Morning journal and courier., 1891-11-11
YALE NEWS.


of Omcers to the Y. Al
General Satisfaction at the Result of
the Blect1on-The Field to be Closed
to Spectators During Football Prac-
tice After TO.morrow-Harvar
sharp Trick Last Year-Students to
Attend Union Square Theater in
BODY Af.er Prineeton's Game ON
Thanksgiving Night-The Football
Game of the Hillhouse High school
at Yale Field This Saturday.
A meeting of the Y. N A. A. was held
Monday night. 81. Cheney, president,
took the chair. The treasurer's report was
read and approved and the association
then proceeded to the election of officers.
Wade 1913 was elected president. Wade was
on last years team and will make a most
efficient president as he is thoroughly &C.
quainted with track athletics from practi-
cal experience. Walcott '94 was elected
secretary and treasurer. He is the brother
of Walcott go, who was president of the
team in 'S9. Van Inzen 1913 S. was elected
vice president; he was one of the winners
of last years team and will make good
vice president. Lyman '94 and Gary 1913 s.
were appointed on the executive commit
tee. Day 1913 S. was nominated and would
have filed the position much better than
Gary, who has shown no special aptitude
for track or field athletics. The choice of
officers on the whole was most satisfactory,
as the president, vice president and one of
the executive committee Lyman '9N were
all members of last years team and are
more competent to appreciate its needs
and conduct its affairs than outside men
would be.
The report of the athletic association was
read and showed that there was practically
a deficit of nearly hundred dollars. The
expenses next year will probably amount
to about $4,50O.
Thursday afternoon the Yale field will
be closed to spectators. The final tricks
and combinations of the eleven will be
tried and learned and it has been found
absolutely necessary to entirely prohibit
the attendance of spectators. Last year
members from each class we're stationed at
the gate with orders to admit no one whom
they could not identify as Yale man, but
in spite of all efforts couple of Harvard
men came down during the last week be-
fore the game, hired rooms here, and by
some means managed to gain entry to the
practice and telegraphed much valuable
Information up to Harvard. The team
have removed their training table to the
New Haven house and will commence eat
ing there to-day.
Following the established custom the
Yale men have selected theater where
they will attend in a body on Thanksgiving
night, after the game with Princeton. The
Union Square theater is the one that is to
be honored this year, and over hundred
seats have been bought up by the Yale
men SO far. The Cadi-Bill Nye's maiden
o. 1,a v,1o
that night.
The Field will be used Saturday for the
annual game of football between the Hill
house high school and the Hartford high
school. The game will commence at 3
p. m.
The regular fall meeting of the Yale
corporation, which was postponed to this
time on account of the absence of the
president, was held in room 7, Treasury
building, yesterday morning. Scholar
ships were awarded and other routine bust
ness was transacted. Chauncey Depew
was among those present.
Amherst will play Yale this afternoon at
the Yale field. The game will be called at
$50 and is likely to be one of considerable
interest.
CHAMBER CONCERTS.
This evening at $40 o'clock the Kurisch
quartette will give the first of the series of
University Chamber concerts in N. Shelf
field hall. The program is as follows
Mozart-Quartette in G. Major.
MISUNDERSTANDING from the quar-
tette in D Major.
SchumaEn-Quartette in A Major.
The second OF the series will be given
December 2, by the Beethoven quartette Of
New York.
A DEFENSE FOR THE SOPHOMoRES.
To the Editor of the JOURNAL AND COURIER.
The people of New Haven have an I'M
failing subject of conversation-the stu
dents. If man passes through the cam
pus with red nose reports of huge bon
fires are sent through the country; if {
tutor speaks harshly it is the signal fol
long and solemn editorials defining thu
limits of tutorial authority; and if fresh
man rehearses his speech for the debating
societies ''unearthly shrieks, sounds o.
| devilish revelry," etc., appear in flaming
ton mongers are evolving all sorts of fcti
tious stories about the present sophomore
class. The late reports only show tn.
strait to which sensationalism will drive
| man.
Two weeks ago Saturday night a bonfr,
was lit on the campus. AS result of thi
three men-and three men only-hav,
been suspended. A committee from 49,
have secured from the faculty promise O.
a rehearing in each case, and it is quit
likely that the sentence in each case will b.
| lightened or rescinded. Friday night
statue was stolen from Malley's yard ano
hung on tree in the campus. Perhaps
'94 had hand in this outrage. No on,
knows who did it, but everyone treats i
as joke carefully and skillfully carried
on the campus and attempted tx
| build bonfire. A tutor appear
ed and they left. These me1
were not sophomores. There was not
single sophomore among them, nor ever
an academical student. And this may b,
absolutely relied upon. The report. tina
the sophomore class is falling off il
scholarship is to an extent true; for tn
standard of that class last year was ex
ceptionally high and viewed in that ligh
the falling off is noticeable, perhaps. Blu
as compared with other sophomore classes
the present class ranks very we'll.
The faculty do not regard these late es
capades as more censurable than those O.
previous years. Glass commencement
speeches attest that classes way back il
| Inc AUS mao Cnelf JOnanS. Inese OUT
breaks are the result of sophomore exub
erance, of course, and are looked TO,
every year. The current colored, in fac
crimsoned stories are the emanatio1
of imaginations trained in sensationalism
The writer's, no doubt, have not been nea
the campus. The only alternative is, tina
puerile envy or prejudice on the part O.
some late sophomore has dictated thi
course.
It is questionable if the public takes al
these reports seriously; at all events, it il
time that those who might be misled ma,
be righted. The present sophomore elias
is not as black as it is painted by lonE
odds. In fact, this class may yet equa
the famous one of '53, when it gets at worl
by and by. Who knows2
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