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Fact and Rumor.

Sophomore themes are due to-day.

The floats at the boat-house have been put in order very late.

The lacrosse team will keep fifty-one men in constant practice this spring.

The marks in Dr. Goddard's division of Greek B will be out on Friday.

The coxswain of the '88 crew, with his ulster on, weighs only 87 pounts.

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There will be no recitation in the second division of English 9 on Friday afternoon.

The marks in English 8 are out. They are divided into six classes, and average quite low.

An extra assessment of thirty cents has been levied on the members of the prayer petition committee.

The treasurer of the Cambridge railroad resigned yesterday, after holding the office for many years.

The point of an alleged funny story in last night's Record is lost in the mental effort to find why the Medical students were returning to Harvard Square.

Cups and medals will soon be awarded to past winners in the shotgun matches of the Shooting Club.

The initiation dinner of the Phi Beta Kappa Society will be held at the Quincy House, Friday evening, March 26th.

A schedule of the lacrosse games to be played this season by the Harvard team will be printed next Tuesday morning.

All men who are excused from Monday morning prayers and have not yet received their permit, are requested to call at the office at once and get them.

Lacrosse has been revived at Yale. Twenty-seven men are trying for their team. A challenge will immediately be sent to Yale by the Harvard team.

The Yale News and the Princetonian, after a recess of two months, have again begun the foot-ball war in their columns. The slope of the ground on the Yale field is bitterly complained of by the Princetonian.

The announcement of a Conference Committee meeting in yesterdays CRIMSON, printed on the authority of a member of the committee and therefore supposed to be true, unfortunately was not.

The debate at the Union to night will be discussed from the standpoint of the future welfare of the British Empire. The leaders are as follows: Affirmative, P. L. Campbell, '86, T. H. Proctor, '89; negative, G. P. F. Hobson, '86, J. W. Richardson, '86.

Felix Auerbach has recently furnished to Nord und Sud an interesting account of the developments of the German Universities within the last fifty years, based on carefully compiled statistics of the thirty-two Universities which have existed within the boundaries of the present German Empire.

Harvard Union. - One of the following questions will be selected for the debate of April 1, 1886: 1. Resolved, That President Cleveland in withholding the documents demanded by the Senate has grossly transcended his authority. 2. Resolved, That the retention of Garland is a violation of good government and of the pledges. Cleveland made to the people. 3. Resolved, That co-education would be beneficial to Harvard College.

Noera has put in his show window a life size wax figure, the type of the Harvard athlete.

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