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Votume VI. N6- 2. PRELIMINARY CATALOGUE Total Enrollment One Less than Last Year—Representation by States. The Preliminary List has just ap- ed. and is on sale in the Treasury Building. The list shows the total num- sr of men in the Academic Department to be 1,252, against 1,214 last year, and in: the Sheffield Scientific School, acainst 590 last year. The total number men in both departments is this year 203. a decrease of 1 from last year. e Freshman class in the Academic ‘partment numbers 357, the largest in the history of the University. The Sophomore class, however, has decreased y 7. as in comparison with that of last year. On the other hand the Juniors and Seniors have gained, the former by 17, the latter by 1. In the Scientific Department the Sen- iors have increased in comparison with last year’s enrollment by 14. The Jun- }* ‘on ber, owing to the fact that in the standard went into effect. Again the increased standard greatly cut down the mumber which succeeded in entering the present Junior class. The number of 170 for the Freshman class is a con- siderable increase over that of last ‘year. 3 The following statistics of the various elasses are taken from the list: Aca- demic Department, Seniors, 280; Jun- iors, 298 : Sophomores, 317; Freshmen, 357 Sheffield Scientific School: Sen- iors, 183: Juniors, 181; Freshmen, 170; —Graduates, 55;—Special Students, 12. Below is given the representation by States of the different classes in the Academical Department, and in the Sheffield School: State 97 “98 «=°'°99 «+1900 "97S. ’98S. 99S. Totals. New York 82 81 93 85 42 3. 35 449 ynnecticut 57 63 6 8 68 4 5&4 349 Pennsylvania 18 2 2 21 4 .7~ 15 115 New Jersey 18 144 10 @ gee stepeed 109 t by eee ey. ae + eee 8 Ste ae 106 Lilinois 2. Be 8 14 102 Massachusetts 13 17 18 36 6.5.25 2 96 Missour G. 4.24 is 4. 34754 45 Michigan yr oe Sea geet. wii Bes 25 * rado eke BA IP ha | 2 40 6 24 WV ermont SOS OU 8 21 indiana es ee see 26 ig | EN 5 16 Miinnesota foe 2 eS yee. ee 15 Kentacky ee TOE eg 14 Scattering So SM A A ewe ee 207 a ee el _ Totals 28) 208 317 359 188 131 170 1808 eee Ws ee Se Art Schooi Fellowship Prize. 4 Fellowship prize of $1,500 will be rarded June 1, 1897, in the Yale Art School. Competing students . must have been pupils of the Yale School of Fine Arts for at least two years be- sre entering.a preliminary concours to be held two months before the fi- mal competition; the preliminary con- urs to consist in making a satisfac- ry full-length drawing. from. the e model. The judges in the final mpetition will be the Faculty of the ale School of Fine Arts and three eli known American’ artists—two mainters and one sculptor... This Fel- by vship is intended to enable the suc- essful competitor to pass two years in idy abroad. Other prizes are of- fered for competition in regular course for special merit. NEW HAVEN, CONN., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1896. - SOPHOMORE POLITICAL CLUBS, Will hold Debates on the three Party Platforms, ah Three debating clubs were- formed in the Sophomore class, to debate on the principal issues of the presidential campaign. They are called the Mc- Kinley, the Palmer, and. the Bryan Clubs. Of these three clubs, the Mc- Kinley Club is the largest, the Palmer Club comes next, and the Bryan Club brings up the rear with a very. limited membership. At a meeting, at which committees from the three clubs were present, it was decided that there should be first a political rally on October 12, in which two speakers from each club should set forth the principles, which compose the platforms of. the three great parties, and second that there- after, debates should be held once or twice a week, on the principal issues of the campaign. The subjects for these debates are to be chosen at a future committee meeting. Thursday, October 15th, was the night chosen for the first debate. At the first meeting of the McKinley Club held October 2d, the names of the men’ were taken, who wished to join, and it was found there were 27 mem- bers. Then the club proceeded to the election of officers. J. D. Graves was elected President,, C. A. Squire, Sec- retary, and an Executive Committee of ihree, composed of G. W. Brown, EH. B. Boise, and G. W. Field, was appointed. Two men, G. W. -Brown and K. O. Guthrie, were chosen to represent the club at the political rally. The Palmer Club held its meeting the same night. Ten men were pres- ent, and of these C. L. Darlington was chosen President. An Executive Com- mittee consisting of the President and two other members, A. S. Mann and L. D. Armstrong, was elected. The Club then voted that it should hold a com- petitive debate, to decide who should represent them at the political rally. The Bryan Club was to have been organized last Monday evening but the meeting was at the last moment post- poned. The members will meet in a few days and appoint two men to rep- resent the party platform at the po- litical rally. 