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YALE ALUMNI WHEHEKLY
NEWS FROM OTHER COLLEGES,
HARVARD,
The Harvard University catalogue
announces several important changes
in the heads of departments. Pro-
fessor Francke replaces Prof. Bart-
lett as Chairman of the Department
of German; Professor Sumichrast re-
plaices Professor Bucher as head of the
Department of French; Profe:sor Mac-
vane gives way to Preféssor Taussig as
Chairman of the Division of Histcry
and Beconomics, while the latter is re-
placed ‘by Professor Ashley fn his
former position as head of the De-
partment of Political Economy; Pro-
fessor Norton retires from the Chair-
manship of the Department of Fine
Arts and is replaced by Professor
Moore; Professor Byerly succeeds Pro-
fessor J. M. Peirce as head of the D.-
vision of Pure and Applied Mathemat-
ics; while as Chairman of the Mathe-
matics Department the place of Pro-
fessor Byerly is taken by Professor
Osgood. The Chairmanship of the De-
partment of Natural History, left va-
cant by the death of Professor Whit-
ney, is filled by the apointment of
Professor Farlow.
The Harvard Corporation has under
consideration the extension of the
Class day exercises into three days.
The object of this plan is to allow each
man a better opportunity to entertain
his friends and it is thought that by
this means also the class as a who.e
will be better able to furnish enter-
tainment. At present the crowd on
Class day is immiense, causing serious
inconveniences and depriving the day
of its pleasure for every one. TiLis
difficulty would be removed by the
prolongation of the exercises. Tie
also proposed that on one of these
days a championship baseball match
should be played at Cambridge.
The isixth ten of the Institute of
1770 from the Class of Ninety-Nine at
Harvard. was taken out last Thurs-
day night in the following order: 1,
J. K. Brooks, Milton, Miass.; 2, D. H.
Catlin, St. Louis; 3, P. Jewell, 2d, Bos-
ton; 4, W. S. Simpson, Dallas, Texas;
5, G M. Sargent, Boston; 6, P. L.
Brown, Belmont; 7, G oD. Marvin,
New Rochelle, N. Y.; 8, H. Williams,
Boston; 9, H. H. Shaw, Wellesley; 10,
L. G Coleman, Rich Hill, Mo.; Hon-
oraries, H. C. Hazelitine, 799; D. Fair-
pank, "'99: “We sty Pui, 993.) Ibs: oe.
Schlessinger, 99; C. S. Butler, ’99.
An exceedingly ‘enthusiastic meet-
ing of candidates for the Harvard
Mott Haven team was held at Cam-
bridge last Tuesday evening. Ad-
dresses were made by W. H. Vincent,
97, Captain of the team for the com-
ing year, and by a number of Har-
vard graduates, prominent in track
lathietilcs. Two hundred anid fifty
men handed in their names as candi-
dates for the team.
The famous Louisburg cross, which
(mysteriously disappeardd from ‘tthe
Harvard Library a year ago last Oc-
tober, was returned in lan equally
mysterious mamner last Tuesday
morning,
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA.
A new dental building is being erec-
ted at the University of Pennsylvania
which will be one of the finest build-
sings of its kind in the country. In
-the preparation of ‘plans a committee
from the Dental Faculty visited elev-
~en of the most prominent colleges in
the country. The structure will consist
.Of two parallel rectangular buildings
.~connected by a staircase wing.
The main building, which has a
_frontage of 180 feet and depth of 45
feet, will have two floors and a base-
ment. The operative clinic room, con-
itaining 110 dental chairs, will occupy
“Re entire pecond floor. On the first
floor wl! be the general mechanical
laboratory, plaster and mould ng
rooms, vulcanizing rooms, an examin-
ing room for patients, the administra-
tion offices, special laboratories, class
rooms, the extracting room and im-
pression room. The basement will be
given over ‘to various laboratories.
A special dining room, metallurgical
room, crown and bridge work room
and storage rooms.
