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by a chance which favored them
greatly. For several years the at-
tempt has been made to produce a
good dancing surface by laying crash
over the armory floor, but has been
always attended with disadvantages,
chiefly in producing a st fling and dic-
agstrous dust from the lint of the cloth.
Last year the floor was bare, but no
amount of waxing and polishing seem-
ed to render it at all slippery for danc-
ing and this year the new dancing
surface was a great improvement.
The floor was still very hard and de-.
void of any spring, but this fault
cannot p»vsibly be obviated.
The decorations were very much the
same as usual, the colors being light
blue over the ceiling and orange and
white around the walls. Everyone
could aprpeciate the artistic effects
thereby produced, except for the fact
that it prevented an adequate and
proper ventilation of the building. This
point of ventilation is indeed one of
the greatest drawbacks to the use of
the armory for the Junior Promenade.
Every year the same complaint is
heard and it seems almost impossible
for it to be satisfactorily remedied.
The music was without criticism.
Two bands, as usual, played alter-
nately during the evening and the
selection of pieces was exceptionally
well made. The greatest enthusiasm
was produced when both bands played
together thus creating a double
volume of sound and making the
temptation to dance practically irre-
sistible. Emncores were called for fre-
quently and during the early part of
the evening were given with great
willingness.
ONE POINT FOR CRITICISM.
The only real fault that can be
found with the arrangement at the
Promenade this year was in connec-
tion with the supper, and this is an
old fault. It is every year a most
difficult matter to obtain a good sup-
per, served promptly and warm. This
year either the corps of waiters was
too small or their organization in-
adequate, for in many cases it was
impossible for tthe guests to obtain
any supper at all, without much hard
work and actual fighting on the part
of the men. - The. service was, how-
ever, very irregular and from some
parts of the hall no complaints were
heard in this connection.
REGARDING EXPENSES. -
Regarding the financial outcome of
this year’s Promenade the treasurer
of the committee is as yet not able to
give exact figures. A rough estimate,
however, names the total receipts
from boxes, tickets, subscriptions, etc.,
at $5,400, and the total expenses at
$5,100. The usual cost of Promenades
is in the neighborhood of $5,000, and
the Faculty have always requested
that the committees should not allow
the expenses to greatly exceed that
amount. The surplus, which is ex-
pected to be about $1,300, will be used
primarily to pay off the class debt of
about $1,000, contracted in Freshman
year by the football eleven and crew.
Any sum in excess of that will be do-
nated either to the Athletic Financial
Union or the University Library.
Last year the surplus of the Prom-
enade was $3,700, the total receipts
having amounted to $8,500. This means
that the college men who enjoyed
these two Pomenades paid in the ag-
sregate $2,000 more last year than this
year for the same amount of pleasure
and benefit. If such results as this
reduction of expenses can be obtained
by careful management and new ar-
rangements, this will always be ap-
preciated by college members’ and
friends, who would rather see their
contributions devoted to a successful
and moderate Promenade than to the
creation of an enormous surplus, to be
ultimately donated to some outside
purpose.
Any discussion of such events as
Junior Promenades, which are con-
ducted by undergraduate manage-
ments, even if it be not at all in the
form of a criticism of any special acts
committed, cannot help but make con-
spicuous the advantages that would
accrue from some permanent element
in the governing body. To be sure,
the members of each Junior Promen-
ade committee step into office with
the advantage of a certain amount of
experience in such matters gained by
attending the ball of the preceding
season, aS guests, and this advantage
is the strongest reason why an ex-
clusion of Sophomores from the Prom-
enade (a plan suggested in order to
ties.
reduce the numbers, and hence the
competition for boxes and other nec-
essary adjuncts to a proper entertain-
ment) would be a disastrous measure
to accomplish the desired aim. What
form of a permanent management
could be adopted without depriving
the event of its strictly undergraduate
character, it is indeed hard to deter-
mine, but it is a matter worthy of
discussion, and deserves a place in
the same general line of questions as
to how the Junior Promenade can be
made a more genuine Yale affair.
CREW WORK BEGINS.
General Character of the Work—The
List of Candidates.
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The candidates for the University
crew were called out for the first time
last Wednesday and the preliminary
Winter work was commenced. The
men were first taken for a run of
about three miles and afterwards
worked for a short time in the tank,
where they were subjected to a due
amount of individual coaching. For
the next few weeks the daily training
will be of the same character consist-
ing of out door runs of from three to
five miles, followed by light calis-
thenics in the gymnasium and then
by rowing in the tank.
