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FACT AND RUMOR.

There will be no recitation in Greek 7 next Saturday.

Thirty-five per cent, of the students of Dartmouth are said to be skeptics.

There will be no recitation today in French 2 and French 5.

Keefe of the Metropolitans is to coach the Williams nine.

Sanscrit is taken by one student at Williams this year.

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Several members have been added to the Polo Club.

The recent one hour examination in Philosophy 6 will count for a part of the year's mark.

Yesterday only eleven men had sign-the book at Bartlett's for the Thanksgiving game.

The new standard of time will go into effect Nov. 18, the difference here will be fifteen minutes.

The fund originally subscribed for the "Annex" has been exhausted, but a sufficient endowment is being raised.

The prizes that Hendee has secured during the last two years are valued at $2,000.

The new gymnasium at Amherst is to have a billiard-room for the use of the students.

It is said that of all the students that enter our American Colleges only one out of ten graduate.

Dr. Leonard Worthington, now 94 years old, is the eldest graduate of Yale.

Prof. R. B. Richardson of Dartmouth is preparing an edition of "AEschine's Oration on the Crown" for publication.

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

Cowles, '86, 181 1-2

Willuams, '85, 190

Bacon, T.S., 148 1-2

Peters, '86, 188

Tompkins. '84, 182

Dennen, '87, 149 1-2

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