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Fact and Rumor.

The second game between '90 and '91 will be played this afternoon.

Two thousand two hundred eggs were devoured at luncheon in Memorial Hall yesterday.

The Co-operative store will be closed at one o'clock Saturday afternoons until further notice.

The steam launch has been put in order and is now used daily by the committee while coaching the crew.

The excavations for the foundations of the additions to the Agassiz and Peabody Museums are now well under way.

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The class match of the Shooting Club will take place on Friday of this week. This will be the last match of the year and the last one for the Founders' Cup.

The H. A. A. has adopted a new uniform. Instead of the simple monogram on the front of the shirts, the men will wear across the body a broad crimson sash with a white "H" in the centre.

The following men have been elected into the Conference Francaise: Fullerton, '90; R. H. Davis, '91; Hill, '91; Tallant, '91; Beer, '91; Arms, '90; Professor Sumichrast.

Rev. Henry Van Dyke of New York is prevented from preaching as announced in the college chapel next Sunday evening, and Rev. Phillips Brooks has consented to take his place.

There will be a second H. A. A. meeting on Holmes Field tomorrow afternoon, at which attempts will be made to lower the intercollegiate records for the mile walk and the two-mile bicycle race.

Williams beat Dartmouth on Tuesday by a score of 9 to 6.

Dr. Charles Gross of Troy, N. Y., who has recently accepted a position in the history department at Harvard is at present studying in London.

The Crimson nine defeated the Pelicans yesterday morning by a score of 23 to 8. A full game of nine innings was played and three umpires tired out.

The N. Y. World says: Stagg, the famous Yale pitcher, is not doing well this year. He does not Stagg-er his opponents as successfully as he did last season.

Nathan Durfee, '89, has been elected president of the Institute of Technology Athletic Club; R. L. Russell, '89, vice-president; J. L. Batchelder, '90, secretary, and E. L. Hamilton, '90, treasurer.

A new practice has grown up as a result of the recent robberies in the yard. A student in Matthews was aroused last night by one of the night-watchmen and requested to get up and close his door, which he had left open.

The report of Professor Peabody's address at the College Conference meeting which appeared in the CRIMSON of yesterday was made with his consent, and not in disregard of his request that his remarks should not be published.

The Sharpless Cup race this year, at Philadelphia, July 2, will be the greatest eight-oared race in the history of rowing. There will be fourteen regular crews in the race among whom will be the University of Pennsylvania, Columbia, Dauntless and Metropolitan crews.

Yesterday afternoon the '90 baseball nine went to Groton and defeated the Groton school team by a score of 10 to 4. Ninety batted very hard and won without difficulty. Before the game a dinner was given to the visitors and after the game tea was served and the afternoon was made very enjoyable.

The following is taken from the New Haven Union: "The fact is that Stagg is out of form and cannot be depended upon. He is very wild at times, and but for the superb work of Dann, who is catching a better game than almost any professional in the country, the scores of the opposing nines would be much larger."

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