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Fact and Rumor.

Only five Freshmen have joined the bicycle club.

The first Roberts Hall Assembly occurs tonight.

A photo club has been formed at Yale with eleven members.

The fall physical examinations at the gymnasium are nearly completed.

As Christmas approaches, the Co-operative takes on quite a holiday appearance.

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The classes in Johns Hopkins University are larger this year than ever before.

Trinity College had a lively cane rush last week. The freshmen were the victors.

Yesterday was municipal election day in Boston, and many students went to town to cast their votes.

DeCamp, end rusher of the Princeton Foot Ball team, has been elected captain of the team for next year.

Many men still find it pleasant enough to take a run on the track after their "gym." work in the afternoon.

C. W. Bird, Captain of the Princeton Foot Ball team for this year, has been elected Master of Geremomes for Commencement Day.

A number of Harvard men were expecting to enter the Technology athletic meeting Saturday, but found to their disappointment that the meeting was open to Technology men only.

Bayne of the Yale eleven is confined to his room by water on the knee, resulting from an injury received in the Princeton game.

The presence of Mr. Lathrop on the floor of the gymnasium in working costume, has created greater interest in gymnastics than ever. Tumbling is all the rage now.

The officers of the Photographic Society are: President, A. S. Johnson; vice-president, A. G. Webster; secretary and treasurer, S. Storrow. The secretary's address is 26 Little's block.

The lacrosse team will begin regular work in the cage after the Christmas holidays. Two squads for regular exercise in gymnasium work are being organized from the candidates for the team.

Fifteen men who have never before rowed on the crew, beside most of the old men, are trying for positions in the junior boat. The new men are being coached by Captain Latham and some of the old oarsmen of the class.

The officers of the '86 Pi Eta are as follows: President, W. C. Boyden; Vice-President, J. H. Payne; Secretary, C. M. Thompson; Treasurer, C. R. Brown; Chorister, E. H. Ferry; Stage Manager, O. B. Roberts; Artist, W. W. Simmons; Caterer, J. C. Falkner.

The Historical Society was entertained at Mr. Justin Windsor's residence on Tuesday evening. Mr. Windsor delivered a lecture on "The Right and Wrong of the Name of America." Dr. Francke, Mr. E. E. Hale, Jr., and Mr. Cummings, D. S., were elected members of the society.

George Augustus Sala, the man whom the London press has dubbed the Prince of Journalists, is coming to America, and will lecture in Boston on January 7 and 9 in Tremont Temple. Mr. Sala is connected with the Daily Telegraph, and is the most prolific writer of living journalists.

The Shakespeare Club had great difficulty, it is rumored, in deciding upon a name. Shakespeare Club, Boylston Club, Elocution Club, Harvard Oratorical Society were proposed; then The Gas Bag, The Jones Club, and The Spouting Horn were proposed. A compromise was proposed in the form of "The Shakespeare-Boylston Elocution Club of Oratory and Dramatic Art," which was rejected.

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