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Fact and Rumor.

The freshman glee club has been cut down to twenty-nine.

The candidates for the Yale nine will not begin active training until February 1st.

Judge Frederick Chase, treasurer of Dartmouth college, died Sunday of influenza.

After the mid years the Adelphoe of Terence will be read instead of Livy in Latin B.

There will be but two rehearsals of the freshman glee club during the mid-years.

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A large framed copy of the Declaration of Independence has been placed in the delivery room in the library.

The Johns Hopkins lacrosse team will ask for the place in the intercollegiate league made vacant by Harvard.

J. P. Lee, '91, has won several prizes at broad jumping. He will practice this event for the Mott Haven games this year.

Men in History 2 will be held responsible for all that is in the Syllabus although Professor MacVane has not finished discussing it.

T. G. Shearman, Yale, '89, who has been taking a post graduate course has left college. His loss will seriously impair Yale's chances for the Mott Haven cup this year. For the last four years he has been a prize winner, and was expected to win the pole vault and broad jump this year.

The difficulty between Andover and Exeter over athletic matters has been satisfactorily arranged, and the annual baseball game will be played this year.

Vassar college has received $6000 by the will of the late Rev. J. R. Kendrick, formerly president of the college. The bequest is for the establishment of a scholarship.

The examinations in Greek B and C will probably include passages from both Lysias and Plato; the class will be held responsible for both these authors.

An explanation of the Syllabus in History 2 and of the United States Constitution, with notes of the latest lecture will be for sale at the Co-operative next Saturday.

The English A examination will consist of two parts; first-discussion of terms used in Hill's Rhetoric; second-criticizing passages according to a given model.

The averages of the measurements of the Yale freshmen have been taken. The age is 18 years, 1 month; the weight, 135 pounds; and the height, 5 feet, 7.5 inches.

Professor Channing will hold a seminar in History I on Wednesday afternoon, Jan. 29. The divisions will meet as follows: A to Frothingham at 2, Furber to Porter at 3, Post to Z at 4.

Mr. Carpenter will be in Sever 5 tomorrow from 9 to 12, to answer any questions about English A. Both Mr. Wendell and Mr. Carpenter will also be at Grays 18 from 2 to 4 today, and from 10 to 4 on Thursday.

The mid year examination in German A will cover all the work the class has gone over. It will consist mostly of translation from the books read. There will be no translation of English into German, but the class will be held responsible for the German poems which have been committed to memory.

The regular annual meeting of the college baseball league has been held held in New York. Delegates from Princeton and Yale were present. Mr. Tilney was elected chairman. Harvard's resignation was read and accepted. The chair ruled that under the constitution, this action dissolved the league.

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