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Fact and Rumor.

The first game of the inter-class series is scheduled to take place to-day, on Jarvis, between '86 and '89, with Mr. Willard as referee. It is rumored that '89 will forfeit the game.

The first championship foot-ball game of the season occurs to-day between Wesleyan and the University of Pennslyvania at the Polo grounds in New York.

History XII has been greatly reduced in numbers; as the section has been very large, some of the men having low averages last year have been asked to leave.

Prof. Whiting gave a lecture on liberal education yesterday in Physics C. He stated among other things that some of the mountains in pictures in the Washington Gallery are 1500 miles high by the laws of perspective; those in London 1200.

A small boy, giving the name of O'Hara, informed the foot-ball men on Jarvis yesterday that he was lost, and that his father worked in a mill; it was finally discovered that the "mill" was the Jefferson Laboratory.

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About a dozen men gathered in Holden Chapel last evening in answer to the call of the committee in charge of the erection of a grand stand. As no interest was taken by the students in the proposed plan, the committee decided to let the matter rest.

There is another imposter going the rounds of the college buildings, and this notice is to warn students against him. He is well dressed and apparently between twenty-five and thirty years old, and says he came to Cambridge to visit a class-mate, but failing to find him is without money. He offers a load-stone as security for his returning what his victims lend him. Look out for him between 8 and 9 p. m.

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