The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1895-09-25
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College to Open with Prayers Tomorrow
Mornlng-Commons Opened Yesterday |
with Two Hundred Boarders-senior
Glass to Wear Caps and Gowns at sunday |
Chapel All During the Ncar-other Notes.
The Yale campus presented busy
scene yesterday with eXpressmen UNI
loading trunks and luggage, new-com-
ers hurrying about their rooms and
cassmen greeting each other as they
met for the first time since college
closed in June, The Commons opened
yesterday morning with about 200 board
ers. The entire 434 seats of the Com
mons viii probably be occupied at dim
ner this evening, as nearly all will be
back ready to begin recitations to-mor-
row. There are now over 200 names
on the waiting list at Commons try
ing TO get board there.
Sophomore condition examinations
will be hsld to-day in Osborn hail. be-
ginning at $3.50,
President Dwight and family will
return o-day from their summer home
in Litchfeld. College will be opened
tomorrow morning with prayers at
$40 o'clock in Battell chapel by Presi-
dent Dwight. The freshman class
meets at Alumni hall at p. m. to-mor-
row for registration and freshman re-
citations begin Friday at $50 a. m.
Sophomore recitations being tomorrow
at II 80 a. M, and those for the Junior
and senior classes on the same day at
> -. m.
During the summer Calliope hall in
Alumni hall has been frescoed, refit-
ted and otherwise prepared for the
Yale union to meet there hereafter
The expenses were betrayed from a
$500 fund given by prominent alumni
The union has met in recent years in
Osborn hall.
Considerable alterations have been
made during the vacations in the quar-
tiers occupied by the Cooperative store
The partition between the old store
room and the small storage room in
the rear has been removed and long
counter set back at right angles to
the position of the old one. The stock
has been enlarged also.
The senior class of this year will be
the first to wear the caps and gowns
at chapel every Sunday during the
year and will begin the departure next
Sunday morning, The new caps and
gowns are expected to arrive in day
or two.
OTHER YALE NOTES.
Billy" Richards will not play foot
ball at Yale this fall, but will coach
the Oberlin eleven after the Yale-Cam-
bridge games.
Harry Keator '97 and Louis Hinl1ey
have been coaching the Williston SEM
mary eleven during the past week.
Harry Cross will play football as
soon as he returns from Providence.
He will also continue his training for
throwing the hammer.
The Cambridge athletes will go to
New York on Friday of this week in
order to have ample opportunity of
getting accustomed to Manhattan
Field. The two rival teams are now
working together at the Yale Field
Lection of the junior class of the sci
entific department has been i'll with a
severe cold and slight touch of ma
laria. He is a leading candidate for
full back on the football eleven. He
expected to report last week, but will
be here in a day or two.
c. A. Miller of the senior class of
the scientific department will not re-
turn. He expects to go abroad for a
year.
MR.. ROOSEVELT VISITS THE
TEAMS.
Theodore Roosevelt, the we'll known
police commissioner of New York. was
in town yesterday. In company with
Walter Camp and the Yale athletic
leaders he took dinner at the Hotel
Majestic. The object Of Mr.. Roosevelt's
visit to this city was to visit the Yale
athletes, the Cambridge team, and to
get acquainted with the track men.
Mr.. Roosevelt was accompanied by
Evert Wendell and Wendell Baker,
we'll known Harvard alumni, and all
were the guests of the Yale athletes.
After dinner Mr.. Roosevelt was given
an informal reception in the smoking
rooms of the Majestic, where he met all
the members of the Yale and Cam
bridge teams, and most of the Yale
football eleven. Walter Camp, Captain
Sheldon of the Yale track team, Man
ager Day, Captain Thorne and Man
ager Foote of the Yale football eleven
Were also present.
At Princeton, N. IT, the college tennis
club will hold a tournament this week
to decide who shall represent Princeton
at the intercollegiate tennis tournament
which is to be held next month in this
city.
The Harvard and Yale football e1ev-
ems are doing good work and will soon
he in fair condition. The Harvard sched-
ule as far as completed is as follows:
September 49, Dartmouth at Cambridge;
October 2, Andover at Andover; Octo-
Der 5, Amherst at Cambridge; October
9. Exeter at Cambridge; October II,
West Point at West Point; October 16,
Williams at Cambridge (probably1; Oc-
tober 10, Brown at Cambridge; October
26. Cornell at Cambridge; November 2,
University of Michigan at Cambridge;
November %, University of Pennsylva-
MIA at Cambridge.
OBITUARY..
Death of Robert n. Searles.
Robert N. Searles, who was formerly