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Fact and Rumor.

Harvard plays Princeton to-day at Princeton.

Eighty-eight plays Eighty-nine today at 4 o'clock. Loud, '87, will umpire the game.

The "Advocate" celebrated its twenty-first birthday on Saturday with a dinner at Parker's. President Wetherbee of the '87 board, presided.

Over forty competitors for the Boylston prizes spoke Saturday morning in the preliminary trial. Ten men were admitted to the final contest. From '87, W. L. Currier, R. T. Osgood, L. B. Steadman, W. T. Talbot and T. W. Woods. From '88, J. D. Barry, R. B. Mahany, H. Page, N. Oppenheim and F. W. Knowles.

Two years before our Natural History Society was started by members of the classes of '37 and '38, there was founded at Williams College a secret society, Phi Beta Theta, which soon changed its title and became as the Williams Lyceum of Natural History, a society for the study of natural science. It is the oldest college scientific society in America and will be represented in the course of lectures the Harvard Society is giving by Dr. Samuel F. Clarke, professor of biology at Williams, the lecturer of to-night.

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