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Fact and Rumor.

The Athletics of Philadelphia beat Yale 25-4 and Princeton 24-3.

Anthony Comstock delivered a lecture at Princeton last week.

The Columbia Class Races will be held on May 12 over the Harlem course.

The Bostons play the Yale nine to-day in New Haven.

Kelly of the Boston nine has just published a book entitled "Play Ball."

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The Yale crew rowed twice a day during the recess and were coached by Bob Cook.

The calendar for this week will not appear until today and will be published in the CRIMSON to-morrow.

A large and well-attended reception was given last Saturday in Boston by a number of Technology men.

Phillips Andover Academy has organized an Athletic Club consisting of twenty-five members for the purpose of promoting track athletics.

Cornell has been expelled from the New York Intercollegiate Athletic Association on account of not returning the medal for the 200-yards dash.

The CRIMSON has received a copy of America, the new weekly journal published in Chicago, which bids fair to become very successful.

The hours for meals at Memorial have been changed and are as follows: Breakfast, 7.30 to 9; lunch, 12.30 to 1.30; dinner, 6 to 7.

A court tennis tournament is being held in the Hunnewell court in Boston and Mr. R. D. Sears is one of the contestants.

The Princeton nine has but three new men this year-Ames, Dana and Watts.

Following are the results of the games played by the Yale nine on its Easter trip: Yale vs. U. of P., 4-2; vs. Athletics, 4-25; vs. Newarks, 7-12; vs. New York, 3-6 and 10-17.

Yesterday afternoon Dr. A. P. Peabody read a very interesting paper on "Boston Mobs before the Revolution," before the Bostonian Society in the Council Chamber of the Old Boston State House.

At the annual meeting of the New England Lacrosse Association on Monday evening, Harvard, Waltham, Cambridge and Boston were represented. Griffing, '89, was elected one of the vice-presidents.

Base-ball seems to have taken a fresh start in the Maine colleges. Last year only two colleges, Bowdoin and Colby, contested for the pennant, but this spring the Maine State College and probably Bates will join the league.

A brother of the famous Wendell baker, of Harvard, is at present studying for Yale in a prominent school in New York. He has already done some very fair work at sprinting and bids fair to become as good a short distance runner as his brother.- Yale News.

It is now said that the new Gilbert and Sullivan opera will be produced in June next. The real cause of the delay has been the very serious illness of Sir Arthur Sullivan. Mr. Gilbert has finished the libretto. The composer has taken it with him to the south of France, and has already done the finale to the first act. The scene of the new opera will be laid in the Tower of London, and the period will be the time of Henry VIII.

The Boston Symphony Orchestra, assisted by a chorus of 300, will give a concert this afternoon in Music Hall in aid of the Vienna Monument Fund. Mme. Lilli Kalisch-Lehmann, Miss Louise Meisslinger, Mr. Paul Kalisch and Mr. Emil Fischer will be the soloists. The programme: -Overture (Magic Flute); Tamino's Aria (Magic Flute); Letter Duet (Marriage of Figaro); Sarastio's Aria (In these Sacred Halls); and the Mozart Requiem for chorus, orchestra and soloists.

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