The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-07-26
OUR EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS.
c. INFRINGEMENT WEEK AT YALE COiAtUE'
OUR NEW HAVEN CORRESPONDENTS.

c. INFRINGEMENT WEEK AT YALE COLLEGE.
OUR NEW HAVEN CORRESPONDENT.
New HAvss, July "a 1860
The weateT in ne CITY of Notwithstanding Asp
eiations-Roeeipss 5Me Year-B1sM ProspeSs-Fanny
Personai Satiatcs--7he Hopkins Grammar School, DC
Commencement week is fairly inangurated There
Is the usual rush OF alumni and those who expect to be
members Of the incoming class The rains OF saturday
and Monday have greatly improved upon the warm d'!
Of last week, when everybody was signing. won't
commencement he awful if it is as hot as this" II Is
much cooler now-may IL continue CO.
am sure every one has remarked VINO has landed at
the New Haven depot the great change among the So
ciety men in their mode Of eectioneerng freshmen.
There is NO more of the disgraceu nabbng Of boys on
tie cars or at the depot steamboat landing who are
suspected Of being sub freshmen II has been agreed by
both societies that member OF the incoming class sha
join be pledged either society till the evening after
the statement Of facts next September.
Last evening Iinonis opened with the first campaign
meeting TO which call members of the incoming class
we're invited and " whom the society exhibited herself
This evening the Brothers in Unity hold similar meet
ing have been 70, the comeocems0, examination
for admission unusually large humber OF applications
Those who have applied been much better prepared
than at any previous year. resulting, doubt not from
the conditioning Of many fr several years pasta fact
which shows what powerful infuenT Yale exerts over
the preparatory schools OF the country in favoring
higher Standard OF scholarship One hundred and eleven
have applied for admission OF whom very few compared
with other years have been and these not go
Der examination. This aueurs another large class
The current receipts OF Yale College facade
T sso sSs SssD iS' s ssSaS 20
this $40 4Ol % has accrued from term bills So s9 10
from scholarship and prize funds The total amount Of
expenditures has been 500 1871 o5; making deficit Of
500 rs. or tbesc expenses the Ellsworth estate has
6O47 ~ s25 COS SO have been paid out for in
struction, Tor scholarships and pr yes 50 GOA 3d.
Fort graduates have deceased
ncal year 1S59-60, among whom are several distinguish
cd names Their average age y four years The general
average has been without much variation from year to
year from sixtytwo TO sixty four years. This sudden
dropping down of the for the past year is quite
remarkable, and shows greater mortality among young
men Young men, here is field for speculation Wha.
meteorological changes during the year could have
wrought this difference Or does 1t result from dis pa
tier, so suddenly commencing its work Of deatht
The following statistics respecting the graduating class
have been furnished from ecurce said to be reliable
The average age Of the class rs twentytw years
member refuses to tell his age, but is
supposed 70 be thirty Eve, having been connected
with college curing the memory Of the eldest iuhabitant
The gest Is twenty and leads his class in the alta
ogoe The average weight Of the class about lao troy
pounds the heaviest man weghsthe most; the highest,
Ill pounds The height Of the class is i've feet
two inches exactly The taIlest Is six feet three
inches; the shortest, when standing brick just
brush the top OF his head under taest mans arm, in
horizontal position. Dramatically the average inca.
surepents are-Mound the waist, twenty eight inches
around tho chest thirty inches. around the fore
arm, Elk and hall inches; around the wrist five inches
the thigh eighteen inches around the calf, four
riches. The average Of the head 10 average
an OF brain very large The strongest in the
class l (berc am at less TO decpher figures ito
venture is either 619 e76 pounds Can Harvard beat
these statsticsf
The 2oOth anniversary of the Hopkins Grammar
School comes Off this afternoon and evening AS this
scho has among her alumni many Of the brightest stars
OF Yale. huge fpas may be expected nj the collation.
at the New Haven House 70 night
The tall about the meteor grows more and more inte
resting facts come in concerning it, II II thought
that sufficient data has been collected to deter mine It's
height and path through the heavens. Keen hunters
such wonders track OF the yisiter.
Tomorrow the meeting Of the alumni and much
IL anticipated Tho frum Worcester awated with
great interest," ard its arrival will either make every thing
mighty raise most tremendous storm OF enthu
siaem. "Give victory or death"