Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1888-09-28
YALE NOTES.

Il
students Form a Campaign Club
The Sumner BattaliOn-The Repub-
feans VIII Organize a Mammoth
Cuba New Gym. Wanted-First
Football Contest Tomorrow.
The Democrats have organized under the
name of the Sumner battalion. The follow
ing officers were elected: President, Luce '89;
secretary, Austin 'S9; treasurer, Underhill 's9;
captain of battalion, Merrill $50; executive
committee, Lentilhon 89 s., Armstrong '69;
Lee go, Young '91 and Huntington '92; mu-
steal committee, Merrill 'S9, Underhill '89,
Keefe '89. Resolutions were adopted indoors
ing Cleveland's message and the Mills bill,
advocating free raw materials and condemn
ing the Republican policy on the navigation
laws. Weekly meetings will be held in the
rooms of the New Haven Democratic club.
The Republicans don't propose to be behind
hand and will organize tonight. A meeting
of the Prohibition club will also be held to-
night.
The candidates for the University nine
practice at the Field at O'Clock every after
noon except Saturday.
The agitation for new gymnasium was
renewed by an editorial yesterday in the Yale
News.
The football team will play its first game
at the Field on Saturday with the Wesleyan
eleven. The president of the Wesleyan Foot
ball association was in town the other day to
arrange this and other games.
The second round of the tennis tournament
was played at the Field yesterday afternoon.
The work on the foundations of the new
recitation building is progressing slowly.
The rumor that Stagg would not pitch next
spring has been generally circulated about
the college, but is doubted by many. The
for1, Hal1 hoa haa 9r;, T.
tie practice, not much, but probably enough
to keep his hand in.
With freshman class of $40 men-215
academies, 1876 scienti6cs-and with num-
Der of additions to the upper classes, the
year at Yale has begun under circumstances
most suspicious. The arst sight of Yale to
the expectant student must have been one
of disappointment. The fence and its
beautiful environments are gone. A medley
of sand, dirt, huge stones, timber, and en-
gines infest the place where once stood
lofty elms. But even the debris calls to
mind the constant growth of Yale. The
Sloane Physical Laboratory il not more
than three years old, and what train of
magnificent buildings has followed it
advent. Lawrence college, Dwight hall,
and the Kent Chemical Laboratory have since
been built, and the massive walls of the
south wing of the Chittenden Memorial Ii
brary building already up awaiting the
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architecture, and when completed it will be
one of the finest library buildings in the
land. The new recitation hall, which will
occupy the finest site Yale could afford, will
be a grand building of Quincy granite
trimmed with Long Meadow stone. In archi-
lecture it will excel all other Yale buildings;
indeed, it will be the most magnificent build
ing in New Haven.
The Religious Herald says of Prof Harper:
'tThis gentleman has probably done more
than any man of the present generation to
popularize the study of the Hebrew Scrip
lures in this country. He has inspired those
with whom he has come in contact with
part of his own enthusiasm, and the result is
a revival of interest in Biblical study. AS
professor in our seminary at Morgan Park,
and later at Yale university, he has thrown
his whole soul into his work and the increase
of Baptist students at Yale has been largely
on his account. As editor of the Old Testa-
ment Student he has done much to instruct
the ministry in careful study of the Old
Testament. In the current number of this
periodical Rev. P. A. Nordell, D. D., begins
a series of "Word Studies" and judging from
his first paper they will prove of great value.
We hail every reverent attempt to throw
light on the truth of God"