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FACT AND RUMOR.

Yale '87, plays the Brown Freshmen today at Providence.

Yesterday's paper in analytics was extremely fair.

The Bostons lost their second game of this year to the Detroits yesterday; 2 to 4.

The Yale freshmen are endeavoring to form a lacrosse twelve to meet our freshman team.

The university game this afternoon will probably be attended by a large number of strangers.

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Columbia will have a representative in every event at the Inter-collegiate except the pole vault.

The freshmen play at Fitchburg today. Baker and Litchfield will probably form their battery.

The books from the Inter-collegiate Book Exchange Company have been received at the co-operative office.

The result of the Harvard-Yale and the Princeton-Dartmouth games today will be posted at Leavitt and Peirce's.

Amherst's first baseman, Hunt, who recently met with an injury, will be able to play again within three weeks.

Writers of Commencement Parts will read their essays to the committee in Sanders Theatre, beginning at 9 this forenoon.

A telegram was received last night to the effect that the New York University lacrosse team would be unable to play here on Monday.

At Brown, the base-ball association gives a season ticket to all games to every member of the college.

The Brown freshmen who accompanied their nine up to Cambridge Thursday, found little chance to applaud their play in the game.

Nine "co-eds" of Washington University, St. Louis, will soon give a dramatic presentation of one of the comedies of Plautus.

The sophomore class at Cornell has decided to hold a "barbecue" this term, to which all the students of the University with their friends will be invited.

Tuesday and Thursday, next week, will be devoted by Professor Hill to the completion of his course of lectures on "Authors of the 18th and 19th Centuries."

The Yale News regards the Amherst nine as one of the most formidable obstacles to be met in bringing the championship pennant to New Haven this year.

General Daniel Pratt delivered his new lecture, "The Exposition of the Solar System," before an appreciative audience at Memorial yesterday. His many happy hits were enthusiastically received.

Baker, the '87 pitcher, is pitching a very reliable game for the freshmen. In five, out of six games, the opposing team has failed to reach first base on balls. Litchfield is supporting him finely.

Bernard Dracham, Columbia, '82, received the first prize in Arabic at the Seminary of Oriental Languages, University of Breslau. This is the first instance of such honor being gained by an American.

The Cynic advocates the formation of a boat club at the University of Vermont. With such splendid facilities as are afforded by the water of Lake Champlain, the project ought to be met with favor by the students.

The officers of the '85 Phi Beta Kappa are: Recording secretary, A. G. Webster; first marshall, T. Dunham; second marshall, L. Litchfield; dinner committee, B. G. Davis, T. Dunham, W. C. Smith, L. Litchfield.

A nine composed of the '85 and '86 freshman teams defeated '87 in a seven inning game, yesterday, by a score of 9 to 6. Wiestling and Litchfield pitched and caught for the freshmen and Boyden and Beaman formed the battery of the picked nine.

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