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Fact and Rumor.

Yale's rush line on Saturday averaged 167 pounds.

Chapel will be conducted this week by the Rev. George A. Gordon.

There will be an important special meeting of the CRIMSON board to-day at 1.45 p. m.

The score in the Yale-Princeton game on Saturday is the largest made by Yale against Princeton since 1876.

There have been many petty thefts in the college buildings at Yale during the last few weeks.

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The Cambridge Tribune for Saturday, Nov. 19, contains a very long article descriptive of some Beck Hall rooms and their inmates.

Beecher's words at the Delmonico banquet in regard to the Princeton team,- "We'll wallop them in the mud to-morrow," proved literally true.

Yale has beaten Princeton seven years out of ten since 1876. In '81 and '86 the games were tied, and in '78 and '85 Princeton won.

Dean Smith and his family have reached Berlin, Germany, and will spend the winter there. Professor Dyer, who crossed with them, will stay at Paris.

Technology has won the championship in the minor college league, with a clean record of four victories and no defeats. Daremouth is second with one defeat- that by Technology

Harding expects to enter Harvard next fall.

The lecture to-night by Mr. George Dimmock is the first of a series of lectures which will follow at intervals of about two weeks under the auspices of the Harvard Natural History Society.

Foot-ball games Saturday: Yale 12, Princeton 0; Dartmouth 66, Trinity 0; Princeton '91, 12, Columbia '91 0; Technology 24, Stevens 0; Exeter 44, Andover 4.

Members of the Graduate Department not graduates of Harvard College who applied to be admitted to candidacy for degree of A. B. or A. M. this year, can learn particulars of the secretary, Mr. Bolles.

The faculty have voted that notices of candidacy for honors must be given herafter before Nov. 1st of the senior year. In Natural History the date will still be March 1st of the sophomore or junior years.

The following men will please be out on Jarvis at 3 o'clock sharp to-day to play the freshmen: Hunneman, Perkins, Griffing, Woodbury, Morgan, Smith, Brooks, Howe, Parker, Alexander, Atkinson.

At the Yale alumni banquet in New York on last Friday evening, 100 members of the Association were present. Stagg, Beecher, Darm and Rogers spoke of the athletics of the college in the past and the prospects in the future.

Exeter won the annual foot-ball match between Exeter and Andover, which was played Saturday, by a score of 44 to 4. The rain prevented any fine play, but the superiority of Exeter's team was marked. Harding's rushes were superb and McClung played a fine game.

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