The wing will contain a large lec-
ture amphitheater capable of seating
five hundred. There will also be in
this part of the building,
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laborato- |
ries for histological and bacteriologi- —
eal works, the library,
museum, ©
janiltor’s apartments and the laun- |
dry.
It has been decided by the Track |
Committee of the University of Penn: |
sylvania to hold an intercollegiate re-
lay race meeting at Franklin F-eld,
IT APPLIES BOTH WAYS.
[Journal and Conrier.]}
President Simmins of Fargo College
in North Dakota is calling for sub-
scriptions towards its better endow-
ment in the East, on the ground that
North Dakota stood up for sound mon-
ey in the presidential campaign,faith-
ful among the faithless States of the
Philadelphia, on April 24th. The races |
will be conducted. on much the same,
plan as those held last year. In-
vitations will be sent to all of the |
Bastern colleges and schcols inter-
ested and to some of the ‘Western |
universities.
There -will be a five- |
mile championship race open to teams |
of four
races
men.
In addition to these |
the different colleges enter.ng |
will be grouped to compete against |
each other in mile team races.
will be also mile races for
teams and a mile championship race
open to all recognized academic and
preparatory schools.
There |
school |
The report of the Treasurer of the
U. of P. Athletic Association shows re-
eceipts from all sources, for the year
ending September 30, ’96, $£€0,286.00;
football receipts and guarantees, $33,-
446.81; baseball receipts and guaran-
tees, $2,110.85; rowing receipts ,$3,076,-
99; track athietic receipts, $3,762.81;
gymnaslic team receipts, $887.32; duces,
$3,675.00. Total expenditures exclu-
sive of Harvard and Cornell games,
$12,551.65.
Professor Theodore G. Wormiey, for
twenty years a member of the Medical
Faculty of the University of Pensyl-
vania and a toxicologist and chemist
of wide reputation, died on Sunday
morning, Jaunary 3.
Wililam Inglis, Captain and Giant
Guard of the Washington and Jeffer-
son Football team, will enter the U. of
P. Medical School next Fall. ° |
The University of Pennsylvania is
making special efforts to stimulate the
growth of its graduate club, which
meets in Houston Hall.
GRADUATE CLUB FEDERATION.
The Federation of Graduate Clubs
of America met December 29 and 30,
reported thiat jin reply to circulars
which had been sent to 'the larger in-
stitutions of learning in this counitry
colleges.
-hew West. President Penrose of Whit-
man College in Washington, rothing
daunted, calls on the Hast to subscribe
in ali@ of his institution, because Wash- —
ington did go for free silver, and
therefore is plainly in need of better
educational ifacilities There is no
beggar so good at his trade as a
Western college president, and per-
haps there is none with a better cause
to beg for.
The Baltimore Athletic Club will
send an eight-oared crew to the Hen-
ley Regatta this year, the expenses
being defrayed bp a member of the
Club. This crew last year won the
chamipionships of the Potomac, Schuyl-
kill and Patapsco rivers, and at Sara-
toga, the championship of America, in
the National Regatta. On.July 4,
last year, they defeated the Bohemian
crew of New York.
FROM THE SCHOOLS.
The Berkley (N. Y.) Folio says: ‘The
school opens this year with the largest
number of new boys in its history—be-
tween eighty and ninety—and a consid-
erable number of applicants had to be re-
fused admission, especially in the upper
classes. Never, probably, have so many
large boys—from 15 to 18—entered any
school in New York in one year. We have
seventy-five boys in the two Senior class-
es, about 70 of whom will be presented
for college entrance examinations next
June in finals and preliminaries. In our
next number we shall be able to give
the number of candidates for the various
Yale is very strong in the list
this year.”’
