New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-07-30

VACI7ION NOTES FROM YALE.


| THE COLLEGE IN THE HANDS OF THE CARPENTERS
NEW BUGLDINGs-A NEw SENIOR SOCIETY.
iFRoM AN OCCASIONAL CORRESPONDENT OF TIE TRIBUNE
NEw-HAvEN. July 2S.-A peaceful calm
broods pac this time OF the year, when the
students away. that Is positively painful. Take
thousand young men, especially college Boys. out Of any
pacr and II Ia to aching void. People
no really regret when college closes TOR che summer
and yearn lmpatlenty for 1t to reopen in the fall Few
doubt have read bsny co.ored stories OF college
life here OF depredItons committed AT midnight upon
unsuspectug citizens and their property, of tarred and
| featbsred professors and tutors, and of countless
breaches of the public peace will learn with surprise
tue people miss the students far more than the
stuGents miss the people Around tho college grounds
II IL as calm and quiet a cemetery, the silence being
only now and then rudcy broken by the sound OF the
| carpenters hammer beating lively tattoo on some
saig s-aaA Toe sweet, sOnorous music oftbe saw oe-
ca-iOnay edge thu t-etn or those who live near
by Otherwise IL still There perhaps four or five
ardents aers In donitOries spending their vacation
| In II perfunciory rovew OF Last years work
| or readng up 10 win literary prize.
Not professor. nor oven ono OF those VerJ prevalent
thin n called ors no around the premseS They
have mel ed away aud have goae In sssrch or other
| game But when the grass IL brown tho fields and
the hoarrost rstes VITA the burr they will me again
thicker than around niyr, and twice natural
some Of them arc peering ~ YesuvIus
others wbal ing the Alps al or two are
fishing IN Dead They make tp-top travelling
Companions In summer, but than the JanBdlce
III wIBter
tue students and the instructors are away
the college carpenter and his gang Of menla descend on
the campus taer gmles and glistening the
South College WAS the object OF their first attack ths
summer. They fell on IL early one morning before the
dew had 90 grass they knocked tue roof of Of
II In short time They are now putting on new roof
the Is covered with real TN Hereafter
in thai old dormitory III not be Obliged to
lie q hole the root NJ nght TO keep the out
rheu they began kering tha Atnenaum The roof
was unned anew. the lrctnre-roOm was enlarged for
university meetings tue made larger aud
cut through the wall Of the build
ing Tue Atneneum IN a word mas been undermined
The old college chapel that has Draved tao storms Of
many years will bo jrD we'd before college
opens september. 1t Is proposed TO remove the Old
steeplr wnicl been tOtterin aud threatening for
years blown at the inst Of the most or
nary zephyr Bat tins pans FOR its removal have yet
been formulated" the college carpenter expresses
The seps leading the ch pei will ne removed
and supplanted Dy tagging. The sloane laboratory,
Library.st. nearly completed. and will be ready for
use wnen the begins. II Is OF tho finest build
ns belonging to tne college. aud Is credit to tho mu-
nfcencf OF Mossrs sloane OF New York who It,
Plans for the Kent laboratory, 10 be erec,ed on
HirhsL In the rear of the college library. being
buildings that Occupy the grolnd will be begun
very 80 u II will b. u sort OF companion TO the Sloane
laboratory and will be grand addition the college
buildings.
Iii long time since any decided stand has been
taken by nonsocety ia college against tho we'll
known societies OF Scroll and Key Skull and Bones
II has not infreqIenty happened that some
one OF the senior class whose
elected To one OF these societies has made desperate
efort to start rival senior sOeety. But tue college
waited patiently Tor chance To attend the post inorteu
And they never mad to wait very long. rhe
cieties Appeared disappeared the ncxt-if
not sooner. Not OF them outliyed weekly ami
tein At last nas been reoeuty Initiated oy several IN
huental members OF the present soaior class IL Is now
well known that au amount OF money sufficient to pro-
VIDE society building has boen already subscribed that
ground aas been bought and that the
has IL tnat the building will De erected
on Prospect.st, hut investigation shows that no
S1eI for corn society incorporated
It said under the laws OF tins stare Honorary cleo
nons /. known. nave been extended to aud accepted
by several prominent GRADUATED failed OF election to
Scroll aud kes aud Skull anu Bones Several neutral
Ut tho college Faculty are aEo reported AS IN
in the enterprise Tue pan ~ learned from an
honorary member, 10 10 els1t hrteen mon from the
junior class aud to make tho - society less
secret than those now existing Two or three
prominent neutras OF recent classes will DO elected as
honorary members III order TO gye the society little
prestige tim., WHOM the graduates OF
the name OF tue society viii be has not been deeided
and whether not It will Do recognized by badge Is
not yet known The general Impression anong the
studoDls 10 will tho fate that all the
others suffered. Ii Is thought that the amount OF
ricue with which 1t viii OF necessity recaived at
first will sufficient knock ic a cooked hat In
The Orothers OF QUE or two proninent ssuer
society men VINO themselves left prominent
IN the new scheme have subscribed literally L.
A prominent member of Scroll ana Key who has charge
OF ais brotaers money gave him
nc society sort OF compensation for his not being
admitted scroll aud Key. IL VIII DO from this
how little fear 10 entertained by the members
stron yest senior society touching the appearance of
new rival Ia laid.
The incoming freshman GLASS that will wrestle under
tho pump In their be with the sophomore cass in
the Ia numbers about $50 men. Examinations ad
ulssou to Yale nsd tina at san Francisco
Cleveland, Chicago and Andoyer rnere were thirty
applicants from Chicago Inc Scientific Freshman
class will be Large usual