Morning journal and courier., 1894-03-21
YALE NOTES.

- AAAk3 NV 1os | rhacher Prize Debate-Dr. Anderson '-The Cleo and BaDjo Clubs-Pr0s- pective of tho Junior and Senior Electives for 1s94.5-Betts, Prize Essay.
 On account of the 1ateness in the spring erm, and because of the amall number of nen who have handed in their names as 1t has been decided to post oone the Thacher prize debate until lutumn.
 Dr. Anderson will give three more lec- lures in his winter course, one in New York, one in Brooklyn, and one in Phila- delphia. These will be illustrated with the stersopticon. The list of views con- prices twelve of the Yale gymnasium.
 The following is complete list of the for the glee and banjo clubs during their Easter trip, together with the names of the theaters and halls at which the concerts will be given:
 Baltim9re Thursssy March HA tsa will Slas be
 sss Tsshinsson. % Fridsg, March as-Dinner at Will
 Old Point Comfort, Saturday, March M-Con- cert will be given in the Hygela hotel at p m; Measrs Hesd.@a oi Mase s '
 washington, tuesday. March 27-A tea will be M a ha ahe s m., followed by a dance given by Mrs. McLana-
 Brooklyn, Wednesday, March as,-The concert will be given in the Academy of Music at p. rn
 The Betts prize essays are due on Satur- day, March 31, and must be handed in to Dr. Phelps at 70 N. M. before 6 pm. This prize was established in 1890 by the Phelps association in memory of the late 0. C.Wyllys Belts, esq, of New York city, who gradu- ated from Yale in the class of 1867. It is offered to that member of the sophomore class who shall have exhibited the most meritorious work in the compositions of the year. The essays must be chosen from the following subjects:
 i, Rudyard Kiplirg.
 8 Possible Reforms in the Election and Ten ure of Office of the President of the United States.
 2. English % Sea Captains of the Sixteenth Gen. tury.
 5. Lessing and the German Drama. The courses of studies to be elected by
 freshmen for sophomore year have just been announced and ara practically the same as last year. They include Greek, Latin, French or German, English, physics and mathematics. Five of these subjects must be chosen and the list submitted at 267 Lawrence on or before May 1, subject to 6 penalty of ten marks for delay. The senior class of the scientific school has decided to have a class day similar to that of the academic graduating class, on | the Shelf campus, and second, that the class beck shall contain small half tone | pictures ot each member. The arrange ment for class day was left in charge of | the committee.
 THE PROSPECTUS OF ELECTIVE COURSES FOR JUNIORS AND SENIORS, 1894 5.
 The prospectus of elective courses offer ed to the junior and senior classes during
 the college year, 1894 5, appeared yester. day. It's contents and arrangement differ | materially from those of former years. In ! future the junior classes will select not less
 than fifteen and not more than eighteen
 hours of elective work per week. In tht
 year following they will select for theil
 which, in addition to those chosen sni
 passed without conditions at the end O junior year, will bring the total numbe up to thirty hours. The class of 1S9; | will, however, select fifteen hours, as un
 der the old arrangement. The required | work in the upper classes remains un
 changed. The juniors must select tn
 course in logic, psychology and ethic
 (tLree hours), and the seniors one of fou
 two hour courses in the department o
 philosophy.
 The preliminary choice of eleotiv ! courses must be reported at 136 Farnar prepared, and final choice, subject t | its conditions, will bs called for about Ma
 10.
 The arrangement of the courses open fo choice differs from that of former years l that they are arranged systematically, an ] | generally in the order they should be taks
 in. In many departments suggestions 6 to the choice of electives are inserted, als |. the hours at which and rooms where tt . various instructors may bs consulted 1, Moreover,i ,in future all courses will be nun : bered alike from year to year, the course in each department of study b ginning with ten or @ multiple of tel ;. It Is hoped that much confusion wi
 encourage men to look ahead in the o choice of courses, not only those offere 's ! the coming year, but also those offered l. | 1895 6, are ss far as possible include, a With few exceptions the courses are col
 tinuous through the year, and cannot a dropped or taken up infthe middle of u - year. The exceptions are found in Il i classical department, where transfers fro es one course to another are allowed und certain definite conditions. Where
 change of instructor or of subject talk
 place in the middle of the year or at Chris
 mas, in a continuous course, it Is ipdicat.
 by letter of the alphabet. Thus, 35a Ia the course in jurisprudence under Pr
 lessor Robinson, introductory to 35b, Pr lessor Phelps course in law. which tV coursss must, as heretofore be taken o gether. Finally, where possible, the tin h | when the exercises will be held is ind
 csted for the convenience of those choo '' ing.
 ,- The new courses offered next year are l. ! follows: Professor Ladd's course in phil sophical anthropology, which is made ol
 of the four from which the seniors choc + one. Dr. Scripture's four courses in pb @ biological psychology; Assistant Profess d lessor Ladd, two advan ced courses in phi :, osophy, and Dr. Buohner, a two-ho1 course in the history of educational the 6 ries and practices In the department q | political science and law, two new cours o are added. Professor Hadley will organil
 8 one-hour course in debating on subjsc of economic interest, while Professor Ir b | ing Fisher will repeat his course of forn a CT years upon the mathematical theory :, prices.
 The course in economic policy will be charge of Assistant Professor Schwab. IT social science and law courses remain ul changed. In the department of hiator
 Professor Wheeler opens two gradua : courses, one on English history to the a. ' | cession of the Stuarte; the other on Frene history, 17S9-1s15, to a limited number . undergraduates.
 Professor o. Fl. Smith offers one thr, , hours' course in American political histor, , to be followed in 18s5-6 by similar one : American constitutional history. IT oourees in romance and Germanfc languag, , l aad literature have bsen largely r arranged.
 Fl Assistant Professor Gruener will resum work in the fall and will offer course elementary German, in historical and cri , ioal German prose and in middle high Gsl man. Among the English courses som ? | changes are found. Professor Beers al , | nounces course on Shakespeare in 1895 . this year he offers a new one in English rt , maaticism.
 Most of the courses withdrawn by Prt
 ! lessor Cook in 1893 are offered sgsir , Dr. W. L. Phelps offers an advance couri in the EHzsbsthan drama. In the classic, ! department Professor Perrin offers one O