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Fact and Rumor.

Eighty-nine plays '91 at 4 p.m. on Jarvis.

The University of Pennsylania plays Cornell to-day at Philadelphia.

Technology class day comes on May 28.

Dr. Edward Everett Hale preached to the students of Cornell last Sunday.

There will be no recitations in Music 3 during the remainder of this week.

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The senior promenade at Yale takes place on the 25th of June.

Bowdion has the youngest college president in the United States, he having graduated in 1879.

The "History of Yale Athletics," by R. H. Hurd, was published on Saturday.

The junior promenade at Wellesley will take place on Friday evening, May 25, 1888.

Nine eight-oared crews have already entered for the Harlem River regatta, which will be held on May 30.

Dr. A. P. Peabody will preach the annual sermon to the Phillips Exeter students.

A fellowship in architecture with an income of four hundred dollars will be established at Princeton next fall.

The blue books for the final examination in Political Economy 1 must be handed in on Wednesday.

Six of the Greek letter fraternities at Dartmouth have held prize speaking contests, the Faculty acting as judges.

T. P. Conneff, the Irish champion, has challenged E. C. Carter for a match race for any distance from one-half to five miles.

South Carolina College will be reorganized next fall under the name of the State University of South Carolina.

The law library of the late P. P. Norris, of Philadelphia, valued at $190,000, has been recently bequeathed to the University of Pennsylvania.

Members of Pol. Econ. I who wish to take the make-up mid-year examination will meet Professor Taussig in U. 4 this afternoon at 4 o'clock.

If the lacrosse team wins the college championship, the Cambridge team will challenge them to a match for the championship of Cambridge.

Professor C. H. Toy will be married on Thursday of this week to Miss Saunders of Norfolk, Va. Ex-Professor Croswell's marriage to Miss Brace of New York took place last week.

Two stained glass windows for Memorial Hall, the gift of the class of '77, are now on exhibition at the office of W. J. McPherson. The figures are Charlemagne and Sir Thomas Moore.

Any student in the academic department, including specials, who has not received the list of questions from the Committee of the Faculty on Athletics can obtain it at the office.

Fifteen Princeton men are practising in the gymnasium for the commencement exhibition. In numbers participating, the exhibition will be larger than has been held for many years,

In the United States one man in every two hundred takes a college course; in England, one in every five hundred; in Scotland, one in every six hundred; in Germany, one in every two hundred and thirteen.

The Yale Y. M. C. A. has elected the following officers for the next year:- President, Fisher, '89; vice-presidents, Parsons, '90, and Hartwell, '89; recording secretary, Kingsbury, '91, and treasurer, Reed, '89.

At a meeting of the University of Pennsylvania Athletic Association, on Saturday, George Buntin broke the intercollegiate record of Coxe of Yale in the hammer throwing by 2 ft. 3 3-4 in., making a throw of 100 ft., 9 1-2 in.

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