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Fact and Rumor.

The second winter dance of the Princeton Cotillion will be held on Tuesday evening.

The name of the college commons at Amherst has been decided on as Hitchcock Hall.

The candidates for the Tufts College baseball team began practice in the gymnasium last week.

Ira E. Wright, of New Orleans has been elected class poet of the senior class of the Sheffield Scientific School.

The glee, mandolin and guitar clubs of Tufts College will give their mid-winter concert on January 27.

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It has been decided to celebrate the one hundredth anniversary of the founding of Williams College on Oct. 9 and 10, 1893.

Bowdoin College has secured space at the World's Fair for its exhibit of famous autographs and photographs.

Ex-Governor T. M. Waller has been invited to deliver the annual oration to the graduating class of the Yale Law School at next commencement.

The most attractive and taking feature of the gymnastic exhibition of students in the Summer School last year was the ladder exhibition. At the second winter meeting a similar exhibition on the ladders will be given by Bardeen, MacAllister Farqubar, Jackson, and Moore.

A new system of grading will be introduced at Columbia in the near future. Instead of the present system of numerical grades, students will be classified into five groups according as their work has been excellent, good, fair, poor or a failure.

Certain changes in the method of scoring in football are being discussed. It is proposed to abolish the place kick altogether. The Philadelphia Press suggests the following: safety, 1 point; goal from field, 3 points; touch-down, 5 points, and goal from touch-down (if not abolished), half a point.

The students of Vassar College are soon to produce "Antigone" in the original Greek. A Yale professor is preparing the scores, and Prof. Max Dessaur is transposing the music, which was originally written for male voices.

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