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Fact and Rumor.

The first eight of the Pi Eta Society from '86, is as follows: Boyden, C. R. Brown, J. C. Faulkner, Ferry, Payne, Roberts, Simmons, C. R. Thompson.

Over eighteen hundred books have been procured by special orders for students by the co-operative society. This does not include any of the large stock of books regularly kept on hand.

Edmund W. Grosse of Cambridge University, England, has begun a series of six lectures on English Literature of the 17th century, at the Lowell Institute, Boston.

We print to day the first correct report of the Athletic Committee which has appeared. The report which was published yesterday in the Advertiser was marred by some important omissions.

The University crew will continue to row daily upon the river as long as the weather allows. The crew is now without a regular coach, depending upon the captain and the coxswain for instruction.

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Mr. Wm. E. Russell, the next Mayor of Cambridge, is a young Harvard graduate of the famous class of '77. He is the youngest mayor that Cambridge has ever had and he was elected in the cause of reform.

The most powerful argument yet produced in favor of more light late in the evening in the halls of the main buildings is a little incident that happened there not long since. An upper classman while coming down stairs from a late recitation rushed up to a co-ed and with a swoop of his right arm encircled her neck, saying, "Hello Bill, old boy. How de do." When the time for red fire and slow music came he might have been seen hanging from the window sill of the 4th story hall blushing like a house afire.-[Michigan Chronicle.

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