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P. Scott: left guard, A. Fabbri; left tackle, J. J. Wright, (Clark); left end, J. T. Curtis; quarter-back, W. D. Oglesby, (Captain); right half-back, J. A. Dissel; left half-back, T. B. Nisbet; fullback, J. P. Weod. Seven players graduate and all ex-~ pect to enter Yale. They are: Fabbri, Wells, McLean, Knapp, Scott and Nisbet. HILL SCHOOL. The ‘Hill School team, as was the case with so many of the school elevens this year, was rather lighter than former teams-of the school, but this weakness was made up by quick, aggressive play, and some excellent work was done by the eleven. The most important game was against Lawrenceville in which the Hill team was defeated: score, 14 to 6. Other games resulted: University of Penn- sylvania scrub 12, Hill 4; Lehigh, ’99, 4, Hill 6: Princeton, 1900, 14, Hill 4; Uni- versity of Pennsylvania, 1900, 0; Hill 30; Hil Alumni at Yale 8, Hill 16. Games won, 4; games lost 3. The following composed the team: Ends, . 1: B.- Cox -.and: To12 Gains, tackles, J. G. Milburn and H. H. Lord; guards, M. F. Mills and J. E. Bemy; center, W. H. Chadick; quarter-back, WwW. M. Fincke, (Captain); half-backs, P. C. Keifer and T. B. French; full- back, P. B. Monypenny. Only two of the players graduate. Keifer will enter Yale. Fincke is un- decided. TAFT’S SCHOOL. The Taft’s School of Watertown, Conn., played an exceptionally strong eleven in the field this year. The team played ten games, suffering but one defeat. Hotchkiss defeated Taft’s 38 to 6, but with this exception the team was not scored on. The eleven was composed of the following: Right end, C. Lloyd; right tackle, S. Bell; right guard, D. Welch; center, H. Mer- riman; left guard, Guthrie; left tackle, L. White; left end, P. Barnett; quarter-back, B. White; right half- back, G. Lear: left half-back, J. Lear; fullback, R. Townshend. The best player on the team was Townshend, who has done some ex- cellent work at half-back, as well as fullback. Seven players graduate and will all enter Yale. They are: J. Lear, Townshend, Bell, Welch, Merriman, White, Barnet. NEW BRITAIN HIGH. In the Connecticut Interscholastic League, the New Britain High School had the champion team. This eleven won twelve games, lost none, and were only scored on twice. Their to- tal points scored were 296; their op- ponents scored 12. No former team of the school has equalled this record. Some of the more important scores were: New Britain 6, Meriden High School 0; New Britain 12, Bridgeport High School 0; New Britain 18, Hart- ford High School 0; New Britain 16, Hillhouse High School 0; New Brit- ain 380, Meriden High School 6. The last game mentioned was played at the Yale Field and decided the cham- pionship. The school now holds the Yale Cup awarded to the champion of this league. The team played as follows: Right end, J. Porter; right tackle, P. T. Mc- Donough; right ,uard, G. W. Corbin; center, E. Towers; left guard, R. Buck- ley, B. Alling; left tackle, T. F. Flan- nery; left end, A. Griswold; quarter- back, J. E. Meehan (Captain); right half-back, G. Fitch; left half-back, G. Brinley; fullback, P. O’Donnell. The work of the two tackles, Mc- Donough and Flannery, was strong, and O’Donnell makes a good fullback. Eight men graduate. Three, Flan- nery, Buckley and Corbin, will enter Yale, three are undecided; two will not go to college. MERIDEN HIGH. The Meriden High School was sec- cnd to New Britain in the Connecti- ticut League. The team played twelve games, winning ten. Both of the games in which they were defeated were against the New Britain team. This was the best eleven the school has produced. Some of the scores not previously mentioned were: Meriden 16, Hartford High School 0; Meriden 54, Hillhouse High School 12; Meriden 20, Bridgeport High School 12. The team follows: Right end, N. C. Johnson; right tackle, H. T. Gladwin; right guard, C. F. Brewer; center W. H. Gibson; left guard, L. W. Collins; lows: WATE “ALU Mmwea left tackle, C. S. Kellogg; left end, Cc. S. Perkins; quarter-back, L. E. Hub- bard; right half-back, H. C. Lane (Captain); left half-back, F. E. Hub- bard; fullback, W. H. B. Kent. The best players on the team were Lane, Gibson and Brewer. Five play- ers graduate. EF. Hubbard will go to Yale, Captain Lane to Yale or Wes- leyan, Gibson to Yale or Wesleyan, Collins to Tuft’s. L. Hubbard is un- decided. HARTFORD HIGH. The Hartford High School team was rather weaker than usual, most of the players being new at the game. The team played six games, winning two. Most of the scores have been given. Others may be mentioned as follows: Hotchkiss 50, Hartford High School 0; Hillhouse 4, Wartford 16; Springfield High School 10, Hartford 18. Five men graduate. Gibb, Han- ford, Lockwood and Cutter will enter Yale; Wood will go to Cornell. PRATT INSTITUTE. The Pratt Institute of Brooklyn did not have a very successful team this year. The closest game of the year was with Brooklyn Latin School, which Pratt won, 10-4. ‘The team fol- Right end, C. Chapman; right tackle, F. Nevins; right guard, FE. Wichkam; center, J. Wichkam; left guard, McLaren; left tackle, T. Fair- banks; left