HARVARD LETTER.
Class Day Officers Chosen—Harvard
Threatened with Increased
Taxation.
[Correspondence of YALE ALUMNI WEEKLY ]
Cambridge, Dec. 20.-The election of
Class Day officers of the Class of
Ninety-Eight was held last Wednesday.
It was the first election by ballot and
the polls were open all day at Holden
Chapel. The new system developed no
objectionable features and over ninety
per cent. of the Class voted. Nearly
every successful candidate received a
majority vote. Many of the officers
were uncontested, as the expected vig-
orous campaign on the part of the non-
society men did not develop. The only
successful candidate, not on the Pud-
ding-Pi Eta slate, was Charles Grilk,
who defeated C. E. Morgan, 3d, for the
honor of Class Orator. Mr. Grilk
is himself a member of the Hasty Pud-
ding, but, failing to secure the Society
nomination, he bolted the ticket and
won on an independent nomination by
259 votes to 130. Both the candidates
had competed in Freshman _ intercol-
legiate debating contests, and Mr.
Grilk was last year a University speak-
er against Princeton and this month
was a member of the team that was de-
feated at New Haven. He has been
prominently before the class as a
Boylston prize speaker, and so had a
considerable following which enabled
him to win.
The officers chosen were: James
Handasyd Perkins of Milton, First
Marshal; David Marvin Goodrich of
Akron, Ohio, Second Marshal; Nor-
man Winslow Cabot of Brookline;
Third Marshal; Charles Grilk of
Davenport, Iowa, Orator; Guy Hamil-
ton Scull of Boston, Poet; Robert Pal-
frey Utter of Denver, Col., Ivy Orator;
Waldron Holmes Rand, Jr., of Dor-
chester, Chorister; Fullerton Leonard
Waldo of Bridgeport, Conn., Odist;
Bartlett Harding Hayes of Jamaica
Plain, Secretary; William Woodward
of New York City, George Winthrop
Bouve of Brookline, and James Lloyd
Knox of Newtonville, members of the
Class Committee; Frank Horace Bige-
low of Worcester, J. E. Norton Shaw of
Mattapoisett and Harry Kelley Brent
of Lexington, Ky., members of the
Class Day Committee; Leon Wallace
Redpath of Newtonville, Samuel Lester
Fuller of Andover and William Edward
Dorman of Lyme, members of the
Photographic Committee.
Of the eighteen successful candidates,
twelve are from Massachusetts and
eight of these are from Boston or the
immediate vicinity. D. M. Goodrich is
Captain and J. H. Perkins a member of
the University crew; N. W. Cabot, cap-
tain, J. E. N. Shaw, G. W. Bouvé and
J. L. Knox, substitute, played on the
football eleven; F. H. Bigelow is cap-
tain and L. N. Redpath a member of
the Mott Haven team, and W. H. Rand
is captain, and B. H. Hayes has been
a substitute on the ball nine.
LECTURES OF THE WEEK.
The lecture room at Harvard has
opened well. At a meeting of the
Graduate Club last Friday evening,
Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes of the
Massachusetts Supreme Court address-
ed the members, taking as his theme,
“Some Thoughts on the Labor Ques-
tion. An informal discussion followed
the address. On Wednesday evening,
Professor McL. Harper of Princeton,
spoke before the Cercle Francais on
“Le Caractére National de la Poésie
lyrique francaise.” On the same day
in the afternoon Professor Mitsukuri,
who was the representative of the Ja-
panese government in the recent con-
ference at Washington on the Seal
Fisheries, gave a talk before the Har-
vard Zoological Club on “Zodlogy in
_ the University of Japan and the Marine
Laboratory.”
On Thursday evening, Maj. Henry
L. Higginson gave a reception to the
holders of the leading scholarships in
the College. Thirty-five students were
included in the number. Among others
who attended the reception were: Gov.
Roger Wolcott, President Craft of the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
President Agassiz of Radcliffe, Prof.
Shaler, Prof. J..M.. Pierce, Prof. John
Fiske and members of the Corporation
and Board of Overseers.
The sixtieth anniversary of the Nat-
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ural History Society of Harvard was
celebrated on Friday. evening by a
meeting in the Fogg Art Museum.
Addresses were made by Prof. Shaler
on the history of the Society, and by
Mr. William T. Hornaday of the New
York Zodlogical Society on “The Pre-
servation of our Native Animals. After
the meeting a reception was tendered
Mr. Hornaday.
UNIVERSITY TAXATION AT HARVARD.
