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Fact and Rumor.

Those who neglect to hand in blue books in English A at the third hour exercises may hand them in next Tuesday.

Students of Colonial History will find the Jan. issue of the bulletin of the Public Library, Boston, valuable.

F. H. Welsh of Philadelphia hold the world's bicycle record for mileage, having ridden 12,553 miles during last year.

Twenty-five acres of land and $25,000 have been offered by Secretary of War Elkins to found an academy at Elkins W. Va.

The library of Dr. Francis Donaldson, the specialist in diseases of the throat has been left by his will, to the Johns Hopkins University.

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The election at Memorial of a director from the Law School resulted as follows: F. H, Hovey 54, J. C. Thomas 1, scattering three.

$150,000 has recently been bequeathed for the purpose of founding a new college at Newport, R. I., to be known as Coles College.

A School of Music will soon be connected with the University of Michigan, and it is expected that this will raise the attendance of the University to over 3000.

President Eliot spoke before the Graduate Club last night but specially requested that no report be made. His subject was "A Comparison of Typical American Colleges."

The Board of Aldermen of Boston has passed, by a vote of six to four, a resolution looking to the establishment of a free university in connection with the public school system. The cost of such advanced grade will be less than $100,000 annually.

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