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Fact and Rumor.

About ninety new students have been admitted to Vassar this year.

The Tuftonian, Tufts college paper, will this year have a handsome cover.

The Sunday afternoon compulsory service at Amherst has been abandoned.

Professor Shaler has an article in the November Atlantic on the "Negro Problem."

A committee has been chosen by the Technology freshmen to select a foot ball eleven.

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The fall meeting of the Tech Athletic Club will be held on the Union grounds, Boston, on Nov. 1.

Messrs. J. F. Holland and C. A. WHittemore, of '85, have been elected members of the Signet.

A movement is on foot at Amherst to build a house for the Young Men's Christian Association.

The gymnasium is rapidly becoming more animated each afternoon as the fallish weather continues.

Henry Irving and Miss Ellen Terry, the student's favorites, begin their engagement at the Globe theatre tonight.

The sophomores will have as their procession costume a long black Ulster trimmed with orange and the regulation "plug."

Two hundred and thirteen men and young ladies have entered the literary and scientific departments of Michigan University.

Mr. Whiteside, coxswain of the '85 crew, has been appointed captain of the student police force for the coming torch light parade.

In the tennis tournament Friday, Boyden, '86, beat Hopkins two sets out of three, the playing being very close. He then beat Peirson, 6-5, 6-2.

Several promising lacrosse players from Exeter and Andover academies in the freshman class will form a good nucleus for a freshman twelve next spring.

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