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Fact and Rumor.

Gilman '85 has given up playing foot ball.

Bowdoin has voted to send a crew to Lake George next season.

Keyes, '87, is now rowing stroke on one of the university eighths.

No skill in rowing is required of freshmen who enter the scratch races.

Saturday afternoon two freshmen nines played a game on Holmes field.

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Mr. L. L. Hight, '86, has been elected a member of the Lampoon board of editors.

The Cricket Club seems to have aroused itself from a sleep of nearly two years.

Colby University was defeated by Bowdoin at base ball on Saturday by a score of 10 to 4.

Four members of the university crew played on the Yale eleven in the game with Wesleyan.

Those in charge of the erection of the statue of John Harvard expect to have it in position by the 15th of this month.

There will be a torchlight procession in Boston under the auspices of the Young Men's Independent Republican Club.

Mr. H. P. Peirson will play with Mr. H. A. Taylor in the doubles in the college tournament which begins on Wednesday.

The president, captain, and one private of the Bicycle club constituted the lonely crowd which took a run on Friday afternoon.

The freshman class at Tufts is the largest on record at that institution, numbering thirty-nine in the collegiate department and eleven in the divinity school.

At the annual game of the New York Athletic Club held at Mott Haven on Saturday, Mr. Queckberner broke the record for hammer throwing by making 98 feet, 8 inches.

Charles L. Colby has given a round $1,000,000 to establish a new university in Wisconsin. It was his father, Gardner Colby, who endowed Colby College, at Waterville, Maine.

A race between four-oared crews from Brown University and the Anawan Boat Club at Mount Hope on last Saturday, was won by the Anawans. Distance, 1 3-4 miles. Time 14.40.

Mr. R. D. Sears, M. S., andMr. H. A. Taylor, '86, played a practice game of lawn tennis against Mr. Hooper and Dr. Dwight at Longwood, Saturday, preparatory to the intercollegiate tournament at Hartford on Tuesday.

Last year's ill success has caused an investigation of the present system of Athletics at Princeton. An undergraduate committee has been appointed to confer with the Faculty and consider the advisability of adopting some features of the Yale system.-[Ex.

The '87-88 base ball game at Yale on Saturday resulted in a tie. At the conclusion of the game the sophomores endeavored to "pass the freshman out"-a popular pastime at Yale-and to take the sidewalk from them but were only partially successful, though it is reported that many freshmen were obliged to wait the arrival of darkness before they could safely reach their rooms and repair damages to their costumes.

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