Morning journal and courier., 1881-03-22
College Notes.


 Class prayer meetings at 6:3O this evening.
 Lit. supper this evening at Redclife's. The seniors are abandoning kites and talk l ing to stilts.
 The seniors begin Lieber's Civil Liberty under Prof. Sumner on Wednesday. The first lesson is from page 37-57.
 Prof. Lounsbury delivered lecture in the Linonia course last evening on the Northum- | berland Gospels.
 The University base ball nine will play the Metropolitans on the polo grounds, New York, on Good Friday.
 The Townsend essays will be announced on Thursday morning.
 The New York alumni object to the way the Yale corporation manage things. They intend to investigate and attempt a reform.
 On Wednesday the consolidated nine will play game of base ball with the freshmen.
 The term bills were given out yesterday and the usual complaints of exorbitant charges for gas are now current. There is room for radical reform in the way the gas meters are inspected. One room using but one gas burner, and that only occasion ally, had bill of nearly ten dollars come in. Others have had bills come in when they used no gas at all.
 Woodward, 's3, of Wilkesbarre, Pa, has been elected second-bass on the Glee club in place of Clement, '82, resigned.
 The ActG Co1elna6tG7aG in it's last issue contains a very insulting and personal article concern ing one of the senior editors of the Yale Record The writer deserves the censure of the college world, and it is strange that so fine college paper should have permitted such piece to appear in it's columns
 Prof. Sumner lectured yesterday morning upon the presidential election of 1S4s and the slave discussions that agitated the country during the administration of Taylor and Fill more. An opinion prevails at the present time that appropriation riders" are modern inventions. This is a mistake, for in 1852 Charles Sumner tackled rider repeating the fugitive slave law on to an appropriation bill, and there are also many other instances re- corded in our political history The south erners were entitled to a fugitive slave law under the constitution and the section re- garding it, was copied from an old law made in New England concerning the rendition of apprentices.
 Prof. Hoppin will lecture to the optional class at the Art school to-day on 'tGreek Architecture"
 The Harvard EclO says that the Rdipus IyTGnraus which has been in preparation at Harvard for some time is to be acted in the original Greek in the Sanders Theater on May IT, 19 and 20. All the parts are to be taken by undergraduates except that of Gd- ipus, which will be sustained by MT. Riddle, instructor in elocution. The choruses, for which music has been composed by Prof. Paine, are to be sung by fifteen undergradu- ates, assisted by supplementary chorus of forty graduates. The price of reserved seats for the first performance is placed at $3, for each of the others at $2. One hundred tickets for the first evening and two hundred for each of the others are to be sold to per sons living in places distant from Cambridge. Applications for these must be made before l March 25 to O. W. Sever, University Book l store, Cambridge The music of the chor- uses, with Greek and English words and piano accompaniment, may be obtained after l March 30 by writing to Authur P. Schmidt, | I46 Fremont street, Boston. Price $I. l This is the first attempt ever made in this country to render Greek tragedy in the or ieinal tongue. !