Morning journal and courier., 1881-07-01
College Notes.

Yale,s 'e1 CIass-The Campus-The Ex-
 aninatfons-Hon. E. J. PheIps-Hon-
 orary Degrees.
 Although hundreds of the students have gone to their homes and the Yale buildings have somewhat of the deserted aspect which they will wear during the long summer vaca- tion, there were still enough left to populate the college fence quite numerously, and to discuss the prospects of the race today and
 all the gossip connected with the coming event. That Yale will not have walk-over. seems to be the prevailing impression, but confidence in Yale is strong, and with reason. A close and brilliant race to-day is expected. At the New Haven House many of the alumni were still remaining, having arranged to attend the race, and some of the older l alumni were enjoying the otiuns cam dignt- tGte appropriate to their assured and com fortable positions in life, the wreaths redo ] lent and fragrant Havanss adding to the | leisure hour character of the picture In I many of the boarding houses the tables were | crowded with new corners. candidates for l freshman honors at Yale.
 The examination for admission to Yale
 began yesterday morning. One hundred and 1 sixty candidates presented themselves for the ordeal at nine o'clock at Alumni Hall. In
 the morning the work in hand was the prep l aration of answers to questions on Latin grammar, Virgil and Cicero, and in the after l noon Greek composition and history were | the subjects. There are eighteen examina- tions in all, and will be continued to-day | and Saturday, and resumed again on the first
 Tuesday and Wednesday in September. Be- sides the 160 applicants there are eleven
 undergoing preparatory examination for l admission next year.
 In the Scientific School there are seventy applicants for this year and seven for next. Examinations are also being held in Gin
 cinnati, Chicago and San Francisco, in the latter city for the first time. The number of outside applicants has not as yet been re- ceived
 E. J. Phelps, who is made Kent Professor of Law in the Academica1 department, is 8 graduate of Middlebury College, class q
 184O, and an alumnus of the Yale Law
 School. At present he is lawyer at Bur ington, Vt., and during the last campaign was the Democratic candidate for the guber- HAO4OooOA5AAAP has been selected to fill here has been vacant for some years, instruction in it being given
 by Professor Baldwin of the Law School. MT. Phelps will come into residence on the first of January next, and will direct classes in constitutional and international law and the clements of jurisprudence.
 The University base ball nine will play one
 more game this season, and that will be in New York city with the Metropolitan club on
 the Fourth of July. The batting and field
 ing averages of the nine for the year have
 been published. The first baseman, s. c. Hopkins, Catskill, N. Y., leads in the field,
 having accepted one hundred and twenty-five out of one hundred and twenty-six chances offered him. In the batting Howard H. Walden, Brooklyn, N. Y, the captain of the
 nine, leads. Compared with other colleges
 the fielding of Hopkins ranks first. Wal
 den's batting record is fourth, Nichols of Harvard ranking first place, and s. Greene and Diltz of the Brown club second and third. F. NJ. Eaton, '82, St. Johns, N. B., the left
 rusher on last year's team, has been made captain of the football eleven for next fall.
 Honorary degrees were conferred by Am
 herst yesterday as follows: Ph. D., Profes- sor Henry A. Frink of Hamilton College; IL. D., Attorney General Wayne MacVeagh, Professor W. W. Goodwin, of Harvard Col lege, and General Francis A. Walker census
 superintendent and lately elected president
 of the Massachusetts Institute of Technolo- Greene of Lowell, Mass, Gone of the trustees of the college), and the Rev. Samuel Ives
 Curtis of Chicago.
 President Eliot of Harvard College once
 said that when he was called to the head of
 that institution he was neither D. D. nor
 an IL. D., but that Williams College prompt ly stepped in and conferred the latter degrees
 upon him. President-ele Carter of Will Hams was in about the same position till
 Union College last Wednesday gave him the longer title.
 '61's class meeting is thus related in the Hartford CouTunt: 'tAt the business meeting
 Billy Sims of Virginia, formerly of Missis- sippi, was chosen to preside. He was de- scribed by friendly hand some eighteen years ago as the dirtiest, raggedest and pluckiest little rebel in the confederacy,' but is now @ prosperous Virginia lawyer, con- vinced that the United States is Nation, with big N, and evidently as rejoiced to meet once more with his classmates as they were glad to see him. Among the members present were Professors Baldwin, Dexter and Peck of the Yale faculty, Professor Cook of Harvard, S. A. Bent, superintendent of public instruction at Nashua, N. H., Presi- dent Frisbie of St. Francis Xavier's College, New York, Professor McLane of the New York College of Physicians and Surgeons, Professor Otis of the Massachusetts Techno- logical Institute, and Professor Sill of the University of California The other profes- sors belonging to the class, including Pete Collier, were absent. There also were pres ent Bob. Chamberlain, Mayor of Santa Bar bara, Cal, Henry Holt, the New York pub fisher, George NJ. Towle, the Boston jour nalist and lecturer, J. l.. Shipley of the Springfield Union, the Hon. Anthony Hig- glns of Delaware, General Brayton Ives, ex- president of the New York Stock Exchange, and about thirty others equally worthy of l mention. The reunion lasted from 9 D. m. to After the | last man had told his story the members | of the class marched to the library building, l and surrounding the class ivy sang the beau l tiful song written for it's planting. There is | not a member of the class who could possibly | be convinced that there was ever such an- l other class or so choice class meeting Dur ing Tuesday afternoon reception for mem- l bers of the class and their wives was given by | Professor and Mrs. Dexter and added greatly | to the days pleasure"
 Taking Laudanum.
 A Mrs Mclean living on Portsea street, |