Morning journal and courier., 1884-09-29
VALE NOTES

Events and Happenings On the Cam
 pus.
 The first Courant of the year appeared on Saturday morning.
 The seniors expect to have a crew entered in the fall races
 Hobbs 1855, who was hurt in football prac- tice, is slowly improving.
 Crehore '85, who was so much injured in the Glee club accident, has improved so much that he can walk easily.
 Professor Ladd, who has charge of the course in physiological psychology, has sent to England and Germany for charts, etc, to illustrate his lectures upon that subject.
 The geology classes have been much inter ested in the live rattlesnakes placed behind Peabody Museum. The card with ''Please do not touch the specimens" was in this case deemed unnecessary.
 Lee, formerly of 'S4, has returned to col lege in the class of '87; one of the depart ments of the Boston juvenile magazine, Wide Awake, is under his charge.
 At the @rk on Saturday, Terry '85, who was umpirinR the base ball game between 86 andS heff, was struck in the face by foul ball and quite badly hurt. Shelf. won the game by one run.
 The history course by Prof. Wheeler has been rendered much more valuable by the acquisition of a law library With the aid of some generous alumni several thousand dollars worth of books have been selected and great many volumes have already been distributed
 Peters '86, who rowed No. 5 in the college G., a1ro Ina place of Louis K Hull, the old coach Scott '84, one of the best men in last years crew, has gone to Edinburgh to study medicine, but with that exception it is not likely that any changes will be made in the crew. Far well '84, end rusher in last years football eleven, is in France. Tompkins '84, the able captain; TwombIy, the quarter back, and Hyndman and Hull, the two heaviest rushers, have left college; so the team is greatly weakened. The condition of things, however, is not as gloomy as at this time last year, as there is good material in the under classes which has been waiting for vacancies on the eleven.
 Terry, Yales second baseman, leads in the base ball batting averages of last years col lege championship series, which have recent Shaw, Prineeton's right fielder and change catcher, is second, with .357 Hall, first base on the Dartmouth nine, heads the field ing list, with an average of .981. Stewart, YsIe's first base, is second, with .976. Stuart, Amherst's center fielder, had Q bat ting average, counting total base hits instead of singles, of cos Adding the total aver ages. Yale leeds tho batting with BY on single base hits Harvard leads on total base hits with .369, and the fielding with .856. Amherst is a close fielding second with .S54.
 The Cleveland and Hendricks meeting was held Friday evening and campaign club was formed. About seventy were present. Lam bert Foster 'S6 was elected chairman. Wm. Jarvis 'S5 was elected president and T. Vim ston '85 secretary and treasurer. c. W. Cutler 'S5 was made colonel. The seniors chose E. A. George as captain and the juniors chose Peters. uniform will be at once pro vided and drilling be begun Foster is of the Yale News, Jarvis is Scroll and Key man, Cutler is president ofssthe Glee club and Peters is the well known member ot the crew.
 The juniors Saturday morning held meet. ing toselect their promenade committee, and the following were chosen, with the number of votes for each: Thomas Darling 92, Austin Colgate S1, Sheffield Phelps 30, { Francis R. Cooley 79, Wallace P. Knapp 79, Bartlett Arken 76, Thomas M. Day 69, Al fred Cowles 53, Elliot C. Lambert 49 and Arthur L, Shipman 49