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Fact and Rumor.

Professor F. G. Peabody, D.D., '69 has been chosen Lyman Beecher lecturer for next year, at Yale University.

The four Yale crews which will race against Harvard will leave New Haven for their training quarters at Gale's Ferry June '8.

The annual Deutscher Verein-Cercle Francais baseball game will be played this afternoon at 2 o'clock on Norton's Field. Butler will umpire.

Owing to the rain yesterday afternoon, the team match between the University golf team and the Oakley Country Club was postponed until May 28.

The University has tendered Post 56, G. A. R., of Cambridge, the use of the Phillips Brooks House during the National Encampment in Boston, next August.

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The outside college baseball games played yesterday resulted as follows: Yale 10, Wesleyan 1; Princeton 8, Amherst 2; Maine 4, Dartmouth 3; Bowdoin 6, Colby 0.

A. L. Duffy, of Georgetown University, the present holder of the world's record for the 100-yard dash, will compete in the intercollegiate meet to be held in Philadelphia on May 27 and 28.

At the annual meeting of the Harvard Club of New York the following officers were elected: president, C. S. Fairchild '63; vice-present, A. G. Fox '69; Treasurer, D. I. Mackie '83: secretary. T. W. Slocum '90.

The Freshman nine game with Exeter scheduled for yesterday, was cancelled on account of rain. The next game will be played with St. Paul's School, Garden City, on Soldiers Field, tomorrow. W. D. Dexter has been elected captain of the Freshman team.

In order that the Stadium may be commemorated as the gift of the class of '73 a permanent inscription in large bronze letters will be placed on the Stadium before next October. A temporary inscription will however be in place before Class Day. The Buttering position and wording will probably be decided on next week.

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