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Fact and Rumor.

Professor Shaler will lecture in Geology IV, only on Wednesdays during May.

The United States is erecting a $100,000 gymnasium at West Point.

There will be an hour examination in History IV today.

An hour examination in Math. E. will be held on Tuesday.

The Boston Institute of Technology is to have dormitories. - Ex.

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There are 100,000 books in the U. of Penn. library.

Saturday, April 30th, is the date selected for the class races at Columbia.

There will be a set of handicap games at Princeton this afternoon to select men for the Mott Haven team.

Prof. J. W. White will give a lecture, illustrated with stereopticon views, on the "Greek Drama," in Greek D, Monday.

The faculty of Princeton will not allow the dramatic association to give their plays outside of Princeton.

The students of the State University of Illinois have started a movement for a $25,000 Christian Association building.

Joseph Jefferson is to lecture at Yale on "Acting and the Drama," following him, Edmund C. Steadman will lecture on "Beauty and Art in Poetry."

John Graham, who has trained the Columbia athletes for two years, has been engaged by Brown to train its athletic team this year.

The subject for the 15 minute exercise in History 13 today, will be the "Status of Slavery in Texas, New Mexico and California, just after the Mexican War."

A University settlement has been established in Chicago by alumni and students of the Northwestern University. This is the first in Chicago.

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.

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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