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FACT AND RUMOR.

Mr. Wendell will criticise Theme II today before the Junior Class at 2 P. M. in Sever 11. Those who have a conflict at 2 will kindly come at 3.

Today at 2, Mr. Laughlin will meet those of his section who desire to come in his four hour course of Political Economy I.

The eleven will play the University of Michigan next Thursday.

The Boston Union nine has secured the old Coliseum grounds on Huntington avenue to play on.

The Yale Bicycle Club had its first hare and hounds race on Saturday, Kimberley, '84, and Maxwell, '85, were the hares.

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The Rev. Mr. Houghton declares that a race track in the city would do more good to New Haven than an addition to Yale College. [News.

The Cambridge "Jeffersonian," gives a half a column of "Harvard College Notes," and four inches of "Yale College Twinkles."

During our game with Princeton, Saturday, Kimball, '86 was severely injured in the face but very pluckily played on doing some of the best work for our team.

The referee in the Princeton game, Mr. Tompkins of Yale, was very fair and impartial, giving the greatest satisfaction to both teams.

Mr. J. R. Lowell has a good prospect of being elected lord rector of St. Andrews University as Mr. W. H. Mallock has withdrawn because he had no chance.

The editor of the Advertiser, Mr. Stanwood, retired on Saturday. It is said that Professor Dunbar of Harvard, a former editor, will succeed him.

The following is taken from a letter to the Oberlin Review :-My three hours visit made me like Harvard. Her students are evidently gentlemen, and during my short stay I saw not one element of rowdyism which is observed so much in some Eastern colleges.

St. Paul's society will be addressed by Rev. Frederick Courtney, Wednesday, Nov. 21, Rev. Percy Browne, Wednesday, Dec. 5, Rev. Philips Brooks, Thursday, Dec. 13, and Rev. Henry Nash, Wednesday, Dec. 19. The services will be in the rooms of the Society, 17 Grays, at 7 P. M.

The Yale crew are now being coached every day by Captain Flanders, who pulled bow oar on the last year's crew. The "Cooke stroke" differs in a marked degree from the stroke of last year. The former stroke was a short sweep, with a quick recover ; now the sweep is very long, the recovery slow. In the former stroke the legs and back were used in a quick, jerky manner, which is now superseded by not using the legs at all, the back being kept rigid until the completion of the stroke.

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