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Fact and Rumor.

Recitations in German 1 and 3 will be resumed to-day.

The Oelrichs' Cup is now on exhibition at Leavitt & Peirce's.

Regular meeting of the Philosophical Society this evening.

The second issue of the Monthly will appear on Saturday.

T. J. Coolidge, '84, is doing special work in History 20.

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Senior forensics due to-morrow in Sever 1, between 1 and 2 p.m.

Dr. Francke will lecture this evening to the Historical Society on "Christian Elements in Germanic Mythology."

The Yale and Princeton freshmen will play at Princeton next Wednesday.

Longwood has been suggested as the place for the next inter-collegiate tennis tournament.

Among the tapestries, bronzes, and antique furniture from the Jarves collection sold Friday was the Borghese Gladiator, in bronze, from the original in the Louvre, by Agesias of Ephesus, which was bought for the Hemenway Gymnasium at Harvard College for $4,000 - N. Y. Times.

Foot-ball Saturday: Tech 32; Amherst 0; Princeton 76, Wesleyan 0; Yale 53, University of Pennsylvania 5; Phillips Exeter 29, Phillips Andover 11.

Coxe, '87, Yale's heavy weight rusher, has been obliged to leave the team on account of his very difficult electives. It is believed that he will play against Princeton, however.

Another college is soon to be formed in Fargo, Dakota, by Hon. George H. Barnes, the president of the Northern Pacific elevator system. It is to be called Barnes University. - Yale News.

Canon Farrar is to deliver a farewell lecture in Boston before his departure for England - his topic: "Farewell Thoughts on America." The lecture will take place in Music Hall on Monday evening, 30th inst.

The thirty-ninth annual convention of the Theta Delta Chi fraternity, will be held at the Windsor Hotel, New York city, on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, Nov. 18th, 19th, and 20th, 1885. Delegates from fifteen of the leading American colleges will be present.

A ridiculously exaggerated illustration of the cane rush held at the Man-hattan Grounds appeared in last week's issue of the Police Gazette, under the heading, "Columbia youngsters vindicate their right to carry canes." - Spectator.

The standing of the teams in the Northern College League is as follows: Tech, won 4, lost 1; Williams, won 4, lost 1; Tufts, won 2, lost 4; Amherst, won 0, lost 4. Two games yet remain to be played: Williams at Amherst next Wednesday, and Technology at Amherst next Saturday.

An attempt will be made on Holmes Field this afternoon at 4 o'clock by Messrs. E. C. Wright, '86, and H. H. Bemis, '87, to lower the record for the seven mile walk. The present record, sixty-five minutes, was made by Taylor, some twelve years ago.

Mr. M. F. Davis threatens to sue all crews and boating organizations which have used oarlocks and oars conflicting, as he claims, with his patents. There is no longer any possibility of peaceable settlement. His claims are $10 to $600 on nearly every rowing organization in New England.

The Yale-Princeton foot-ball game will be played on the polo grounds in New York on Thanksgiving Day. This is allowed as special permission, and will not serve as a precedent for coming years.

It is proposed that the present senior class at Cornell raise, as a memorial, $800, the interest of which is to be annually awarded for an oratorical prize to the junior class.

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