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FACT AND RUMOR.

Marks are out in Political Economy 4.

President Eliot was in Baltimore last week.

Marks in Philosophy 1 will probably be out tomorrow.

Marks will be given out in Greek 7 at today's recitation.

The remaining marks in English 2 will be given out by Professor Childs next week.

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There are more Harvard men in the present Congress than ever before, says the Gazette.

The value of school property in the South is about $6,000,000 against $188,000,000 in the North.

Prof. Paine is to conduct his "spring" symphony in A, at the next Symphony Orchestra concert in Boston.

Gen. Palfrey's lecture will be delivered this evening in Sever 11, at 7.30. Subject: "Gaines Mill and the Peninsular Campaingn."

The Boston Gazette is publishing a series of fierce attacks upon the Harvard Veterinary School, from the pen of Dr. F. S. Billings.

Many complaints are made by the section in German 3 that the instructor goes too fast for the men to do their work at all thoroughly.

Mr. Wm. Dorsheimer, of the class of 1859, has been selected by Mr. Morse to write the life of Van Buren for the "American Statesmen" series.

There are three men now practicing for the pitcher's position, and those trying for the nine and at work in the gymnasium number fifteen. [Brunonian.

Prof. Greener, of Washington, who was not invited to the Washington alumni dinner, is distinguished as the first Negro who ever received a degree from Harvard.

The eighteen men who are trying for the Yale university nine are all now in strict and thorough training, and by gymnasium work are rapidly getting into good form.

The revolt of the seniors at Hamilton College shows no signs of weaking. The class numbers fifty, and is united. Parents have been written to by the college authorities asking aid in enforcing discipline.

A Yale graduate in Boston says that the order and discipline in professional clubs is far superior to those in amateur and college clubs, and that, in four years' experience, he has failed to see the least harm in playing professionals.

The president and fellows of Harvard College have appropriated $100 for the Boston firemen's relief fund, in recognition of the service done by the fire department at the new building of the Medical School, on Boylston street, one night last May.

Senior (to freshman) : "I suppose you know we are not going to have chapel any longer." Fresh. : "Is that so? Won't that be nice! But why are they not going to have chapel any longer!" Senior (grinning): "Because it is long enough now."

There are in the Andover Theological School eight resident licentiates, five students in the advanced class, seven in the senior class, eight in the middle class, eleven in the junior class, and two resident students, making a total of forty-one.

The annual dinner of the Rhode Island Harvard Club will be held in Providence next Friday. President Eliot and Professor Dyer are expected to be present, and the latter will present for discussion the question of Greek in the college curriculum.

The Brown faculty has refused to adopt the athletic regulations. The Brunonian remarks: "SO far as we have been able to learn, the faculty rejected the resolutions on the ground that while certain restrictions in regard to "professionals" were needed, the provisions of the restrictions for not fairly meet the demands of the case. We cannot see the necessity of placing such restructions-prohibitory in some cases-upon the athletic sports of a large number of colleges, simply for the purpose of helping forward the reformation of certain collegiate foot-ball players who are in the habit of kicking each other instead of the ball."

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