The same paper has the following con-
cerning the muddle over the champion-
‘ship of the New York Interscholastic
unanimously awarded
League:
At the completion of the games in the
two sections, the football committee
the championship
of the first section to Berkeley and of the
second to Trinity, and appointed Friday
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at Johns Hopkins University. It was”
asking their ovinion upon the subject
of honorary degirees, fifiy out of ninety-
six had responded that they were in
the habit of conferring honorary de-
grees, while but eleven were in favor
of conferring them. The Federation
adopted lengthy resolutions to be s2nt
to the various colleges and universi-
ties. These resolutions were pro-
nounced in their opposition to ‘the
promiscuous conferring of honorary
degrees, The annual election of of-
ficers resulted as follows: President,
J. D. Forrest, Chicago; First Viice-
resident, J. H. Boynton, Harvard; Re-
cording Secretary, N. E. Bolton, Wis-
consin; Corresponding Secretary, Mary
Bartol, Michigan; Treasurer, Mr. Mc-
Cracken, University of New York.
OTHER NOTES.
The team races to be held at the
B. A, A. meet on February 6, are as
- follows: Harvard vs. U. of P.; Yale VS.
Priniceton; B. A. A. vs. Knickerbock-
er A. A.; First Regiment vs. Naval
Brigade; Harvard class teams; Am-
herst vs. Williams; M. I. TT.” ys,
Brown; Holy Cross vs. Georgetown;
Worcester A. C. vs. Harvard (second
team); E. B. A. A. vs. Cambridge G.
A,
The Cornell Sun announces qa num-
ber of vacancies in the University
Band, which must be filled in order
to insure the regular trips of that or-
ganization this term Two years ago
the band was presented with an en-
tirely new set of instruments by the
University at an expense of $6,000.
It is probable that J. V. Crum, the
Sprinter, will coach the University of
California track team for its field-
day next Sprine.
Athletic Treasurer J. J. Elliott has
made the statement of the Princeton
Football Association, showing re-
ceipts, $31,781; expenses, $17,048; bal-
ance, $14,739. Princeton’s share of the
Harvard game profits were $10,277;
Yale game, $14,156. 4
aitternoon, November 20th, for the final
championship game. ‘The result of the
games for the first section was as fol-
lows: Barnard beat De la Salle 6 to 4;
Berkeley beat Barnard 24 to 2; and Berk-
eley and De la Salle played a tie game, 6
to 6. The percentages, therefore, were as
follows: Berkeley first with 750, Barnard
second with 500, and De la Salle third
with 250. To the surprise of our captain
notice came two days later that we were
to play off the tie game with De la
Salle. We obeyed orders and did so, and
the result was 6 to 0 in favor of De la
Salle. ‘Then, although the football cham-
pionship had been definitely awarded, it
was announced that the second game
with De la Salle was to be counted in
place of the tie, which would leave a tie
all around in the first series. Not only
was the gross injustice of this action on
the part of the association manifest, but
the team which De la Salle lined up
against Berkeley was a totally different
one from that which they presented in
their game against Barnard, as the scores
themselves would indicate, and Berkeley
protested George H. Miller of De la
Salle, who acknowledged by the Regis-
trar of De la Salle Institute to have en-
tered that school on October 30th, after
the two first games of the series had
been played, thus violating the spirit of
the constitution and rendering De la Salle
liable to the extreme penalty. Not a
single argument was rebutted, and yet
the protest was not sustained. The foot-
ball committee, in direct contradiction
with their first ruling, ordered a new se-
ries to be played over, and that Berke-
ley shoula meet Barnard on November
20th. No course was open to the school
consistent with its dignity and the posi-
tion which it has always taken in the in-
terests of fair play and honorable sport,
except to default to Barnard, which it
promptly did, offering at the same time to
play Trinity for the championship, or to
play them a friendly game to decide the
supremacy of the schools in the league.
Our challenge Trinity declined to accept.’’
Fire in a Freshman’s Room.
A fire occurred last Tuesday noon
in the upper floor of Mrs. Corning’s
students’ apartment house, 233 York
street, and caused considerable dam-.
age. The flames started in a room oc-
cupied by W. E. Tracy, 1900, who to-
gether with R. S. Palmer, 1900 and
M. D. Budd, 1900, the occupants of
the room below, was at a recitation
during that hour, so that the fire
was not immediately discoverd. The
upper room was completely burned
out and the lower one greatly dam-
aged, both by fire and water. The
students place their loss at $100, while
a rough estimate of the damage done
to the house is between $1,500 and
$2,000.
resented by delgates were:
‘University,
FOR GENTLEMEN
Chase & Company’s
SHIRTS
For business, parties and receptions, in stock
and to order, made in the most thorough and
careful manner; $1.50, $2.00, $2.50 and up.
