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-
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‘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
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Totals 28) 208 317 359 188 131 170 1808
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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-
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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.
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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
