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Fact and Rumor.

There will probably be an hour examination in History 1 tomorrow.

Thus far this year Yale has scored 442 points to 16 for her opponents.

Saturday's Boston Herald contains a cut of the 'Varsity eleven and a description of the players.

The students of the Institute of Technology will be given a Thanksgiving recess of three days.

Swarthmore college has abolished the custom of holding recitations on the morning of Thanksgiving day.

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Poe. Ames, Riggs, George and Chaning of the Princeton team were at Springfield to see Saturday's game.

Wesleyan, Trinity, Amherst and Lehigh cheered for Yale at the game, Williams and Dartmouth for Harvard.

The referee and umpire in the Yale-Priceton game next Thursday, will be W. A. Brooks, '87, and J. A. Saxe. L. S.

The Harvard Yale freshman game will be played at New Haven next Saturday. B. Trafford, Upton, Fearing and Hallowell will train with Ninety-three during the coming week.

The office will be closed this afternoon at 3.30, on account of a special meeting of the faculty. Petitions must be in by 12 o'clock.

Yale's rush-line averaged two pounds heavier than Harvard's. Yale's four backs averaged six pounds lighter than Harvard's.

The Amateur Athletic Union has determined to hold an athletic meeting on a large scale during the progress of the coming world's fair.

Yale has won 10 championship games from Harvard, 7 from Princeton, and has lost 5, of which Princeton has won 3, Harvard 1, and Columbia 1.

The set of four volumes of Thane's British Autography which was presented to Bowdoin college by Miss Thayer of Roxbury, Mass., is especially valuable as there are but two other complete sets in existence.

The college chess tournament will begin tonight at the Chess club rooms in the old Hasty Pudding building, when the first round will be played. After the first round, contestants may arrange games at their own convenience.

Alexander, L. S,, is now coaching the candidates for the freshman crew. There are two crews rowing an hour each day on the river. The rest of the candidates row daily in the gymnasium. Nearly thirty men are still trying for the crew.

The championship of the smaller intercollegiate football league was practically settled Saturday morning by Dartmouth's victory over Williams. At the end of the first half the score was five to nothing in favor of Williams, but Dartmouth braced strongly in the next half and scored five touchdowns to William's one, leaving the final score twenty to nine. At the Berkeley oval, New York, Cornell defeated Columbia twenty to nothing. The last game of the season was played at Princeton, the Orange Athletic club being defeated by a score of 54 to 6. Pennsylvania won from Lehigh at Philadelphia, fourteen to nothing. The Cambridge High school defeated the Boston Latin easily by a score of 54 to nothing.

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