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Fact and Rumor.

Lloyd, '86, and G. B. Stevens, '86 have been elected members of the Signet.

All the candidates for the freshmen crew are given a chance to row every day.

The freshman foot-ball team must bear in mind that there is such a thing as over-training.

The Harvard Shooting Club will hold its first shoot Thursday afternoon in Watertown.

Mr. W. M. Davis and Mr. Harold Whiting will read papers to-day at the Institute of Technology.

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The students in the Theological Seminary have challenged the Law School to a game of base-ball.

Dr. Swain was on Holmes yesterday afternoon taking the pulse of various runners with a pulsimeter.

Yale's fall regatta was held on Wednesday, on Lake Saltonstall. Five hundred spectators witnessed the races. Appleton won the single scull race. '89 won the race with '88, and '87 the eight oared race with '88.

'86 and '89 practised yesterday afternoon on Jarvis.

The scent in the hare and hounds run of yesterday afternoon was very badly laid for the first mile of the way.

The victory of the hounds over the hares yesterday is the first that has been won by the hounds in three years.

The meeting of the seniors this evening will be called to order promptly at 7 o'clock. Tellers are expected to be in Boylston at 6.30.

Sophomore theme II will be due Oct. 29. The subject is a criticism of the work summarized in the first theme. The instructors have particularly requested students not to fasten their sheets together with pins, or by any other mechanical contrivance.

The class of '86 contains an "offensive partisan" in the person of Mr. W. G. Webster, late of the Treasury department, Washington, D. C. Mr. Webster entered the service under competitive Civil Service Examination, but spent his vacation last fall in making campaign speeches. The New York Times noticed his first efforts as follows: Princeton, N. J., Sept. 26, 1884. Tonight, Mercer Hall was filled with college students to hear the first political speech of the campaign in the college Mr. W. G. Webster of Illinois, recently of Michigan University, spoke stirringly and in an eloquent manner. The meeting was enthusiastic and closed with college cheers.

The first hare and hounds run of the season was most successful. At 4.20 the two hares, E. C. Webster and Vogel of '87 started from them front of Matthews. Seven minutes later the hounds, twenty in number and led by J. S. Russell, '87, master of the hunt, started after them. The course lay through Norton's Woods, across North Avenue, through the brick yards, up the Fitchburg railroad to the water works at Fresh Pond, thence to Brattle Street, opposite Elmwood. There a break was made for home at a very hot pace, Bailey, '88 led till close to the finish when he was passed by Dana of the same class who took first place, Bailey coming in second, and Lothrop, '87 third. The leaders gained three minutes on the hares who thereby lose the prizes which go to the leading hounds.

Several members of the bicycle club took a very enjoyable moonlight run last night. After the run, a smoker was held in the rooms of the captain of the club.

It is rumored that among the near possibilities of the future is a tennis tournament for the championship of the Law School.

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