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Fact and Rumor.

The University of Colorado is said to have a course in Gothic.

There will be no more Monday morning lectures in Physics C.

The photographing of the rooms of seniors was completed Saturday.

Mr. J. H. Paine, '86, has gone to the Bermudas, as he is much out of health.

The price of board at Memorial for the month of February has been $4.07 per week.

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'88 is the first sophomore class in four years that has pulled the freshmen in the tug-of-war.

In the winter sports at Princeton the '88 pulled the '89 tug-of-war team by four feet.

Seventeen lacrosse men were practicing on the west end of Jarvis yesterday afternoon.

It is said that A. C. Coolidge, '87, and Sullivan, '88, will enter the feather-weight sparring.

It is rumored that Penrose will come back to Cambridge and row on the 'varsity. In that case it is said that Storrow will take a seat in the boat, and the old crew will be complete.

The Princeton Glee Club will take a Southern trip during April, starting at Philadelphia and ending at Baltimore.

The preliminary Yale winter sports took place on Wednesday. Goodwin, '89, broke the Yale record in the running high jump by clearing 5 ft. 6 in.

The Princeton lacrosse men practice daily in the skating rink at Princeton. The New York University team gives exhibitions in rinks in New York, six men playing on each side and using a hollow ball.

Yale, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, Cornell, and Princeton are the only American colleges which provide fellowships for graduate students desiring to pursue studies beyond the regular academic course.

Nine out of every ten college graduates in the United States are Republicans. - Dalhousie Gazette. Statistics show that ninety per cent. of college graduates are Democrats. - Niagara Index.

Outing has notes on all branches of athletics and may be considered in the future a recognized authority on that subject, for the men backing it and having charge of the different departments are well known in the world of sports.

The London Academy says that the gold medal of the Royal Astronomical Society has been awarded conjointly to Prof. Pritchard of Oxford, and Professor Pickering of Harvard, for their valuable observations and researches in stellar photometry.

The total subscriptions towards the new divinity school are $34,439. A gift of $1,000 has been promised to complete the $36,000 originally asked for, as soon as the total subscription only lacks that sum to reach the full amount, so that only about $600 more is necessary.

It was rumored that on the morning of Washington's Birthday two Farmington girls walked through the crowd of students gathered about the fence on a wager. - Yale News. We never saw any students gathered about a fence on a wager. From the text we are unable to judge whether the girls, or the students, or the fence were "on a wager." - Exonian.

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