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Fact and Rumor.

J. L. Morse, '87 is the coxswain of the scratch crew.

The Shooting Club group will be photographed at 1.30 Monday.

Yale defeated Dartmouth by a score of 6 to 3 at New Haven yesterday.

Yale men speak very highly of the way they were treated at Princeton.

The University crew will leave for New London on Tuesday next.

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The annual examinations at Yale only cover the work done since Christmas.

Princeton will play an exhibition game with Yale at New Haven sometime during commencement week.

Hamilton of Yale sprained his wrist so severely on Saturday, that he will not be able to ride again for two weeks.

Cornell students are debarred from examination in a study, if absent from fifteen per cent. of the recitations in that study.

Bowdoin will expend $90,000 on her gymnasium, and the University of Pennsylvania $7,000 on her new athletic field.

It is stated that Froude, the historian, who is now in this country will visit Yale and Harvard before leaving for England.

Vice-President Hendricks, after speaking at the Yale commencement, his subject being "The Supreme Court of the United States, and the Influences that have made it the greatest Judicial Tribunal in the World," will make a tour through the Northwestern States and Territories.

The Yale crew leaves for New London on the 18th. A New Haven boating man says that the general appearance of the men in the boat is careless. They splash altogether too much at the finish and catch. This will have to be overcome in order to create a favorable impression on the Thames.

As the crowd at Princeton on Saturday were returning from the ball-grounds, they were greeted with the Princeton cheer in intensified tones proceeding from a large phonograph in the scientific building, and later in the day a drum helped the students make things lively in celebrating their victory over Yale.- News.

Mr. Howard Seeley, Yale '78, a former editor of the Lit., is about to publish a book of short stories entitled 'A Lone Star, Bopeep, and Other Tales of Texan Ranch Life.' Mr. Seeley has passed considerable time in the southwest, and has become thoroughly familiar with the ranching life of that section. The field upon which he has entered is quite a new one, and his book promises to be peculiarly interesting.

The Yale News speaks thus of the Princeton game: "The game resulted in a sad defeat for us, and one long to be remembered. There is no doubt but that a winning game would have been played had the nine been better supported. Many times have our teams been inspired with Yale's enthusiasm to win glorious victories. Harvard sent two hundred and Princeton over a hundred men to eneourage their representatives, while less than twenty Yale men went to support our nine,"

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