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Fact and Rumor.

The Exeter Club of Yale will hold a dinner early in February.

There are four names on the waiting list at Memorial Hall.

English B, theme VII, a Literary Criticism, is due today.

There are now twenty-two candidates for the junior crew.

The Yale crew used the tank last Friday for the first time this year.

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Several Harvard men will attend the Junior Promenade at Yale tonight.

Dwight Bowles, '87, is the reporter of the New York Times in the Albany legislature.

Holy Cross College of Worcester will apply for admission into one of the college baseball leagues.

The Albany Argus of Sunday devotes a column and a half to the description of Harvard's Co-operative Association.

The report that Sherrill of Yale had been dangerously ill at his home, and that he would never be able to run again, was unfounded. He has not been ill, and will in all probability run at Mott Haven in the spring.

Blue books for the examination in Math. A must be handed in today, and those for English A must be left in Sever 11.

Mr. Charles Francis Adams was to address the Finance Club this evening, but, on account of an unexpected engagement, will be unable to be present. Professor Taussing will, however, read a paper.

The announcement for English 9 is as follows: The author to be read next is Jane Austen. The following order is recommended: Pride and Prejudice, Emma Mansfield Park, Northanges Abbey, Persuasion, Sense and Sensibility.

One of the best lectures presented by the Lecture Association of the University of Pennsylvania will be that of Dr. D. G. Lyon next Thursday. Dr. Lyon is Professor of Assyriology at Harvard, and one of the first scholars in the country.- The Pennsylvanian.

The following are the assignments of the sections in the German A examination to be held Wednesday, Feb. 6: Mr. Babbitt's section in Massachusetts 3; Mr. Grandgent's Wednesday and Friday sections in Sever 37; Mr. Grandgent's Tuesday and Saturday sections in Sever 30.

At the meeting of the A. A. U. U. S. in Madison Square Garden last Saturday, Stead, '91, won the 440 yards dash from 15 yards mark in 54 seconds. The prize was a $150 stop watch. J. P. Lee, '91, was scratch in the 75 yards dash with 112 entries and won his first heat in the fastest time-8 1-5 seconds-of any first trial. He was also scratch in 220-yards with over fifty entries, and was third in final heat.

The announcement has been industriously circulated that Professor Arthur M. Marsh of the University of Kansas has been appointed Smith Professor of Belles-Lettres and of French and Spanish at Harvard. The authorities do not deny the statement but will not assert it as a fact. Mr. Marsh has resigned his position and will go abroad to study for two years on a full salary. He graduated here in 1883 and is under thirty years of age. He is said to be a man of great ability and was at one time thought of for the presidency of the Kansas University.

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