The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-06-05
YALE NOTES OF INTEREST.


 Woolsey Statue-Athletics-Th Yacht Club-on for Henley.
 Since the action of the Yale faculty at the last meeting in voting to place the new Woolsey statue on the campus directly across the drive in front of Durfee hall the matter has been fre- quently discussed on the campus and 8 general storm of opinion adverse to placing the statue in that position has been expressed.
 Yesterday morning Workmen lined out the site of the statue and drove stakes to mark the ground to be occu- pied and when at the close of chapel the large crowd of students saw what had been done they broke down the stakes, and later picked up the stakes and with other pieces of wood kindled fire There was no scaffolding erect ed and the students did not dance around the fire fin fiendish glee;" neith- CT did they speak insultingly of any members of the faculty or corporation. As the fire was burning the students, as they always do when a fire is built on the campus, yelled Who built that fire?" and then answered "Whitch- kiss.'' this being standing joke on one of the campus employees of the college.
 Dean Wright stated last evening that he did not consider that anything had been done to require any action of the faculty, and that there was no cause for disciplining any students concerned in the slight disturbance. He said, however, that the statue would proba- bly, be placed in the position voted by the corporation. The reason of the ob- jection to the location by the students is that this is the ground on which the seniors play ball, no other class men being allowed, according to the estab- lished custom, to play ball there. The students are reluctant to have anothek old custom done away with as have so many recently, and will urge strongly that another site be chosen for the statue They say, however, that if the corporation insists upon placing the statue there there. will be no riotous at tempt to destroy the statue or to ob- struct the work of placing it in posi- tion, as has been stated in certain pa- pers.
 Yesterdays Yale News commenting on the decision regarding the locating of the statue, said: We shall yet nurse the hope that Prof. Weir's most excellent statue of Yale's beloved and honored president will find place where it will be received with more popular enthusiasm. It is not good idea to begin now to drive the innocu- ous game of base (tennis) ball from the campus. It gives a lot of innocent and healthful pleasure and does no greater harm than to stamp the life out of an occasional venturesome dockweed. The corporation can hardly be serious in attempting, just at this stage of the worlds and Yale's progress to inaugu- rate the millennial project of growing grass on the campus. The time is not ripe for such a magnus opus. Wher- ever the Woolsey statue is placed-and there are plenty of good sites-the hap py student will not abide by actual or implied signs to keep off the grass.
 OFF FOR HENLEY.
 The Yale varsity crew took their last practice pull yesterday before leaving for England where they will compete in the Henley regatta. The crew will leave this city tonight for New York and stop at the Murray Hill hotel. The baseball team nine will accompany them to New York tonight and go to Princeton Saturday. morning.
 YALE CORINTHIAN REGATTA.
 The annual regatta of the Yale Corin- than Yacht club will be held to-mor- row. The start for sloops over 30-foot water line will be at 10 a. m. Other boats at n:30.