Morning journal and courier., 1892-09-30
THE LYCEUm BELL RINGS

As the Signal That Yale Is Open for
Another Year-The New Yale "COm.
mons, Promise to be a Great Success
-Concerning Some of the Courses
Chit.Chat From the Campus.
Yesterday morning at o'clock the ma
chinery at Yale was again set in motion
for another year. The familiar sound of
the Lyceum bell awakened freshies and
sophs, who had hardly closed their eyes
from their SORROW over the s'rush" that is
no more, as well as the aspiring junior and
lordly senior.
At 7:SO the doors of the new Yale uni
versity dining rooms opened to receive the
throngs of students who were carly for
one morning in the year at least In antici-
patton of the long-desired Commons.
Vetner Kenerson was ready with his army
of student walters to feed the multitude
which focked in three hundred strong in
three minutes time. Everything had been
carefully arranged and there was no hitch
throughout the day in the management or
the service. There are thirty-one tables
in the dining hall, with a corps of thirty
seven walters, six being substitutes,
the greater part Of them belonging
to the freshman class. Every seat
is taken at the commons, and all
who failed to sign the application books
early in the year are now left to the tender
mercies of the traditional New Haven
landlady. The meal hours are: Breakfast,
7-1O a. m. lunch, 1:05-1:45 p. M; dinner,
6,6:45 p. m. A neatly printed menu Is fur
| nished with each meal. The price of
board will be kept as near 81 per week as
possible. It may vary somewhat either
way, but the management proposes to run
| the establishment on thorough economic
principles and in the interest of the stud
| ents themselves.
| Mr.. vetner KeIerson. who is wel[known
among all Yale men as the popular man.
ager of the COOP, has been appointed by
the corporation as manager of the dining
rooms. He is to be congratulated on the
success and smoothness with which every.
thing went off. It has been matter Of
wonderinent to great many people
whether or not commons" could be sue.
cessfully run at Yale Mr.. Kenerson has
proved that they can, and so is to be
highly commended.
At 2 o'clock the Rotations for the junior
and senior classes began. In the junior
class the courses of Professor Beers in Eng
lish poetic masterpieces, Professor Grus
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political science and medieval history, are
the most popular. The seniors have fol
the greater part selected courses in higher
philosophy or courses which especially
bear on the professions they have in view
The faculty for the first time at o'clocl
in the afternoon, in Battell chapel, came il
contact with the freshman class. Seats il
the chapel were assigned them. The divis
ions were made known and the first les
sons, which occur at $50 o'clock thi
morning, given out.
Assistant Professor William E. Beebe
who has hitherto had the sophomores il
mechanics, will instruct the freshmen i,
solid geometry this year.
Gustave Gruener, formerly tutor II
German, has been made assistant professo
of German. Professor Gruener is one o
the brightest and most enthusiastic of tn
younger class of professors at Yale AM
his courses are deservedly popular.
The sophomores had their first recita
ton at noon under Professor Godell. Thi
course will be devoted to q study of tn
Greek tragedy, especially taking up its OF
} igin and development. The first pla
taken up is "Medea." Other works G
Sophocles, Euripides aud Eschylus wi
be studied later in the year. Professor
Wright and Peck will have the sophomore
in Pliny's Letters this term and Mr.. Bror
; son. who takes the place of DR.. Edwar
| Capps, who has gone to the Chicago I'M
versity, will give instruction in the Brutu
i of Hioorn