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Fact and Rumor.

There are over one hundred men at Yale in the gymnasium classes.

Mr. C. R. Bolton, '90, has a poem in the November umber of the Brooklyn Magazine.

The average weight of the Princeton foot-ball team is 170 lbs., that of Harvard, 167 lbs., and of Yale. 162 lbs.

The Amherst Lit offers prizes of $20 for the best story, $15 for the best poem, and $15 for the best essay.

The rumor to the effect that Trinity is forbidden to play foot-ball with Wesleyan, Yale or Princeton is untrue.

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In English 12 yesterday Mr. Wendell read a theme from an Annex girl which he considered remarkably good.

Lynch, of the Metropolitans, of Staten Island, will train the Princeton base-ball team this winter.

An attempt is being made to have the Yale-Princeton game on Thanksgiving Day played at Staten Island.

Table 55 defeated table 35 in a well contested game of foot-ball on Jarvis Field yesterday by the score of 14 to 12.

The fifth ten of the institute of 1770 is as follows: Isham, Hathaway, D. H. Clark, Prescott, Wright, Henshaw, Wetmore, Manly, Bush, A. K. K. Mackay.

The new regulations are now in press but it is not definitely known when they will be out. It is said that many important changes have been made.

There is a complaint in the last Williams Fortnight that there is at present a state of literary stagnation in the college.

The prices of admission to the Greek play, to be given in New York, Nov. 19, are: Reserved seats, $3 and $2, general admission, $1.

The interest in foot-ball is to be revived at Columbia. The "Ax and Coffin," a senior secret society, has also been revived after a sleep of eighteen years. - Princetonian.

Prints of the college as seen at two different periods of its existence may be had at Sever's for the moderate price of 25 cents.

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