Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1898-11-03
YALE'S BRlGHT PROSPECTS
Scholastic Year Opened Under
i3r Favorable Auspices.
,HAzlNG EXISTS IN A MILD FORM
Yale Battery Men Are Being
af Mustered Out.


EuOrtN ARC being MNuo tn Optatn
Funds for completing tho University tm-
provemcnts by the Two Hundredth Anni-
versnry Celebration, in 1901.
a New Haven, Conn, Oct. 90. Yale has
started off this year under most favor
able auspices, larger attendance, an
increased faculty and new improve
ments, all promising successful year
Especially is this true in the Sheffield
Scientific School, where the largest
class, since the entrance conditions
were raised, has been matriculated
This steady increase in classes testifies
to the position which Shelf. has at
tanned, and, indirectly, is an argument
In favor of change to a four year
course, from the present one of three
years. Should that change be made,
there seems little doubt that after
possibly short period of adaptation to
the new conditions, Shelf. would soon
equal numerically the academic de-
partment. 1t is interesting to note in
this respect that the graduating classes
of the past year or two have voted
with large majorities in favor of
another year, and judging from the
sentiment throughout '99 S., the ballot
next June will show the same result.
College opened this year with the
usual characteristic doings, although
the advance guard of men with ICON
ditions," who take possession of New
Haven early in September, seemed to
be unusually large this fall. The
academic wrestling match, and tho
picturesque Shelf. rush. in which
the seniors disport themselves in varie-
gated costumes, and with colored lights
and music lead the procession under
the elms and through the town, came
off with great eclat. Everyone is happy
the first week of college; friends you
have not seen for months are every
where; cheques are but newly cashed;
he who has passed off his conditions is
jubilant, and the men whom the faculty
have dropped, does not know it as yet,
and best of all, there is a whole new
year at Yale before you, and no troubles
and disappointments as yet. Then that
4. feeling of self-importance which is SO
necessary to some, and disagreeable to
no one, is strengthened nightly by
the swarms of unhappy looking fresh
men, Just up from the prep. school,
who lower their eyes when the upper
cassmen look at them, and ask the
way to Alumni Hall Hazing of course
still exists at Yale, though in a mild
enough form. The freshmen are legiti
mate game only on the two nights be-
fore college opens, and even then,
except for polite but firm requests. to
make fools of themselves in various
ways, they are not much troubled. This
year there was less hazing than ever,
although there was almost q riot at
-
ing youths, with most Of their clothing
wrong side out, were mounted on a
table, and told to sing "Here's to good
old Yale" sweetly, and in duet, which
they did to the badly mutilated tune
of hSweet Rosy O'Grady, with disas-
trous results. However, most of them
suffer little, unless it be from the CON
viction that they are far less important
at Yale than at Andover, or st. Paul's,
and, from an ethical standpoint, the
experience is certainly good one,
however disastrous, as regards clothes,
it may be from an economic one.
The town is full of Yale Battery men
Just now, in the process of being
mustered out. Most of them are Of
'9S and '9S S., but quite few are
still in college, and it is no unusua
sight to see soldier uniform running
for a recitation. The battery rs q
whole, reached high state of efficiency,
and were utterly disappointed when
they found there was to be no oppor-
tunity for active service. At one tint
their equipments and guns wer,
actually loaded on the cars, ready TO
transportation to Puerto Rico, whei
the countermanding order came. TIL,
men were a fine lot of fellows. anC
according to Major General Hawley
State inspector of troops for Connect
cut, constituted one of the finest bat
teries ever mustered into the service
As an aftermath of the war, various
plans for memorial of Yale men VIII
lost their lives in the service of thei
country, are being dicussed.
Harvard proposes erecting memoria
gateway, but so far no definite con
clusion has been reached here as t.
the best form of the testimonial. Yer
possibly a stone tablet in the Chitten
den Library will be the result.
Six hundred degrees in all wer
awarded last June, and two incident
added unusual interest to commence
ment day. In the first place the senio
members of the Yale Battery attende
in uniform to receive their diplomas
and afterwards an honorary degree wa
awarded to President Mckinley. Thi
last action was the occasion for quit
an unusual demonstration. The seer,
was known only to few and the nam
of the President was received with
shout of applause that fairly shoe
the chapel walls, ending with a Ion
cheer in which seniors, faculty, an
spectators all joined with a roar thu
.zl srLA e.
his, feet. This degree was, Of course
conferred in the absence of the Pres
dent, and expresses the great desire
asmuch as it is a seldom broken ru
that all candidates for degrees must |
present to receive them.
Strenuous efforts are being made
those in charge, to obtain the funt
necessary for the improvements in I'll
university which every one wishes
see completed by the 200th anniversal
celebration in 1901. The work on Il
Peabody Museum, of which one wiz
only is standing, will probably beg
soon, as much of the necessary mon,
is already at hand. The picture of ii
completed building, as proposed, shoy
magnificent structure stretching Il
whole block, Just across from ii
campus, and capable of adequate
containing and exhibiting the larg
collections of all kinds owned by Yal
Another needed building is the Asser
bly, Hall, which will probably be p,
up on the campus, and for which ii
means are at hand. Either old Nor
Middle, one of the three remnants
the brick row, or Alumni Hall wi
have to go to give place to this ne
hall, and although Alumni Hall, fro
nm arnhi taf.tiiral nninf Of uin1r L. Z,