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Fact and Rumor.

Ninety plays Exeter at Exeter tomorrow.

Theme II in English XII is due today before twelve o'clock in Sever 11.

The freshman class at Harvard contains 297 members - at least according to the Phillipian.

Messrs. L. L. Hight, '86, and Walter Austin, '87, have poems in the last number of Life.

Yale defeated Stevens Institute at Hoboken on Wednesday, by a score of 54 points to 0.

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The article on the Conference Committee in the last Advocate was read with widespread interest throughout the college.

The first report in Phil. 11 will be due Nov. 16 instead of Nov. 26, as formerly stated. Subjects for this report were passed in yesterday.

The German Government prohibits women from entering any Prussian university as students, or attending the lectures of the professors. - Ex.

After this week there will be only one lecture a week in History 12. On Saturday the instructor will give out the plan of work for the coming winter.

The college was visited yesterday by a reporter from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Magazine, in the next issue of which an article on Life at Harvard is to appear.

It might prove interesting to compare an article by Henry Van Brunt in the latest number of the Atlantic Monthly with Rev. Dr. Brooks article on the same subject in the first number of Monthly.

Keefe, one of the pitchers of the New Yorks, has been engaged to coach the Williams nine this winter.

Collateral reading is spoken of in History 13 as a substitute for the troublesome references. Mr. Hart will endeavor to carry this plan with effect.

It is announced that over a hundred past members of the Glee Club will sing with the choir in the morning services at Appleton Chapel during the Anniversary.

The following officers were elected at the last meeting of the O. K. Society: president, F. E. E. Hamilton; secretary, F. Michael; treasurer, R. Robbins; librarian, F. S. Palmer.

In the fall meeting of the Yale Athletic Association Wednesday, Sherman, '89, broke the Yale pole-vault record by half an inch, clearing 10 ft., 114 inches. Sherrill ran the 220 yards dash in 23 1-2 seconds.

Those contemplating the study of medicine will find an interesting article in the London Graphic of October 2d, in the reading room, entitled "Medical Students at Work - Sketches of St. Thomas' Hospital." - Yale News.

P. E. A. is well represented, this fall, on the several college elevens. She sends to the Harvard 'varsity, Brooks, (captain), Bartol, Peabody, Willard, Fletcher, Holden and Harding; to Yale, Pike, Gill, Morrison, and, possibly, Peters, a former captain and centre rush; to Princeton, Irvine, Cook and Hancock; to Technology, Herrick and Tracy. - Exonian.

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