Morning journal and courier., 1890-03-14
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Another Large Body of Freshmen to
 Flood she Tewn Next Year-The
 Prsslasns,s Recepsion-The Harvard
 Crew NOW Rowing on che River.
 Already at this early date interest is taken and prophecies made concerning the class of nsxt year. Fer the past four years the steady growth of each succeeding class over the preceding one has been maintained with steady regularity. and on that reasoning the same is now expected in the future. Tsem comparisons made with preceding years at this time of the season of the sppli-' cations sent in for :rooms and. otheri indioa- Hons from which estimates may be foEmsd, thoss of this year indicate that the class of '94 and 'o3 8. will prove no exception to the rule now established. Just how much larger the new class will be of course can't bs known yet, but undoubtedly 1t will be the largest ever known at Yale. A larger number of men at the leading preparatory schools will try their luck with the entrance examinations this year than any previous, of which St. Paul's school may be taken as m example. More than thirty are ex- pscted from that institution.
 If this rate of increase is kept up from year to year the time will come when the college will have to do one of two things- increase It's facilities or raise the standard of entrance to such point that 1t will keep the numbsrs down.
 President and Mrs. Dwight will give rec ception for the senior classes of the academi- cal and scientific departments of the univer- sity at their residence on Wednesday even- ing, March 10, from 6 until il o'clock.
 The plans have been completed and are now in the hands of the builders for new laboratory at Princeton.
 The candidates for the Harvard 'varsity crew were on the river Wednesday for the hrst time since they began winter training. dsrd 'e2, stroke; Jones '92. q Tilton 20, 6; Upham go. 5; Finley '91, 1; Perkins '91, 8; Partridge 90, 9; Reyes '59, bow. The men rowed in fair form, but the body swing was irregular and the barge in consequence was not at all steady. Bssides the men who rowed in the eight, Captain Herriok Nelson '93, Lothrop 90, Pulsifer 20 and three other men were out in pair oars.
 Tho crew usually goes to training table about the 1st of April. Owing to the glss club not making . western trip this spring the subscriptions will have to be over $1 ,000 larger this year than last in order to meet expenses, The managers of the crew intend to run 1t on the same cash basis this year which proved so successful last year. Hence 1t Is possible that. from lack of funds, the crew may not % to training table before the middle of April. In this respect the Yale mon, who have already gone to training table, have sn advantage. The men now at work are healthy lot, with considerable muscle, and are fairly heavy. The average weight of the men Wednesday was 175 pounds.
 The last gymnasium contest will take place this evening.
 Twelve of the candidates for the university nine have been measured by Spaulding at the New Haven house. The suits will be similar | to those of last year, except that Yale will be written across the chest and blue sweaters will be used.
 The girl students at Vassar college are
 greatly taken up with astronomy, but invari
 ably express surprise on looking through the
 telescope at the moon for the first time that | they cannot see the man in it.