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Fact and Rumor.

There are fifteen applicants for the position of Harvard correspondent to the Boston Advertiser.

Professor Richards, of Yale, is suffering from some spinal trouble and is unable to attend to his duties.

It is probable that Yale will put a freshman crew in training to race Harvard freshmen next spring.

Eighty-six has won the class championship in base-ball at Princeton, having won every game played.

Prof. Wolcott Gibbs was one of the callers on George Bancroft on Saturday, it being the historian's 85th birthday.

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Graduates who intend to pursue a course of study in the University are requested to register at U. 5 before Oct. 7th.

The following college rooms are now vacant: Holyoke 26 and 39; College House, 28, 35, 43, 53 and 62: Divinity, 17, 18 and 25.

Candidates for the Glee Club are requested to apply at Roberts Hall, at 7.30 o'clock, on Friday and Monday evenings, Oct. 9th and 12th.

The New York Evening Post says that it is only a question of a few years when a knowledge of the dead languages for admission to Yale will not be required.

Those who wish to join the Pierian Sodality are called upon to appear at Roberts Hall, with music and instruments, on Wednesday evening, Oct. 7th, at 8 o'clock.

Among the '85 men who are now in the Medical School are Chadbourne, Bradford, Harding, Craigin, Arnold, Mumford, Storer, W. S. Thayer, R. Peterson, Litchfield and G. H. Fiske.

Of last year's Yale eleven, the following will play this fall: Peters (captain); Ronalds, Cox, Marlin and Jennings; Wallace and Young, substitutes, will also get positions. Payne, the expert quarterback has left college.

Dartmouth has entered into field athletics with a great deal of enthusiasm this fall. At the fall meeting on Thursday, three records were broken, two of them by both firsts and seconds. The tug-of-war was won by eighty-eight.

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