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Fact and Rumor.

F. G. Jackson '03 has been appointed manager of the fencing team.

The basketball game which was to be played last night between the Freshmen and Volkmann School was indefinitely postponed at the request of the Volkmann team.

The Cambridge Board of Survey will hold another public hearing in regard to the new Parkway on February 19. Two new plans, containing slight variations from the first, have been approved by the Board. Accordingly, by statute, a new hearing must be held, and the plans be put on exhibition for 30 days.

About seventy candidates for the Yale football team responded to a call from Captain Chadwick Tuesday night. Instead of having summer training, as formerly, the men may take a systematic course of training in the gymnasium during the winter and out-door work in the spring-time.

A. D. Plaw of the University of California, who holds the intercollegiate record of 165 feet, 9 inches in throwing the sixteen-pound hammer, has recently made a practice throw of 187 feet, 4 inches, which surpasses Flanagan's world's record by nearly 16 feet. Plaw will come East with the California track team this spring.

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The total sales of the Co-operative Society up to February 1 amount to $158,650.12, which is an increase of $825.01 over the sales for the corresponding period last year. The sales of the Cambridge department alone amount to $133,214, showing an increase of $5,473.75 over last year. The sales of the Medical School department amount to $25,435.22, which shows a decrease of $4,648.74. The increased total for the Cambridge department is due almost entirely to larger sales in the Furnishing and Tailoring Departments.

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