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Fact and Rumor.

Stagg leads the Yale nine in batting with an average of .466.

The '89 club table was photographed yesterday at Pach's Studio.

Attention is called to the exhibition row which the crew will give this afternoon.

A party of socialistic members of the German Turnverein visited the college yesterday.

The faculty of Johns Hopkins University has just conferred the degree of Doctor of Philosophy on seventeen graduates, and the degree of Bachelor of Arts on 31.

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The Baby Pathfinder which is being issued this summer, will prove a very valuable source of information for those who intend leaving Boston for any destination whatever.

Monday's Princetonian contains a long and interesting sketch of the history of its ten years' existence. The paper was started in 1876 as a bi-weekly; the '84 board changed it into a weekly, and as the demand for college news grew greater, it was changed into a "bi-daily." The names of all the successive boards are printed in full.

The members of the '86 crew went down to the boat-house a few days ago and secured the oars with which they gained their great aquatic success during their four years in college.

The Yale News in an editorial admits very candidly that their freshmen were guilty of great discourtesy in the treatment of our freshman nine. Their apology will be willingly accepted by the college.

An example for Harvard to follow: A party of professors and students of Johns Hopkins University has left for Abaco, one of the islands of the Bahama group, where the summer season of the Zoological Laboratory will be held.

The Scarlet Ribbon Tennis Club will hold its annual tournament for the championship of the Western States June 5. Singles, $2.00; doubles, $3.00. Entries must be made before June 3d to J. G. Jencks, 2960 Groveland Ave., Chicago, III.

Candid confession of the Yale News. "By permitting the Harvard freshmen to take their fence from them the freshmen have proved themselves the weakest class, in one respect at any rate, that has ever entered Yale College."

The college will regret to learn of the sale of Hamilton Park to parties who will probably cut it up into building lots. The park comprises fifty-one acres, and for the past twenty years has served the college as a general athletic field. Several years ago efforts were made to buy it for the college, but the owners were foolish enough to demand an unreasonably large price, which, of course, the college was unwilling to pay, although it would have made a far more desirable athletic field than the one we now have. - Yale News.

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