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Fact and Rumor.

Holders of Co-operative tickets from 300 to 400 inclusive will receive their dividends this week.

At the theatre service held at the Grand Opera House Sunday night, seven Harvard students sang. Rev. Phillips Brooks spoke.

Haverford college has purchased the library of the German scholar, Dr. Gustave-Bauer, of Leipsic. The library consists of eighty thousand volumes and is a very fine collection of ecclesiastical literature.

The amendment to the national agreement adopted at the meeting of the National Baseball league last Wednesday provides that any amateur club which plays with the clubs of the players league shall be debarred from subsequently playing with a club working under the national agreement. This affects college teams.

The programme for the symphony concert in Sanders Theatre Thursday evening will be as follows: Overture, "Coriolan," Beethoven, concerto for violincello, Saint-Saeus, suite "Peer Gynt," Grie; solo for violoncello; Italian symphony, Mendelssohn. The soloist will be Mr. Anton Hekking.

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The rooms made vacant at Technology by the removal of the mechanical laboratory and department of applied mechanics into the new building, will be converted into a lunch room for the students. The M. I. T. Co-operative Society will manage the lunch room, and the Women's Educational Industrial Union has contracted to furnish the food.

Hon., Seth Low was yesterday formally installed as president of Columbia college. The installation ceremonies, which took place in the Metropolitan Opera House New York, were simple but impressive. The opening prayer was offered by Rev. Dr. C. R. Duffie, chaplain of the college. An address was then made by Rev. Dr. Morgan Dix, after which Hon. Hamilton Fish, LL. D., chairman of the board of trustees, arose and formally presented Mr. Low with the charter and keys of the college.

A series of conference meetings on the professions will be held shortly after the midyears. The list of subjects and speakers is as follows: February 15-"Medicine;" Professor J. C. Blake of the Harvard Medical school. February 25-"Law," Hon. Jeremiah Smith, late of the supreme court of New Hampshire. March 4-"Ministry" Rev. Brooke Hereford. March 11-"Public Life," Hon. Theodore Roosevelt of the civil service commission. March 18-"Teaching." Edward Seaver, superintendent of the Boston public schools. March 26-"Business," Charles Smith, president of the New York board of commerce.

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