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Fact and Rumor.

The Glee Club gives a concert to-night in Newton.

Dickson, '90, refereed some athletic sports in Natick, last Saturday.

Section 6 of Eng. 12 will meet Mr. Wendall to-day at 11 o'clock in Sever 11.

The second edition of the first number of the new Advocate will be distributed to-day.

The U. of P. is to have a new floating boat-house much nearer the college than the old one.

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It is said that Senator Sherman was present at Mr. White's lecture last Monday evening.

Prof. Goodale will lecture to-night in the Lowell Institute Course on "Begetable Physiology."

The Princetonian is authority for the statement that a course in Volapuk is to be started at Yale.

There were no recitations yesterday in Hist. 13 and 17, the Fine Arts' courses and German 4.

The warm weather has to a great extent softened the ice on the river, and some open water is now visible in the basin.

Prof. Norton will repeat his lecture on "The Conditions of Thought in America," to-night in Chickering Hall, Boston.

There are twenty-nine candidates for the Columbia nine. Harold Strebeigh, S. of A., has been elected temporary captain.

Mr. George Riddle will again attempt the stage, this time in a comedy written by A. C. Gunther, author of "Mr. Barnes of New York."

The officers at the Pierian dinner on Monday evening were: Garrison, toast-master; Loeb, orator; Gleason, poet; Faulkner, chorister.

Dr. Henry P. Bowditch, Dean of the Harvard Medical School, will speak to-night in Association hall, Boston, on "Composite Photography."

Prof. Francke has given up his courses in German and will probably go abroad for his health. German 1 will be conducted during the rest of the year by Messrs Babbitt, Harvard, '86, Markoe, '83.

A moot court will be held at the Law School this afternoon, before Prof. Keener. O. Wister and J. A. Waterman will argue the case for the plaintiff; W. Williams and I. H. Bronson for the defendant.

Captain Stagg, of Yale, has invented a machine to assist in the practice of sliding bases. It is a frame work 14 feet long about 4 feet high, covered with tightly-stretched canvas, which is in turn covered with a piece of carpet. The men rush the length of the cage, and throwing themselves on the machine, shoot headlong across its surface.

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