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FACT AND RUMOR.

Term-bills due 12 of January.

The tabular views for freshmen have been posted.

Among the celebrated visitors at the college last term was Dr. Landolt, one of the leading oculists of Paris.

Another effort for the Meig's elevated railroad will be made at the coming session of the state legislature.

A few weeks ago the queen's scholars at Westminster performed the "Trinummus" of Plautus.

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The annual football match between Oxford and Cambridge for 1883-84 was won by Oxford. The play of the

During the Christmas recess the large lecture room in Dane Hall has been thoroughly renovated and painted.

A pen and ink sketch by Haig of Darwin's Study at Down House, Kent, has been placed in the library.

There are 110 students in the Cherokee National Male College which is a practical and prosperous institution.

Mr. Justin McCarthy's novels have been translated into Swedish and published at Stockholm.

A Japanese student has gained the first prize in natural history at the University of Leipsig for a zoological treatise.

In the Technology Athletic games Mr. Twombly '87, cleared 6 ft. 9 3-4 in. in the fence vault. F. A. Young won the standing high jump with 4 ft. 9 3-4 inches.

The regatta committee of the University of Pennsylvania, having received the formal declination of the Harvard Boat Club of a challenge to an eight-oared race, "Owing to other engagements already entered into with other colleges," will come to Cambridge if the race can be rowed here.

A Rugby football association, composed of former members of English clubs, has been organized in New York city.

William and Mary College in Virginia has been shut up because it had only half as much student as it has name. [Lowell Courier.

C. J. Rueter, '84, J. H. B. Easton, 83, E. F. Woods, '85, and E. G. K. Noyes, '85, have put their names down as candidates for the American lacrosse team proposed to be sent to England next summer.

The number of undergraduates in Tufts is as follows: fifteen seniors, sixteen juniors, sixteen sophomores, and seventeen freshmen. Besides there are six candidates for the degree of master of arts and one special student.

The annual championship meeting will be held under the auspices of the N. Y. A. C. Saturday March 1, 1884. Entrance fee, $1. for each event. Entries close Feb. 19. The secretary's address is P. O. Box 3, 101, New York City.

James Russell Lowell, Minister to the Court of St. James, has voluntarily resigned the position of Lord Rector of St. Andrews' University. Mr. Lowell has taken this step in the hopes of stopping all further talk as to his eligibility and of freeing the government from any trouble on the subject.

Prof. Charles Eliot Norton and W. D. Howells make a joint appeal in behalf of the Armenian monastery of San Lazzaro at Venice, burned to the ground last summer. It was devoted exclusively to the education of young Armenians and the spread of Armenian literature.

A new periodical presents itself in Boston as a candidate for public favor. It is a fortnightly publication, named "Every Other Saturday," and is designed to be a journal of select reading, new and old. The publishers are the every Other Saturday Publishing Company, and the direction of the paper is in the hands of Mr. Horace P. Chandler.

The Washington Harvard Club has perfected an organization by the election of the following officers: President, George Bancroft; vice-presidents, John A. King, Henry Adams, Jesse Brown, C. W. McDonaid, A. A. Hayes; secretary, George B. Loring; treasurer Andrew H. Alden. The club will give its first annual dinner on the second Wednesday in February.

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