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Fact and Rumor.

The Blaine men at Williams outnumber the Cleveland men, three to one.

Six graduates of Exeter played in the foot ball game Saturday.

The freshmen eleven will play Exeter Academy on November 8th.

2400 punds of bronze were used in casting John Harvard's statue.

Captain Kimball is to be congratulated for the great improvement in team playing by the eleven on Saturday.

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The glee club will sing at the exercises attending the unveiling of the statue of J. Harvard.

The time of the winning freshman eight was only 6 seconds longer than that of the winning senior eight.

Yale defeated Stevens Institute at foot ball on Saturday by a score of 97 points to nothing.

The great Blaine demonstration in Boston in which the college delegation will take part has been fixed for Thursday, October 30.

Among the prize winners at the recent rifle meeting of the Massachusetts Rifle Association, were E. L. Dorr, Jr., L. S. S., and J. A. Frye, '86.

Dartmouth has but just organized a bicycle club. Fourteen men have joined and elected officers for the ensuing year.

A cricket eleven, composed of alumni of St. Pauls School, visited Concord on Saturday and were beaten by the masters and school boys.

Exeter and Andover hold an interscholastic tennis tournament at Exeter this week. Silver cups, to be won two years by one school, are offered as prizes.

Princeton and Wesleyan played a game of football on Saturday on the Princeton grounds. The game was well fought but resulted in favor of Princeton by the score of 22 points to 2.

The "American Canocist," a magazine devoted to the interests of Canoeing, and the official organ of the American Association, is in the college library.

Many men returning late and hungry from the scratch races, were obliged to put up with bread and butter at Memorial for lunch. It seems as if the management on such an occasion, might have made arrangements to have the lunch saved beyond the usual time.

The Technology expects to have a regiment of over 400 men in line in the torchlight procession. They will wear the same uniform which proved so effective four years ago. It will consist of mortarboards and academically gowns with the class number on the breast; the colors being cardinal and gray, the Tech colors.

The following are the names of successful candidates for the drum corps: Tenor drums-W. Atherton, H. Bartlett, G. C. Baker, E. Bisbee, de Billier, Crocker, Colony, Carey, F. B. Clement-Draper, F. L. Dean, Foote, J. C. Faulk, ner, E. Flagg, Garnett, H. Holden, O. S, Howard, Hearst, Keyes, J. M. Thompson, B. B. Thayer. Fife-Bradford, '85, Davidson, Davis, Keasby, A. T. Perkins, Merriam, E. M. Rogers, Shippen.

At a meeting of the Cleveland and Hendricks Club of the Law School it was decided to form a company which is to take part in the Cleveland and Hendricks parade in Boston. A committee was appointed to issue an invitation to those of the undergraduates who favor the election of Cleveland and Hendricks to join the Law School Club in the parade. It was voted also that the club attend in a body, the Independent meeting to be held next Wednesday in Union Hall. Cambridge.

From the following cutting it seems probable that the case before the courts contesting the exclusive right of bicycle manufacture in this country by the Columbia Bicycle Company has been awarded to the plaintiffs. It says: "The bicycle business is to be given a decided impetus in this country next season. The Overman Wheel Company of Chicopee, Mass., is to put the "Victor" bicycle on the market, and George Warrick, formerly a bicycle builder in London, and a holder of numerous patents, as well as licensee of American patents, proposes to establish a bicycle manufactory near Springfield."

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