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Fact and Rumor.

The Advocate will appear on Friday.

The next theme in English 5 is due Monday, April 19.

Kimball and Edgerly are trying for the 'varsity nine.

Princeton's vacation of one week begins to-day.

The list of annual examinations will appear to-morrow.

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Prof. T. A. Thacher of Yale died at his home on April 7th.

The nine goes to a training table a week from to-day.

The senior crew will probably not go to a training table this year.

After May 1st, the Agassiz Museum will be open on Sunday from 1 to 5 p.m.

The Catholic Young Men's Gymnasium at Cambridgeport has been opened.

A game between the Harvard and Cambridge nines will be played to-morrow.

Copies of the March number of Outing were distributed throughout college during the recess.

The Yale Glee Club concert given last Friday Evening was well attended by Harvard men.

St. Paul's School has no spring vacation, the term extending from January to June without an intermission.

Hon. Benjamin R. Curtis, who succeeds the late Judge Churchill on the municipal bench of Boston, graduated from Harvard as a member of the class of '75.

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.

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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