The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-06-10
YALE NEWS OF INTEREST
BASEBALL Association OFFICERS
ELECTED LAST EVENING.

Senior Glass Book Out Yesterday--Inter-
esting Facts Given in Invaluable Adj
dition to the University Library Glass
Day Exercisos-O Other Items.
AT a university meeting held at 194
Old Chapel last evening the following
officers for the baseball association for
the ensuing year were elected; Presi-
dent, George c. Brooke '97 of Budsboro,
Penn; vice president, Charles Russell
Bement '97 S., of Terre Haute, Ind, ;
assistant manager F. H. Simmons '9S
of Brooklyn, N. Y; secretary, Morton
L. Flarey '9S of Albany, N. Y.
THE NEW SENIOR CLASS BOOK.
The '96 class book was placed on sale
yesterday morning and has been well
edited by r. NJ. Matthews Sc of Waldo
boro, Me.
The book is considered a great i'm
provement on previous editions and
among the interesting facts and statis-
tics given are the following:
Andover, as usual, leads the prepare
tory schools, having thirty-five repre-
sentatives in the class. st. Paups
comes second with twenty. The re-
mainder are distributed among some
one hundred different schools Repub-
licans are decidedly in the majority,
numbering about 100, with democrats
second numbering between fifty and
sixty There are twenty-three mug
wumps and one man processes to be
prohibitionist. About sixty men have
voted and all but about fifteen expect
to vote next fall.
OF the entire class one hundred and
seventy-six are church members, fifty
six of whom are Congregationalists.
The remainder are divided as follows:
Forty-four Presbyterians, forty three
Episcopalians, twelve Baptists nine
Methodists, eight Catholics, three
Dutch Reform and one is a member of
the Church of the Disciples.
Freshman year is voted the hardest
and junior year the easiest. Nearly
everyone says senior year is the pleas
ATTEST and freshman year the most dis
agreeable. Eighty-three men consider
psychology the hardest required study
freshman mathematics comes second
with fifty-three votes. Greek gets thir-
ty-two, physics twenty-three, logic and
analytical geometry each receive five
votes.
The average expense for the four
years is s942 The average for fresh
man year 1857, sophomore 1923, junior
s947 and senior $1O33. The highest
amount given for years allowance is
50, 500 and the lowest $500. About TWEEN
ty-fve per cent. of the class have paid
part of their way through college and
twenty men have paid their entire ex-
penses.
Dean III. P. Wright is voted the IA
vorite professor, receiving slxty-tWe
votes, Professor Reynolds coming Sec
ond with twenty-seven, Professor
Wheeler received twenty-five, PROBES
sors Adams, Hadley, E. j. Phelps anc
/ Perrin follow in the order named.
Of the instructors DR., Phelps received
the double honor of being voted the IA
vorite by one hundred and thirty eight
votes, the largest vote received by any
one, and of being the pleasantest. He
also comes within one vote of being ad-
judged the most broad minded man
Professor Adams is the best teacher by
vote of fifty. Professor E. J. Phelps
is the most polished member of the fac
ulty; Professor Adams the most broad
minded. Professor Hadley wins first
place for brightest man on the faculty
with seventy-fve votes. Professor
Richards holds, as he has for many
years, the honor of being the most diff
ficult man to whom to recite The
"easiest man. IS Professor Reynolds by
a vote of twenty eight. Professor Rich
ards is voted the most successful al
''rattling."
The class elections resulted as fol-
lows: The class beauty, Pardee; hand
soonest man, Treadway; homeliest
Longacre; meekest man. Noon; great
est social light, Foote; greatest favor.
lite, Berry; windlest man, kneelant
Ball; LATEST man, Schuyler; most to bt
admired, Stokes; most versatile man
Wadhams; most eccentric, C. Day; bes
all-around athlete Sheldon; most like
ly to succeed, Neale; best dressed, Tail
er; biggest ''fusser," H. p. Cross; big
gest grind" J. Gaines; brightest man
Conklin; most popular man, Treadway
most melancholy, Root; greatest nerve
Ball. best natured, Berry; most relig
ious, Archibald wittiest, Kinney; big
gest buffer, Eagle.
One hundred and forty-eight mel
vote for Stokes as having done NOR
for Yale than any other man in tn,
class.
The average age of the class on com
mencement day, June "a, 1896, will b.
% years 10 months and "a days Tht
sum of the ages makes $3.50 years
months and IS days. The oldest mar
in the class is W. F. Prince, who j!
/ thirty three. The youngest is Arnstein
who is nineteen.
The popular favorites are: Maut
Adams actress; Joseph Jefferson, act
or; Rivals play. The prose writers
( are Trackeray, Scott and Dickens
Lorna Doone," favorite book; Long
4 fellow, Shakespeare and Tennyson, tn
favorite poets. The character most ad
mired in history is George Washington
About forty-four men say they havt
written for the college publications.
Of the future occupations of the clas
fifty-seven men will study law, fourteen
men Ill study medicine, five men will
study for the ministry, thirtytwo eX
I pect to teach, twelve will go into bust
ness, thirty-six are undecided and tn
rest are divided between seven differ
ent employments.
A LIBRARY ACQUISITION.
By the generous and prompt actor