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Fact and Rumor.

S. L. Foster, 85, is in Cambridge for a visit of a few days.

Teemer will take charge of the Cornell crew on May 1.

"Cider raids," whatever they are, are the mode at Cornell.

G. P. F. Hobson, '86, has become city editor of the Council Bluff Globe.

There are only three representatives from New Jersey in the freshman class.

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There will be an examination in the laboratory work of N. H. 4, on April 4.

Yale has furnished two of the four presidents of the University of California.

A recent issue of the Cornell Sun contains an interesting sketch of Dr. Waldstein's life.

Adams, '88, who has been ill for some time, has recovered and is again stroking the 'Varsity Crew.

There are seventy candidates for the Princeton Lacross Team; they are already practicing on the field.

Toboggans now adorn the rooms of their owners and the suits are now packed away till next winter.

The youngest man in the freshman class at Yale is 15 years and 10 months old; the eldest 30 years and 2 months.

The tuition at Amherst has been raised from $100 to $110 per annum, to go into effect at the beginning of the next college year.

Amherst has arranged an elaborate schedule of games for the first half of April; most of the games are with professional clubs.

Thornton Woodbury, '89, has resigned his position as business-manager of the "Lampoon," and has been elected to fill the same office on the "Advocate."

The supreme court of the Thayer Club for 1887-8 will be composed as follows: Messrs. Baldwin, Boyden, Brown, Gage, Gorham, McAlister, Palmer and Ransom.

There seems to be a general feeling among the students at Cornell that their nine this year is going to be exceptionally fine The Sun and Era are full of predictions of the great glory the nine is sure to win.

An effort has been made by some members of the faculty to have all recitations count and to abolish term examinations. If it were left to the students to decide, a unanimous verdict in the affirmative would be given. - Cornell Era.

Mr. Gladstone expresses himself as "utterly deploring whatever tends to displace a classical education for those in any way capable of receiving it, and strongly disapproving all efforts in that direction." John Bright, on the other hand, declares that "the study of the ancient languages is not now essential to education, so far as the acquisition of knowledge is concerned." - Ex.

The report sent out Monday that representatives of Columbia College were in town conferring with Yale in regard to the latter's being admitted as the third crew in the race at New London next summer, and that Yale was willing to have them do so, is pronounced by Captain John Rogers. Percey Bolton, the coach, and many others of the crew to be utterly without foundation. - Ex.

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