end, H. Haskin; quarter. back, C. Warner; right half back, A. M. Bowie (Captain): left half-back, A. Webb; fullback, R. Chkipp. Bowie and Warner will enter Cornell next Fall. Nevins will go to Colum- bia. : FIGURES SHOWN. From these statistics it may be seen that the 48 football players who grad- uate from the schools of Andover, St. Paul’s, Tu1wrenceville, Hotchkiss, Gro- ton, St. Mark’s, Taft’s, Hill and West- minster, will be divided among the col- leges as follows: Yale 36, Harvard 7, Princeton 3, other colleges 2. From the Connecticut League Schools mentioned, 16 players grad- uate; 12 go to Yale and 2 to smaller institutions. Two are undecided. From the New York schools which are taken up, 37 graduate. They are divided as follows: Yale 12; Colum- bia 8, Princeton 3, Harvard 2, other universities 7; business occupations 5. From the three Long Island schools the thirteen players to graduate are being prepared as follows: Yale 5, Harvard 3, Cornell 3, Columbia 1; bus- iness 1. Taking the total of all graduating this year from the entire list, they are divided: Yale 57, Harvard 12, Colum- bia 9, Princeton 6, other universities 11. The total number to graduate is 114, No special mention is made of the Trinity School and Barnard School of the New York League or of the Brook- lyn High and Polytechnic Preparatory Schools of the Long {sland League, be- cause from these the required in- formation was not received. Their record, however, is given in the re- ports of the games of the _ other schools. —_—_—___4___—_ On Cornells Latest Yell. [Cambridge (Eng.) Review.] The athletic meeting between Ox- ford and Yale in London, and the re- cent appearances of American crews at Henley, have provided many Op- portunities for the untraveled English- man of hearing the college war cries so typical of the American under- eraduate. These cries, based original- ly upon the three times thrice repeat- ed “Hurrah,” of which the first sylla- ble became lost, have received end- less specialization in particular col- leges, from the preliminary ‘‘Brek-ek- ek-ex—,”’ of Yale to the ‘Yell, Yell, Yell,” of Cornell, and are also modi- ified to suit individuai years, or ‘‘class- es” of men in the same college. The latest effort of this kind is from Cor- nell, where, according to the local pa- per, at a meeting of the Freshman class, “‘the committee on yell’ submit- ted several yells to be voted upon. After considerable discussion and re- hearsing of the various yells, the fol- lowing one was unanimously adopted: ‘Win-de-Siec(le), Siec(le), Fin-de- Siec, We yell: 1900; 1900; Cornell, Cor- nell, Cornell.’ Tt would be hard to find a@ more elaborate product of the sumptuary laws for the emotions, so peculiarly Transatlantic. IV Tis BS be AMERICAN SCHOOL AT ATHENS. Report of Increased Attendance and Marked Prosperity. The fifteenth annual report of the managing committee of the American _ School of Classical Study at Athens, compiled by the Chairman, Professor Thomas D. Seymour, has recently ap- peared. A new feature of the report is five half-tone full page cuts of places and objects of interest at Co- rinth, including views of the ancient theater there. The number of stu- dents in attendance at the school has nearly doubled since last year. In his report Professor Seymour says: “The work of the school during the past year has been as prosperous as that of any year of its history. Nothing has occurred to interfere with the school’s usefulness or with the comfort of its members.’’ : Syracuse University has joined the institutions jin the support of the school and Professor Edgar A. Emens of that University has been elected to be its representative on the managing committee. | In the Faculty of the school Profes- sor Benjamin I. Wheeler of Cornell has succeeded Professor Thomas D. Good- ell of Yale in the Professorship of the Greek Language and Literature. Pro- fessor J. R. Sitlington Sterrett of Am- herst has accepted this Professorship for 1896-97, and Doctor Waldstein has been unanimously re-elected Professor of Art for 1896-’97. In the Spring of 1897 the managing committee will award two Fellowships in Greek Archaeology, each of the val- ue of $600 to be held during the school year 1897-’98. These Fellowships are open to all Bachelors of Arts of uni- versities and colleges in the United States. They will be awarded chiefly on the.basis of a written examination. The examinations will be held on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, May 26, 21 and 22, 1897, at Athens, Rome, Berlin, and in America at any college that a candidate may select of the in- stitutions which co-operate in the sup- port of the school. Each candidate must announce his intention to offer himself for examination to Professor John W. White, Cambridge, Mass., not later than April 1, 1897. Following the report of the Chair- man of the managing committee, come the reports of the Director and Pro- fessors of the school. In the report of the Director of the school, Professor R. B. Richardson, an account is given of the excavation undertaken by him in behalf of the school and the Archae- ological Institute, on the site of an- cient Corinth. Doctor Waldstein, as