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Fact and Rumor.

Mr. I. R. Thomas, '88, has broken a tendon in his leg and will not play foot-ball again this year.

Lasell has just opened a gymnasium with Miss Fuller of Cambridge at its head. It is said to be remarkably good.

Princeton defeated Johns Hopkins on Saturday, by a score of 108 to 0. Seven members of the Yale team witnessed the game.

The Lampoon was out on Saturday, and was cleverer than usual; the centre page is the best one we have seen for months.

Yale, '89, plays Princeton, '89, on Nov. 18th, at Princeton. As yet the Princeton freshmen have not shown up well in practice.

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The '88 Glee Club will exist as a separate organization, but will only be heard at class gatherings. There is a movement on foot to form an '89 Glee Club on the same plan.

The following addition is to be made to the calendar for this week: "Wednesday, Nov. 11, Greek Readings, Medea of Euripides (first half), Professor Dyer, Sever 11, 7.30 p.m.

The Bicycle Club will take a run to High Rock, Malden, this afternoon, if the weather is favorable. The start will be made from the steps of University at 3 p. m. sharp.

The trustees of Princeton college are to have a meeting next Tuesday to decide whether the Princeton-Yale foot-ball game will be played on the Polo grounds on thanksgiving day.

Members of History XIII who have ordered outlines of the course at the Co-operative Society, are requested to get them as soon as possible. Those not taken in a few days will be sold to the first comer.

Canon Farrar addressed the Brown students on Saturday.

The courses in surveying under Prof. Chaplin of the L. S. S., are now engaged in surveying the neighborhood about Fresh Pond.

In the Northern Association game on the Union grounds on Saturday last, the Techs. defeated Williams, the leader of the league, by a score of 14 to 0. Holden, '88, played a wonderful game for the Techs.

At a concert to be given on Wednes-next at Tremont Temple for the benefit of the Charles St. A. M. E. Church, Messrs. Easton, Stewart, Briggs and Howard, "the Harvard quartet," will occupy a prominent place on the programme.

Mr. R. R. Belmont, '86, received a severe fall in his hurdle race at the Country Club on Saturday. He was well in the lead, when his horse's bit broke, and he was thrown against the wall. Mr. Belmont was taken from the field senseless, but was found not to be seriously injured.

The following men will speak as principal disputants at the next meeting of the Harvard Union: Affirmative, F. H. Darling, L. S., H. E. Fraser, '86; negative, S. B. Rogers, L. S., L. McK. Garrison, '88. The question is, Resolved, that capital punishment should be abolished. A large number of books bearing on the subject has been reserved in the library.

Yale college has been tremendously stirred by the admission of a young lady to the law school. The Dean interpreted the law as admitting "anyone who passed the examinations," and this the young lady had done. President Porter was much incensed by this liberal interpretation of the rules, but the young lady has been allowed to remain on condition that her name shall not appear in the catalogue, and that no more of her sex shall be allowed to enter.

On Saturday, Wesleyan defeated the University of Pennsylvania on the Union Grounds, New York, by a score of 25 to 18. This is the first championship game of the season, and is more important from the fact that the winner plays Yale on Thanksgiving day, if the Princeton faculty still remains obdurate.

The question of a trainer for the Mott Haven team is being agitated at Princeton.

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