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Fact and Rumor.

The Cambridge-Oxford race will be rowed March 26.

There will be a lecture to day in Dr. Hart's section of History 20.

The Technology freshmen are considering the advisability of forming a nine.

In the winter games at Yale '90's tug-of-war team pulled '89's by 1 1-2 inches.

The class of '86, M. I. T., will hold its first annual reunion at the Revere House to-night.

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Norman James, P. E. A. '87, has been elected permanent captain of the Yale freshman crew.

A new gymnasium is soon to be erected at Vassar at a cost of twenty thousand dollars.

Both sections in Political Economy 13 meet at nine in lower Mass. to-day for two or three lectures.

The Amherst Student thinks that the prospects for a good nine at Amherst this year are excellent.

The last Exonian devotes a page to the account of the minstrel show which was given by the students a short time ago.

Wright, '87, and Lund, '88, have been unable to train with the Mott Haven team for some days on account of sickness.

There is to be a mass-meeting of the "Tech" students, shortly, to decide whether to have a base-ball nine this year or not.

The board of overseers have voted to concur with the president and fellows in the vote to establish the Paine professorship of practical astronomy.

It is rumored that there is a movement among several influential citizens of Cambridge to obtain a repeal of the prohibition act passed last fall.

The CRIMSON received yesterday an extra edition of the Oakland (Cal.) Enquirer containing pictures of all the important buildings in Oakland.

The "Tech" deplores the fact that there is so little enthusiasm shown by the students in the competition for places on the editorial board of that paper.

N. H. 2. - Members of the class can obtain their laboratory books and marks by calling at the upper lecture-room, Museum, between 3.30 and 4.30 p.m. to-day.

The freshman crew is now composed of the following men: Amory, stroke; Hutchinson, Herrick, Sanford, B. Tilton, Tyson, Matthews, Crehore; substitutes, Darling and Slocum.

Philip Gilbert Hamilton has written an article for the next number of the "Harvard Monthly," by way of a reply to the criticism on his "Literature in a Republic," by Col. T. W. Higginson in the December "Monthly."

The dinner of the CRIMSON board last evening was enjoyed by the many past and present editors who attended. Wit flowed faster than champagne, and was twice as sparkling. The officers of the evening were: President, W. T. Talbot; toast-master, F. E. E. Hamilton; chorister, H. G. Perkins; poet, H. S. Sanford; orator, Wm. Barnes, Jr. Papers were read by W. G. Chase, '82, H. M. Williams, '85, M. C. Hobbes, '85, J. A. Frye, '86. Speeches were made by F. A. Mason, '84, W. S. Thayer, '85. Letters were read from C. E. L. Wingate, '83, F. I. Carpenter, '85. Each member of the present board responded to toasts, all of which were extremely felicitous.

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