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Fact and Rumor.

Mills, '91, has gone to San Francisco.

An important meeting of the CRIMSON board to-day at 1.30.

Competitors for prizes offered by the University must send in their work before July 1st.

Dr. Phillips Brooks will deliver an address at the Williams College Commencement.

Munkacsy's "Christ on Calvary" will be at the Old South only six days longer.

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Owing to the decision of the Yale faculty, there was no freshman supper at New Haven, Saturday.

The Glee Club will sing in the yard to-night after its annual meeting for the election of officers.

The new Andromache and Hector window given by the class of 1863 is now being put in at Memorial Hall.

Commencement parts may be obtained by their writers at U. 5, before June 29. After that date they will not be kept.

Mr. T. C. Van Storch, '87, at present a member of the Pennsylvania Legislature from Scranton, is soon expected to revisit college.

The exhibition match of doubles between Tailer and Snow, the present champions, and Lee and Tallant, the winners of the tournament, was postponed from Saturday. It will be played to-day at 2.30 p. m. on the Beck Hall courts.

Dr. McCosh's latest work on psychology, recently published by Scribners, has been adopted as a text book in colleges in Japan and Ceylon; and students in the State University of Calcutta are required to pass an examination on the book before the degree of A. B. will be granted.

Solomon Sleeper Camp, No. 56, S. O, V., Dept. of Mass., Theodore Prentice, commander, was on Friday evening presented with a handsome flag by Mr. Sleeper, after whom the camp is named, and also with a set of guidons, by the Ladies' Relief Corps.

The ninety-four Lothrop literature prizes have naturally excited competition in the schools of the country, and the sum of $2000 is to be paid to successful competitors. Particulars as to the award will be announced in the June number of the Wide Awake magazine.

In the chapel, last evening, Dr. Hale preached upon the importance and necessity to a moral man of a healthy body and a pure mind. The music, which was unusually good, included the anthems, "O God, have Mercy," by Calkin, and "Let not your Hearts be Troubled," by Trembath."

Cornell University is to have a department of journalism. At the opening of the fall term, classes will be formed from the seniors, juniors and post graduates. Professor Brainerd Smith will give a series of lectures on the condition of newspaper work today in the great cities. Two classes will be organized very much like the city staff of a large newspaper, Prof. Smith acting as managing editor, and instructions will be given in the editing of copy, in condensing it, preparing it for the printer and writing headlines.

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