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Fact and Rumor.

Eighty-eight vs. Exeter to-day, at Exeter.

Dartmouth vs. Yale at New Haven to-day.

The diamond on Holmes Field is now in excellent condition.

Tufts defeated Bowdoin in base-ball Thursday, by a score of 7 to 5.

The Lampoon will be out in the early part of next week.

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A large number of carriages followed the crews along the river bank.

The crowd assembled to witness the finish of the race was unusually large.

Harvard plays her first championship game to-day at Providence.

S. D. Richardson read his Bowdoin prize essay before the Signet, last evening.

The Yale News predicts the downfall of either the new Literary Monthly, or the Advocate.

Several members of the Photographic Society succeeded in taking very successful pictures of the Sophomore crew.

Apropos the recent two successive defeats of the "Memorial Halls" by the "Lead Heels," it is suggested that the former nine must be getting impatient, for the old proverb declares that "patient waiters are no losers."

The result of the Brown-Harvard game will be posted at Leavitt and Peirce's.

Yale sophomores, on last Sunday, made themselves notorious by breaking into a professor's room, and destroying his record books.

The New Haven Morning News says that careful observers prophesy the following results of the Inter-Collegiate ball games: 1, Harvard; 2, Yale; 3, Princeton; 4, Brown; 5, Dartmouth; 6, Amherst.

Word comes from the Frederick Female Academy, Md., that a change in the principalship is to be made, and that applications are in order. This is the most attractive offer that has yet been brought to notice.

The Williamstown College nine has the following games arranged on the home grounds: May 2, Springfields; 5, Brown; 9, Hamilton; 13, Harvard; 20, Trinity; 27, Amherst; 30, Yale; June 10, Harvard.

The freshman nine will play at Exeter this afternoon. The following men will make up the team: Choate, c,; Palmer, p,; Foss, 1 b.; Gallivan, 2 b.; Stetson, 3 b.; Taylor s. s.; Holden, l. f.; Austin, c. f.; Hallowell, r. f. Substututes, Ingersoll and Crocker.

The coxswain of the '88 crew lost two screws from his steering geer, between the boat-house and the starting point yesterday. It was proposed to delay the race until this damage could be repaired, but this was forbidden by the referee. Knowles was obliged therefore to use a paddle.

The team and substitutes in the lacrosse game today against the Cambridge club are Abbott, '87; Blodgett, '87; Drake, '87; Dudley, '87; Gardner, '87; Goodale, '85; Hood, '86; Nichols, L. S.; Noyes, '85; Pastorious, '87; Rueter. L. S.; Twombly, L. S.; Williams, '85; Woods, '85.

A concert will be given in Tremont Temple on May 8, in honor of Mr. Nat Brigham, the most famous tenor soloist who has ever belonged to the Harvard Glee Club. The Lotus Club, the Philomela Quartette, and the Harvard Glee Club will assist at this concert, and Mr. Brigham will return the favor by singing at the Glee Club-Pierian Concert, to be given in Sanders Theatre, May 13th.

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