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Fact and Rumor.

Prof. Sauveur had about 400 students in the summer school of languages at Burlington.

Members of Greek and Latin 1 and 3 will meet Prof. Greenough today at 12 in Sever 16.

Members of N. H. 8 will meet in the museum today at 10, to arrange for fleld work.

A comparatively musical gong has been substituted for the prayer bell at Memorial Hall.

Mr. R. D. Sears, '83, the tennis champion of the United States, has entered the medical school

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First thesis in Phil. 4 is due October 21st, the subject being "The Ethical System of Hobbes.

The old rooms of the Alpha Delta Phi in Hilton block have been converted into student rooms.

A number of Harvard men stopped at New Haven on their way to Cambridge to see football played.

Several delegates to the Convention of British Scientists, held in Montreal, visited Memorial Hall. Saturday.

A new feature of the Amherst Gymnasium is a billiard room, containing two billiard tables and one pool table.

All doubts as to what college will now win the tennis championship, have disappeared unless some accident happens.

John Ruskin during the coming month will favor the Oxford University students with a series of lectures on art.

The new and elegant edition of the popular "Students Songs," published by Moses King, is now in press, and will soon appear.

Several tender-hearted Juniors in the zoology optional were startled by the information that they would be expected to practice vivisection.-[Yale News.

At Cornell University, a statute has been made providing for the annual appropriation of $4,800, to be used in establishing Scholarships and Fellowships.

Woods, '85, of the University Lacrosse Twelve, played on the Somerville Twelve, the winners of the Wright and Ditson flags, for junior clubs in New England.

The fall term at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology commences today. The freshmen class is a large one, although the number is not definitely known.

Nichols pitched for the Beacons on Saturday, when that club defeated the Boston Reserves. He struck out twelve men and made no wild pitches, Coolidge played second base.

President Porter of Yale, has written in the Princeton Roview for September, a reply to President Eliot's essay: "What is a Liberal Education;" entitled, "Greek and a Liberal Education."

Four hundred and seventy-six men already joined the Co-operative society for the ensuing year, and the office is almost constantly filled with students ordering or purchasing books for the various courses.

A Blaine and Logan Battalion has been formed at Yale. It is expected that there will be one company from each class and one from the Shetileld Scientific School. A Cleveland and Hendricks Club has also been formed.

On Saturday afternoon the steps of University, and the walks in front of that building were scattered over with anxious young men waiting for the lists announcing the successful candidates in the recent fall entrance examinations to be put out.

The following Harvard men have entered the handicap tennis tournament, which commences tomorrow at Longwood: R. D. Sears, M. S.; Presbrey, Sawin, Peirson and Wheelwright, '85; Taylor and Harrison, '86; and Edgar and Tilton, '87. Play will begin at 10 a. m., on Tuesday, and 2 p. m. on all subsequent days.

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