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Fact and Rumor.

Mowry, Irving and Cowan will probably play on the Princeton team today.

University of Michigan will play Chicago University at Chicago on Thanksgiving day.

The freshman crew will commence light training this afternoon. The candidates will meet at the gymnasium at 3 o'clock.

The meeting of the Harvard Shooting Club, which was to have been held last Thursday, has been postponed until next Tuesday.

Professor Emerton's lectures in History 10 will be given at the usual hours on Wednesday and Friday next week.

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The Cambridge Latin School defeated the Roxbury Latin School yesterday afternoon by a score of 22 to 0. This victory gives Cambridge the lead in the interscholastic league.

Professor Shaler said, yesterday, in one of his courses, that he was much better satisfied with the new system of voluntary recitations than with the old system of compulsory attendance. Under the old system an average of 75 per cent was seldom maintained for a month. Now an average of 90 per cent is often sustained for months at a time, with classes containing 250 members.

McCance and Spaeth will probably be unable to play on the U. of P. eleven during the remainder of the season.

The Yale launch has been laid up for the winter.

At the last meeting of the Nineteenth Century Club of New York the governing committee announced that the following new members, among others, had been elected: President Eliot of Harvard, ex-President McCosh of Princeton, Noah Porter, T. W. Higginson, and John Fiske.

The Yale Banner for 1888-89 will be issued about Nov. 21. It will contain a hundred more pages of reading matter that last year, and at least twenty-give engravings, with an elaborate frontispiece. A new feature will be an alphabetical directory of the whole university.

Gill, the famous foot-ball player of Yale, had two of his front teeth knocked out in the game with Pennsylvania about three weeks ago. He replaced the teeth and held them in position is best he could with his tongue until the game was finished, and then sought the nearest dentist, who fastened them in with silk cord, The cord has since be end, and. strange to say, the teeth are firm as ever!

The program of the Symphony Concert tonight will be as follows: Mennelssohn. Overture, Fingal's Cave: otherwise known as "The Hebrides." Arthur Whiting. Concerto for pianoforte, op. 6 in D. Minor. Dvorak. Slavonic dances from the third and fourth series (first time). Rubenstein. Symphony in C, op. 42 (Ocean).

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