FACT AND RUMOR.

There will be no recitations in French 1 and 4 this week. Arrangements will be made for the members of those sections by Monday next.

The Yale Record has appeared in a new lavender cover, designed by Tudor Jenks. Yale '78.

The class in the first year of the Law School will be far below the average of past years.

Mr. E. L. Thayer, '85, and Mr. Jesse Lowman, '84, have been contributing to Life, during the summer.

Mr. E. A. S. Clarke, '84 has been elected captain of the University crew.

Mr. W. B. Noble, '84 won the Tennis tournament at Lake Mohonk this summer.

Mr. L. V. LeMoyne, '84 has been elected captain of the University nine.

It is rumored at Yale that Peters will not play foot ball this fall.

While in England this summer, Mr. Eliot Norton, '85 acted as a judge in the national Bicycle tournament.

The Freshman class at Yale numbers 178, twenty-two of whom are from Andover and twenty from Hopkins Grammar School.

Mr. A. D. Claflin, '86 won the five mile bicycle race (open to college men) at the recent Springfield meet, beating competitors from Yale and Amherst.

Jones, the Yale pitcher of last year, who is now playing with the Athletics, has adopted such a peculiar style of delivery that he goes by the name of "Jumping Jack" Jomes.

A pamphlet dcscriptive of the courses offered in Music by Harvard College has been issued by the Music department. It is similar to the pamphlets issued by the Greek and by the Geology departments.

Cochrane, who played centre-rush on the Andover team last year, will probably play in that position on the Harvard Freshman eleven against us this year.-Exonian.

Mr. Henry R. Flanders, '85 has been elected captain of the Yale crew.

The new captain of the Yale Crew has determined to abandon the recently used stroke, and has had several men under the supervision of Captain Cook, at Philadelphia, to acquire the "old stroke."

At a meeting of the board of overseers yesterday, the board voted to concur with the president and fellows in appointing Alfred Church Lane, A. B., instructor in mathematics, and John Downer Pennock, A. B., Charles Pomery Worcester, A> B., Edward Southworth Hawes, A. M., Charles Austin Hobbs, A. B., and Frederick Silas Gregory Reed, A. B., proctors, all for the ensuing academic year.

Prof. F. D. Allen will meet any students who wish information about his courses on Saturday Sept. 29, between 9 and 11 A. M., in Sever 15. Instruction in the several courses will begin as follows in Sever 15: Greek and Latin 2, Oct. 1, 11 A. M.; Latin 11, (Ovid) Oct. 2, 11 A. M.; Latin 7, Oct. 2, 3 P. M.; Greek 11, (Homer) Oct. 3, 9 A. M.

Mr. J. J. Sullivan, the steward at Memorial, was formerly caterer to the Hotel Vendome and the Grand Union Hotel at Saratoga. Memorial is worth a trial under a new steward.

Mr J. S. clark, '83 and C. M. Clark of Philadelphia were defeated in the macth with the Renshaw brothers at Wimbledon by a score of 6-4, 8-6, 3-6, 6-1. The first three sets were very stubbornly contested.

Prof. Paine desires the announcement to be made that Music 3, for the coming year is not to be a technical course, and will not require a knowledge of the keys from those who elect it. It will aim to treat the history and literature of Music.

Hubbard and Jones, Yale's battery of last season, have been playing in professional teams during the summer. Jones played the early part of the summer on the Detroit league team, but is at present pitching for the Athletics of Philadelphia, the champions of the American Association. Hubbard is on the same nine.

Mr. R. D. Sears, '83 was again victorious in the Newport Tournament for the Lawn Tennis Championship of the country, in August. In the final singles, Sears easily beat Dwight three out of five sets, with a vantage set, his score being 6-2, 6-0, 9-7. He takes the Horsman trophy, a diamond studded racket and a cup offered by the Casino, and a bronze plaque with a representation of a tennis court done in silver wire.