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Fact and Rumor.

The Columbia College base ball team has been disbanded, because their new athletic field will not be ready for use this spring.

Seventy-five per cent. of the colleges established in the United States during the last twenty years have been in the Southern States.

By the will of the late Dr. D. Hayes Agnew, his alma mater, the University of Pennsylvania, gets $50,000 and the proceeds of his well-known book on the practice of surgery.

A large number of persons attended the "tea" of the Idler Club, yesterday afternoon. The arrangements were better than last year, and the crowd was easily accommodated. In all, it was a thoroughly enjoyable and successful affair.

Charles O. Wells of Amherst, who held the intercollegiate record at one mile in 4.29 4-5 seconds, and was president of the Intercollegiate Athletic Association in 1891, died in Cleveland, recently of typhoid fever.

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Rev. Dr. Muzzey, Harvard '24, Divinity School '28, died in Cambridge on Thursday. He was the author of a large number of books, sermons and essays, and was a man of scholarly instincts and patriotic thoughts.

Dr. Louis Duncan, in charge of the electrical department of the Johns-Hopkins University, has arranged a ten days' trip to the leading electrical plants in the East for the benefit of the university students in electricity.

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