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Von: t4. ‘No, 40
NEW HAVEN, CONN., AUGUST, 1900.
Copyright, 1900,
by Yale Alumni Weekly.
PRICE 10 CENTS.
VALHIS NORTHEIELD DELEGATION
MONEY FOR DEBATE,
Five Thousand Dollars from John
W. Hendrie for Prizes.
One of Yale’s most generous bene-
factors has recently turned his atten-
tion to the encouragement of the subject
of debate, and, as a result, early this
month the following was received at
New Haven:
TREASURER YALE UNIVERSITY,
; New Haven, Conn.
Dear Swi...
Please find inclosed check for five
thousand dollars ($5,000) as a fund for
prizes to promote debating.
Yours very respectfully,
(Signed) JoHN W. HeENnoprIE.
The form of the letter leaves the
amount and character of the prizes to be
decided later. It seems to express the
wish of the donor that the encourage-
ment which he desires to give to the
art of debating at Yale should go in
the form of prizes, although whether
this shall prove to be his definite desire
in the matter is not yet clear. There is
a very great difference of opinion among
those interested in the subject as to how
it can best be encouraged.
However, the term prize might include
a great many things, and there is little
doubt that the final arrangement of the
matter will be satisfactory to the best
and wisest of the friends of debate. .
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Incoming Freshman Classes.
According to figures now in hand it:
appears that the incoming Freshman
Class in the Academic Department will
be about 358. This is a gain of 24 over
what the figures showed the same time
last year. There are yet, of course, the
September examinations, which may
change the above number somewhat.
The number of candidates taking the
final examinations in June was 407.
At the present writing 308 candidates
have taken the preliminary examinations,
of which number 241 passed success-
fully.
From the June figures in the Scien-
tific School it is estimated that the en-
tering Class there will be about 10 per
cent. greater than last year, or about
205. There was a slight.increase in the
number of candidates who took the final
examinations over last year.
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Bulidings at Yale.
The contract for building the Yale
dining hall, one of the Bi-centennial
group, was awarded to Norcross Bros.
of Worcester, Mass., about the midddle
of July, the cost for the completed work
being approximately $300,000. Work has
progressed far enough for the laying of
the cornerstone, which will probably
take place, some time next week. The
dining hall, as described in the Bi-cen-
tennial building issue of the ALUMNI
WEEKLY, Jan. 31, 1900, last, will be on
Grove Street facing the cemetery. <Its
dimensions. are: length, 200 feet;
breadth 60 feet, and height 60 feet. It
will contain over 10,000 square feet of
room. The interior of the hall will be
_ chiefly of masonry, simple in design, with
high windows so that memorial tablets
may: be placed upon the walls under-
neath them. The material for the build-
ing will be light Indiana limestone and
the general style that of the Renaissance.
Work was begun on the Fayerweather
Hall foundations shortly after July I,
and has been pushed so rapidly that
a portion of the exterior walls are up
to the first floor. Sperry & Treat of
New Haven, who have done much build-
ing for Yale, have the contract.
Fayerweather Hall is to be a compan-
ion building to White, but will be by no
means its exact counterpart. There will
be much more stone in its construction
than in White. In the central division,
the face will be largely stone with brick
panels. This will also be true of the end
adjoining Elm Street. The central divi-
sion of the building, instead of being
carried up a half story, as is that in
White, will be a full story, giving
equally large dormitory rooms there.
The exterior masonry of Hendrie
Hall, the Law School front, was com-
pleted several weeks ago and _ the
plasterers and steam fitters are at pres-
ent at work in the interior. Another
month will see the building about ready
for occupancy.
The new hall of the Book and Snake
Society at the corner of Grove and High
Street, is nearing completion, as far as
the exterior is concerned, only a portion
of the roof remaining unfinished. It is
built of white Vermont marble and even
in its incompleteness makes a very hand-
some appearance... Its dimensions are 40
feet by 70 feet.
The new $13,000 addition to the Uni-
versity Club is almost ready for the roof
and will surely be complete by the time
College opens. A cut of the completed
building and.a description of it was
printed in the WEEKLY in the issue of
June 20.
The carpenters have finished the rooms
for the Campus post office in North Col-
lege and everything is in readiness for
the beginning of the new service when
College opens, September 27.
YALE AT NORTHFIELD,
A Very Large Delegation—A Sketch
of the Life There.
The Northfield Students’ Conference,
which lasted from June 29 to July 9,
saw the usual large proportion of. Yale
men present, one hundred and twenty-
six men representing this University.
Princeton was next with forty. <A total
of six hundred students attended this,
which was the fifteenth annual confer-
ence. These Yale men took part:
Platform speakers— Rev. Dr. R. A.
Torrey, 75, of Chicago; Rev. Dr. W. R.
Richards, ’75, of Plainfield; Rev. H. P.
Beach, ’78, of China; Mr. Av B. Wil-
liams, Jr., 98, of Scranton; Mr. John
R. Mott, M.A., 1899; Mr. -Robert. E.
Speer, M.A., 1900; Mr. W. R. Moody,
791; Mr. P. D. Moody, Igot.
Missionary Institute Leaders—Mr. H.
P. Beach, 778; Mr. F. M. Gilbert, ’98.
Normal Bible Class Leaders—Mr. W.
D. Murray, ’80; H. B. Wright, ’98.
The athletics were in charge of
Howard Richards, 1900 S., of last year’s
Yale Eleven: Roy Clark, Captain of
Brown University Baseball Team; Gard-
ner, stroke of University of Pennsyl-
vania Crew, and Waite of Syracuse, a
Mott Haven sprinter.
Yale won the track meet by an over-
whelming margin. A. H. Richardson,
IQ0I, captained the team. Princeton
won in baseball and tennis.
At the Fourth of July demonstration
Hon. Luther Laflin Mills of Chicago,
father of Matthew Mills, 1900, gave the
patriotic address.
The total number of Yale men, grad-
uate and undergraduate, present was 125,
as follows:
Graduates—R. C. Morse, 62; R. A.
Torrey, 75; W.R. Richards, 75; W. D.
‘oy