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Fact and Rumor.

There will be a cut in N. H. 2 tomorrow.

The '87-'88 game will probably be played on Monday.

Hopkins, '88, sprained his knee while playing foot-ball yesterday afternoon.

Spectators remark that the '86 eleven is playing a very rough game.

The annual examinations have been abolished at Williams.

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Princeton is leading in the inter-collegiate chess tournament.

The Princetonian feels discouraged at the play of the freshman eleven.

E. Storrow, '89, has been appointed acting captain of the freshman crew.

There will be a hare and hounds run to-day, starting from Matthews at 3.30 p.m.

The annual dinner of the Polo Club will be held on Monday evening, at Young's, at 6.30 p.m.

Eight of the Yale freshman eleven have played on the 'Varsity eleven in some game or other.

Every American amateur and professional bicycle record has been broken during 1885.

The scores in the first of Wednesday's matches of the Shooting Club are the best ever made in the history of the club.

The sophomores and freshmen at the University of Michigan have been engaged in a foot-ball game that has lasted two whole Saturday afternoons. '88 scored a goal on the last day. The game remains unfinished.

Students in N. H. 16 are working on the U. S. Coast Survey. An area of 50 miles of the coast near Boston has been assigned to the class.

The fifth ten of the Institute of 1770 from '88 are, Homans, Daniels, Choate, Schermerhorn, LeRoy, Lent, Honore, Mason, Lawrence, Sanford.

Mr. J. A. Frye, '86, yesterday resigned from the presidency and editorship of the CRIMSON. Mr. J. M. Merriam, '86, was elected president in his place.

Sophomore themes will be distributed for cirticism in Sever 5, between 2 to 4 p.m. to-day. The themes are to be returned, criticized, on Thursday, the 19th.

An addition of 7,200 volumes has just been made to the library of Brown University. It now contains 63,000 books and pamphlets.

A new road is being made around Fresh Pond. When completed, it will be a very delightful drive.

We are glad to see such a determined feeling everywhere, that no stone shall be left unturned whose upheaval can aid the chances of our 'Varsity crew next June on the Thames. We have resolved to beat Harvard a four-mile race, and we are going to keep on until we do. - Columbia Spectator.

The accounts of the accident to H. E. Peabody, '87, in yesterday's Globe and Herald were utterly false. Mr. Peabody was stunned by a collision with another player, but recovered consciousness before he reached the gymnasium. The doctor was called in, but said that the injured man could play foot-ball again the next day if he wished. Mr. Peabody spent the evening socially with some friends and attended all his recitations yesterday.

The Olympian Rink of Boston offers prizes of many hundreds of dollars to be awarded in the near future to the best drum corps out of the many it expects to contest. It is suggested that the H. D. C. be resusitcated and compete for the prize. As the award is to be made not only for musical skill, but also for skill in evolution, and as the old H. D. C. performed the most marvellous evolutions ever seen in the great parade, there will be little doubt that the prize and hundreds of shining ducats will come out to Harvard.

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