494. Civil Service Reform Club. A meeting of th2 executive commit- tee of the Yale Civil Service Reform Club was held on Wednesday even- ing, September 30. It was decided to hold a course of lectures to begin as soon as possible. The lectures will be given by practical men from different parts of the country, who desire them- selves to see the Civil Service Reform cut to some practical use and who will speak with that end in view. In all probability the first lecture will be given for the express purpose of giving some definite idea of what Civil Service Reform really is, what its purpose is and how it can be put into use, both in the Federal Govern- ment and in state and city legisla- tures. Later an endeavor will be made to have Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Mr. Welch and other prominent speakers, address. the club. As yet no definite time has been set for any of the lectures but they will begin as soon as it is possible to ar- range for them. . PRICE Ten CENTS. WILLIAM LYON PHELPS. Assistant Professor of English Literature. (Reprinted by permission from the Book Buyer.) ‘PHELPS HALL OPENING. Ceremonies to be Held under the Aus=- pices of the Classical Club. Under the auspices of the Classical Club, the beautiful library and semin- ary rooms set apart at the top of Phelps Hall for the use of this club, will be formally opened on October 9. Prof. Basil L. Gildersleeve of Johns Hopkins University will deliver an ad- dress that evening in Battell Chapel on “Classical Philology in America.” Prof. Gildersleeve, the learned editor of the American Journal of Philology, is one of the brightest and wittiest of Americaa scholars. in Berlin, Gottingen, Rome and Greece, and in 1868, razeived from Harvard the degree of LL. D. This address will be followed by a reception in the newly finished library of the Classical Club. A large num- ber of invitations have been sent out, “and have been accepted by many of the leading scholars of the east. Among them may be mentioned: President D. C. Gilman of Johns Hop- kins, Edmund Clarence Stedman and William Hayes Ward of New York, Mrs. President Irvine of Wellesley, Professors Charles Eliot Norton, J. H. Thayer and F. D. Allen of Harvard, Professors Ware, Price, Perry, Egbert and Wheeler of Columbia, Professor Sloane of Princeton, Miss Professor Leads of Vassar, and many others. The library room is fifty feet in length by about twenty-four in breadth, with lofty ceilings and great windows, which command a view not only of the College Campus, but of the better part of the city, and into the surrounding country. The book shelves are made to hold 2,500 volumes, and will be. extended as the library grows. The plan contemplates that this shall be the workshop and headquarters of the work of the advanced students in ‘philology, and cabinets of drawers and long tables are provided for their con- [Continved on fifth page. | He has studieé ~ Professor William L. Phelps. William Lyon Phelps, former in- structor in English at Yale, was made an assistant professor of the same study last June. Professor Phelps graduated in 1887. For the winter of 1887-88 he was general secretary of the Yale Y. M. Cc. A. at Dwight Hall. The next winter he was instructor in His- tory at the Westminster School, Dobbs Ferry, N. Y. In the following year he took a post-graduate course in English at Yale, as Larned Scholar. In the fall of 1890 he received an ap- pointment to a Morgan Fellowship at Harvard, where he studied the follow- ing winter, receiving in June 1891, the degree of Ph. D., from Yale, and of M. A. from Harvard. He was re-appoint- ed to the Morgan Fellowship, for the next year, but resigned it to take a position as instructor in English at Harvard. He was president of the Harvard Graduate Club, 1891-92. He was appointed instructor in Eng- lish at Yale, for the winter of 1892-93, and has remained in that position un- til last June. He has lecturéd on literary subjects at Hartford, and other places, with de- cided success, During the last four years he has published four books as follows: “The Beginnings of the English Ro- mantic Movement,’ in 1893; ‘‘Selec- tions From the Poetry and Prose of Thomas Gray,” in 1894; ““George Chap- man,’ which was published as one of “The Mermaid Series,’ in 1895, and Shakespeare’s “‘As You Like It,’ with an introduction by Barrett Wendell of Harvard, and notes by himself in 1896. —_—___+«———_ It has been decided by the corpora- tion of Harvard University to partici- pate in the ~estoration of St. Saviour’s Church in Southwark, London, by pre- senting to it a memorial window of John Harvard. He was baptized in the church on November 29, 1607
