The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-03-24
YALE NOTES OF INTEREST
THE COMING SELECTION or SPEAK
ERS FOR YALE-HIRTIRD DEBATE.

fiCuluH-olher NOTES,
The preliminary contest for the
selection of speakers for the Yale
Harvard debate viii be held Friday
evening, March 81, at Z o'clock, in Al
Osborn hall. Each speaker will be al
lowed six minutes. Six men will be
chosen to compete with three Law
school and two Divinity school men in
final contest which will be held Fri
Gay, April TO- Order of speaking will
be decided by lot
FELLOWSHIPS FOR 1867.
The American School of Classical
Studies In Rome offers three prizes
to scholars interested in it's lines of
investigation. They are in the form
OF fellowships for the year 1867, as
follows: One of $500, established by the
managing committees; one of 5000 given
by the Archaeological Institute of Am
erica, and one of $500 for the study of
Christian Archaeology, contributed by
friends of the school. They are open
to Bachelors of Arts of all universities
and colleges of this country and to
other American students of similar at
tainmentS. Professor Samuel Ball
Platner of the Western Reserve univer-
sity, Cleveland, O., is the secretary of
the managing committee, and will fur
nish the necessary applications and
blanks. All applications must be in his
hands by May l.
The holders of these fellowships will
be required to pursue their studies I'M
der the supervision of the directors of
the school for the full school year of
ten months, beginning October Is, 1896.
While most of their time will be spent
in Rome they may, with the consent
of the directors, conduct Investigations
elsewhere in Italy or study in Greece
at the American school at Athens.
Each must select some definite subject
for special research and submit a paper
embodying the results of his work
THE DEATH OF r. e. DUNHAM.
Richard e. Durham of the class of
'93, Yale, died at Warren, Penn, on
Saturday afternoon. Mr.. Durham was
high stand man while in college and
graduated with honors in the class of
'9S. He was a candidate for the var
sity ball team, but for the fact that he
received a peculiar and painful injury
The accident was the primary cause Of
his death. His right wrist was caught
between a heavy door and the jamb
and was severely hurt. He continued
to practice for a position on the ball
team. He used the hand too much
and it steadily grew worse. When he
graduated at Yale he went to Milford,
where he served as a teacher in the
public schools. but after awhile had
to give it up and receive treatment
for his wrist. He was at the New Ha-
ven hospital for long time and fin
ally went to Cleveland, D., where he
was in hospital for months more.
About week before his death he
left Cleveland and went to his tnme
In Warren, Penn. On Saturday after
noon he died.
Attorney Frank J. Brown Of this city,
principal of the evening high school,
is a relative of the late Mr.. Durham
and has gone to Warren to attend the
funeral.
ATHLETES COSTUMES.
The New York Times remarks on the
costume subject: "a crusade against
the costumes that athletes are in the
habit of wearing while in training at
the two great universities of the coun-
try-Harvard and Yale-has been in
stituted in both Cambridge and New
Haven. 1t first developed in New Ha-
ven and after the protest against the
appearance of runners on the streets
in training trunks and little else fac
ulty order was Issued compelling more
clothing for the members of the crew
and other teams. Last week Cambridge
people Joined in a protest against the
same sort of thing and now an order
has been formulated at Harvard which
requires athletes not only to dress in
decent fashion when they are training
on the public tf1oroughfares, but to keep
off the sidewalks of the town when they
are out for their practice runs, and to
confine their practice to the streets
THE ELECTIVE IN NEW YORK
PRACTICE.
The new elective in New York Prac-
tice and Procedure which will be added
to the law school curriculum next year,
and to which we made reference in
recent issue, will be conducted by Mr..
Charles w. Pierson, valedictorian of
the class of 1885. 1t will consist of at
least two terms instruction in the New
York code and practice with special
reference to the practical conduct of
office work and of actions in court The
course is designed to fit those gradual
ing from the law school to pass the
New Yorw bar examination and to en-
ter Immediately upon the work Of an
active lawyer in New York, whether
that work be conducted by themselves
or in an established office.
Mr.. Pierson entered the law school
in 1887, took the greater part of two
years work in one, and, in the fall Of
1883. entered the Office of Messrs. Alex
ander and Green of New York city. He
is still associated with that firm and
has had large experience in the work.
the teaching of which he is about to
undertake.
THE LEGAL PROFESSION IN SCOT
LAND.
From the very interesting article in
the Yale Law Journal for March, just
out, by Prof. ]. Dore Wilson, D. D., of
the University of Aberdeen, the follow
ing is taken
Il have reserved to the last the say
ing os something concerning the edu-
cation of the legal profession. Before
the sixteenth century Scotch lawyers
were necessarily educated abroad. In
the middle ages they frequently went as
far as Jtaly and in the lists of stu