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Fact and Rumor.

The Nine will play Brown on Wednesday at Providence.

The game with the Beacons on Thursday will not be played.

A composite photograph of the graduating class at Vassar has been made.

Prof. Asa Gray has received an honorary degree from Cambridge (Eng.), University.

Dartmouth will play Amherst today and tomorrow. Both games will be played at Amherst.

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Rev. Dr. F. G. Peabody will deliver the address on Commencement day at at Smith College.

Mr. V. M. Harding '89 has been elected a correspondent of the DAILY CRIMSON in Lacrosse.

The freshman crew of Columbia is extremely light this year. Their average weight is but 148 pounds.

The graduating exercises at Cornell and Brown colleges and at Lasell Seminary began Sunday.

A recent edition of the Boston Globe has an editorial on the subject: "Are College Graduates Educated?"

The English crews still use wooden thole pins in preference to the swivel oar locks which they have tried.

Students board in commons at $3.50 at Tufts College, and in private families at $3.50 to $4.00 per week.

The oldest living graduate of Harvard, Mr. William R. Sever of Plymouth had his 96th birthday last week.

Knowlton, Andover's crack catcher, who has done such good work at the bat this season, intends to enter the Harvard Law School next September.

Messrs. Leighton and Davidge have resigned their positions as business managers of the CRIMSON. Mr. Lund has now entire control of the business of the paper.

New Haven is to have a celebration the 17th of this month. Yale is to be represented therein, as the students consider that the affair would not be a success without their presence.

The new commander of the "Ancients," Col. Henry Walker, graduated at Harvard in 1885 and was the first Harvard graduate to enlist in the civil war, being enrolled April 15th, 1861.

Linn, the right fielder of the Harvard nine, is a clever little player, but he should remember than an outfielder must throw the ball in the instant he gets his hands on it, when there is a man on a base.

List of elections for next year must be handed in to-day. Students will please take note of this, as negligence to do this causes the instructors great inconvenience. Elective lists may be obtained at the office.

Rev. Phillips Brooks started for Europe last Wednesday on the steamer Adriatic. He will probably preach in Temple Church, St. Paul's Cathedral, St. Margaret's Church and Westminster Abbey during his stay in England.

The friends of the Hasty Pudding Club will be glad to hear that all the money necessary for the new clubhouse has been subscribed with the exception of five hundred dollars, that four hundred and fifty of the latter will be subscribed in case the remaining fifty dollars is made up.

Political Economy 2 and 6. - Students who wish to confer with me in regard to these courses will find me at 20 Holworthy from 2 to 3 on the afternoons of Tuesday. Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, June 14, 15, 16 and 17.

F. W. TAUSSIG.

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