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PRIZE COMPERITIONS
Subjects Announced for TenEyck,
DeForest and Others.
The following are announced as the
subjects for the Ten Eyck Prize Com-
petition for 1898: The War in Greece,
Kipling’s India, The Annexation. of
Hawaii, Popular American Feeling
Against England, 1849, The Abolition-
ist Orators, The Trans-Siberian Rail-
way, Cooper’s Sea _ Stories, Recent
Arctic Exploration, The Jesuit Mis-
sionaries in Canada, The Morte Darthur
of Sir Thomas Malory, Victor Hugo.
Essays are due March Io.
TOWNSEND—DEFOREST SUBJECTS.
The subjects for the Townsend-
DeForest Prize competition for 1898
have also just been announced. The
essays are due April 30. The subjects
follow: Tennyson, France and Russia,
The Jacobites, John Marshall, The
Oedipus Rex of Sophocles, The Decline
of Spain, Chateaubriand, The Italians
in the United States, The Romances of
Defoe, Franklin as a Typical American,
The English Ballads, The Growth of
the Argentine Republic, Archbishop
Laud, The Italian Plays of Shakes-
peare.
BETTS PRIZE.
The special essay in the competition
for the C. Wyllys Betts Prize for 1898
is to be “A Study in the Prose Style
of Matthew Arnold” based on the fol-
lowing works: “Culture and Anarchy,”
“On Translating Homer,’ “The Lit-
erary Influence of Academies,” “Words-
worth,” “Byron,”
Essays in competition must be pre-
sented on Saturday, May 28, 1808,
before noon.
THE MCLAUGHLIN PRIZES.
The McLaughlin prizes for 1898 (a
first and second) will be awarded for
the best essays from the Freshman
class, Academic department, on Tenny-
son’s “In Memoriam.” Essays are due
May 3!1.
SCOTT PRIZE IN FRENCH.
In the year 1897-98. the Scott Prize
in French will be awarded to that
member of the Junior class who shall
pass the best examination (to be held
during the latter half of the second
term) in the following works: Cor-
neille’s “Cinna,” Racine’s “Phédre,
Moliére’s: “Femmes Savantes,’ Reg-
nard’s “Jouetr,”’ Voltaire’s ‘“Mérope,”
and Taine’s “Essays on Racine.”
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University Glee Club of New |
York.
The announcement for the fourth
season, 1897-98, of the University Glee
Club of New York City has_ lately
appeared. — 7
The Club, which was started for the
purpose of getting together those col-
lege men who lived in New York and
also for a help in the training of their
voices, was organized March 8, 1894,
and incorporated July 2, 1804. The
officers for this year, among whom only »
a few changes have been made from
those of last year, are as _ follows:
President, J. Edward Weld, Harvard;
Vice-President, George E. Wood,
Columbia; Secretary, Noah H. Swayne,
2d, Yale; Theasurer, Burt L. Fenner,
Rochester University. S. C. Mead is
Librarian of the Club and Arthur D.
Woodruff is the Conductor. The Musi-
cal Committee for this year consists of
Edward W. Bill, Princeton; Frank C.
Hoyt, Wesleyan; Russell-H. Hoadley,
Jr., Columbia, and J. Edward Weld,
Harvard, Chairman.
The concerts of the fourth season ’
will be given in the Concert Hall of
the Madison Square Garden on the
evenings of Thursday, January 27th,
and Thursday, April 28th, 1808, begin-
ning at half past eight.
The associate membership is limited
to two hundred. These members pay
annual dues of fifteen dollars, and re-
ceive five tickets for each concert, and
are privileged to attend the rehearsals
of the Club,, which will be held at
Hardman Hall, Nineteenth street, near
Fifth avenue, on Thursday evenings.
The Club has fifty-three active mem-
bers, among whom are eleven Yale
graduates. Harvard has three repre-
sentatives among the active members,
- Princeton nine, Columbia thirteen, and
The Yale men are: ;
C. A. Schreiber,
Cornell one.
H. Swayne, 2d, ’93;
*92; S. C. Mead, ’90; J. Beadle, ‘86;
W. P. Brandegee, ’96; W. W. Crehore,
’86; G. Cromwell, ’83; C. W. Cutter,
8s: T. M. Debevoise. ’95; F. F. Geor-
ger, ’87S.; N. M. Goodlett, ’86.
Wale Review Contents for
November.
