New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-10-03
AMONG THE COLLEGES.
YALE.
MORE TEACHERS AND MORE STUDENTS THAN
EVER BEFORE.
YALE.

NOkE TEACHERS AND MORE STUDENTS THAN
EVER BEFORE.
New-Haven. Conn. Oct. (speclall-The opening OF
the college year at Yale has proved great surprise
TO President Dwight and other members OF the faculty.
The town Is simply swarming with students and 1t Is
very difficult Indeed for them to find suitable or COM
Portable odgIng places Ii is not yet possible to state
accurately the membership OF the different depart
mcnts OF the college, bit VIII undoubtedly exceed
1000.
Perhaps the greatest surprise to the students that
has yet this year the request OF the fac
ulty the od-time eshman rush he omitted After
the serious accident. In which student lost his HE
last spring the faculty determined to discontinue the
practice of rushing for all time. ana on The
afternoon when the rush OF TINS year WAS
to occur they summoned Capatin McCoimlch'
Of the football team. and requested him to
confer with other prominent athletes and exert his
influence to prevent 1t. The students knew nothing
OF the affair until they had formed IN procession anu
were marching about tho campus, when Captain NC
Corm,ck informed them OF the request OF the faculty
and advised them TO have no rush. They acQ"lccea
and contented themselves with wrestling and other
inorensye sports.
The dining hall was put in operation the morn
Ing college opened and accommodations are furnished
for $50 students. The affair Is collegiate iroh De-
ginning TO end, so far the working machinery Is
concerned, with the exception Of the COOKS me
walters are INDECENT students. hey are required 10
much dissatisfaction but 1t has been considered best
that that arrangement BE- followed
Over 300 OOO has teen expended In the erection
Of edifces for the different departments oi us
college In the last twelve months The Guts TO fae
during the last Year amounted To over s-o0O'oOo'
n esident Dwight states that IL OOOOOO more VII soon
be available. The directors Of the Law Srhooi nave
succeeded I'm raising $4,000 be used In the erection
OF the new Law School Building, which Is an abso-
Lutte necessity.
The six vacancies in the faculty have been iueo ~
the selection OF gentlemen who IA" emlheAuY "eh
qualified for the positions and who are hgiS sa'S-
factory to the members OF the faculty and the friends
OF the school. The faculty this Year VIII number III
100, By far the arses IN the history OF tue l'
tuition
Over thirty young ladies' have registered themselves
In the post graduate department open to woheh'
Although the movement is not 10 be regarded ms pi'Ns
ing Yale TO co-education in general by many IL Is
thought that early In the years TO come laie VIII
have a department, conducted exclusively for the
benefit OF women.
The work OF remodelling building Tor psyeno
logical laboratory has been completed. Professor H.
W. scripture the Instructor who Will have charse Vi
the department has recently received from germany
among Others apparatus 10 he used In co'''o"o''
with the EXPERIENCES upon the subject OF muscular ana
sensory reaction which is novel to American u''i
vcr.,,ie, Clark University. Worcester, and the I'M
versity Of Wisconsin being the only ones IN 'ne
coun rv which possess H. and they have only recently
rcreivsd n, < hg tuning fork kept Vibrating 100
times second makes and breala at every V'"s ,rc
an electric circuit, in which Is put Il niue e" I'M
which the director OF the experiment can close AZ VIII
beside 1t In HE same circle are placed cnronI'V%p
and battery and III distant room Is an en'V wh5
which breaks he circuit whenever pressed Mheh
tic switch is closed the chrono,cope counts one %, u
Ala. nlate like that OF Il clock every time me lunms
fork yibratrs or every 100 OF second. INC
closing OF the switch also rings of IN Il uIN, ,
ana that breaks the current aud the chrohoscope
siops The number indicated by the chronoscope tx,
IN hundrcdths Of seconds the tine OF reaction
Of the person experimental upon: The Laboratory
has lust received a valuable rotary blower ron - e.
Stnr;cynnt which Is indispensable In the line OF re-
srarcb To- be followed in experiments In hearing ana
faction new kind OF color disc has been invented
=, Tho Vale laboratory which will he used IN demon
strntions in regard to The psychology OF Nsloh.
aluminium will now be used III It's c0mp"S,""n III