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CIVIL SERVICE REFORM. ———_ Convention of College Leagues at Philadelphia Last Week. —_—————_ The National Civil Service Reform regular meeting in Philadelphia, Pa., on Thursday and Friday, December 10 and 11. Several of the college leagues sent delegates to the convention and a meeting of these men was held on the afternoon of Friday. The report of the Secre- tary and Treasurer was read and ap- proved and the following officers were elected for next year: President, E. E. Garrison, Yale, ’°87; Secretary and Treasurer, H. M. Stephenson, of Prineeton. The eppointment of the members of the Executive Committee and the various Vice Presidents, was postponed until the other colleges be- longing to the league could be heard from. It was decided to take active meas- ures to further the organization of civil service reform clubs in the col- leges and universities of the country, to aim to sugyest practical education- al work for them to do, and find the means of carrying out this work. It was also decided to make an attempt to increase the membership in the league, and take steps to inaugurate some kind of competition by which the different clubs belonging to the league shall be brought into closer corres- pondence. The members of the National League and the college men present felt fully repaid for the exertion of attending, and could not but consider it a priv- ilege to call. themselves members of so active and important a body. Many ideas were gained regarding the busi- ness methods and concerns of the country, and some plans were sug- sested for making the various col- lege clubs more active and practical. A number of prominent men were secured for addresses and talks before the Civil Service Reform Club of Yale. League held a —_———_4____—_- The Gneist Library. In February of last Winter the an- nouncement was made in the col- umns of the Weekly that a valuable collection of 10,000 books, belonging to the late Professor Rudolph von Gneist, of Berlin, Germany, one of the lead- ing authorities on the legal and in- stitutional history of England, had been bought for the University Li- brary. This collection was supposed to contain works on politics, history, law, ete., besides a number of val- uable periodicals, and would have been a considerable acquisition. The price for which the collection was of- fered for sale was $2,500. When the books arrived in New Ha- ven from the Leipzig bockseller, who had the sale in charge, only half of them were found to be volumes of the original Gneist Library, the remain- der being of very small value. In this way the Leipzig bookseller had tried to swindle the University by padding out half the collection with worthless books and pawn them off as the en- tire collection. The Library author- ities immediately notified the seller of the books that they would not be ac- cepted on the conditions named, but offered a fair price for the collection. The German book dealer was unwill- - ing to accept these terms and the books have therefore been returned to Germany. The friends of the Library are very much disappointed over this occur- rence as they had hoped to obtain a valuable acquisition to the University collection. ee Washington (D.C.,) Association, Alumni The annual business meeting of the : Yale Alumni Association of Washing- ton, D. C., was held on the afternoon of December 8. The following officers were elected to serve for the ensuing year: President, E. O. Wolcott, 83 Hon.; First Vice President, Hon. John Dalzell, ’65; Second Vice President, T. EK. Clarke; Secretary and Treasurer, James H. Hayden, ’87S.; Historian, F. D. Head, ’748.; Executive Committee, Ww. C. Whittemore, ’75, Chairman: H. A. Bowers, °79; A. T. Ryan, 94; H. K. Willard, ’79; A. G. Bentley. The annual banquet of the Associa- tion will be given in January. YALE ALUMNI Itenerary of Hockey Team. The Yale Hockey team will play the following games during the Christ- mas vacation; December 16, Mont- clair A. C. at Brooklyn, N. Y.; Decem- ber 18, Pittsburg A. C. at Pittsburg, Pa.; December 19, afternoon, Du- quesne Country and Athletic Club at Pittsburg; December 19, evening, Al- leghany A A. at Pittsburg; December 21, Western University of Pennsylva- nia at Pittsburg. The team will consist of ‘A. FE. Barnes, ’978S., Captain, cover point; H. V. Ryder, ’97, forward; J. A. Hall, ’97S., forward; G. P. Sheldon, Jr., 1900, for- ward; %S. Stoddard, ’99, forward; C. S. Morris,-.’97S., goal. The team left New Haven on Wednesday at 1:30 p. m., and will leave for Pittsburg on Thursday, December 17. An attempt was made during the past Summer to arrange a hockey league between Yale, Harvard and Brown. The management of the Yale team, however, have decided that it will be impossible to join this league. The reason for this is that the Yale team plays the regular Canadian game in which broad sticks and a rub- ber “nuck” are used while the Har- vard and Brown teams play what is known as “ice polo’? in which a com- position hall is used. The difference in the two games is so great that a team accustomed: to play under one set of rules would be at a very great disadvantage playing under the other. Se eae <> ee Junior Literary Clubs. The Kipling and Stevenson clubs in the Junior Class have now been un- der organization for over a year, and a marked scourse of work has been accomplished, which serves to show that success has attended the idea under which they were formed. The object of the clubs is to read and discuss the works of the author, af- ter which they are respectively named, the discussion generally being attend- ed with light refreshments. Bi-weekly meetings are held in the rooms of the different members, those of the Kip- ling Club being on alternate Thurs- day evenings, and those of the Steven- son Club on Monday evenings. The Kipling Club now consists of Sixteen members, its officers being President, Gouveneur Morris; Vice- President, R. J. Turnbull; Secretary, J. S. Mason. The customary annual banquet was held at Traeger’s on Dec. 12, and in addition to the intro- ductory remarks made by the toast- masters, J. S. Mason, and J. W. Wadsworth, Jr., toasts were responded to by F. G. Hinsdale, J. O. Rodgers, R. T. Garrison, I. N. Swift, R. J. Turn- bull and F. Kernochan. Last year Mr. Kipling not being able to attend the banquet, sent an interesting poem in reply to the invitation. As he is this year in Hurope it was again impossi- ble that he should attend. The Stevenson Club has a member- ship of fifteen with three members of the Faculty as honorary members. It officers are: President, A. D. Bald- win; Vice-President, G. D. Mont- gsomery; Secretary, C. D. Cheney. The last banquet was held in June of 1896. Dr. W. L. Phelps acting as presiding officer. It is proposed to hold this year’s banquet some time in the latter part of the Spring, but a definite date has not yet been fixed. —_—_—__4 4 __. California Alumni Dine. The annual dinner of the Yale Alum- ni Association was eaten at Delmon- ico’s, San Francisco, Saturday, No- vember 21. Besides the Yale men pres- ent, were two guests. representing Harvard, President George B. Merrill, of the Harvard Club, and Mr. William Thomas, each of whom responded to the toast to his Alma Mater. Their remarks were received with great en- thusiasm, especially their expressed hope for the renewal of athletic re- lations between the two Universities. Speeches were made by Thomas R. Bacon, ’72, President of the Associa- tion; F. S. Butterworth, ’95; General W. H. L. Barnes, Captain J. S. Pettit, President Martin Kellogg, ’50, of the University of California, and Profes- sor E. B. Clapp, ’86 Ph. D. An inter- esting and enthusiastic letter was read from Warren E. Lloyd, who holds the graduate scholarship at Yale founded by the Association. On the whole it was the pleasantest meeting of the As- sociation that has ever been held. WEES Manhattan Trust Company CAPITAL, $1,000,000. Corner of Wall and Nassau Streets. A Legal Depository for Court and Trust Funds and General Deposits. Liberal Rates of Interest paid on Balances. John I. Waterbury, President. John Kean, Amos T. French, Vice-Presidents. Chas. H. Smith, Sec’y. W. Pierson Hamilton, Treas, Thomas L. Greene, Auditor. DIRECTORS, 1896: A t Belmont. John Kean, Jr. H. W. Cannon. John Howard Latham. A.J. Cassatt. John G. Moore. R. J. Cross E. D. Randolph. James O. Sheldon. Samuel Thomas. Edward Tuck. John I. Waterbury. R. T. Wilson. Amos T. French. John N. A. Griswold. W. Pierson Hamilton. H. L.° Higginson. 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