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FACT AND RUMOR.

E. A. S. Clarke, '84, has begun to row with the university crew.

Oxford caps have nearly disappeared at Columbia.

The Methodist University of Dakota will be located at Ordway.

The Columbia challenge has been formally accepted.

Columbia has won her game of chess with Bowdoin.

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Union College has conferred the degree of L1. D. on President Arthur.

Oxford, Cambridge, Durham and London Universities have opened their doors to women.

Ex-Cadet Whittaker is now rumored to be the author of the "Bread. Winners."

The Boston Globe ridicules the idea of abolishing the admission fees to college baseball games.

The Dartmouth says that sixty percent of the students in American colleges are skeptics.

The University of Pennsylvania has had $50,000 given it to investigate spiritualism.

Ward, of the Columbia Law School, has consented to come down two days in the week and train the nine. [Acta.

The Law School tug-of-war team will consist of C. P. Curtis, T. C. Batchlder, F. A. P. Frisbee, and J. H. B. Easton, anchor.

"Expenses at Harvard" is the heading of an article in the Boston Globe, which laments the difficulty of living at Harvard for less than $500 per annum.

"A very swell Harvard student" is credited with having asked who was the author of "Anthony Trollope's Autobiography."

The following gentlemen have been elected editors of the Advocate from '86, F. W. Atherton, T. T. Baldwin, W. S. Barnes, T. P. Saborn and C. M. Thompson.

It is said that Miss Terry, while looking over a collection of photographs of celebrities on sale in a store in Chicago, selected one of herself, and innocently inquired of the clerk, "Who is that?"

The time during which the gymnasium is open in the evening is certainly short enough; but that almost half of this time should be rendered useless for some exercises, because the gas is not turned up until about a quarter of nine is certainly not a necessary evil.

Those who sit near the entrance at the lower end of Memorial Hall, are made exceedingly uncomfortable by the cold draught whenever the door is opened. Could not one large screen be placed close to the door and directly in front of it, on each side of which one could enter. The present small screens are of no use whatever.

The old Harvard Medical School, in Grove Street from which the students recently removed to the new building on Boylston Street, is at present occupied, in part, by the Dental School, though a large portion is unused, and likely to remain so for some time. It was erected in 1846, though its present deserted appearance would lead one to name a much earlier date. What the building will ultimately be used for is a question but there are not a few who see a favorable opportunity for an affirmative action on the petition recently received by the faculty to admit women to the study of medicine, and the utilization of this building for the purpose. [Ex.

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