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FACT AND RUMOR.

Senior class meeting, Holden Chapel, 7.30 P. M.

The Yale News is said to clear a large sum yearly.

Amherst has a co-operative society, on a small scale, which is run by three '87 men.

Amherst '87 has a nine, and is desirous of playing a game with our freshmen.

Belmont '86 was the winner of the pony race at the spring meeting of the Country Club on Saturday.

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The Bostons received their first defeat yesterday at the hands of the Buffalos, by a score of 3 to 2.

The trustees of Columbia have passed a resolution prohibiting smoking upon the college grounds.

The third term catalogue of Yale shows 150 seniors, 138 juniors, 146 sophomores, and 156 freshmen.

It is proposed to form a co-operative society at the University of Michigan, on a similar method to our own.

There will be no recitation in Prof. Goodwin's course this week, owing to the honor examinations in classics.

The Brown university crew has made arrangements with a local boat club by which it secures very good accommodations.

Professor White will kindly omit Saturday's recitation in Greek 7, to enable the members of the section to attend the class races.

The annual concert of the glee club and Pierian Sodality will take place on Wednesday evening, May 14th. Tickets are now on sale at Sever's.

The winners in the Yale class games will receive ribbons as prizes. The prizes awarded at the university games will be silver cups.

Dr. McCosh, president of Princeton College, is making a western trip in the interests of the college. During the summer vacation Dr. McCosh will go to Europe.

The Yale freshmen were defeated by Williamston Seminary, Saturday, by a score of 7 to 4. The batting of the Yale freshmen was weak, and their fielding was far from good.

Rain prevented the freshmen from playing at Providence yesterday. A game may yet be arranged with the Brown freshmen, to be played at Cambridge.

The Harvard catcher in the Brown game was a freshman. He and the pitcher of the freshman nine formerly were the battery of the very successful Racine College nine. '87, take notice and brace. [News.

A large number of men were disappointed in the inability of the freshmen to play yesterday. About seventy-five men accompanied the nine. A special car was furnished for their accommodation.

A drawing of numbers has resulted in placing the speakers for the Boylston Prizes in the following order. Holmes, Webster, Eliot, Ward, Jack, Barnes, Nutter, Ramage, Wilson, Saunders, Winter, Baldwin, Bailey Greenman, Agassiz, McIntosh.

It has at length been finally decided that the tug-of-war contests at the inter-collegiate games this year shall be pulled for five minutes instead of ten, as formerly. The reason for this shortening of the time is because the strain is much greater on cleats than on the ground.

The first of the series of four games for the baseball championship of Yale and Harvard will be played Saturday. The arrangement of seats will be much the same as last year. The seats from the right of the entrance to the backstop will be reserved for ladies and their escorts.

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