Comment: Henry George; Ethics of
Arctic Exploration; The Strike of the
English Engineers.  Bo~- Articles:
“The Function of the Undertaker,” by
Professor Sidney Sherwood, of Johns
Hopkins University; “Clearing House
Loan Certificates, by Mr. C. E. Curtis,
of New Haven (S.S.S. 1888): “English
Legislation in 1897,° by Mr. Edward
Porritt; “Some of the Contributions of
Militancy to the Industrial Arts,” by
Dr. W. B. Bailey (Yale 1894). Notes:
Tne Charity Chapter in the Greater
New York Charter; Demand and The
Ratio; The Anthracite Coal Troubles
(by Mr. J. Graham Brooks, of Cam-
bridge): Social Comptabilism; Is the
Middle Class being crushed out?; Con-
necticut State Expenses; A St.te Tax.
on Rentals; The Consumer’s League.
Boox Reviews: Leckxy’s Democracy;
Grosvenor’s Constantinople; Houston’s
Nullification in South. Carolina; Pal-
grave’s Dictionary of Political Econ-
omv: Neefe’s Stadtebuch; Cournot’s
Mathematical Principles o1 the Theory
of Wealth. |
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Wale Medical Journal Contents,
The contents of the November issue
of the Medical Journal, which appeared
last week, in addition to the regular
departments are as follows: “A Case of
Acromegaly,” by O. T. Osborne, M.D.;
“The Connecticut Medical Society,”
(Part II.), by N. E. Wordin, A.M., M.
D.: “How Shall We Work?” by Prof.
William M. Polk; “Report of Four
Cases of Ectopic Gestation, with His-
tory, Treatment and Remarks,” by E.
D. Coonley, M.D.; “A Case of Lan-
les Paralysis,’ by S. H. Wadhams,
Vale Sketches,
Colonel Norris G. Osborn, ’80, is
contemplating the preparation of a
book on “Life at Yale.” The sugges-
tion has been made to Colonel Osborn
by several publishing houses recently.
The book will cover the period from
1866 to 1886, and will define the differ-
ent phases of Yale life, as the titles of
some of the sketches selected would
show—‘‘Yale~ Spitit;”” “The Fence,’
and ‘‘Moriarty’s.”. No imaginary char-
acters will be dealt with, as in “Harvard
Stories.”
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Southern Club Banquet.
The Southern Club held its annual
banquet, at Heublein’s, on November
roth. A quartet from the Glee Club,
composed of A. J. Baker, 1900, G. S.
Cowan, ’098, H. C. Cheney, ’o9, and H.
S. Borden, ’08, sang during the evening.
The order of toasts was as follows:
“Our Personnel,” G..L. Parker, P.G.;
“Harvard Southern Club,” T. J. Brent,
of ..-Harvard: “Princeton
Club,” W. F. McCombs, of Princeton;
‘Ine Old Vateiny,” BR. So Hume; 98;
“Colonels and Cowboys,” E. B. King,
98: “Girls We Left Behind Us,” G. S.
Cowan, ’98; “The Alabama Coon,” S.
W. Jackson, ’98; “Dixie,” M. Shep-
patd,.’08 M:S.. -T. J.» Field,-: ’99 LS.
acted as toastmaster.
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Corbey Court Elections.
The following men were recently
elected into Corbey Court, a society of
the Law School: John Warren Edger-
ton, of Middletown, Conn.; Robert
Barlow Harkness, of Salt -Lake City.
Utah; Albert Francis Judd, Tr., of
Honolulu, H. I.; Francis Martin Lynch.
of Olinhant, Pa..: Knox Maddox, of
San Francisco, Cal.; Robert Lewis
Munger, of Ansonia, Conn.; William
Southern .
WEEKLY
Roger Pitkin, of Boston, Mass.; Ed-
ward Lawrence Smith, of Hartford,
Conn.; Charles Heitler Studinski, of
Pueblo, Col.; Graham Sumner, of New
Haven, Conn.
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Law Journal Contents.
The contents of the Yale Law Journal
for November are as follows: “Some
Peculiarities of our National Mining
Law,” by J. B. Clayberg of the Helena,
Mont., bar, Lecturer on Mining Law at
fluence of the Eighteenth Novel of
Justinian,” by Robt. C. Fergus, D.C.L.,
of the Chicago bar; “The Blue Laws
of New Haven,” by Henry B. Newton
of the New Haven bar. More than the
usual amount of space has been devoted
in this issue to cases and comments.
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Contents of Vale Scientific
Monthly.
The November number of the Yale
Scientific Monthly contains the following
articles: “The First International Con-
egress of Mathematicians,” by Prof.
Pierpont; “A New Form of Cellulose,”
by E. L. Freeland, .’98S.; “Steel Cast-
ities’ ~ by R.° DB. Reynolds, 08:5;
“Postal Savings Banks,’ by W. W.
Knight, ’99S.; “The Development of
the South African Diamond Fields,” by
H. S. Canby, ’99S.; “Sir Isaac New-
ton, by i... Davis: 00'S. ~r0s0 the
usual departments: “Editors’ Notes,”
“Scientific Notes,” ‘The Month,”
“Alumni Notes,” and “Digest of Fresh-
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