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Fact and Rumor.

The Tufts College foot-ball team will play a picked eleven from Harvard, today at College Hill.

It is said that the cups have not yet been given to those who were in the winning '90 boat in last year's scratch races.

The names of 108 students have been stricken from the rolls at the University of Berlin for "lack of diligence." Of this number of dropped men, forty-eight are foreigners.

Harvard's gymnasium cost $100,000; Yale's $125,000; Columbia's $156,000; Princeton's $38,000; Dartmorth $25,000; Amherst's $65,000; William's $50,000; Cornell's $40,000.

At Andover, last week, at the usual annual sale of papers and periodicals the DAILY CRIMSON sold for $6.50, the Yale News brought $4.50, and the Harvard Lampoon $7.00.

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The Chamberlain Greek prize to be awarded to the freshman passing the best Greek examination on entering Yale was awarded this year for the first time. J. J. Cox, of Bedford, N. Y., was the winner.

Prof. Morse C. White, of the Yale Medical School, has received from Hayti the embalmed body of a two headed infant, which survived but twelve minutes after birth. The body will be used by the professor in illustrating his lectures before the medical students.

Mr. Henry Norman, an Englishman who graduated from Harvard eight or ten years ago, has arrived in New York from London. He is making a tour of the world in the interests of the Pall Mall Gazette, with which he is connected.

F. E. E. Hamilton, '87, has been offered the professorship of ancient languages at Chattanooga University.

The eleven to-day in the game with Tufts will be composed as follows: Rushes-Holden, '88; Bradlee, '88; Wood, '88; Morse, '89; Piper, '90: Butler, '88; Bancroft, '88; quarter back-Harding. '89; half backs-Porter, '88; Saxe, '88; full back-Parry, '89.

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