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Fact and Rumor.

A game between the Harvard and Longwood cricket teams will probably be arranged for to-morrow.

An account of the Latin School anniversary exercises will be published in our to-morrow's issue.

A great many impromptu races are run on the track every afternoon by the candidates for the Mott Haven team.

Professor J. W. White will have printed schedules for the examinations for second-year honors in classics for distribution to-morrow.

The faculty of Yale college has decided to make Saturday of each week a whole holiday, and to hold recitations on Wednesday afternoons instead.

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An eight, composed of several old boating men, or the substitutes of the class crews, is rowing on the river every day. Mr. Curtis is rowing stroke oar.

The following officers of the Total Abstinence League were elected Wednesday night: Pres., A. H. Lloyd, '86; Vice Pres., E. C. Webster, '87, Sec'y. and Treas., A. T. Dudley, '87.

One of the most commendable changes which has been made, is the substitution of Bowen's History of Philosophy for the second term of Porter. We hope it is to be a permanent one.- Oberlin Review.

The members of the junior crew appeared in their new uniforms Wednesday afternoon. These uniforms bear the class colors-blue and white-arranged in horizontal stripes. A blue tasseled cap with '86 in crimson gives the crew a very neat appearance.

The '87 crew practised starting with the 'Varsity, Wednesday. Twice the sophomores were slow in getting under way, but the third time, they were able to make a good start. They were very quickly outrowed by the 'Varsity.

The eminent protectionist, Prof. Robert E. Thompson, of the University of Pennsylvania, has declined the invitation extended him by the New York Free Trade Club, to meet Prof. W. G. Sumner, of Yale, in debate.- Ex.

The new catalogue of the O. K. shows a membership of 428 members, three fourths of whom are professional men. The members have written 103 published volumes. The society was founded by '59 men, and therefore has completed its first quarter century. James Schouler, the historian, and Dr. William Everett were among the founders.

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