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Fact and Rumor.

The Monthly will be out today.

Mrs. Kendal, the English actress, visited the college yesterday.

Horace is the book assigned to be read in Latin 2 after the mid-years.

E. A. Darling, '90, has been elected secretary of the Historical Society for the coming half-year.

McKean, '90, is slowly recovering from a severe illness. He will not return to college again this year.

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The examination in Chemistry 3 yesterday was four hours long, inasmuch as it was laboratory work.

The annual reunion and dinner of the Harvard club of Philadelphia will be held on Washington's birthday.

Dohm, of Princeton, will represent the New York Athletic club in the games of the Boston Athletic association this month. It is said that he is in excellent form.

The base ball team of Bowdoin will be very strong this year. The nine will make a trip through Massachusetts early in the spring, and will try to arrange a game with Harvard.

Captain Allen, of the Yale crew, was sick the latter part of last week, and was unable to row with the candidates for the crew.

The February Magazine of American History contains an account of the historical department at Harvard in an article by President Adams of Cornell, on Historical work in American Colleges.

The Yale nine has arranged the following games for the Easter vacation trip: Wednesday, April 2-New York, in New York. Thursday, April 3-Brooklyn, in Brooklyn. Friday, April 4-Brooklyn, in Brooklyn. Saturday, April 5-New York, in New York. Monday April 7, Baltimore in Baltimore Tuesday, April 8-University of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia. Wednesday, April 9-Philadelphia, in Philadelphia.

The winners of the Baird prizes in the senior class at Princeton have been announced. They are as follows: first prize, $100, for literature and oratory, Edgworth B. Baxter, Georgia; second prize of $50 for oratory. Francis Palmer, Maine; third prize of $30, for oratory, Walter Lowrie, Pennsylvania; prize of $50 for the best poem, Harlie W. Hathaway, New Jersey; first prize of $40 for best written disputation, Robert T. McCready. Pennsylvania; second prize of $30 for disputation, Henry K. Delinger, Pennsylvania.

Dr. Henry A. Rowland, of Johns Hopkins, who lectured here last spring in the physics course on Electrical Currents, has been made a member of the Royal Society of London, The only other American members are Dr. Simon New comb, professor of mathematics at Johns Hopkins, and Professor Dana, of New Haven. Dr. Rowland was elected a member of the Royal Society in recognition of his work in the determination-in the absolute measure-of the magnetic susceptibilities of iron, nickel and cobalt; for his accurate measurement of fundamental physical constants; for the experimental proof of the electro-magnetic effect of electric connection; for the theory and construction of curved diffraction grating of very great dipersive power, and for the effectual aid which he has given to the progress of physics in America and other countries.

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