Morning journal and courier., 1891-01-10
REQUEST FOR YALE.

ANOEhkGkk 0&Q O1SSI HO1A 4AAEs Mrs. Fegg Leaves Forty Thousand
 Dollars, tho Income to be Used in
 tho Theological Seminary-Harvard
 Receives Two Hundred Thousand
 DoIlars-Other College Notes of In.
 tsrest-A New Haven Boy at Maf.
 ward Elected to the Banjo Club.
 Still the money comes for Yale The provisions of the will of Mrs. Elizabeth P. Fogg of New York city were made known yesterday, and among other be- quests was that of $40, 900 for the univer- sity, the income of which is to be used in the theological department Ito aid such theological students as shall be especially worthy of receiving it by reason of their mental ability, character and scholarship"
 More than $60O, ,O0O was left for educa- tional and charitable institutions.
 The largest specific bequest is to liar yard university, whose president and fel- lows are to receive $200,O for the erec- ton of an art museum, to be called "The' William Hayes Fogg Art museum of Har- vard." It is to be a fre-proof structure, to contain works of art of every kind. The entire art collection left by MT. Fogg is also presented to the university to be placed in the museum. It contains the testator's portraits, articles of bric-a-brac. wealth of East Indian, Chinese and Jap anese jewelry, curios, carvings, and arti- cles not otherwise disposed of.
 The Yale Union met last evening in Old chapel, with large attendance present. The subject for debate was: Resolved that capital punishment should be abol- ished." Disputants- G. N. W 3QC ond Dicky '91; negative, O. H. Fisk '92, E. Chadwick '91 and F. H. Funk '91 s. The Harvard union held it's regular de- bate Thursday evening; also elected it's officers for the coming half year. The subject of the debate was: Resolved, that the Mckinley bill should be immed ately repealed" The principal disputants were: For the affirmative, O. T. R. Bates '92, and R. w. Hale '91: for the negative, J. L. Dodge '91, and R. c. Sturbridge, L. s. The officers elected were: President, R. L. O'Brien '91; vice president, J. M. Perkins '92; secretary and treasurer, B. W. Dallinger '93; executive committee, H. E Grigor, Sp., J. M Perkins '92, s. C.. Brackett '91, F. W. Dallinger '93.
 In the trial of candidates at Harvard Wednesday night for the Freshman Banjo club, among the successful competitors was E. P. Merwin, jr., who was chosen leader. MT. Merwin lives in this city and is 8 son of E. P. Merwin, the we'll known merchant tailor.
 The annual dinner of the New York Alumni association will be held the even | ing of January 23 The dinner will be given at Delmonico's. Chauncey M Depew, '56, will preside, and speeches will
 be made by President Dwight and many others of the alumni, and by some of the representatives from the other colleges | who will be invited to attend the banquet
 A matched contest is talked of betweer
 Sherriu of Yale, Lee of Harvard and Carry
 of Princeton, the distance to be run being
 50, 100, 150 and 220 yards, for the inter
 collegiate championship of America.
 l At the next anniversary of the Harvard
 Phi Beta Kappa society, Professor William
 Watson Goodwin, '51, {, will be orator, ane
 and Henry Grafton Champman, 'S3, tn poet.
 Lieutenant Totten will begin his cours
 of lectures in military science next week
 before the Shelf. seniors. Among tn
 topics will be: Systems of Notifications
 sea coast defenses, nasty intrenchments passage of rivers and military bridges
 military reconnaissance and instruments
 battlefield te1emetry and methods, SC
 coast range-fnding and ship-tracking de ! vices, gunpowder and ballistic machines
 high explosives and demolitions, gun mel
 als, modern ordnance and gunnery, armo
 plates, turrets, projectiles and fuses, tol ) pedoes, submarine mines, military electri installation and countermining.