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THE ATHLETIC SITUATION.
Unsatisfactory Condition of the Nego-
tiations with Harvard.
No very satisfactory statements re-
sarding the revival of athletic re-
lations with Harvard can be obtained
at present writing from the Yale
athletic management. Just before
college closed last term it was gen-
erally believed that the matter had
been brought to a point where the
ultimate healing of the breach seemed
in sight, but on December 18 a con-
trary statement was officially given
out by Mr. Garrison, manager of the
Football Association. This statement
is printed below and is the last that
can now be cbtained from Official
suurees:
“While the pending negotiations re-
garding a series of contests in all
branches of athletics between Yale
and Harvard cannot be said to be
definitely determined there is a hitch
in regard to the date of the boat race,
Yale having acceded to Harvard’s con-
dition that the race should be rowed
over the same course as the race be-
tween Harvard and Cornell.
“TWnder no conditions could the Yale
crew leave New Haven before June 12
the day after the close of recitations,
this having been strictly adherd to
even in the case of last year’s trip to
Henley.
“Yale has offered to row at any
time after June 27, leaving the place of
the race to Harvard. This condition
the Harvard authorities are unable to
accept.”’
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The Hockey Team Trip.
The so-called Yale Hockey Club team
played two games during the Christ-
mas holidays and although defeated in
both, made a very creditable showing.
The team was unable to practice but
one day before the close of the term,
and as this was devoted to trying the
candidates, no team work could be
obtained.
Two games in Brooklyn and New
York and several in Pittsburg had
been arranged, but owing to the burn-
ing of the ice rink in the latter city,
only the zames in New York were
played. On Wednesday evening, Dec.
16, the team was defeated by the
Montclair A. C. in the Clermont Ave-
nue ice rink, Brooklyn, by the score of
6 to- =
lack of practice.
On Thursday evening, Dee: 24, the St.
Nicholas Club t#?am was played in the
St. Nicholas rink, and although the
latter is considered the leading hockey
team of the country, they scored but
three goals to Yale’s two. The latter’s
team work had impioved wonderfully.
Yale’s point was obliged to retire at a
critical moment with a broken skate.
Hall, ’97S. and Sheldon, 1900 did the
best work for Yale in the two games.
Their line-up was as follows: Goal,
Morris, L. 8.; point, Sutton,’97S.; cover
point, Sheldon, 1900; forwards, Hall,
'97S.; Bennett, *98; Ryder, °97S.: S.
Stoddard, ’99; Barnes, (Capt.) ’97S.
The management has received a
number of challenges, among
them one from the Queens College
Hockey Club, the champion Intercol-
legiate team of Canada. It is practi-
cally certain that a game will be
played with Princeton, and _ the
Columbia University las sent in a
challenge for two games in February.
Nothing definite has been heard from
Harvard or Brown, both of which
universities have teams. But it is pos-
sible that an intercollegiate hockey
league may be formed before the sea-
son closes.
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College Theatricals.
[New York Sun.}.
The refusal of the Harvard Faculty
to allow the Hasty Pudding Club to
appear in New York this year is one
of the signs that indicate qa change of
feeling in regard to the college per-
formances which several years ago
were at the height of their populari-
ty: Now the faculties of all the col-
leges are keeping a sharper eye on
the Yale team showing great |
such enterprises than they did in the
past, and there is some likelihood that
the real college spirit of the affair
will be thoroughly restored just when
it was about to disappear. The per-
formances of the Hasty Pudding Club
here in New York were quite aS much
a Harvard event as the Boston ap-
pearances, for the audiences. that
greeted the ‘Pudding shows” were
always made up of Harvard graduates
and friends of the colleg>. Similar
action on. the part of the faculty in
other colleges would deprive the giee
and banjo clubs of their annual trips.
which are their chief diversion... Now
a humber of these clubs are touring
through the country. The particular
interest of the college faculties in the
amusements furnished by the students
seemed to be directed toward the col-
lege theatricals, and this branch need-
ed it most. ‘The expensive and elab-
orate performances which, when they
did not actually lose money, at all
events made little or none for the col-
lege associations that were supposed
to benefit by the performances, only
began a few years ago, and any cir-
cumstances that tend to discourage
them are for the best. The Yale Fac-
ulty, when it forbade the students to
appear in skirts or represent female
characters, did the most effective work
that any interference with these en-
tertainments has accomplished.
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Preparatory School Represen-
tation.
The statistics given below show the
number of men in the several classes
of the Academic and Scientific De-
partments who prepared for college
at one of the following preparatory
schools—Andover, St. Paul’s, Hopkins
Grammar School, Hartford Public
High School, Hillhouse High School of
New Haven, Hotchkiss, Lawrenceville, |
Exeter and St. Mark’s:—
ACADEMIC.