Professor of Art, reports progress in the preparation for publication of the objects at the Argive Heraeum. Pro- fessor B. I. Wheeler, in his report, gives an account of the work of the students of the school during the year 1895-’96, under his direction as Profes- sor of the Greek Language and Liter- ature. A circular of information for stu- dents who propose to join the school is added to the report, and a copy of the examination papers, set at the last Fellowship examinations. a President Dwight’s Return. President Dwight, who has been travel- ling in Europe during the past six months, will sail from England on the steamer St. Paul on December 26. The steamer will be due at New York on January 2, so that the President should be in New Haven before college exer- cises begin again. He has made quite an extensive trip through England and the Continent, going to France, Germany, Italy and ° Switzerland. Winthrop E. Dwight, ’93, who accompanied the President, will remain at Oxford to study. > The Cornell crews have begun in- door training. About 100 men have presented themselves as candidates for the Freshman crew. G. H. Ferbert has been unanimously ¢ elected Captain of the University of © Michigan football team for next sea- son. The Courses for Teachers. There has been for the past term an average attendance of 126 on the special courses given in the Graduate Department, for the first time this year for Connecticut teachers. Each course consists of twenty-four exer- cises given on Saturday morning—eight in each town. During the past term they have been attended by about 126 teachers, many of whom come to New Haven from out of town. Courses in Psychology and Pedagogy, Political and Social Science, History, English, Greek, and Biology were elected by a sufficient number of teachers to insure their being given. Seventeen teachers chose Psychology and Pedagogy, eleven Political and Social Science, forty History, thirty-two English, eleven Greek, and (fifteen Biology. Courses in Modern Languages, Chem- istry, Physics and Mathematics were also offered, but failed to secure the ten teachers necessary to form a class. It will be seen that History, English and Biology drew almost seventy per cent of the whole number attending. The courses will be taken up next term under a different corps of in- structors. Professor George M. Dun- can will have charge of the course in Educational Psychology, Professor Irving Fisher the course in Money and Monetary Reform, Professor Charles H. Smith the course in Constitutional History of the United States, Profes- sor Albert S. Cook that on Milton, Professor Bernadotte Perrin that on Greek Life, and Professor Russell H. Chittenden the course in Physiology. —_—__—_ $6 >______—__ Entries in the Chess Tourna-. ment. The contestants from Columbia, Harvard, Yale and Princeton in the Chess Tournament have been selected, and their names are printed below. In at least two of the colleges, the in- terest in chess is decidedly on the ine crease. Columbia, always a strong chess institution, has had such a long list of entries this year that it was impossible to finish the Tournament the usual time, and the team for the intercollegiate contest had to be se- lected before the College tournament closed. The entries here at Yale have been more numerous than usual and the play has been very much above the average of last year. The training of the players under the direction of Ma- jor Hannam has been going on daily and some brilliant work 1s reported. The feeling is that Yale will make a better showing than she ever. has: be- fore. At Columbia, Pilsbury has been en- gaged for a coach, but the feeling is still that Harvard has the best chance’ for the Cup. Southard is known as a very cautious, as well as a progres- Sive and modern player, while Ryder, though a bit less sure, is more. re- sourceful and vigorous in attack. The final names for the entries to the Chess Tournament are as follows: Columbia—Contestants: Asa W. Par- ker, Mines, ’99: George O. Seward, Mines, ’98. Substitutes: G. Parker, 1900; A. M. Price, ’97, Law. Harvard—Contestants: Arthur Wm. Ryder, °’97; Elmer 3. Southard, °97. Substitutes: Walter C. Arensberg, 1900; James Hewins, Jr., ’98. Yale—Contestants: F. A. Lehlbach, °98; William M. Murdoch, ’988. Sub- stitutes: L. A. Cook, 1900: H. C. Rob- bins, 99. Princeton—Contestants: Edmund B. Seymour, ’98; William W. Young, ’998. Substitutes: J. A. Ely, °99S.° FW. Jarvis, 1900. ———__+—_____. Gymnasium of the University of Chicago. The plans are now being drawn up for an enormous gymnasium soon to be constructed for the University of Chicago. The building itself will be three hundred feet by one hundred, and a covered athletic field in the form of ar amphitheatre will be con- structed, six hundred feet by four hundred. It will be surmounted at the height of one hundred and fifty feet by a glass roof, and will be suitable for indoor games of baseball, as well as football. The total cost will not be more than $600,000, of which the glass shed will require $180.000 and the gymnasium proper $120,000. These figures do not include the cost of the ground, which is owned by Marshall Field.
