Norwich bulletin., 1912-12-13
BULLETINS SPECIAL YALE LETTER
Examinations Being Held For Last Time This Season of the Year-Phi Beta Kappa Requirements Raised-Physical Scientific Properties Valued at $4 0O0 OOO-Dr Williams Gives Second Lecture in Bromley Course.

New Haven, Dec. 12.-With the round of mid-year examinations in full prog ress this week, the lights of the col lese dorInitories have burned late, chapel pews have been left half vacant, and the library has been the attraction for scores who apparently visit 1t at no other time. But it is the last time that the days just before the holidays will be laden with "cramming," and next year the recitations and lectures will close uniformly, the students will depart joyfully for their homes, and, as in almost every other college in the country, come back and take the 'mid-year's' three or four weeks after New Years.
 Enthusiastically, of course the greatest advantage will be in that both the mid year and the final examination in June will be based upon an equal amount of work, and thereby do away with the present inequality, where the final examination covers nearly two-thirds of the years work.
 Socially, the encouragement of the year will provide a fitting place for the prom. week activities immediately after the mind has been freed of the strain of examinations. The thought during the holidays of impending dis aster will probably be easily offset by the contentment and joyfulness with which the 1900 or 1,400 men of the college will, in a body, get away to the far and near parts of the country.
 Vale chapter of the Beta Kappa has gone up in it's requirements. Last year the requirement. of a stand Of 3.25 for the first two years of the course and $50 the second year was changed to 3.S0 for any two consecutive years. Then the howl arose, in some quar- ters. that the bars had been lowered. This week they were showed up again, and to the ambitious student who de- sires to make Yale's oldest and in some important ways the most distin- guished society, only one way of doing so is left open, that of keeping h's work up to 3.30 for two consecutive years.
 The senior year privilege, by reason of which many a man has made a stand and won his key, among the most quoted example being that of John Fitzpatrick, the football man and athlete has been abolished. The origin of the $50 rule was for the benefit of the large number of men who came to Yale for the senior year alone from colleges which then had no chapter of Phi Beta Kappa. This gave them a chance to get their key. But the num- Der of these men who have not had 0 previous chance is now almost nil, and the rule has therefore been given up. On the other hand, it will now exclude Yale men who have elected easy courses and few hours for their senior year, with view to scholarship dis tinction.
 For the Rhodes scholarship from Connecticut, George Van Santroora of Troy, N. Y, Yale 1912, was chosen by the committee meeting in New Haven last week. He had distinguished him. self at Hotchkiss and at Yale in class ical scholarship, and at Oxford he will study English.
 Among the eight elections announced by the university society of Alpha Chi Rho is Max Henry Foley of Norwich, Conn.
 The physical statistics of the class of 1916, made by pr. Frank T. Born of the Yale gymnasium, shows that the present freshman class is older than was any other recent class when it entered college. The average age of
 1916 is 19 years 1 month, that of 1915 was 19, of 1914, 1915 and 1913, IS years Il months.
 The physical superiority of the men from the private preparatory schools over those from the high schools is the most noticeable point about the sta- tistics, and in questioning high school men the conclusion arrived at at the gymnasium several years ago was cor roborated, that in many high schools the facilities for physical development are inadequate, and in some entirely neglected. During his years in college the strength and health of the student is found almost invariably to increase.
 The figures for the measurements of 1916 and 1915 are intersting; 1916- age, 19 years 1 month; height, 5 feet 81-2 inches; weight, 140.S; breadth of shoulders, 15,S; chest normal, 35.5; right thigh, POP; right calf, 12.7; right biceps, 11.9; right forearm, 10; strength right forearm, 10S; left forearm, s2; lung capacity, 260; strength back, 230 pounds; strength of legs, 595 pounds; pull-ups, 6; push-ups, 5; total strength, 9S7.8.
 1s15-Age, 1s; height. feet S4-5 inches; weight, 142.2; breadth shoul- ders, 15.9; chest normal, 95,5; right LnlSn, ZIs TISHL ceIlI, Io' 'f IisHt plicpS, 11.9; right forearm, 10.1; lung capacity, 264 strength right forearm, 95; strength left forearm. 90; strength of back, 242 pounds; strength of legs, 400 pounds; pull-ups, 5; push-ups, A. total strength, 96s.
 The three strongest men in the class were E. W. Hubbard, from Hill school total 1,65S.1; W. M. Oler. Rawling. 1.- 656.5; J. s. Putnam. St. Luke's, l. 656.2.
 R. N. Donner of 1915 S.. from An dover, had total of 1.6703.
 Approximately $4.oooooo is shown to be the total of the properties of the