97—Andover 30, St. Paul’s 23, H. G.
S44, HP. , 3.1; Hotchkise 11, BH. H.
S. 10, Lawrenceville 10, Exeter 2, St.
Mark’s 4,
798—Andover 46, H. P. H. S. 17, St.
Paul’s School 15, H. H. 8. 13, St. Mark’s
11, Lawrenceville 9, Exeter 8, Hotch-
kiss 7, Ho G.-8:. 6.
»99—Andover 36, St. Paul’s 23, Hotch-
Kiss 12; H.-G. S. 12; H. H. See Lawe
renceville 8, H. P. H. S. 7, Exeter 4, St.
Mark’s 1.
1900—Andover 65, Hotchkiss 29, St.
eens af; 11.¢P. A, S, 12, Hoes. ae
Lawrenceville 7,H. G. S. 5,St. Mark’s 1.
SCIENTIFIC.
’97S.—Andover 27, H. H. S. 17, St.
Pats 12) Be CG. S. 10; Bo Pe. Sse
Exeter 6, Lawr2nceville 4, St. Mark’s
2, Hotchkiss 1.
983, Andover 15, H. P. H. S. 11, H.
% S. 7, St. Mark’s 6, Hotchkiss 5, H.
H. S. 5, St. Paul’s School 4, Lawrence-
ville 3, Exeter 0.
799S.—Andover 22, H. H. S. 15, H. G.
S. 9, St. Paul’s 8, Lawrenceville 6,
Hotchkiss. 4. Hh. Pb. Pr. S> 3) St. Marke
3, Exeter 0.
This gives Andover a total of 241 in
the two departments, St. Paul’s 109,
Hillhouse High School 80, Hotchkiss
and Hartford Public High each 69, H.
G. S. 68. Lawrenceville 47, St. Mark’s
29 and E:xeter 22.
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Hospitable Attitude of Colum-
bia. 7
[Columbia Spectator. ]
Columbia will be the first to welcome
a cessation of the present athletic es-
trangement between Yale and Har-
vard. That there should ever have
been good reasons for other than
friendly relations between these two
Universities is a source of sincere re-
gret to every lover of true sportsman-
ship. Such estrangements do much to
injure the reputation of athletics in
America, in that they give the carp-
ing, cynical critics, who fortunately are
in the minority, a chance to decry all .
intercollegiate competitions as produc-
tive only of evil. Columbia would be
glad to see Yale represented by an
eight at Poughkeepsie next June. The
aquatic supremacy of America could
then be decided to the satisfaction
of all.
/The eollection, which
' at the recent celebration by Mr.
OTHER COLLEGE NEWS
COLUMBIA TO BE CONGRATULATED.
The Bookman says:
“Tt has been to many a source of
surprise that Professor Sloane could
be induced to exchange his chair at
Princeton for the Columbia professor-
ship, as he. had been so long and so
honorably identified with the former
university, and had made for himself
so exceptional a position there. It is
no secret that on the death of Dr.
McCosh, Professor Sloane would have
succeeded him in the presidency of
Princeton, had not the traditions of
that institution required the incum-
pent of the office to be a clergyman of
the Presbyterian faith. The social life
of the place is also charming. Yet
to one who, like Professor Sloane, is
not only a scientific investigator, but
in the best and highest sense a cul-
tivated man of the world, the advan-
tage and special attractions of metro-
politan life must inevitably be an ir-
resistable magnet. The facilities for
research, the special historical collec-
tions, and the larger life of a great
city could not fail to influence him,
and it must besides have been a source
of personal gratification to receive a
second time so marked a compliment
from his own Alma Mater. In any
case, Princeton is distinctly the loser
and Columbia no less distinctly the
gainer by his acceptance of this call;
and New York now owes once more a
tribute of gratitude to President Low
for bringing it about, and again mak-
ing manifest his almost inspired in-
stinct for always doing exactly the
right thing at precisely the right
time.”
VALUABLE GIFT TO PRINCETON.
Mr. Junius S. Morgan of New York,
has presented to the library of Prince- |
ton University his collection of early
editions of Virgil, in commemoration
of the institution’s sesquicentennial.
Th includes 312
numbers, is surpassed only by two
or three others, if at all. It includes
the very rare firstedition (Scoeynheim
& Pannartz, Rome, 1469) of which only
‘six copies are known, and of which
Deschamps says that there has not
been a copy offered at auction since
that of La Valliere, in 1783. The
British Museum has no copy, and the
copy of the National Library at Paris
is defective. The collection includes
also a copy on vellum of the first,
dated edition (1471), which is about
talf as rare as the other, but is never-
theless rarer than the famous Guten-
berg Bible. This is not Mr. Morgan’s
first gift to the Princeton library,
“which he has already enriched with
a noteworthy collection of early print-
ed books and a number of scientific
periodicals and bibliographical and
philological works. It is said that
he proposes to extend the Virgil col-
lection until it is complete. Mr. Wil-
liam Nelson of Paterson, N. J., has
enriched the library with a valuable
collection of documents and auto-
graphs of historical value in connsec-
tion with Princeton. Ground was
broken on December 11 for the new
dormitory presented to the University
John
I. Blair, one of the ‘Trustees.—The
Critic.
