FACT AND RUMOR.

The college faculty meets this evening at 8 P. M.

Class meeting of '83 and '85 on Jarvis at 4 P. M. today.

There was a very small attendance at recitations Saturday.

Follansbee, '85, was practicing at putting the shot Saturday afternoon.

There was a number of Yale men on the ground Saturday afternoon.

Amherst defeated Princeton in base-ball Saturday by a score of 8 to 7.

The hour examination in Analytics takes place next Friday at 3 P. M.

Professor Paine is announced to give his next piano forte recital Thursday, May 18.

Franklin Haven, Jr., '57, has been appointed chief marshal for Commencement Day, June 28.

Copies of junior theme V. will be returned with those of theme VI. in Mr. Gummere's section.

Rev. Thomas Hill of Portland, formerly president of the college, preached in Appleton Chapel yesterday.

Dr. Sargent delivered an able lecture before the Saturday Morning Club last Saturday, on "Beautiful Strength."

Buchman, formerly '83, and coxswain of the 'Varsity crew, was in Cambridge Saturday. He came to see the class races.

Bowdoin, Williams, Princeton, Cornell and the University of Toronto will probably send crews to Lake George, July 4th.

Gen. Pratt, who attended the chapel exercises yesterday, paid careful attention to Rev. Thos. Hill's sermon, and took copious notes.

"The Iniquity of a Protective Tariff" is the subject of Capt. John Codman's lecture next Wednesday evening before the Finance Club in Sever 11.

At Michigan University the doctor's degree is hereafter to be conferred only on persons who have made special proficiency in some one branch of study and good attainments in two other branches, and upon presentation of a thesis that shall evince power of research and of independent investigation.

Jarius Lincoln of Northboro, Mass., the oldest living graduate of the class of 1814, died last Friday. After graduation be studied for the ministry, but pursued the profession of school-teaching. While at college he showed marked musical talent, and composed several pieces. During the war he was very pronounced in his anti-slavery opinions.

The college base-ball games this week are as follows: Monday, Princetons vs. Dartmouths, at Hanover; Wednesday, Dartmouths vs. Harvards, at Cambridge; Yales vs. Stock Exchange, at New York; Thursday, Dartmouths vs. Browns, at Providence; Friday, Harvard vs. Princeton, at Princeton; Saturday, Harvard vs. Princeton, at Princeton; Brown vs. Yale, at Providence.

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