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Fact and Rumor.

Williams, Yale '90, died in Norwich Saturday of typhoid fever.

It will probably be two weeks before the Catalogue is out.

Lehigh university has never conferred any honorary degrees whatever.

The Union college alumni dined at Delmonico's, New York, last evening.

The date of the Glee club concert has been changed to Wednesday, December 18.

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The H. A. A. will hold its regular weekly hare and hounds run tomorrow afternoon.

The number on the waiting list at Memorial Hall is at present one hundred and fifty.

Mr. C. Walker, '92, has been elected assistant business manager of the CRIMSON.

The librarian of Rutgers college has offered a prize for the encouragement of the study of American literature. Twenty-five dollars yearly will be awarded to that member of the junior or senior class who shall write the best essay upon a subject assigned in the field of American literature. The subject for the present year is "Benjamin Franklin as a man of letters."

The Christmas recess will begin practically after the last recitation on Saturday, December 21st.

The Princeton eleven defeated a picked team at Washinton Saturday, by a score of 57 to 0. 2500 people witnessed the game.

Dr. Morgan Dix will deliver the principal address at the ceremonies of the installation of the Hon. Seth Low, the new president of Columbia college.

The play off of the ties in the chess tournament resulted as follows: In the first section Crane beat Burlinham by default: in the second section Baker beat H. G. Nichols. The men in the final round are Crane, Hawes, Adams, Baker, Irwin and F. W. Nicolls.

A 17-year-old brother of W. C. Dohm, Princeton's fast sprinter, is just now talked of as the coming man among amateur short distance runners. In private recently he ran 100 yards in 11seconds, and made a quarter in 55 1-2. He will make his appearance on a public track next spring.

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