The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-12-02
YALE NOTES OF INTEREST
FRESHMEN ELECT GLASS OFFICERS
LAST EVENING.

Lecture by Theodore Roosevelt This Eve
nlng-Result of Whist Tournament
University Chamber Concert-The Yale
News on Inter Collegiate Contests.
A meeting Of the classes of 1900 and
'99 S., was called, to order last evening
at Gas by ]. S. Wheelwrlght, I'd, '97, for
the purpose of electlng their class OFF,
GERS. j. c. Greenway 1900 was the only
one nominated for president and was
elected by reclamation. For vice pres
ident r. C. Grant, A. II. Durston,
Wardson and Hogle were nominated.
"A. H. Durston 80 s., was elected. For
treasurer and secretary, Twitchell j.
H. Niedecker, Peck, Green, Tiffany and
Crawford, all from 1900, were nomi-
mated j. II. Niedecker was elected.
Theodore Roosevelt of New York will
lecture before the Civil Service Reform
club this evening.
Tenney '9s and Smith '99 defeated
futile 1900 and Goss 1900 in the final
round Of the university whist tourna-
ment The scores were SIS and 81.
The drawings for second place are as
follows: Beecher and Perkins '9S VS..
Goss and Turtle 1900; Stevens and Van
Beuren 1900 VS.. Carson and Mann 99;
winner of first VS.. winner of second.
The results of all the matches must
be handed in by Saturday, December
8, at ia North.
The regular meeting Of the Mathe-
NAUTICAL club was held in the Sloane
laboratory at 7:30 last evening. Mr.. H.
f. Hawkes. and G. P. Starkweather
read papers.
Professor e. G. Bourne and Professor
G. B. Adams of Yale will speak at the
twelfth annual meeting Of the Ameri-
can Historical society at Columbia uni
versity December 29-31.
The second University chamber con-
cert was given last evening at s
o'clock in the College street hall by the
Mozart club Of New York.
The University Glee, Banjo and Man
dolin clubs will give a concert in
Springfield this evening.
r. S. Brewster '97 has been appointed
official scorer of the University base
ball team for next season.
Professor H. w. Parker and Mr.. Isa-
dor Troostwyk will assist in an organ
recital to be given in Christ church on
Tuesday December 8.
Mr.. Richard T. Percy 80 will assist
Mr.. e. A. Parsons at a song recital to
be given in the Church of the Messiah
this evening.
Professor Lyon Phelps gave his first
lecture last evening in Meriden at the
Main street Baptist church in the Uni
versity Extension course. His subject
was Mystery Plays Of the Middle
Ages"
THE YALE-HARvARD DEBATES
THE QUESTION OF COACHING
THE SPEAKERS.
President Clark of the Yale Union,
in a letter to the Yale News, yesterday,
denies statements lately appearing in
the Harvard Crimson, that there has
been excessive coaching of intercollegi-
ate debating teams at Yale. Mr.. Clark
says that at the last meeting of the
Yale, Harvard and Princeton delegates
sit was found impossible to come to
any agreement on the subject, Harvard
holding different opinion, as to the
point at which faculty assistance be-
comes unjustifable, from that of either
Yale or Princeton. All agreed that
there are Objectionable features in the
use of faculty aid. But the utter pro-
hlbition Of 1t proposed by one Of the
Harvard delegates was considered i'm
practicable, and the scheme now pro-
posed by the Harvard advisory board
is likewise imperfect" Mr.. Clark, in
closing. says: Under the present ar
rangement, any special student, even
a practicing lawyer taking one hour a
week In some graduate school, may en-
ter an intercollegiate debate. The Yale
and Princeton delegates, however, did
not press this point when Harvard ex-
pressed her determination not to yield
1T. This was one of the mutual conces-
sions which the colleges made, and it
seems to us that the point of no re-
striction upon faculty coaching, though
1T may conceivably lead to practices
which we would condemn just as
strongly as Harvard, belongs to the
same category"