In view of the contest now in progress
in the Connecticut courts to test the
right of the municipality of New
Haven to tax the realty of Yale Uni-
versity, the prospects of a similar con-
troversy between Harvard and the
City of Cambridge is of unusual inter-
est. Following the decision of the Su-
preme Court of Massachusetts which
held that the houses of professors at
Williams College were taxable pro-
perty, professors’ houses have this year
been taxed at Harvard and Tufts as
well as at Williams. The . Foxcroft
Club at Harvard was also taxed this
year for the first time. This building
is owned by the University and leased
to a club of students for the purposes
of a dining hall. It is now stated that
the student dormitories and Memorial
Hall will be taxed next year. In this
event, the University will test the right
of such taxation in the courts, and the
decision of the Connecticut court on
the same question will become an im-
portant precedent. :
J. Weston ALLEN.
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Arrangements for Prom. Week.
The Junior Promenade, the social
event of the College year, will take place
Thursday evening., January 25th, in the
Second Regiment’s Armory. The festi-
vities will as usual open with the con-
cert of the Glee, Banjo and Mandolin
Clubs on Monday evening, in the Hy-
perion Theatre, after which the differ-
ent classes will hold their Class ger-
mans. The number of teas and re-
ceptions will be very large this year.
All but the final arrangements have
. been made, and from present indications
the Prom. of 1808 will not be inferior
to any of those of previous years.
The Committee elected from the
Junior class having entire charge of the
Prom. are: W. E. S. Griswold, chair-
man; F. H. Brooke, floor manager;
William F. Whitehouse, Carroll F.
Sweet, James McD. Magee, Henry T.
Bowles, Alfred G. Vanderbilt, Charles
H. Wells, Jr., and Harold C. Cheney.
The color scheme adopted for decora-
ting the Armory is red and white walls
with black Japanese panels and a ceil-
ing of pale blue. Each box will be sur-
mounted by a canopy of red and white.
C. H. Koster of New York City wil
carry out these decorations. The music
will be furnished by: Lander’s Orchestra
of thirty-five pieces, and Dreka will en-
grave the programmes. If possible the
method of disposing of the boxes em-
ployed last year will again be used,
which will materially lessen the expense
to each man. A fair price is placed
upon each box, and the applications of
the members of the Junior class having
been arranged by lot, they may choose
any box they wish. This does away
with the exorbitant bonus which have
prevailed at the auction sales of boxes
in past years. The program will
consist of eighteen dances with as many
intermissions and five extras. The
carriage contract has been awarded to
Murray, and the prices will be substan-
tially the same as last year. °
Following the custom of previous
years the members of the Committee
have decided not to send flowers to
their partners and all who attend are
requested to do likewise.
CLASS GERMANS.
The. Senior german will be held in
Lenox Hall immediately after the Glee
Club concert, Monday evening. The
german will be led by H. B. Wilcox
and F. H. Simmons. Seniors who wish
to attend and have not signed the book
at the Coop. may obtain tickets by ap-
plying or writing to 374 White Hall,
before December 3ist.
The Junior class will hold its german
in Alumni Hall on the same _ night.
The leaders of the german will be F.
H. Brooke and W. E. S. Griswold.
There will be four favor and one souve-
WHER LY
nir figures. Applications for ben,
will be received up to Saturday, Jan-
uary 15th.
The Sophomore german will be held
the same evening in Warner Hall-
There will be four favor figures in ad- |
dition to the souvenir figure. Maresi
of New York will be the caterer and
Weil will furnish the music. The ger-
man will be led by S. B. Camp, P. A.
Rockefeller and F. B. Adams. The
patronesses will be Mrs. William W.
Farnam, Mrs. Henry L. Hotchkiss,
Mrs. William Rockefeller and Mrs. |
Barney. : |
The Committee in charge are: S. B. |
Camp, J. C. Greenway, F. B. Adams, |
P. A. Rockefeller and W. L. Chitten-—
den.
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‘Law Journal’ Contents.
The December number of the Yale
Law School Journal, which appeared
last Friday, contains the following arti-
cles: “Our Duty to Spain,” by Profes-
sor Theodore S. Woolsey; “The Effect
of a Decree of Confirmation Under The
California Irrigation District Law,” by
W. B. Bosley of San Francisco; “Rights,
Duties and Remedies of the Parttes to
a Sale of Personal Property, Which is
to be Delivered and Paid For in In-
stallments,” by R. S. White of the New
York Bar.
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“Record” Editors’ Election.
At a meeting of the Board of Editors
of the Yale Record held Wednesday,
December 15th, the following men were
elected to positions on the Editorial
Board: Henry Hunt Tompkins, Jr., ’99,
of Denver, Col.; Edward Buffman Hill,
1900, of Yonkers, N. Y., and Warren
perros Thrope, 1900, of Philadelphia,
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The new dormitory which is being
built on Hillhouse avenue for the Ber-
zelius, the Sheff. Society, is being
pushed to completion as fast as possi-
ble. The brick work is now up as faras
the mezzanine. The building will be
ready for occupation by June first, 1808.
No changes have been made to the
plans as described in the WEEKLY last
Spring.
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