The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-02-15
THIS WEEK,s LECTURES
On Topics of General Interest-Professor
 ,Jepson's Recital To-day.


 Professor Hoppin will lecture on "Perugino" this afternoon at o'clock in the Art school. In the evening the first of the Sheffield lecture course will be given by President T. c. Manden- hall, LL.D., of Worcester, Mass, who will speak on Weighing the Earth" The lecture will be given in North Sheffield hall at o'clock.
 Professor c. T. Winchester will lec- ture on Antony and Cleopatra" Thursday evening at Harmonic hall, under the auspices of the University Extension lecture course.
 Professor Pirsson will lecture on Crossing the Caucasus" Friday eve ming at 8 o'clock in North Sheffield hall under the auspices of the Sheffield lec- ture course.
 Graduate club the same evening by Howard Mansfield of New York, who will speak on Japanese Color Prints"
 A lecture will be given before the Divinity school by Professor Frank s. Hoffman, Ph. D., of Union college, who will speak on Germany as it is To- Day" in Marquand chapel at 12 noon next Saturday.
 COURANT EDITORS.
 The following men have been elected to the '99 board of the Courant: Charles Edward Hay of Springfield, H.; Rich ard Hooker of New Haven; Howard Chandler Robbins of Springfield, Mass; Henry Bingham Bartlett Yergason of Cincinnati, o. Frederick Martin Da- vies of New York city was elected bus mess manager.
 This year the Courant has made the new departure of electing a man un- identified with the literary side of the paper to serve as financial editor. The cause of this step has been the growing need of a man who shall put his entire attention upon the business side of the paper.
 MIR. JEPSON'S RECITAL.
 This afternoon at o'clock MT. Jepson will in Battell chapel give the ninth of the series of organ recitals. The Programme follows:
 Bach-Passacaglia in c minor Lemmens Grand Fantasia (The
 Storm).
 Bossi-Choral.
 Jepson-Tempo di Minuetto.
 Wagner-Introduction to the Third Act
 from Lohengrin.
 The next recital will be given on Tuesday afternoon, February 22
 U. OF P. RELAY RACES.
 The annual intercollegiate and inter- scholastic relay races, held under the auspices of the University of Pennsyl- vania, will occur this year on April 23 Invitations have been sent to all the eastern colleges and universities who have attended in past years, and also to the University of Chicago and the University of Wisconsin.
 There will be three races to deter mine the college championship of America, which will be open to any college or university desiring to enter. One race will be for the distance of a mile, each man to run a quarter of a mile. The second race will be a four mile race, each man to run mile. The University of Pennsylvania will enter in all three races and it is expected that Harvard, Yale, Georgetown and Brown will also enter.
 There will also be number of other intercollegiate races. An effort has been made to arrange the colleges in groups, according to their relative strength. The following classification has been made of the leading colleges: Group I.-Yale, Harvard, Princeton Pennsylvania, Group II.-Cornell, Co lumbia, Lehigh, Lafayette. Group III Brown, Georgetown, Carlisle, Holy Cross Group IV-Dartmouth, Am herst, Williams, Massachusetts Insti- ute of Technology The minor colleges are also classi- fled.
 Each college may enter the intercol- legiate championship races, the races with the colleges with which it has been classified, or both sets of races About 170 colleges have received invita-. l tions.
 EXHIBITION IN BRIDGEPORT Y. M c. A. | The Y. G. A. team will give an exhi ! bition in Bridgeport next Friday even | ing under the auspices of the Bridge | port Y. M. c. A. The team will consis | of the following: S. Peterson, P. G., w I K. Shepard, P. G., F. A. Lehlbach '9S | L. H. Schutte '99, F. T. Anderson '9S S. R. G. Clapp '99 S., w. l.. Otis 1900, A | F. Terry '9S H. A. Webster 1900 S., F 1 Eliason 1901 and M. U. Ely 9S, man ager.
 The programme will consist of tn, 1 following events: Horizontal bar, clul l swinging, side horse, parallel bars torch swinging, tumbling. Horizontal bar-Shepard, Eliason
 Schutte, Clapp, Otis and Lehlbach. 1 Club swinging and torch swinging | Peterson.
 sidehorse4Lehlbach, Otis, Clapp anc l Shepard.
 | Parallel bars-Shepard, Eliason
 Schutte, Clapp, Otis, Lehlbach and An 1 derson.
 Tumbling-Anderson, Shepard, Ella
 son, CIapp, Otis, Webster and Ter,
 Gin single work), Anderson and Otis Gi l double work).
 | BASEBALL NEWS. l The baseball squads have alread, commenced stopping grounders, slid ing bases, sprinting, batting and throw l ing in the cage, and expect to be ou
 of doors within a month. There are il | all thirty candidates for battery posi- | tions and these are practicing regular | ly at allotted times during the week
 Yale will as usual have no professiona coach this year, but several forme players who are in the professiona schools of New York are expected t