In rigging the shells for practice last
Fall, and for the indoor work this
- Winter, the question was discussed of
adopting the English system of thole-
pins and of seating the eight men on
alternate sides of the boat. These
ideas were thoroughly tested last
Fall, and in the estimation of the
Yale crew authorities were not found
to be of material advantage over the
old arrangement, and it is doubtful if
any further changes toward the Eng-
lish rowing methods will be adopted.
A radical change has been made in
the rowing apparatus, the blades of
the oars, which were formerly cut out
in the center, have been improved by
being symmetrically thinned down to
the width of three inches. This makes
the resistance of the water less felt,
and about equal to that obtained .in
a moving boat. 4
The candidates with their respec-
tive weights are: H. C. Campbell, Jr.,
"97, 170; C. Chadwick, °97, 183; Doeaw.
Miller, ’97, 161; J. C. McLauchlan, ’98,
164; T. Wright, ’98, 175; T. D.-Hewitt,
799, 160; W. Whitehouse, ’98, 165; W.
BE. S. Griswold, ’98, 165; G. W. Sloco-
vitch, ’98S., 173; G. P. Baker, ’99, 170;
H. Parkhurst, ’98S., 166; G. T. Marsh,
98, 170; S. Patterson, ’97, 175; B. L.
Cadwalader, ’98, 175; A. F. Way, ’99,
155; A. C. Ledyard, ’98, 165.
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Indoor Athletic Games.
It has been finally decided that Yale
shall be allowed to hold as usual the
annual Winter indoor games in the
Second Regiment armory this year.
This has been decided by the state
officials, who have just notified the
Yale athletic management of their de-
cision.
Much more than the mere question
of allowing Yale to hold the regular _
games in the armory hung on the
decision of the state military authori-
A year ago the state took the
ground that no organizations should
be allowed to hold public events in
the state armories.
The ground for the decision of the
state militia in making an exception
to their rule in Yale’s case is that the
University supports a military com-
pany, which drills regularly in the
armory, and that the University pays
a military tax, thus entitling it to
hold its usual events in the armory.
The annual Winter indoor games will
be held on Saturday evening, March
13. The arrangements and list of
events will be the seme as usual, ex-
cept that fistic bouts in three classes
will be substituted for the tug of war
events.
Most of the large Eastern athletic
clubs are expected to send teams, but
it is not yet known what colleges will
compete. A request has been re-
ceived from the Seventh Regiment to
enter a team in the relay race. The
request is under the consideration of
the committee, and it has not been
decided whether this team will be
taken or some college team in its
stead.
NEWS FROM OTHER COLLEGES,
HARVARD,
The rnidwinter training of the Har-
vard crew this year is quite different
from that of former years, which is
is largely due to the racical changes
introduced by Mr. Lehmann during his
Fail work with the nen. The gly¢er-
ine pressure machines which were in-
troduced Ly Mr. Waisou have given
place to the tank and stationary boat
riggel with the English thole pins
and level sides, as was the barge in
Which the crew rowed last Fall, so
the practice now obtained is far more>
practical than that previously em-
ployed.
Another innovaticn is the entire dis-
appearance of secrecy which was
prevalent during Mr. Watson’s reign.
Now anyone is welcomed at the row-
ing room, and .a far more unre-
strained atmosphere surrounds crew
training. At present the training is
not very rigorous, owing to the crew’s
hard season on the river in the Fall
and the fear of their becoming stale
if pressed too hard at the start. Mr.
Lehmann indeed has little faith in the
efficiency of indoor training, save in
the aim to keep the men in good
physical condition and not to allow
them to become unfamiliar with the
essentials of the stroke. He believes
that the oarsman’s skill is to be ob-
tained on the water alone.
As most of the present crew men
10oWwed on last year’s University crew
no call for candidates has been issued;
so those working for places in the
University bcat are out with the vari-
ous class crews, from which the extra
men are taken to the University tank.
The seventh ten of the Institute of
1770 from the class of Ninety-nine
were taken out Monday night in the
following order: H. Sampson, Jr.,
New York; B. H. Whitbeck, Roches-
ter, N. Y.; G. F. Baker, New York;
W. S. Fitz, Newton; T. H. Endicott,
Boston; G. D. Hall, St. Louis, Mo.;
H. Talmadge, 2d, Netherwood, N. J.;
P. French, Boston; W. P. J. Dins-
moor, Keene, N. H.; R. A. Jackson,
Boston Honoraries: D. F. Murphy,
*47; I. Bowditch, ’°97; W. J. Denholm,
"97; J. B. Swan, ’98; H.-Wood, ’98; E.
