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Fact and Rumor.

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.

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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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