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FACT AND RUMOR.

Princeton held her field sports last Saturday.

The Exeter lacrosse twelve is to play the Cambridge twelve this week.

The Bostons defeated the New Yorks yesterday by the score of six to one.

The postponed Brown-Yale game will be played off some day next week.

The Exeter are soon to issue an annual similar to the Index, to be known as the Pem.

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The June Bugs defeated the Watansockonets yesterday, by a score of 18 to 17 on Jarvis field.

At Trinity the freshman nine were presented with uniforms by one of their own number.

All students must return the books taken from the college library before leaving Cambridge for the summer.

The freshman class at Trinity held a tennis tournament of their own. A freshman also won the first prize in the college tournament.

Notice has just been posted in the gymnasium that it will be closed on Wednesday and Thursday in preparation for class day.

The New York Evening Post now has regular correspondents at Yale, Harvard, Princeton, Williams' Amherst and Cornell.

A number of Yale men are thinking of making a tour on foot through France and Germany during the summer vacation.

Mr. Chauncy M. Depew will deliver the oration before the literary societies of Rutger's College. His subject is announced as "The Educated Man in practical Life."

The examination in Analytical Geometry was rendered easier than usual by having alternative questions placed on the paper.

The Brown library contains 56,220 volumes. Last year not a book was lost, although the students have the use of books without a card.

The vacation of the Yale students has been made a week longer by a recent vote of their faculty, and next fall the men will not have to return to New Haven until Sept. 18.

The officers of the Bicycle Club for the next year are as follows: F. W. White, '85, president; C. L. Harrison, '86, Captain; A. G. Mason, '86, sub captain; W. C. Appleton, '87, secretary and treasurer.

Irving Hale, who heads the class of '84 at West Point, has made a record surpassing that on any other cadet who ever graduated from the military academy. He is twenty-two years old and comes from Coiorado.

The University of California has some mischief-making sophomores, who have been beguiling innocent young applicants for admission, in putting them through the ordeal of begus examinations.

The University of Pennsylvania has organized a new department of biology for experimental research as well as teaching of the higher class. At the head of the faculty is Dr. Joseph Leidy professor of anatomy and zoology. The new department will receive women as well as men.

At the annual business meeting of the Glee Club on Monday, the following officers for the ensuing year were elected: President, W. H. Baldwin, '85; vice president, A. G. Mason, '86; secretary, E. Howard, '85; treasurer, W. H. Edgerly, '86. At this meeting a valuable baton was presented with appropriate remarks by the president, Mr. Eliot, in behalf of the club, to Mr. Osborne, in recognition of his efficient and faithful services as leader during the past year.

The following are the newly elected officers of the Yale baseball association for the ensuing year: President, D. W. Mulvane, '85; vice-president, J. Oliver, 85, Sheffield scientific school; secretary, C. M. Lewis, '86; treasurer, S. D. Capen, '85. The football club officers are: President, R. S. Storrs, '85; vice-president, E. A. Meredith, '85, Sheffield scientific school; secretary and treasurer N. M. Goodlett, '86.

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