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Fact and Rumor.

The Second Glee Club of Yale has twenty-two members.

The Princeton team averages 180 pounds in the rush line.

The first number of the Lampoon will appear this week Friday.

A number of promising candidates for the drum corps have appeared.

At a certain table at Memorial nothing but German is spoken at meals.

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Of eight $200 scholarships recently awarded at Cornell, four went to lady students.

A movement is on foot at Amherst to erect a building for the use of the Y. M. C. A.

A man named Rubsamen who has entered Yale this fall, has a big record in the long jump.

Ex President Woolsley of Yale has resigned from the Yale corporation owing to old age.

Drum-Major Winslow has made arrangements to secure drums for the procession at reduced rates.

The third sheet of reterence notes in History 13, can be obtained from 2 to 5 P. M. at the Co-operative.

Wallace, Phillips Andover Academy '84, has been elected captain of the Yale freshman foot ball eleven.

The annual meeting of the Harvard Shooting Club will be held in Holden Chapel, at 7.30 tomorrow evening.

During the cane rush at Cornell one enterprising amateur secured an instantaneous photograph of the scrimmage.

A Harvard graduate in London is agitating the scheme of sending an American inter-collegiate foot ball team to England.

Attention is called to the vote of the Faculty by which the use of drums in the college yard or buildings is forbidden.

A member of '88 made an excursion to U. 5 last week in order to get permission from the Dean to join the class crew.

In the rush at Yale two sophomores lost all their clothes with the exception of a few strips of trouser legs and their shoes and stockings.

The late Dr. Francis B. Hurd of Boston, a graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy and of Harvard, has left $50,000 to Phillips Exeter Academy.

The man who stroked the first Yale crew which was successful against Harvard, in 1859, is now a successful minister, the Rev. J. H. Twichell.

The prescribed lectures in Chemistry come in the first half year, those in Physics in the second half year. Hours for both courses-Monday at 12.

At the meeting of the Canoe Club last evening it was decided to hold a fall regatta on Saturday. Mr. W. N. Roundy was elected an associate member.

In the game between Princeton and Wesleyan Saturday, the Princeton rushers broke through and tackled well but the half backs were inclined to fumble, although they kicked well.

The officers of the Harvard Total Abstinence Society for the current year are as follows: President, V. C. Alderson, '84; vice-president, H. T. Hildreth, '85; secretary, J. A. Hill, '85.

All students who wish to attend the Independent rally at Union Hall tonight, are invited to march down with the Cleveland and Hendricks Club of the Law School. A band will head the procession and seats in the hall will be reserved. All are requested to assemble in the Square at 7.15 sharp.

A fine brown stone building is almost completed for the recently formed "Fox and Grapes Society" at Yale. This society is to be more a club than a secret society, and the building will be fitted up very luxuriously, in great contrast to the gloomy halls of the "Skull and Bones," and of the "Scroll and Key."

The Boston University Athletic Association have secured grounds on Huntington avenue and have put a 'varsity eleven in training. The seem promises to be exceptionally heavy and powerful and several games with other college teams have already been arranged. The halfbacks are men already well known in school contests.

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