Morning journal and courier., 1891-10-26
THE SCHOLASTIC CIRCLES.

President Dwight at Home-Annual
 Football Games Result in the Usual
 Way-Religious Services.
 Rev. Dr. Munger preached yesterday morning in Batten chapel. His text is found in Titus 2, xii, xii. The great Bibi- cal question, said he, is not one of textual criticism, but whether St. Paul is right in his conception of Christ. From St. Paul we get most of our knowledge of Christ. His principle was that love of leading to l righteousness. This is indentioal with the contents of the gospel. Aman should live sanely, intelligently, earnestly, righteously and Godly. With l out earnestness life cannot be anything else than failure. Godliness is step be- l yond these others. With St. Paul living like God was real and definite
 | The sophomore class prayer meeting ia the largest one held by the class yet. Ninety eight were present. Professor Clapp made an earnest and excellent ad- dress on Leaving All for Christ" In the evening Rev. Mir. Lawrence of Baltimore, who is giving course of lec' l lures on "Foreign Missions" in the divinity | school, spoke in Dwight hall on "Home Missions as @ Field for Young Men, 1 The annual regatta rowed Saturday af- l ternoon was one of the closest and best rowed that have occurred in 8 number o1 years, and a large crowd of collegians and 1 townspeople looked on from the banks At about twenty five minutes before foul MT. E. s. Floyd-Jones, president of the Yale navy, started '95 and '94 s. The aca I l. passed by the scientific students, who kept and five lengths ahead. '94 s. rowed like veterans and finished in excellent form. | About twenty minutes later the crews | of the academic sophomores and juniors | were started and really exciting race en- sued Within 300 feet of the finish the l sophomore crew was ahead and their | friends on the bank were yelling them selves hoarse, confident of 8 victory, but the juniors made tremendous squirt and finished three feet ahead.
 The subjects for the Ten Eyck prize which will be awarded to the speaker al the junior exhibition whose oration has the best literary merit and is most effect ively delivered, have been announced al l follows:
 1. Lessons from the Life of Laurence Oliphant
 2. Tom Paine: Desm and Democracy in the Days of the American Revolution.
 l .. Yale's contribution to American Thought. l 4. O'Connell and Parnell. IA comparison O personal characters. not of politics, is desired. 1 5. The Boyhood of Goethe and Wordsworth. l 6. The Practical Working of Woman Suffrage Historical rather than theoretical treatment de
 2. Thomson's "City of Dreadful Night" Study in Literary Pessimism.
 8. "Plain Living and High Thinking"
 Pieces should not greatly excred twelv minutes in delivery and must be handed to Professor Beers or left at I'll Farnan hall on or before March 1.
 The freshmen have caught the prope spirit. They defeated the Prospects o Brooklyn Saturday by score of 32 to 0 The Varsity eleven played before larg
 crowd in Orange, tie Athletics of tha
 place. 0. Bliss played great game. Con
 siderable promise in Andover and in th
 games he played last year and seems des
 tined to make one of Yale's greatest foo
 ball players. The score was 36-0 in Yale
 favor.
 About midnight Saturday some sophe
 mores, with torch and mask, lit 8 bonfir
 in front of Durfee. Two tutors made
 descent on them. It is understood ths
 men, one from Shelf. and one from tn
 academic department, were recognized This, of course, means an addition to tn population of Milford.
 President Dwight and family have a rived at home. The president will oficiat
 in the chapel for the first time today.