YALE ALUMNI WEEKLY CURRENT YALE LITERATURE. [Continued from 278th page. | letics take into active physical training a very considerable proportion of the University; that an outdoor disposition has become general, and that the ‘“‘tradi- tional pale-faced, hollow-chested stu- dent of the olden days is now rarely seen at Yale.” Under “Social Activities” many inter- esting customs that have gone by are given much space. The “College Bully” is one of them; the Fence and its change is another; the “Burial of Euclid,” and the “Wooden Spoon” are others, and so on and so on. Under this head of “Social Activities” come, of course, the societies. These are described, but there is not much analysis or criticism, although there is a general conclusion in favor of the Senior societies as exerting on the whole a wholesome influence. Professor Smith’s concluding chap- ter sketches the general principles which run through these various vol- untary organizations, emphasizing the responsibility which is placed on the undergraduate by the non-interference of the Faculty. Considerable space is given to a description of the patriotic spirit and its evidences at Yale. In this connection is an account of the formation of the Yale Battery, of the presentation of the Cruiser’s guns, and ’ of the war meeting. The style of treatment of the other colleges is much the same. One of the introductory chapters, by William T. Harris, on “Higher Education in the United States,” gives a number of very interesting figures and general state- ments. The book is beautifully gotten up, and the four hundred illustrations are almost without exception very well done. = = a Seventy-Seven Dinner. The dinner of the Class of Seventy- Seven on the evening of April 21st, at the Yale Club, New York City, was at- tended by forty-one members. Notices were sent during the last week of March to all the surviving graduate members of the Class, and the attend- ance was equal to more than one-third of such membership. The menus for the dinner included a reproduction in miniature of the Yale diploma as be- stowed at graduation, with the name inserted of each member of the Class attending the dinner. Barnum presided and. short speeches were made by a majority of the members present. ood,’ whose early life was spent at a missionary station at Natal, South Africa, entertained the Class with some specimens of Zulu vernacular. Jerry Williams, Orville Reed, and other for- mer members ‘of the University Glee Club, led in the singing of familiar Col- lege songs, which were enthusiastically rendered. Letters were read from ab- sent members of the Class, including Fisk of Denver, Colorado, Geo. Shelton, -J. Kenealy; of San Francisco, Dudley of Chicago, and Pyle the Class Poet, who now re- sides in the State of Washington. Four members have died since the last Class Reunion in New Haven in June, 1897, namely, Hoysradt, Shipley, Thompson, and F. C. Willcox. A toast to these four was drunk in silence. The following members of the Class were present at the dinner: Alvord; Andrews; Barnes; Barnum; Beach; Briscoe; Brooks; Chase; Clarke; Colgate; Davenport; Dickinson; G. T. Elliott; Frost; Gager; -T. D. Goodell; Hall; Hine; Johnston; Keator; Kelsey; Kimball; Knight; Langdon; Matthews; Merwin; Miller; Platt; O. Reed; C. K. Reid;* Roberts; Rood: .G. Smith; 7... Vo2 Smith; Stevens; Stimson; Strong;. Wheaton; A. Williams; W. P. Williams, and Wil- son. 5 4 2 Vv v Cable Chess Match. The first annual cable chess match between representatives of Columbia, Harvard, Princeton and Yale, and the British Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, was played on Friday and Saturday, April 21 and 22, and was won by the Englishmen by the score of 3% to’ 254. ~The American side of the match was played at the Knickerbocker Athletic Club in New York City, while the English team played at the British Chess Club in London. Baron Albert DeRothschild of Vienna acted as referee and Mr. John Henniker Heaton, M.P., served as umpire for the Americans at the British Chess Club. Professor Isaac L. Rice of New York was the British umpire. The only Americans who were vic- torious were A. S. Meyer of Columbia and L. A. Cook of Yale. Outing. Features of Outing for May include a trout-fishing story, “The Dam Leapers,” by Wm. A. Whitney; “Plovers and Plover Shooting,” by Ed. W. 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