The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-10-13
AT THE UNIVERSITY.
Doings in and About the College Build ings-Sheff Senior Class Officers.

Doings in and About the College Build- ings-sheff. Senior Class Officers.
 At recent meeting of the senior class of the Sheffield Scientific school the fol- lowing officers were elected: President, G. c, Greenway; vice president, H. r. Benjamin; secretary and treasurer J. w. Alsop. The various committees will be appointed by the president with in a week.
 At the first regular meeting of the Kent club, held Monday night, the sub- ject for debate was: Resolved, That the discovery of gold in the Klondike regions at this time will be beneficial to the United States The judges de- cided in favor of the negative, which side was ably taken by Sherman, Bow en and Lynch. The next debate will be held October IS.
 The members of the university who reside in Pennsylvania met last night and elected officers of an organization to be known as the Pennsylvania club. After adopting a constitution and by laws the following officers were elected: President, o. P. Metcalf '9S; vice pres ident, A. M. Speer '9S S.; secretary, A.. M Bell '99 S.; treasurer, F. H. Brooke '99. An executive committee was elect ed, consisting of J. M. Magee '99, c. C.. Jones '9S, T. Dashiell '99 s. and H. c. Heinz 1900
 At a meeting of the Gymnasium as- sociation, held recently. it was decided to hold the first meet in December, as usual. Arrangements have been com pleted for an exhibition meet with Princeton, and an attempt will be made to arrange a similar one with Colum- bia. Captain F. A. Lehlbach will have charge of the team this year, and a large number of candidates reported to him yesterday.
 The average weight of the Shelf. freshman crew is 152h pounds.
 The exercises of the divinity school will be omitted to-day, Thursday and Friday. a1
 The Cornell freshman crew. which was defeated at Poughkeepsie last year, was beaten by both the 9S and '99 crews in the Cornell fall regatta.
 The Hill School club will hold smok- CT this evening. Following IS the com mittee in charge: L. Fitch '9S S., Ham, i'll '98. Davis 1900 Warden '99 S., Kiefer 1901 and Thaws 1900 s.
 An important meeting of the Cleve- land club will be held on Saturday eve ing at o'clock in room Vanderbilt. All members of the university from Cleveland are request to attend the meeting. ms Af ar
 The new football field has been sur veyed by civil engineer and brass pegs placed in the fence at the five-yafd lines and at the end of the side lines in order to assure accuracy in laying out the field in the future.
 LAW SCHOOL REGISTRATION.
 The official figures of the registration in the law school, as announced Mon- day, are as follows: Graduate course, 26; seniors, 26; middle class, S3, and juniors, 82; in all, 217, against 2l3 last year. The reason for the small mem- bership in the present senior class is that two years ago the course was heightened from two to three years, and
 
 cruited from those who entered between years or who were dropped from other classes.
 GRADUATE FOOTBALL COACHES.
 Among the Yale graduates who are coaching football teams this fall are the following: w. 0. Hickok '95 s. and Vance Mccormick '93 S., the Carlisle Indian school; Jerrems '96, the UfiverA sity of Minnesota w. w. Heffelfinger '91 S., the University of California; F. E. Wade s6, the University of Missou- ri; Dr. Samuel Hammond '96 M. S., Le- high; c. Foster Sanford 96 L. S., Syra- | cuse university; c. M. Fincke '97, the | Hill school; H. M. Keator '97, Willis. | ton academy.
 FRESHMAN UNION. | The first regular meeting of the Freshman union was held in Union hall last evening. M. L. Fearey '98 who will have charge of the debating in the freshman class this year, outlin- ed the work for this term.