the College of Physicians and Surgeons are fond of getting the end seats in the lecture-room on the top floor of the building. Each of the semi-circular benches is covered with two long crimson cushions, and the practice is to pull one of the cushions toward an end seat, and turn a part of it under so as to make a pillow for the weary medical head.

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