REGARDING AN AMERICAN HENLEY.
A press dispatch from New London
says: “A movement for a Henley-like
series of boat races is assuming defi-
nite shape, although the first move is
not for a week of racing. ‘The Board
of Trade of New London is sending
out circulars to more than 400 colleges
and athletic clubs, announcing’ the
‘Thames Regatta’ at New London, dur-
ing June, 1897. The circular says:
‘As to the merits of the Thames course
the press of the country is unanimous
in joining in its praise as the proper
and only desirable course that college
erews should select, either for a triple
contest or a national regatta of col-
lege oarsmen.’ ‘The circular is signed
by ex-Governor Waller, A. H.Chappell,,
President of the Board of Trade; C.
B. Jennings, Superintendent of Schools,
and others.”
-new philological
-students
DEBATING LEAGUE FORMED IN THE
WEST.
Arrangements have recently been
completed for a debating league be-
tween the four Western universities
of Michigan, Chicago, Wisconsin and
Northwestern University. The leagu2
is to be operated by a system of pre-
liminaries, which will give two of the
four universities two debates each.
The final debate is to be always held
in Chicago.
Mr. F. W. Peck, of Chicago, is one
of the prime movers in the -project
and has given considerable financial
support. He has established a prize
as an incentive to debaters, to con-
sist of $100 to the best debater in the
league, $60 to the second best, and $40
to the third. A constitution has: been
drawn up by representatives of the
four universities, and all but a few
minor details settled.
HARVARD’S NEW STUDIES.
The New York Sun expresses itself
as follows after ru’ iaging through the
Harvard catalogue:
‘Some interesting innovations hid-
den in the mass of facts contained in
the catalogue of Harvard University,
recently issued, deserve the attention
cf the friends of Harvard and of the
higher education in the United States.
The University has launched into
fields, offering for
the first time in its history instruc-
tion not only in the Slavic languages,
in accordance with the suggestion
made by the Sun a year ago, but in
the Celtic and Egyptian languages. A
young man at Harvard has now the
opportunity to learn the Russian and
the Polish tongues, and to study their
philology in the Old Church Slavic.
The approach of two literatures of
great interest and importance is thus
opened tc American scholars. Two
courses in Irish are also provided, a
good beginning toward placing Celtic
studies in the positicn they deserve.
By introducing into its currievlum the
study of the Egyptian hieroglyphics,
it opens up to the American student
the feld in which the mest startling
archaeological discoveries of recent
times have been made.
For the first time, too, there appears
in a Harvard catalogue the announce-
ment of Radcliffe College, with its list
of officers, its conditions for admission
and its course of study. No list of
has ever been published
either by the “Harvard Annex’ or by
Radcliffe College, and no list of stu-
dents’ names appears now. The num-
ber of students, however, is given,
showing that 356 young women are in
attendance, of whom 212 are graduates
or members in full standing of college
classes. For the first time also two
names of women appear inthe list of
graduate students of the Harvard
Medical School.
‘ Another innovation in the  cata-
logue is the summary.of graduates of
other institutions and the colleges
they came from, which is given for
the graduate and professional schools.
This was given last year for the Law
School only. There are 444 graduates
of about 150 American colleges and
universities at work in Harvard, rang-
ing from Acadia and the University of
New Brunswick to the universities of
California and Washington in the
West, and that of Havana in the
South. In
the list of students are
graduates of German gymnasia, of
French iycees, one from the Paris
Heole des Chartes, others from the
universities of London and of Edin-
burgh. It is plain that Harvard is tak-
ing her place as a uriversal school of
knowledge.”
OTHER NOTES.
Professor Benjamin Ide Wheeler of
Cornell, who spent last winter at
Athens, is endeavoring to raise $3,500
to carry on the excavations at Corinth.
The Greek Government has agreed to
appropriate (i. e., to make public do-
main by purchase) the land desired for
excavation, with the understanding
that three-fourths of the price are to
be paid by the American School at
Athens. It is to be hoped that the
desired amount will be raised.
Dr. Frederick Bancroft has been ge-
lected to take the place of Dr. von
Holst at the University of Chicago,
this winter. He will deliver a course
of lectures on “The Political and Con-
Stitutional History of the United
States from 1840 to 1861.”