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Fact and Rumor.

The nine practiced on Holmes yesterday.

The O. K. will be photographed at Pach's to-day, at 1.30 p.m.

There will be an hour examination in Physics C next week.

The statistic lists have been sent to the members of the senior class.

The lacrosse men were out on Jarvis again yesterday in large numbers.

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Nearly one half of the students at the Sheffield Scientific School come from Connecticut.

Yale students have voted to adopt a plan, proposed by a faculty committee, which will close recitations at 4 o'clock on all days except Saturday, and on the latter day at 12.

Manhattan College has bought the old Albany Normal School for a Catholic Seminary.

Five sophomores were expelled from Lafayette College, Easton, Penn. yesterday for hazing.

There will be a meeting of the directors of the Dining Association to-morrow at 1.15 p.m.

At the Pudding dinner last Tuesday night, Mr. Lemuel Hayward, '45, gave a selection from Orlando Furioso.

There will be a coffee Party of the Glee Club and Pierian Sodality, at Roberts Hall, next Monday evening, the 15th.

A week from Wednesday there will be a thesis due in English 8 on any subject connected with Keats. A comparison of Keats and Sheley is advised as a good subject.

This evening Mr. Leonidas LaCenci Hamilton, M. A. will lecture in Lyceum Hall. Subject: "The Mechanical movements of the Moon and tides explained by impact or pressure."

The officers of the Delta Upsilon for the ensuing term are: President, J. N. Palmer; vice-president, A. A. Gleason; secretary, W. F. Osgood; treasurer, W. T. Clark; cor. secretary, C. R. Fletcher; chorister, B. C. Henry; all of '86.

There will be a Physical Seminar this evening, in Room 28, Physical Laboratory, at 7.30. Mr. Pulsford will lecture on his method of determining the rate of tuning forks. Mr. C. P. Frey will lecture on the electrical devices for the regulation of clocks.

The pronunciation of Latin, as now taught at Harvard, would sound like burlesque to those who learned Latin 20 or 30 years ago. Veni, vidi, vici, is pronounced wanee, wedee, weeke. This revolution is due to Prof. George M. Lane, who thinks he finds his authority for it in a careful study of Quintilian. - Cornell Sun.

The following men have been elected on the Phi Beta Kappa: From '86, Babbitt, Bolster, W. T. Clarke, Coggeshall, Corey, Fraser, Fullerton, Gage, Gunnison, Harding, Henshaw, Howes, Lloyd, M. W. Richardson, Santayana, Shea, C. W. Smith; from '87, Balcombe, Brainard, Buckingham, Forchheimer, Furber, Southworth, Stanton, J. E. Walker.

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