Morning journal and courier., 1891-10-31
YALE NEWS.

A New Departure in Fall Boating
 Tho Freshmen are Learning the
 Stroke-Professor StOeckel Organ
 tzes a Second Choir-The University
 Games Come of November 5-Yale
 Freshmen to Play Harvard Fresh-
 men at New Haven This Year-Pres-
 ident Dwight Breaches TO.Morrow
 -CaIculating Machine.
 For several years the Freshmen have not l been able to secure first place in the races l at New London. This has become so mo- ticeable in recent years that this season new departure has been made in the train ing of candidates for the freshman crew during the fall. Heretofore, after few
 brief weeks of necessarily desultory train
 ing the rival crews of Shef. and academic
 freshmen had their race about the middle of October. After that no more attention was given to the men until the regular winter training began in January. One of the great objections to this system was that it forced all the men who had not
 rowed in the fall-and fully half of the | rowing men do not, on account of foot ball and similar reasons-to obtain their knowledge of the stroke entirely by tank work. The consequence would be that 1 most of the men came out in the spring fairly well trained as far as wind and muscle went, but with many bad habits, the necessary result of tank work, fully l formed, And the short time available for than modify those, This year reliable
 coaches have been secured, men that un- derstand the stroke perfectly, and every
 effort is being made to collect all possible
 candidates for the freshman crew each af-
 ternoon at the Yale boat house. There
 they are vigorously trained in all the ele-
 ments of the stroke. This will be kept
 up until cold weather makes it impossible to take the barges out. And it is hoped in
 this way to develop a stronger freshman
 crew than ever before. Following the example of the Glee an6
 Banjo clubs the college choir has organized
 a second choir. The advantages of sys
 tenn of second clubs has long been recog
 uized as means of training and develop
 ing new men to fill vacancies or act a
 substitutes on the first clubs. Professo Stoeckel, the well known organist ant |, professor of music at Yale, of course ha charge. It is proposed to meet once , week, on Monday evenings at 6:45, ant
 practice singing and reading. Professo Stoeckel has been organist at Yale flo nearly thirty-fve years, and the recen ,, forming of musical professorship was
 fit recognition of his able services durin i l so long period.
 T The university fall games will take plac 3 3 this year on Thursday, November 5. Tn
 games will be handicap, and large nun s Der of entries is expected. They have bee r, unavoidably postponed this year by tn II repairing and renewing of the track. l. The Yale freshmen will play the Ha l. yard freshmen this year on November e at New Haven. The other games schet A uled for this fall are as follows: Noven l. Der 7, Philips academy at Andover; N a vember IA, Hill school at Pottstown, P A game was also arranged with Lawrenc u- ] vile, but it has been necessary for u , freshman management to cancel this dat rr' A Calculating machine has been pr >, cured for the Sheffield Scientific. n solves large problems in addition, su 70, traction, multiplication and division wi es' surprising speed. Very few machines h. this kind are in America, but the author "a ties, expecting their more general us m have procured this one so that their gra ss uates may be familiar with them if occ
 sion to use them should arise later. .k Captain Dickinson will lecture Mond ,h evening at 10 o'clock on "Bull Run as ic Saw it."
 N President Dwight will preach to-morre
 for the first time this year. In the eve
 ing Rev. Dr. Smyth will address the st of dents in Dwight hall.
 elk The new Chicago university, Preside no Harper, is buying it's library by the hu 's dreds of thousands of volumes. A sing ng purchase secures to it the entire stock nd s. Calvary 6 Co.,, the we'll known boo ,t- sellers and publishers of Berlin, consisti +u of 300, ,O0O volumes-more than any libl y " in the country contains, with three as four exceptions. It contains among otf ng things collection of manuscripts dati an from the eighth to the nineteenth centu nd which belonged to Pope Plus VII. ed Greek and Roman archaeology and class lis Roman phi1ology there are 3,UU6 rv5af rv5af.. .ss 2 c. in photography 1,600 volumes, said to n- the best collection extant. Besides thu ed are 120, ,000 dissertations and 25,O00 V he tunes of periodicals. And yet it is s' ol- that this apparently very valuable coll on l tian was f,htained for only S125 00O