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Fact and Rumor.

The CRIMSON foot-ball game will take place to-morrow afternoon.

The Glee Club is practicing a number of new songs for the concert in December.

Foot-ball by electric light is the latest innovation in athletics in Canada and meets with great popular favor. Princetonian.

The director of the gymnasium at Phillips Exeter Academy, takes 63 measurements of each student before prescribing a course of exercise.

Mr. Samuel Longfellow will publish some reminiscenses of the early life and letters of his brother the poet, in the Christmas number of Wide Awake.

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On Saturday the Princeton eleven defeated the Naval Academy at football. The score was 30 to 0. Princeton did not score until ten minutes before the close of the first half.

A large number of Yale students will compete for the prize of $50 offered by Lippencott's Magazine for the best essay of at least 4000 words on "Social Life at Yale."

The new catalogue of Yale University, as it is hereafter to be called, will soon be out. It is to be mode led on the English University calendars, and will contain much information that is both new and useful. Prof. Dexter has charge of the publication.

The sum of $25,000 required to erect a proper building for the school of classical studies at Athens, has at length been secured, and work on the building, for which the Greek government has provided a lot of land as a site, will begin at once.

Poor old Harvard! Princeton whitewashed her foot-ball team, and now the same team has been defeated by Yale by a score of 29 to 4. If this sort of thing keeps up, Harvard's eminence as an educational power will be gone and she will be obliged to hang several yards of crape on her front door. - Baltimore American.

Our witty, quaint, and genial Holmes,

Brave e'en in jolly verses,

Read one of his discursive "pomes,"

Which wakened mental curses;

For scarce had all the doctors there

Removed their wet goloches

Ere two feet went off in a pair,

The old pair marked "McCosh's."

- Ex.

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