L. Pruyn, ‘97;R. S. Warner, ’98.
The Harvard- Corporation has voted
to give fifteen thousand dollars
towards the improvement of Soldiers’
Athletic Field, provided the Carey
building be abandoned after this year
so far as athletics are concerned.
Even if the petition to keep Holmes
Field for athletics is granted for the
remainder of this year, the work of
improving Soldiers‘ Field will be be-
gun as soon as the weather permits,
and it is expected that hereafiter all
athletics will take place there instead
of on Holmes Field.
There is considerable feeling among
the Harvard undergraduates, and
especially the Senior class, in regard
to the action of the Corporation in
abolishing the “old and honored’
Class Day custom of ‘“‘scrummaging”’
for the flowers about the “Flower
Elm.”
Tiarvard University is now consid-
ering the endowment of a memorial
window to John Harvard, to be
placed in St. Saviour’s, Southwark,
England, where he was christened in
1607.
PRINCETON,
The annual Princeton alumni din-
ner, held in New York, under the aus-
pices of the Princeton Club of that
city, last Thursday, was by far the
largest and most successful one of
recent years. The banquet room of
the Savoy Hotel, where the dinner oc-
curred, was appropriately decorated,
and nearly two hundred alumni were
seated at four tables running the
f length of the room, the older classes
being in the center and the recent
graduates on the sides. Those who
sat at the head table as guests of
honor. were: President Patton, Presi-—
dent Low of Columbia, Hon. James
C. Carter of Harvard, Hon. Henry E.
Howland of Yale, Professor West,
William Fi. Annin, ’77, Professor Wil-
liam Libbey, Charles E. Green, ’60,
Abram §S. Hewitt, John S. Billiups
and Charles S. Gleed of the Univer-
sity of Kansas.
‘deep regret the news of the
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COLUMBIA.
“Cleopatra”’ is the name of the pro-
duction which the Columbia Univer-
sity Musical Society will give at Car-
negie Lyceum on February 15 for the
benefit of athletics in general. But as
the crew began training this season
with a debt of $3,500, the various other
athletic managements have resigned
their claims in favor of the University
crew, and as the amount cleared will
rrobably determine whether the crew
will go to Poughkeepsie or not, it is
greatly hoped that the affair will be
as much of a financial as it has been
a social success.
PENNSYLVANIA.
The instructors and students of the
Wharton School of the University of
Pennsylvania, desiring to give expres-
sion to their grateful appreciation of
the worth and services of the late
Francis A. Walker, who died in Boston
on January 5 have passed the follow-
in’g resolutions:
“Resolved, That we have heard with
sudden
death of Dr. Francis A. Walker, the
foremost exponent of eccnomic.§ sci-
ence in the United States. We cannot
but feel deeply grateful for his mem-
orable services to the cause of eco-
nomics, which have so lightened our
labors as teachers and studeuts, and
are profoundly conscious of the great
loss our American economists have
suffered in being deprived of his clear
judgment and luminous exposition of
economic doctrine and phenomena. In
regretting his loss, we rejoice that he
leaves behind - him, in his numerous
works, so fitting a monument to his
memory, and so rich a source of in-
Sciration and assistance to all who
may follow after him in economic re-
search.
“Resolved, That copies of these reso-
lutions be sent to the family of Presi-
dent Walker, and be placed upon the
minutes of the Wharton School Com-
mittee.
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Scranton Alumni Organize.
In response to a notice sent to the dif-
ferent Yale men in and around Scran-
son, about fourteen assembled in the
office of Col. H. M. Boies, ’59, to hear
the report of the committee on the con-
stitution and by-laws appointed at the
last meeting.
Col. Boies was elected temporary
chairman, and the report of the com-
mittee was thenread. Theconstitution
and by-laws drawn up by the commit-
tee were adopted as read.
The election of officers was as fol-
lows :
President, Hon. W. H. Jessup.
Vice-President, Mr. Henry Helin, Jr.
Secretary and Treasurer, Mr. J. M,
Boies, ex-’95 S.
Mr. James Oakford and Hon. R. Ww.
Archbald were elected to serve on the
executive committee.
It was agreed that the time and place
of the next meeting and banquet be re-
ferred to the executive committee, but
April 20 was recommended as the date.
It was voted that all undergraduates
were eligible to membership in the
Association, and that the secretary send
notices to all Yale men in Scranton and
TiGRy, of the next meeting and ban-
quet,