Voutume VI. No. 3.
PHELPS HALL OPENED.
Whe Position of the Classics in Yale
Education Made Conspicuous,
Phelps Hall is now a part of the
working equipment of the University.
As a finished structure its architecture
is now a feature, perhaps the com-
manding feature of the College build-
ings.
Before the exercises of last week, in
connection wilth the opening of the
rooms of the Classical Department in
that structure, the workmen and their
apparatus had disappeared. The feat-
ure of the opening exercises, as the
account hereafter shows, wasS the em-
phasis laid on the position of the
classics in the College curriculum.
A description of the building has
appeared in these columns and the cut
of the hall is reproduced here. The
Weekly readers know that the build-
ing has four rooms on each floor.
Twelve of these rooms are given to
the regular recitations of the two
lower classes in Latin and Greek, and
to the larger optionalS in the same
Subjects. Two small rooms on the top
fioor are devoted to advanced work in
Classics, especially to the work of
graduate students, where the insiruc-
tors and the class can Sit around a
long table in familiar fashion. An
apartment on the first floor and a room
on the fifth floor are assigned to Col-
lege officers of the philological depart-
ment.
But the most important room in the
building is that set apart for the li-
brary and reading room of the Classi-
cal Club, occupying about one half of
the fifth floor, with windows looking
out upon the city and itS neighboring
country and sea—from East Rock and
the “Smokies,” to West Rock and
around to Long Island. An elevator
facilitates access to the upper floors.
The building is lighted in the even-
ing by electricity. |
Certain limitations were necessary in
the erection of Phelps Hall. DoubtleSs
a large lecture room, of a size to hold
two or more divisions, would have
been convenient; but Osborn Hall with
its two large auditoriums is close at
hand. If the stories had not been quite
so high, and another had been added,
with additional small clasS-rooms and
rooms for College officers and graduate
Students, the building would have been
more useful; but this proposition was
vetoed by the architect, who desired
certain proportions and arrangements
of windows. But the classical officers
are not in a critical mood as regards
the building. The rooms are all light
and airy, and well adapted to their
purpose.
ALL CLASSICAL DEPARTMENT EXERCISES.
All of the exercises of the Classical
Depariment and of the Department of
Sanskirt and Comparative Philology
are to be held in Phelps Hall. The
convenience of this arrangement can
be appreciated best by the teachers;
but any one can See that for the or-
ganization of the Department, it is
well if the instructors can be con-
vened easily, at short notice, and with
Slight interruption. Thus, now, all the
College officers who are engaged’ in
teaching Latin and Greek are in
Phelps Hall every morning at half past
nine o’clock, with slight exceptions.
More important is the encouragement
which this arrangement of rooms gives
to the acquisition of illustrative ma-
terial by the Classical Department,—
maps, caSts, photographs, and books,—
which can be conveyed as needed from
NEW HAVEN, CONN., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1896.
WELCH HALL,
PHELPS HALL.
Prick TEN CENTS.
LAWRANCE HALL.
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PHELPS MEMORIAL GATEWAY FROM
[From a photograph by Pach.]
COLLEGE STREET..
one room to anoher. Each room is to
have a set of shelves, for books of ref-
erence and texts to be used in the
class room. This is the only buildng
in America in,which the work of the
classical department of a University is
so united,
THE LIBRARY.
The large library of the Classical
Club on the fifth floor—130 steps re-
moved from the ground—is the most
quiet room on the College ground, and
admirably lighted. By the gift of
President Dwight, it is furnished with
handsome oak shelves, for about 2,000
volumes, long tables for the use of
readers, a cabinet for photographs, and
two cabinets of drawers, that each
worker may have a “locker’’ for his
papers. This is intended to be, and
douhtless wiill be, the center of philo-
logical work at Yale. The graduate
students, and the more advanced un-
dergraduates, will have here the ad-
vantages of an excellent private li-
brary—better than the puble library
of most colleges, and the Stimulus of
companionship in research. The im-
portance of a good collection of the
best of books of reference in the im-
mediate vicinity of the lecture rooms
of advanced students, is manifest.
On Friday, October 9th, the rooms
of the Classical Club were opened
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98 PROMENADE COMMITTES,
Nine Mien Chosen to Conduct the
Juniors’ Ball.
A meeting of the Junior Class for
the election of the Junior Promenade
Committee was held last Friday even-
ing in Alumni Hall. Clarence M.
Fincke, ’97, Chairman of last year’s
Promenade Committee, presided. The
result of the preliminary ballot was
announced as follows: Grenville Par-
ker, 116; F. H. Simmons, 104; H. D.
Gallaudet, 73; G. G. Schreiber, 70; R.
M. Crosby, 67; D. C. Twichell, 65;.. Bi.
Sawyer, 58; J. S. Mason, 47; A. 5. Hay,
47: J. O. Rodgers, 45; D. Rogers, 43;
M. V. Ely, 41; A. I. Lewis, 40; J. H.
Scranton, 26; J. W. Wadsworth, 23;
Payne Whitney, 23.
The final ballot resulted in the elec-
tion of the following nine men: Gren-
ville Parker of New York, 144; Frank
Hunter Simmons of Brooklyn, Nook
129; David Cushman Twichell of Hart-
ford, Conn., 117; Herbert Draper Gal-
jlaudet of Washington, D. C., 106; Mor-.
ris Upham Ely of Brooklyn, N. Y.,
101: Jewett Hamilton Scranton of
Madison, Conn., 97; . Julian Stark-
weather Mason of Chicago, TIL, 95;
George Gebner Schreiber of Hoboken,
NW. J:5-913. sew Francis Rogers of
New Canaan, Conn., 90.
Sophomore Political Club Rally.
The first rally of the Sophomore de-
bating clubs was held last Monday
evening. Prof. W. L. Phelps addressed
the meeting on the national election
and the relation of the Sophomore de-
bating societies to it. The regular pro-
ceedings of the evening were then
opened by A. S. Mann of the Palmer
Society. K. O. Guthrie next spoke for
the McKinley club and he was fol-
lowed by C. J. Herrick of the Bryan
club. C. L. Darlington of the Palmer
and G. W. Brown of the McKinley
club also spoke.
The first regular debate will be Peld
Monday, October 19th’, between the
Palmer and the McKinley representa-
tives.
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Medical School Statisties.
The Yale Medical School opened for
its eighty-fourth year, on last Thurs-
day, October 1. The list of students
thus far, shows an increase of eight
over that of last year. The follow-
ing is the list by classes: Seniors, 36;
Juniors, 40; Second year, 8; First year,
48; Special, 1; total, 133.
Rit Se
There are at present 1,335 Yale grad-
uateS engaged in the practice of law in
the United States,
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