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Fact and Rumor.

The hare and hounds run has been postponed until Monday at 3.15 P. M.

There is prospect of a good nine at the Institute of Technology next spring.

A cup is to be offered at Columbia next spring for an inter-class base ball tournament.

The junior crew will begin work in the gymnasium the first Monday after Thanksgiving.

The number of men who signed to accompany the eleven to New Haven to day was between twenty and thirty.

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The freshmen play Tufts college on Jarvis this afternoon. Game called at 2.45; admission, fifty cents.

The University eleven left for New Haven by the Albany railroad on the 4.30 train, yesterday afternoon.

The subscription list for the nine at Amherst has been headed by a subscription of $200 by the faculty.

St Paul's school was never so largely attended as now, there being nearly three hundred boys under the care of Dr. Coit.

The result of the game at New Haven will be telegraphed to the CRIMSON, and posted at Leavitt and Pierce's as soon as received.

The Mr. Thompson '87 who was elected on the 6th ten of the Institute was Mr. E. A. Thompson and not as was published in yesterday's paper.

At the last athletic meeting of the Institute of Technology, '85 succeeded in winning only one event, tying the Freshman class for last place. There were sixteen events in all.

The average age of the Yale freshman class is about 16 years and 1 month, and the average weight is 134 lbs. according to the averages recently taken by Mr. Seaver. Fifteen per cent. of the class use tobacco.

Among the 140 graduate students at Johns Hopkins, there are men from Cuba, Japan, Russia, Switzerland, Italy, Germany and France. These men come from nearly 80 educational institutions.

The result of the petition handed in by the students of the north entry of Thayer, to have the gas kept lighted all night has resulted in a general order to have the gas remain burning an hour longer every night throughout all the entries of the college buildings.

It is said that at the next meeting of the National Base Ball Association a proposition will probably be urged to oblige the batter to strike at any ball that comes over the plate, thus making no distinction between a high and low ball. Some very prominent base ball men are in favor of making this rule.

A lively game of foot ball was played in Hoboken, Tuesday, between Stevens Institute, and a team composed of graduates of Yale, Princeton, and Harvard. The score was 15 to 4 in favor of Stevens. The game ended with a free light, according to one of our exchanges.

The Technology Glee Club and Orchestra have secured a room in the Institute building for rehearsals this year, and this advantage is expected to bring music into a flourishing condition in the Institute. It is to the kindness of President Walker that the Institute is indebted for this favor.

The Yale News has a communication from a Yale freshman, in which the writer strongly urges that the freshman foot ball game be given up, unless the game can be played before Thanksgiving. The writer says that "it seems as if it were time to take a decided stand and let Harvard know that Yale has some rights which they are bound to respect."

The council of the American Archaeological Society met at Columbia college on Thursday. Professor Charles Eliot Norton was elected President for the coming year, Prof. Drisler of Columbia, Vice-President, and Dr. Frothingham of Johns Hopkins, Secretary. The president made a report of the work being done by the society,

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