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Fact and Rumor.

Brown has started a "commons."

Cash will captain the M. A. C. team this season.

Dr. Sargent has examined 100 men in the past week.

A lacrosse team has been organized at Princeton.

Over 900 football season tickets have been sold.

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The annual Andover-Exeter football game will be played Nov. 12 at Andover.

Wesleyan has just secured the $75,000 needed for the proposed new gymnasium.

Calkins, '90, is professor of French at the Iowa State University.

H. S. Wilkinson, '91, was in town the first of the week.

There are about 30 women enrolled in Yale's graduate courses.

A second edition of Professor Lyon's Assyrian Reader will be published by Scribners this week.

Columbia graduates are taking steps towards the formation of an Alumni Association.

Copies for the first Theses in History 9 have been assigned and the first thesis is due Nov. 18.

The lecture hour in English 22 on Saturdays will be devoted to conferences hereafter.

Bowers, Murphy, and Norton of the Yale nine played last summer on the Brattleboro, Vt., team.

C. J. Yerkes will present Chicago University with the largest telescope in existence. It is to cost $500.000.

The receipts of the Yale Football Association last year amounted to $31,500.

The New Haven Car Company has run a track direct to the Yale Athletic Field. Special cars will be run to the games.

$150,000 has been donated the University of Vermont to build a dormitory and a laboratory.

The Students' Aid Society of Wellesley expended last year in loans and gifts over $11,000.

Wellesley and Vassar have twenty-five scholarships and Smith five, each the interest on $5000.

Adams, a foot ball player of Trinity College, Dublin, has entered the Medical School and will try for the rush line of the 'varsity eleven.

One hundred applications to enter Cornell were refused. The new men number 440, while the total number registered is 1,450.

Hon W. W. Phelps, United States minister to Germany, after whom the Yale Republican marching battalion has been named, has offered to pay for the uniforms of the members.

Among the baseball candidates are Sullivan, ex-captain of the Amherst nine, and Abbott who played on Dartmouth's nine last year. Both are trying for third base.

The electrical department of the L. S. S. has been fitted with a Thompson-Houston 500 volt motor and a complete outlay of shop machinery, including 2 machine lathes, 2 speed lathes, drill press and milling machinery.

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