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Fact and Rumor.

There are 25 fraternities at Cornell.

E. L. Bryant '95 has returned to college.

Capt. Leo of the Wesleyan 'varsity eleven has resigned.

Gymnasium work three times a week is compulsory at Brown.

The alumni of Wesleyan have given a silver cup to be played for by the class nines.

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In the mock Parliament at Wellesley last Saturday the Home Rulers won the debate.

Nathaniel Ropes, '55 who was in the same class with Phillips Brooks, died Monday in Salem.

There is a movement on foot at Bates College to erect a library building in honor of Hon. J. G. Blaine.

Prof. J. H. Worcester D, D., the well-known theologian of Union Theological Seminary, died Monday.

The Harvard Banjo and Mandolin club will assist at the concert at Steinert Hall next Sunday afternoon.

Prof. Paine's "Columbus March and Hymn" was given for the first time in Boston, Saturday night.

Winslow's skating rink and the land adjoining has been purchased by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Scarlet fever has appeared at. Tufts, and quarantine measures have been adopted to prevent its spreading.

Prof. Lyon will give an illustrated lecture before the Mass. Society for the University Education of Women, Feb. 11.

Dr. W. L. Elkins, of the Yale Observatory, has been elected an associate of the Royal Astronomical Society of England.

The campus of the Leland Stanford University at Palo Alto contains about 70,000 acres with a driveway 17 miles long.

H. A. Garfield, oldest son of ex-President Garfield has been appointed to a professorship in the Western Reserve College.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has been refused admission into the New England Intercollegiate Association.

The Freshman class at Amherst has been sent a bill of $100 for damages done in Greenfield, on the night of their class supper.

Prof. C. S. Sargent of the Arnold Arbo return is contributing to the Garden and Forest, a series of articles on the "Forest Flora of Japan."

Amherst has four candidates for the position of pitcher: Colby, '95, the excellent pitcher of last year's team; Ellis, and Gregory, '96, and Smith, '94.

The University Athletic Club of New York has arranged with the Glee Clubs of Princeton, Yale and Harvard, to give concerts at the club house Feb. 11, 18 and 25 respectively.

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