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Fact and Rumor.

Prof. J. W. White is to have a new residence. Ground has already been broken on Concord Avenue for the building.

Base-ball games are to be arranged with the Cochituates and Bowdoin. They will be announced more particularly later.

The New York performances of the Pudding theatricals were a great success. The theatre was crowded both evenings.

On April 6, the Yale freshmen voted to challenge Harvard to a boat race. Yale, '89 is said to have a remarkable good crew.

Beginning with to-day meals will be served at Memorial as follows: Breakfast, 7.30 to 9; lunch, 12.30 to 1.30; and dinner, 6 to 7.

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Base-ball games during the recess: April 7, Yale 3, Jersey City 0; April 10, Brooklyn 6, Yale 1; April 8, New York 8, Amherst 0.

Both of the games arranged by the Williams nine with the Bostons had to be postponed on account of unfavorable weather.

Dr. Edward Channing will read a paper at the meeting of the American Historical Society in Washington, on a "New England Aristocracy,"

The new "Princetonian" board has organized as follows: managing editor, F. S. Spalding; associate editor, G. L. Robinson; financial editor, S. S. Iszard.

A new Cambridge Co-operative Association is being organized. The movers of the enterprise are Prof. J. B. Ames, Mr. Frank Bolles, Col. T. W. Higginson, Prof. J. W. White, Prof. D. G. Lyon, Prof. F. W. Taussig, and Mr. A. A. Waterman.

Twenty years ago at Amherst College a sophomore, who is now a distinguished Western lawyer, introduced a new method of hazing. At midnight, accompanied by ten or twelve of his classmates, he would enter a freshman's room with a basket of young chimney swallows. When his companions had seated themselves solemnly in a circle, he proceeded to open the baskets and let the swallows fly. The fun then consisted in witnessing the poor freshman's attempts to catch them which often lasted until dawn. [Harpers Weekly.

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