E. Flagg, W. C. Burbank, S. Abbott, E. H. Babbitt. S. H. Tuttle, F. S. Palmer, have been elected members of the Pierlan Sodality.
The invitations for the Roberts Hall Assemblies are out. The managers are Mr. P. L. Livingston, '85, and Mr. Greenough White.
On account of the uncertainty of the weather, hereafter the excursions in Natural History will be posted on the bulletin boards in front of University on the day on which they occur.
Princeton today has a smaller proportion of students from New York and Pennsylvania, than ever before, the students of these states preferring colleges nearer home.
The foot-ball team leave for New York at eleven this morning. They will pass the night in that city, going to Princeton on Saturday morning. The team will play as follows: Rushers, Adams, Kendall, Bonsal, Appleton, Cabot, Hartley and Gilman; quarterback, Kimball; half-backs, Peabody and Austin; full-back, Cowling; substitutes, (backs) Henry and Biddle; (quarter-back) Mason; (rushers) Codman and Crane. The rush line averages 169 1-2 lbs. and the whole team165 1-2 lbs.
In the hare and hounds run yesterday the hares, Messrs. Walker and Jack, won. Fish, '86, and Bradley, '85, being the first hounds in. The run was a very good one, running up by the arsenal through Somerville to Spring hill, Tufts, through Middlesex Fells to Andover turnpike, thence back to the powder house near Tufts, where the hounds broke for home. The hounds lost the scent and came in late.
The Yale News discourses as follows on "our heavy team." Now as the time draws near for the inter-collegiate foot-ball games, it may be interesting to the college to know the probable team and their weights. This year the team is unusually heavy, the aggregate weight of the whole team is 2.258 lbs. The average of the thirteen men is 173.6 lbs. and the average of the rush line is 185 lbs. The individual weights are as follows:
Name. Class. Weight.
Terry, '85, 168 1-2
Farwell, '84, 160
Bertron, '85, 168
Twombley, '84, 151
Coxe, '87, 246 1-2
Robinson, '85, 164
McCrury, L.S., 160 1-4
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