BLANKET WRAPS
For lounging and the bath, $5.00 to $20.00
Blankets and Bath Slippers $1.00.
GLOVES, -
Fowne’s ** Gold Tan,” $1.50.
Fowne’s ** Cavendish,” ** Welback” and]
** Reindeer.”
English Collars and Cuffs and.
English Neckwear, from
Welch, Margetson & Co.
Mackintoshes in Stock and to Special measure.
Party and- Reception Outfits
a Specialty.
CHASE & CO.,
New Haven House Building.
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GEN. WALKER'S FUNERAL.
Many Prominent Men Present at the
Ceremony.
» The funeral services of the late Gen-
eral Francis Amasa Walker were held
at Trinity Church, Boston, at noon on
Friday, Jaunary 8 The Rev. EK. Win-
chester Donald, D. D., and his assist-
ant, the Rev. William Dewart, offi-
ciated.
The pallbearers were the following
Technology students: Benjamin Hurd,
H. W. Allen, H. A. Noble, Carl Schutt-
lee, Lewis Stuart, Edward Johnston,
Jr, F. C. Field, O. W. Sawtelle.
Behind the casket walked the hon-
orary pallbearers, as follows: repre-
senting the Commonwealth of Massa-
chusetts, His Excellency Governor
Roger Wolcott; the City of Boston, His
Honor Mayor Quincy; the National
Academy, Prof. Asaph Hall; the cor-
poration of the institute, W lliam Hin-
dicott, Jr.; the faculty of the institute,
Prof. John D. Runkle; Amherst Col-
lege, President Merritt E. Gates; Yale
University, Prof. George J. Brush;
Harvard University, Pres.dent Charles
W. Eliot;: military Order of the Loyal
Legion, Colonel John C. Hazard;
Museum of Fine Arts, Colonel Henry
Lee; Massachusetts Historical Soc-e-
ty, the Hon. Samuel A. Green; mili-
tary Historical Society, of Massachu-
setts, John C. Ropes; the St. Botolph
Club, Solomon Lincoln; executive com-
mittee of the corporation of the insti-
tute, Colonel Thomas L. Livermore.
The service was the brief service for
the dead, of the Protestant Episcopal
church, without eulogy. The church
was filled, and many were compelled
to stand.
A delegation of the corporation and
faculty of the [Institute of Technolo-
sy was present and the column of
Students, alumni and undergraduates
extended half a mile as it slowly
filed into the church ghortly before
neon,
The colleges and organizations rep-
Harvard
Yale University, Worces-
ter Polytechnic Institute, the Museum
of Fine Arts, the Public Library, the
National Academy of Sciences, the
Loyal Legion, the St. Botolph Club,
the Commercial Club, the Delta Kap-
pa Epsilon fraternity, the American
Historical Association, the American
Statistical Association, Wellesley Col-
lege, the Einglish Bimetallic League,
and the Round Table Club.
The delegates from Yale University
were: Professor George J. Brush, di-
rector of the Sheffield Scientific
School, Prof. W. H. Brewer, Prof. oO.
C. Marsh, curator of the Peabody
Museum, .Prof. H. W. Farnam and
Prot. A. To sHadley..
The delegates from the National
Academy of Sciences were: Prof. O. CG.
Marsh of Yale University, Prof. John
Yrowbridge of Harvard University,
Prof. George L. Goodale of Harvard
University and Dr. S. C. Chandler,
Jr., of Boston.
Sao ee
The management of the Giee Club
has received a request from McGill
University, Canada, that they shoula@
send up a quartette to sing at the
concert to be given on Fesrusry 15th
