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Fact and Rumor.

The twenty-five mile handicap road race of the Boston Associated Cycling Clubs will be held on June 24.

Robert William Wood has sent in the first claim for the '91 class cradle. His daughter was born March 4.

Prof. Lucy M. Salmon, of Vassar, will give a course of lectures on Domestic Service at the University of Michigan.

Andover has appointed a committee to consider a plan for uniting the athletic interests of the academy under one head.

The 12th annual reunion and banquet of the New England chapters of the Beta Theta Pi Fraternity was held in Boston Friday evening.

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The books, drawings, manuscripts and herbarium of Bayard Taylor were presented to the public library of West Chester Park, Pa. last week.

The trustees of Cornell University elected Professor E. W. Huffcut of the Northwestern University to fill the professorship of law made vacant by the resignation of Professor Hughes.

The large and valuable collection of fossils, and geological specimens, which the late Ralph Butterfield of Kansas City bequeathed, together with $200,000, to Dart-mouth College, has reached Hanover, and will be kept in the museum in Culver Hall until the Butterfield building, provided for in the will, is completed.

There have been two remarkable events at Cambridge University, England. The Pitt scholarship has been won by a freshman, Mr. J. A. Nairne of Trinity, and the second chancellor's medal for classics had been withheld for this year, in consequence of the examiners having found that there was no candidate worthy to receive it. This has happened only once before since 1751.

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