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Fact and Rumor.

The Yale freshmen have a debating society.

Wood and Morse will probably be on the field again this week.

The Princeton eleven is said to be doing some very fine passing this year.

Morrison, M. S., will not play football any more this year.

Princeton is agitating the matter of a baseball cage.

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There are fourteen men at the Yale football training table.

There will be an important meeting of the CRIMSON board at 1.45 p. m.

The Harvard-Yale freshman football game will probably be played about Nov. 26.

A canoe club has been formed at Brown, and promises to be very successful.

It is said that there are 18,000 female students in the colleges of the United States.

It is said that co-education was first introduced into this country at the University of Michigan.

The Williams College football team defeated Rutgers College eleven at Williamstown. Score, 12-6.

All the members of last year's Columbia 'Varsity crew refuse to row this year.- Ex.

It is understood that the Wesleyan-Harvard game that was to have been played at Hartford will be played at Cambridge next Saturday.

Of thirty-two candidates recently examined for entrance to West Point only nine were accepted as physically sound.

Trinity College played her first game in the Eastern Inter-collegiate Association with Amherst Saturday and won by the score of 26-6.

Leyden University in Holland is said to be the richest in the world. It possesses real estate which is worth $4,000,000.

The CRIMSON has received from the office of the "Herald of Peace and International Arbitration," England, some proofs of interesting articles published by the Peace Society.

A thousand volumes have been added to the Yale University library during the last three months.

It is said that $300,000 have been subscribed by an American for the purpose of founding a university of learning in China.

In the Columbia College Fall sports, H. M. Connell ran a quarter-mile in 52 2-5 seconds, beating the college record of 53 4-5 seconds.

The University of Pennsylvania is better known in Vienna than any other American institution of learning.- The Pennsylvanian.

About twenty men are trying for the freshman eleven at Yale. The most of these are very light, and there is great need of heavier men.

The profits of the Chicago, Boston and New York clubs for the season are $60,00, $50,000 and $40,000, respectively.

The Yale News complains that the freshmen eleven is in very bad condition, and appeals to the members to begin strict training and regular practice.

Charles Dickens met with a very enthusiastic reception at his reading in New York, last week. He was introduced by Chauncey M. Depew, Yale, '56.

Tickets for the Dickens' reading on Nov. 1, are now on sale at Leavitt and Peirce's. Harvard students may procure the first seats in the hall at half rates.

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