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BREVITIES.

The average age of the crew is nineteen years and four months, and the average weight 157 1/2 lbs.

THE person who took the foot-ball after the graduates' match is requested to return it at once.

THERE were three hundred and forty-two applications for the seventy-five rooms reserved for Sub-Freshmen.

THE University Nine played a match game with the Rhode Island Club, yesterday afternoon, at Providence, and won the game by a score of 19 to 4.

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ON the first afternoon that the water is smooth, the Freshman Crew and the Holworthy Six will race from the third bridge to the Union Boat-House. During the next week the Freshmen will probably now Matthews and Weld over the same course.

THE Foot-Ball Eleven will play a match game with the Tufts College Eleven, according to the McGill rules, on Wednesday, June 2. There are now several vacancies on the Eleven, and the Captain desires us to state that candidates for these places will have an opportunity to kick, on every evening, behind the L. S. S., shortly after tea.

MR. WILLIAM WARE delivered an exceedingly interesting lecture before the Art Club on last Tuesday evening. The subject of the lecture was "Charcoal Drawing," and the remarks of the lecturer were illustrated by about thirty sketches done in charcoal, some by students of the Cooper Institute, New York, others at the industrial schools of Paris, while some were drawn under Mr. Ware's direction at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

S. PAUL'S SCHOOL, Concord, celebrates its anniversary the 27th inst. The programme of the day is as follows:-

Morning. - 9. Cricket-match. 11. Chapel.

Afternoon. - 2.30. Meeting of the Athletic Association. 3. Cricket-match resumed. 7. Tub-race. 7.30. Music in the great school-room.

It is encouraging to see the interest in field sports which this school has always been famous for. The "Eleven" is unusually good this year, and under its able captain is playing a wonderfully strong game.

THE different boat-clubs have received invitations from the Union Boat-Club to take part in a regatta, Wednesday, May 26, on the regular Charles River course. These invitations have been accepted, and three four-oared crews have entered, as follows:-

Lapstreak. - Loring, Str.; Warden, 2d; Ely, 3d; Morgan, Bow.

Shell. - Otis, Str.; James, 2d; Yznaga, 3d; Thayer, Bow. And a Holyoke Four not yet chosen. Wiley, '77, has entered the single-scull race, and James and Wiley the double-scull.

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