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Fact and Rumor.

Mr. H. O. Poor has been elected a regular editor of the CRIMSON from '90.

Mr. J. O. Sumner has been elected a honorory member of the Hasty Pudding Club.

Mr. Benjamin Carpenter has been elected musical correspondent of the CRIMSON,

The bathing facilities at Spy Pond are enjoyed by a large number of men during these warm days.

Mr. Wm. H. Thayer has been elected secretary of the CRIMSON, vice Mr. L. A. Ruland, resigned,

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Mr. A. C. Coolidge will lecture before class in History 13 to-day on the "History of the Confederate Government."

To-night the Freshman Glee and Banjo clubs are to be entertained by the Press Club of Boston at its club house.

The following sentence concludes a despatch to the Cornell Sun concerning the Harvard-Cornell game: "We outplayed them in every point. The umpire and crowd beat us."

The present senior class at Williams have appointed a committee to draw up resolutions for the abolishment of the Latin salutatory, which in all probability will be adopted.

A crowd of men waited in front of Leavitt & Pierce's for news from the Harvard-Princeton game Saturday evening. When the score of 18 to 11 was posted, cheers were given for Harvard and for the individual players of the nine. Later in the evening the Glee Club sang in the yard.

The following sophomores will be on Jarvis to-day (Tuesday) at 4.15 to play the Freshman Lacrosse Team: Latta, Reisner, Griswold, Griffing, Bent, Richardson, Naumburg, Vorse, Kilvert, Marquand, Saville and Harding.

The statement in the Boston Herald of Sunday that the pole-vault is to be one of Harvard's strong points in the Mott Haven contest next Saturday is untrue since Shearman of Yale has cleared a higher distance than any athlete at Harvard.

The events in the spring regatta of the Yale Boat Club held on Lake Salt-onstall, on Saturday, were as follows:1, single-scull race for Cleaveland Cup; 2, four-oared barge race: D. K. E. vs. Psi U; 3, single scull race for Dunham Cup: 4, four-oard barge-race, fat men vs. lean men; 5, class races.

At a recent meeting of the trustees of Columbia College, it was unanimously decided to found a chair of Hebrew Literature in the college, in which the Aramaic Version of the Bible with the Talmud and Hebrew grammar should be taught. A gift of $300 has already been received for the establishment of this chair. - Ex.

A number of Boston writers have been discussing the establishment of a new literary weekly, to be called The Twentieth Century. The editorial corps as sketched out includes Henry A. Clapp, who will have charge of the dramatic department; C. A. Ralph in charge of the art department; Mrs. Maud Howe Elliot in charge of the society department; Miss Louise Imogene Guiney, Bliss Carmen and Bernard Berenson in charge of the literary department, W. F. Apthrop in charge of the musical department.

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