Morning journal and courier., 1893-06-10
WON'T WEAR CATS AND GOWNS.

At Least 90 Two Members of the
 Senior Glass at Yale Say-This Much
 Discussed Subject Revived by the ! Class sOfs03.Other Yale Items.
 The oaps and gowns for use by the senior class at the commencement exercises arrived last Wednesday, and all '93 men have been busy trying them on since. The much talked of garments are up in Dorsey,s room in Lawrence hall, and they make 1t look like tailor shop more than anything else. A gown has bssn made especially by measurement for each man, but the caps are of assorted sizes. The first questions that man asks are: 'tWhich end of the cap goes in frontg' Dorsey is the chairman of the cap and gown committee, and he has to answer these questions about one hundred times a day. A good many of the gowns do not fit, and 1t is with "a great deal of difficulty that Dorsey persuadss the men that the gowns are not expected to fit like . glove. A good many of the men who had heard of the neat appearance of the caps and gowns were surprised to dnd that they did not agree with their style of beauty. -
 When the men return to their rooms from having received their "ftn they are greeted with cheers from all parts of the campus.
 The custom of wearing caps and gowns was revived by the class of '91, and has had rather checkered existence ever since. A large part of each succeeding class has been strongly in favor of them,
 while another large contingent has strong ly opposed wearing them. Yet the ous-
 tom, although it can hardly by called a "Yale custom" has been con
 tinued and the greater part of the
 class of '03 will appear clad in the sable
 academic gowns. There are two men who
 all along have declared their decided oppo-
 sition to the custom. These are Faxon and
 Wheelook. They claim that 1t is senti-
 mental idea and at best only the revival of
 medissval custom, and has no practical
 use. There are great many others in the
 class who are mildly opposed to the idea,
 but have acquiesced to the wishes of the
 majority from the fear of appearing pe- culiar.
 Those who have been in favor of the
 idea say that it lends dignity to the class
 at commencement time and makes them appear more uniform and puts all the men
 of the class on an equal footing in respect to dress, thus carrying out the democratic spirit of old Yale. Thus, unless some ui1 foreseen accident happens, the class of '93, save the two exceptions above mentioned, library on commencement day, will be clad in the caps and gowns of Oxford. The second game of the championship series with Princeton at Princeton this afternoon and should prove very close and interesting. If Yale wins she wins the series.
 The law school examinations for the members of the junior class are as fol lows:
 Wednesday, June IA, '2:30 p. m.-Ele. mentary law, wills, contracts. Saturday, June IT, 2:30 p. m.-Torts, principles of contracts, bailments, plead.
 ing;
 contracts Professor Baldwin,, real prop erty.
 Beginning next September course in electricity will be offered to juniors in the Sheffield Scientific school. The course will include more mathematics than the me chanical engineering course, among them
 being descriptive geometery, analytic geometry of three dimensions, calculus | and mechanics. The subjects will be chosen with the object of extending the | study of physics to a higher plane. The study will bs confined chiefly to electricity and heat; 1t will take the place of smal l portion of the drawing in the meohanioa course and will be preparatory to the labo | rstory work and more advanced treatment | in senior year.
 The current number of the University Magazine contains biographical sketches o the following Yale men: Robbins Little '51; Hon. Daniel A. Heald, Al, and Dr Robert H. Wylie, '83.