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Fact and Rumor.

Mr. Cummings' sections in reading will meet in Sever 8.

The examination in Philosophy 11 has been struck off the list.

Back numbers of notes in Hist. 13 must be obtained before Saturday.

Expensive alterations are being made in the basement of Boylston.

Brown hopes to enter a crew next summer in the intercollegiate regatta.

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Some careless junior handed in his last theme without writing his name upon it.

There will be no more laboratory work in N. H. 5, until after the Christmas recess.

A one hour examination in Italian 1 will he held at the usual hour and place of recitation.

It is rumored that thereafter, History 13 will be the only course required for the degree of A. B.

An exchange gives us the following interesting information: "The Harvard Brass Band numbers 110 members."

The Pierian Sodality and a quartette from the Glee Club are to give a concert in Lyceum Hall, Dorchester, this evening.

Buley '86, who was injured in the gymnasium recently, went home last Saturday, and will not return until after the recess.

There seems to be an epidemic of chess club forming, sweeping over the educational institutions of the country The latest is a chess club at Williston Seminary.

Yale has a polo club which is in a flourishing condition, practicing nearly every day in a rink near the college.

Two thirds of the first page and all of the editorial columns of Monday's number of the Yale News, is occupied by matter concerning the Yale-Princeton foot ball game.

Mr. Briggs will be unable to meet the students in Freshman English before Saturday Dec. 20. Every student will please bring on Saturday, a short analysis of the chapter on "Principles of Choice," pp. 93 103.

The travels and adventures of "Three Vassar Girls in South America" are more interesting than the experiences of three Vassar Girls in England for the excellent reason that the incidents are not of the every day type.

Two corrections should be made in the list of mid-year examinations published yesterday. Under Friday, January 23, read Natural History 7 instead of N. H. 3, and under Monday, February 2, insert Pol. Econ. 2.

The great interest taken in foot ball in England, and the skill with which it is played, is well shown by the fact that the combined foot ball teams of Oxford and Cambridge were recently defeated with ease by a London eleven.

According to the present editor of the Index. the notice in last Monday's CRIMSON, which read, "The Index ought to be out. It is very much later than usual, later than last year's Index, which was weeks behindhand," should have read, "The Index ought to be out, but it is not later than usual, not later than last year's Index, which was not weeks behindhand." The present delay, we believe, is due entirely to the printer.

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