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Fact and Rumor.

Francis, '88, is at the Medical School.

Work has just begun on the new recitation hall at New Haven.

English VII will hereafter be held in Sever 5, owing to the size of the class.

Sumner,' 87, is at present studying in Berlin.

The Advocate will be out late this afternoon.

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A meeting of the freshman class will be held in Upper Massachusetts at 4 o'clock this afternoon.

The game between Harvard and Technology has been postponed until Saturday.

G. W. Cram, '88, has accepted a position in the book-store of Houghton, Mifflin and Co., of Boston.

P. M. Hammett, '88 is pursuing an advanced course of study at the Boston Technology.

Mr. Hayes was unable to meet the applicants for voluntary instruction in elocution either yesterday or Monday.

The make-up examination in German A will be held Friday, Oct. 12 at 2 p. m., in Sever 37.

The Yale sophomore crew have rowed in an eight-oared shell only three times this fall.

The telegram from our special correspondent at New Haven giving the scores of the tennis tournament was received too late for publication in yesterday's issue of the CRIMSON.

The senior class of Williams college have elected the following officers: President, W. P. Sidley: orator, R. M. Blackburn; and Poet, E. S. Merrill.

No less than seven Harvard graduates are running for Congress in Massachusetts this year, with one or two districts yet to hear from.

Owing to the senior class meeting Thursday, the Harvard Union will have its first meeting Friday evening, October 12th.

Dennison, L. S., formerly half-back on the Andover and Dartmouth teams, was out playing with the 'varsity eleven yesterday.

A special make-up examination in N. H. 4 to takes the place of the annual examination of 1887-88 will be held tomorrow at 10 a. m. in room 1 of the Zoological Museum.

One hundred and fifty dollars has been offered by the American Economic Association as a prize for the best essay on "The Evils of Unrestricted Emigration."

In a game this fall, Stearns, the pitcher of the Phillips Andover Academy nine, shut out the opposing team without a base hit. Only twenty-eight men faced him, and of these he assisted in the disposal of twenty-two, being credited with twenty-one strike-outs.

The games of the N. Y. A. A., in which the Irish athletes are to compete, have been postponed until next Saturday. There are 164 entries, and representatives from Princeton, Yale, Columbia, Dartmouth, Lafayette and the University of Pennsylvania are expected to participate.

The Berkeley Athletic Club of New York, which possesses one of the finest athletics grounds in America, has announced a fall bicycle tournament for October 20. The program includes a half-mile open race, a one and two mile handicap race, and a two mile intercollegiate. There are three prizes in each event. The course is a twenty-foot wide, four-lap track with raised corners, so that the highest speed is possible.

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