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Fact and Rumor.

There will be a cut in English 5 on Monday.

The O. K. dinner will probably be held on April 28th.

The Yale Glee Club will give a concert in Boston April 9.

On Wednesday Philosophy 3 will begin the study of logic.

The first base-ball game with Yale will be umpired by Grant.

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H. P. Stowe, '88, has been obliged to leave college on account of sickness.

Holden was well filled last evening by those who went to hear Mr. Studd.

A large number of students daily go down to the boat house to see the crews go out.

Mr. E. D. Page replies to Mr. Bourne's recent letter in defense of Yale.

Dr. McCosh has averaged ten hours study per day throughout his professional life.

The freshmen have now two crews on the water, but they do not yet use the sliding seats.

The inter-collegiate base-ball league has adopted the Spalding ball to be used this season.

Welch, pitcher of the New York league nine, is coaching the candidates for the Amherst team.

Notice has been sent to those seniors who have received permission to deliver commencement parts.

There will be class games in base-ball this spring, but no definite plan about them has as yet been decided upon.

Professor Paine is working at the text and music of a new opera which he hopes to complete at no very distant day.

There will be no further contest between the final competitors in the light-weight sparring of last Saturday's meeting.

Charles Fulmer of Philadelphia, and Charles Daniels of Hartford, are the change umpires this season for the inter-collegiate base-ball association.

Professor Jackson gave a very interesting lecture on the dangers of having arsenic in wall papers to the class in Chemistry I yesterday.

When Mr. Adams said the other night that he supposed he was speaking exclusively to Harvard students, the Cambridge "element" present looked exceedingly uncomfortable.

The averages of the inter-collegiate ball players will have to be revised, owing to a mistake occasioned by averaging in the exhibition games of last season. - Yale News.

Political Economy I finish Mills' Political Economy next week. A thorough discussion of the tariff will then be taken up. Professor Thompson's book of lectures on the protectionist side, and Professor Sumner's work in answer will be the text books used. Later on Professor Dunbar will lecture on the Financial History of the United States. The mid-year blue books will be returned and the papers discussed on Monday.

A number of college professors recently met in New York and formed the American Economic Association. The object of the society is to promote among thinking men a more careful study and a better understanding of the economic problems, and especially those in which labor is involved. Among those connected with it are Francis A. Walker of the Institute of Technology, Pres. Adams of Cornell, Prof. Ely of Johns Hopkins, and Prof. James of the University of Pennsylvania.

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