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FACT AND RUMOR.

In Saturday's game the Yale rushers averaged 182 pounds, and the whole team 172 pounds. Our rushers averaged 159 pounds and our team 161.

There are at present twenty candidates for the freshman crew. Six other men who have been playing foot-ball will shortly begin work also.

L. E. Myers holds every American record from 60 yards to 1320 yards with the exception of 150 yards held by W. C. Wilmer.

The best score made at Walnut Hill Saturday, was that of Frye, '86, who scored 47 out of a possible 50, in the combination match.

A very enjoyable banquet was tendered the foot-ball team at Delmonico's, Thanksgiving evening, by Mr. Dudley Winthrop.

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Much talk has been going the rounds lately about the various athletic clubs sending teams to England next year. We know of nothing authoritative, but the talk is that the Manhattan Athletic Club will send Myers, Waldron, Fredricks, and Lambrecht. The Williamsburg Athletic Club, Delaney and Murray. The New York Athletic Club, Baxter, Ford, and Queckberner.

The Hon. James Bryce who is to lecture here tonight, and Tuesday, is the author of a history entitled "The Holy Roman Empire" and also of an entertaining book on travels in the East. Mr. Bryce is Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford, and Regius Professor of Civil Law in the University of Oxford.

James Bryce, Esq., M. P., will lecture this evening in Sanders Theatre, at 7.30, on "The Methods by which Members of the House of Commons are chosen." As Mr. Bryce is at present one of the most active members of the English house of commons, his lecture cannot fail to be of great interest to all, and especially to the members of History 2.

The annual report of the curator (Mr. Alexander Agassiz) of the Museum of Comparative Zoology for 1882-1883 has lately been published. It contains an interesting report on the beginnings and progress of the museum, together with an excellent heliotype of the buildings; also reports on the various departments by the heads of those departments.

Lately Sir Stafford Northcote was elected Lord Rector of the University of Edinburgh, over Mr. Otto C. Trevelyan, the author of the Life of Macaulay, and Professor Blackie. This choice of the students is much condemned, as Sir S. Northcote has shown no proofs, during his long career, of striking intellectual power.

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