The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-02-26
YAzE NOTES OF INTEREST.
Meohanies' Leoturo-Art Lectures by Pro- lessor Hoppin-Whist and Chess Tourna- ment-'Varsity Mines Candidates.

Meohanics' Lecturo-Art Lectures by Pro-
 lessor Hoppin-Whist and Chess Tourna-
 ment-'varsity Mines Candidates.
 The sixth in the course of Mechanics lectures was delivered at North Shelf field hall last evening by Prof. Tracy Peck on "The Roman Forum" Prof. Peck spoke of the ancient and present appearance of the famous meeting place of the old Romans and illustrated his talk with stereopticon pictures, many of which were from photographs taken by himself while he was in Rome. He spent two years in Italy, making spe- cial study of the subject, and from his personal knowledge of the forum the lecture was particularly interesting. The regular weekly lecture in the art course was delivered yesterday after noon in the art school by Prof. Hoppin, the subject of his address being ''The Acropolis and Acropolis Museum" These lectures have now reached very interesting part of the course. Prof. Hoppin was in Greece during the past year and collected much material that he has since incorporated in his talks in way to give the latest information concerning the many excavations that have recently been made. Special pains have been taken to make the course valuable to students of Greek literature and history. The remaining addresses will be particularly striking, as they will be devoted to the explorations and most noteworthy discoveries that have been made at Mycenae, Argos, Epidam- nus and Olympia.
 The university whist tournament has now started and the following games have been played in the first round: Frank '96 and Sherwood '97 defeated Jones '9S and A. H. Terry '9S; Heidrich '96 and Schuyler '96 defeated Holt '99 and Gale '99; Burnet '97 and Cooke '97 defeated Stires '97 and l.. H. Rogers, jr., '9S; ConSlin '96 and Beecher '98 defeat ed Kellogg '96 and Ball '96.
 The results of the second round of the chess tournament so far as played are as follows: Arnstein beat Dodd, Gil- man beat Chickering, Cooke beat Slad. den, Kent beat Blumenthal, Murdock beat Dayton, and Emmons beat Col cord.
 Twenty-Five candidates for the uni versity baseball nine presented them selves Monday afternoon in response to Captain Quinbys call. For the present the work will be confined to daily runs ] and to practice in pickink up grounders in the cage under the coaching of Cap tain Quinby. Only four members of I last years team will go in training. Greenway '9S S., Speer '9S s. and Bart lett '99 have been transferred from the freshman to the university squad. The following are the names and positions of the candidates:
 Catchers-Twombly '96, DeForest '97, Hemenway '97, Turnbull '9S, Morrill,. Tracy, Lukens '96.
 Pitchers -Trudeau '96, and Simmons '9S.
 l Infield- Colgate '96, Root '96, Howes '97 S., Goodman '9S, Woodruff, McKell '97 L. s.
 l Outfield-Taylor '96, Peck '96, Cristy, Mitchell '96 S., Reed '97, Griffith '97 s., Keator '97, Letton '97 &, Williams '9S, Wadsworth '9s, Hazen '9s.
 The Rev. Dr. William Hayes Ward of New York; editor-in-chief of the In- dependent, will deliver the first of two lectures on 'The Hittites and Their History this evening at o'clock in Al Osborn hall.
 Dr. Ward is a special student of arch geology, and has collected large num- Der of original slides with which he will fully illustrate his lecture.
 The Rev. Stuart Means of St. Johns church of this city, addressed the Berk- eley association in room 97, Dwight hall, at 6:45 o'clock last evening. This was the second in the course of Lenten lec- lures.
 Trials for the freshman glee club were held in Calliope hall last evening.
 The regular meeting of the Kent club was held in the law school Monday evening. The subject for debate was: Resolved, That the electoral college should be abolished and the president and vice president of the United States should be elected by a vote of the peo- ple.'' Tibbs '96, c. M. Smith '97 and Hankey '97 spoke on the affirmative, and Manchester '96, Higgins '97 and Gavin '97 on the negative. The debate was decided in favor of the affirmative. The judges were Stoll, Clinedinst and Mar tin. At this meeting it was decided to | LuC I diG l9lliOll tO cb JOlilt oE- bate on the same subject as will debat- ed upon in the debate between Yale and Harvard. The committee appointed to confer with the Yale Union is Freely, Gilbert and Smith.
 The Yale Y. M. c. A. has been pre- scented with 150 folding chairs by the Rev. D. Stuart Dodge '57. They will be used in the auditorium of Dwight hall, and will do away with the ne cessity of moving the heavy furniture from the class rooms and thus dam- aging it. The increasing number of large meetings in Dwight hall makes the gift a very acceptable one at this | time.
 The announcement has been made that H. E. Hawkes. '96 has won the sec ond prize of $50 in the English Bible ex- animation offered last June by the American Institute of Sacred Litera- ture. Sixty-nine students from thirty four colleges took part in the contest.
 The candidates for the sprints and middle distance runs on the track team practiced in the commons lot for the first time Monday.
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