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Fact and Rumor.

Those who desire to give Christmas presents are reminded that the box for contributions for the Globe Theatre meetings is still at the Co-operative.

Governor Foraker, while lately addressing a body of students. said: "I would rather be a sophomore in college than governor of Ohio.- Princetonian.

The new Weston electric car was given a trial yesterday on the Cambridge Railroad and proved to be very successful. It remains to be seen what will be the effect of snow on the rails.

We wish again to call the attention of our readers to Professor Norton's statement in our columns that he will be glad to see any undergraduates on Christmas eve between 8 and 10 o'clock.

Josef Hofmann, the renowned boy planist, will make his first appearance in Boston in Music Hall, to morrow evening. He will also play on Monday evening at the same place.

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A human tooth, roots and all, was recently found in a plate of beans at Memorial. It is supposed to be of prehistoric origin, and is at the disposal of the management.

A two-horned rhinoceros, the gift of the Hon. P. T. Barnum, has been received at the Barnum Museum, Tufts College. This is the only specimen of the kind in any college museum.

By a curios coincidence there were ninety men present at the dinner given Friday night by the class of Columbia, '90, to their crew which defeated the Harvard Freshmen at New London last June.

Cornell has purchased of P. T. Barnum the skeleton of the dead elephant whose head was presented to the college directly after the fire. It is proposed to make a comparative study of this skeleton with the bones of an extinct mastodon which were recently found in Western New York State.

At the last meeting of the Amherst Senate, President Seelye reported that the faculty had agreed with the senate in interpreting the constitution to include under its jurisdiction all undergraduates, whether in regular standing or not. The senate voted to recommend to the college that some fair athletic event be substituted for the class rushes, which have always been attended with more or less serious accidents.

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