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Fact and Rumor.

Harvard plays Princeton at Princeton to-day.

The senior crew has sold its shell to the Crescent Club of Boston.

The lecture in Fine Arts 4 will be omitted to-morrow.

Professor Palmer resumed his courses yesterday.

The make-up examination in French 1 will be held Friday, June 1.

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Harvard Cricket Club plays Longwood on Holmes Field at 10 o'clock this morning.

The lines for Hastings Hall have been staked out, and the ground was broken Monday.

F. B'y. Williams, '88, lectured before History 13 yesterday, on the "Munroe Doctrine and its Relation to the U. S. Foreign Policy."

The officers of the O. K. for the remainder of the year are as follows: President, J. H. Ropes; secretary, Carleton Hunneman; treasurer, J. G. King; librarian, R. E. N. Dodge.

Members of the third year class of the Law School who intend to be candidates for the degree of Master of Arts are requested to notify the Dean of their intention in writing before June 1st.

Next Thursday afternoon at 3 p. m., Professor Cohn will give a lecture to French 11 upon his personal experiences during the siege of Paris and the Commune. Professor Cohn has related isolated bits from time to time, and this lecture is given by request. Prof. Cohn will speak in French.

Prof. G. Stanley Hall of Johns Hopkins University, has been selected as president of the new Clarke University, which within a few years will doubtless be one of the leading colleges of the country.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology completes its twenty-fourth year this month. It has more than eight hundred students, and yesterday it granted the degree of bachelor of science to seventy-seven.

The Yale Athletic Association has decided to hold two extra field meetings at an early date. Expert time-keepers will be present from New York, and Sherrill, Harmar, Berger and Shearman are expected to lower the records.

Professor W. T. Harris, of Concord editor of the Journal of Speculative Philosophy, addressed the Harvard Philosophical Club Monday evening. His subject was "The Problem of Philosophy and its Three Most Important Selections."

The death of Dr. William Goddard in this city on Sunday last, recalls the fact that he was the oldest living graduate of Harvard College, and the oldest graduate of the Medical School. Dr. Goddard, who was the only survivor of his class, was born in Portsmouth, N. H., April 22, 1796.

The following notice was sent to the New York Times in reference to the new building at New Haven which is to destroy the much talked of fence:

"It is stated in the Times of this morning that Mrs. Pierrepont had given $125,000 to Yale University for the erection of a memorial building in memory of our son, who died in Rome three years ago. There is no foundation for the statement, and will you promptly correct the error, in justice to the unknown donor, and relieve us from the unpleasantness of being credited with a great honor to which we have not the smallest right. EDWARDS PIERREPONT."

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