Norwich bulletin., 1912-10-18

ton or tnlS past ana present 0lnlcuILy will be offered by the erection of the new stadium. At recent meeting of the committee of twenty-one in New York, it was decided to get out the plans for the big structure at once and to make contracts for its erection. These plans will be ready in a fort night and therefore it may be possible to start the construction as early as next month.
 Up to the present time, the develop mont of the new Yale field has com prised leveling the land, nearly 100 acres of which the committee had pur- chased opposite the present field at an expense of about s15O,OOO. During fate spring and the summer this work has been going steadily on.
 The funds have been coming in rath- CT slowly, so much so that the com- mittee is shortly to send out another appeal for subscriptions to all the graduates, for while many pledges have been made and redeemed the great body of alumni have not respond ed to the call as generally as Is de- sired. An active campaign is also to be taken among the undergraduates.
 The plans for the stadium call for an expenditure of about S300,000 and
  the new Yale field provides for a new clubhouse, new tennis courts, baseball fields and other athletic facilities. The committee has incorporated, with Da- vid Daggett of New Haven as secre- tary and Everard Thompson as assist ant secretary.
 The annual fall track meet at Yale field Wednesday afternoon showed good material in the entering classes for the freshmen won the meet with score of 49 points. From the upper classes of course all numeral men were excluded. The juniors were second with 3S 1-2 points, the seniors third with Il and the sophomores last with 1 8 1-2 points. The freshmen won by | taking all three places in the last event, the pole vault at a height of 10 feet inches.
 1 While Yale has this season with drawn from the intercollegiate bas- ketball league, and there has been much talk as to whether the. game might not be dropped from the athletic sports of the university, for there has been decreasing interest in 1t for a number of years past, Dr. W. G. An l derson, head of the gymnasium, on l Thursday gave out the statement that lack of financial support Is the factor 1 hindering the game at Yale. The bas- ketball association has been unable to meet the heavy expenses of travel, coaching and equipment. Dr. Ander- son called attention to the fact that many of the minor sports are far from self-supporting, that the major sports alone seem to hold the interest of un- dergraduates and alumni and basket
 ball seems to be the game that has
 received the greatest amount of criti- cism whether merited or not.
 Harvard has dropped the game en- tirely for reasons similar to those here
 and Princeton seriously considered withdrawing from the league because
 of it's annual deficit. At Pennsylvania
 and Columbia the sport prospers. Yale
 this winter will play independently, but
 plans to meet most of the teams stil
 in the league.
 The Wilson Marshall club of tn,
 university held its first rally in Osborr hall Wednesday night: Congressman
 Thomas L. Reilly of Meriden and At torney Kenneth Wynne of New Have1 of the democratic state central com mittee were the speakers, dealinl mostly with tariff revision. The at tendance was very small, but enthusi
 asm was shown.
 At Yale university on November and will be held the twenty -seventl annual meeting of the New Englant Association of Colleges and Prepara tory schools. On the afternoon of tn i. first day there will be a conference ol the subject, For what ought the col lege degree be given-for work don : in college alone or for that plus wor
 done in preparatory schools?" In tn 5 evening in Memorial hall there will b ( dinner and reception in, honor of tn s presidents of the colleges in the Con 7 nectieut valley. The problem of Stu [ dent Honesty will be discussed Sat