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Fact and Rumor.

The ball nine and lacrosse twelve, the freshman nine and the 'varsity and most of the class crews will remain in Cambridge over the recess.

The Princeton ball nine has arranged twenty-five match games, and the lacrosse team seven; the latter expects to play four more games.

The time for handing in the next theme in English V has been postponed from April fourteenth to April nineteenth.

Mr. Ernest Renshaw wishes to acknowledge the receipt of a racquet strung with india rubber strings. Owing to the absence of any name he has been unable to express his thanks to the donor. He also regrets he is not able to form any opinion of the value of the invention, as only two strings remained in the racquet when he received it. - Pastime.

The next Harvard Union debate will take place April 15th. The question is "Resolved, That the Preservation of Constitutional Government requires the Immediate Repeal of the Hoar Presidential Succession Bill." The principal disputants are, affirmative, P. L. Sternbergh, '87, R. B. Mahany, '88; negative, F. E. E. Hamilton, '87, Russell Duane, '88.

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Persistent stupidity. We are amused to note that the persons who are permitted to edit Harvard newspapers and Harvard programmes still apply to the inter collegiate team the ridiculous name "Mott Haven." We are informed that hereafter the Harvard crew which rows against Yale at New London next July will be called the "Winnipiseogee Crew," because the Harvard-Yale race was rowed on that euphoniously named lake. - Spirit of the Times.

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