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Fact and Rumor.

At Princeton a co-operative book store is being discussed.

There were only seventeen seniors in Chapel yesterday morning.

The list of candidates for a higher degree has been posted in University.

The Yale class races have been postponed twice on account of bad water.

The handicaps in the hammer and shot contests will be published on the programmes.

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In the doubles in the tennis tournament, Snow and Hopkins defeated Williams and Parker.

Nominations for the two Freshman directors of the Harvard Dining Association may be handed in to the Auditor.

After today no changes can be made in elective courses unless satisfactory reasons for such changes are given to the Registrar.

The twenty-fifth field meeting of the Columbia College Athletic Association will be held at Mott Haven this afternoon.

The DAILY CRIMSON eleven have challenged the Argonauts to a second game of football which will be played Monday at 1.30.

Mr. R. P. Perkins, '84, captain of last year's University crew, is expected in Cambridge today. He will probably go out with the crew at about 11 o'clock.

Mr. J. W. Wood has resigned his position as captain of the Freshman Crew, and F. C. Woodman has been elected captain in his place.

"A Gymnastic Manual," by Dr. Edward Hitchcock, professor of gymnastics at Amherst College Gymnasium, will be published soon by a Boston firm.

The first A. M. degree ever taken by a lady in England has recently been conferred by the University of London upon Miss Mary C. Dawes.

To Acadia College, Wolfville, N. B., belongs the honor of being the first college in Canada to appoint a Professor of "The Principles and Practice of Education."

The plan of having a referee for the regular daily practice games of the foot ball eleven works well. The men are now more careful in each little action, no matter how important.

One of the Princeton papers says that the rushers of the eleven are playing finely, but that the half-backs are nor yet very sure in kicking, and are apt to lose the ball when tackled.

An Intercollegiate Athletic Association, composed of members from several New York colleges is to be formed. The colleges represented are: Cornell, Hobart, Hamilton, Madison and Rochester.

At Michigan University, when a class election is held, the meeting is generally humanized by the presence of the young lady students, and the principle of woman suffrage is confirmed by the election of one or more officers from the fair sex.

The Yale Freshmen play their first game of the season with Amherst, '88, at Hartford today. The Amherst Freshmen are said to have a very strong eleven, and a very exciting game is expected.

At the recent game between the Boston University eleven and that of Tufts, Soren, Harvard '83 played half-back for the B. U. The game was closely contested and finally given to Tufts by an unfortunate fumble on the part of the B. U. 's full back.

Who says a man cannot make a good pun in a foreign language ? One of the most distressing that has reached our ears for some time, was perpetrated yesterday by a French instructor of this University.

The students of the Boston Theological University took a vote as to their presidential preferences, with the following result: Blaine, 37; St. John, 22; Cleveland, 2. The students represent 25 different states in the country, and they show 36 per cent. of their votes for St. John.

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