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FACT AND RUMOR.

The meet of the Shooting Club yesterday was well attended. Scores will be published in our issue of tomorrow.

The Era denies the current report that the tendency at that college is to substitute the study of Science for that of Greek and Latin.

The captain of the Brown nine has hurt himself so severely while vaulting in the gymnasium, that he will be unable to play this season.

Tilden, '87, has been unable to practice with the freshmen for some time, on account of an injury to his hand received while sparring.

Mr. C. T. Greve, '84, has been elected president of the HERALD-CRIMSON. Mr. J. H. Gardiner, '85, has resigned from the editorial board.

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There is an unusually strong boating interest at Cornell. Crews have been entered at Saratoga, and in competition for the Childs cup. [Ex.

One of our exchanges announces to an admiring public, that the motto of one of its female literary societies is "arma virumque cano." [Ex.

A society called the Christian Brotherhood has been formed, to be composed of those at Yale who intend to study for the ministry.

Tickets for the lectures to be given under the auspices of the Finance Club were distributed to the members of Political Economy 1 yesterday.

It is reported that Tufts College will support two nines this year. We should think the second nine would give good practice to the freshmen.

Yesterday's Advertiser reprints from the London Times the address of Prof. Lowell on the occasion of the unveiling the bust of Longfellow in Westminster Abbey.

The Inter-collegiate Baseball Association has on hand a balance of $79.50. A pennant to cost $75 is yet to be presented to the Yale champions. This will leave $4.50 in the treasury.

The current number of the Bay State Monthly contains an article on "Early Harvard," and a short sketch of the life of Col. Fletcher Webster, the son of Daniel Webster, who graduated from Harvard in the class of '33.

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