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Fact and Rumor.

Brown will have no crew this year.

There is a Gun Club in New Haven composed partly of Yale students.

Candidates for next fall's foot-ball team are already training at Williams.

Last night the Glee Club gave a concert at Dover. The concert was followed by a german.

W. E. Haskell, '84, is the proprietor of the Minneapolis Tribune, a flourishing western journal.

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The annual reunion dinner of the CRIMSON will be held at the Quincy House on Thursday the 3rd of March.

The competitions in the pole-vault and putting the shot will end April 1st, instead of March 1st, as stated in yesterday's issue.

Cars were running yesterday up North avenue and Charles street to Park square. They also ran until ten o'clock last night.

There are 149 American students in the University of Berlin - 9 studying theology, 5 law, 47 medicine, 58 philosophy, 28 mathematics and natural science and 2 political science.

A former editor of the CRIMSON, who visited the sanctum yesterday, acknowledged that the baked beans and brown bread in Memorial tasted just the same as they did in '82. He found that a Yale custom had been inagurated here since his time by the Cambridge "muckers" sitting on the college fence.

Complaints have been frequent at Yale lately about the bad state of the air in the gymnasium. The ventilation, they say, could be improved greatly.

A course of lectures in Mechanics is to be given at Yale during February and March. The price for a season ticket for all students wishing to attend will be $1.00.

Trinity has refused to join the new base-ball league proposed by Lafayette to be composed of Troy Polytechnic, University of Pennsylvania, Stevens, Wesleyan and Lafayette.

Never before has such an interest in athletics been displayed at Williams as this Winter, owing to the good record made by last year's nine and eleven, and the increased facilities of the new gymnasium and field. - Ex.

The fifth semi-monthly entertainment in the course at Boston College was given last evening at College Hall before a large and appreciate audience. The programme consisted of 12 numbers, several of which were encored and all roundly applauded.

Mr. Lathrop will begin a class in wrestling at 3 o'clock Monday. All those intending to compete in the winter meetings are requested to commence work at that time, so that valuable time later may not be consumed with the preliminary hold.

"Scribner's Magazine" for March will contain a vigorous and thoughtful paper from the pen of Prof. William James, with the title, "What is an Instinct?" in which he discusses especially the instincts of man, their nature and the laws which govern them.

Professor John H. Wright, who went from the professorship of Greek in Dartmouth College to fill a similar position in Johns Hopkins University last September, has accepted the chair of Greek literature in Harvard University, and will begin his duties October 1, 1887.

The first mathematical seminar of the second half year is held this afternoon in U. 19 at 4 p.m. Mr. Markley will discuss a Riemann's surface. All students of the university who are interested in mathematices are invited to attend these conferences whether they wish to participate in the discussion or not.

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