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Fact and Rumor.

There are fifteen men in the Andover Club at Williams.

There are only six men in training for putting the shot.

The skating on both Spy and Glacial is ponds is excellent.

Hefflefinger, '91 S. Yale, is rowing with the Yale university crew.

Potter, '87, a former manager of the university nine, was in Cambridge yesterday.

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Curiosity has prompted a number of well-known oarsmen to visit the tank lately.

It is probable that the phillips Exeter Banjo Club will be re-formed. During the last year it has held no meetings.

Dr. Phillips Brooks conducted the services at Wellesley on Thursday, Jan. 31, the day of prayer for colleges.

Architects are at work upon the plans for the new gate which will be built between Harvard and Massachusetts Halls.

Professor Sheldon has an interesting article in the last Scientific American describing the application of the electric blow-pipe.

Last year's Yale crew has been invited to attend the dinner to be given at Delmonico's by the New York alumni on the 15th inst.

The police commissioner and chief of police of New Haven are each equipped with very handsomely grained clubs turned out of a post from the old Yale fence.

About one hundred men have signed for the Economical Club. It is desirable that all others wishing to join should send in their names at once either to Professor Shaler, Professor Chaplin or Mr. Bolles.

Ralph Ensign, a Yale senior, was generating gas from hydrofluoric acid in the Kent Laboratory recently, when the tube burst and its contents flew in his face and over his clothing. His eyes escaped, but his face was badly burnt.

The 1888-89 catalogue of the University of Pennsylvania has recently been published. It is arranged in much the same style as the Harvard catalogue. The number of students in the college department is 346; in the department of medicine, 445; dentistry, 127; veterinary medicine, 58; biology, 37; law, 144, philosophy, 31.

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