Norwich bulletin., 1913-12-19

nic" Giantni, as well as coach. IS boat rigSer and trainer, and both De- lieve in fitting a stroke to the material in hand rather than in attempting the impossible. A conference in New Haven Sunday between these crew men was harmonious. One has accept ed his position and the other two are expected to do so shortly.
 This system. so arranged. says the News editorial. ssshould give inmedi ate results; Yale will not have to wait three years for q fast crew. The grad nate committee, after long and faithful work has helped Captain Denegre es- tablish system that will again make ' Yale crews famous, and that all ale, both graduate and undergraduate, will hail with exa1tation."
 The optimistic spirit of the News is encouraging and there are features Tn the new system that certainly are dis tinctly hopeful and promising. All along Yale has had the material, and has it this year. Open water in April and May on the harbor and in June on the Thames will be the test of the new system and coaches.
 The statue of Nathan Hale being cast in bronze by BeIa Lyon Pratt of Boston will be unveiled on the Yale campus next spring, some time before commencement. It is to be set upon stone pedestal on the east side of Con- neeticut hall which was built in ll5O, and was perhaps the home of Nathan Hale during part of his college days That is, of course a question that is still argued. At the time when Hale was a student at Yale." writes Chair man F. w. Allen of the Nathan Hale memorial fund. "Connecticut hall, the new chapel, afterWard renamed the Athenaeum, and the old and original wooden Yale college were standing, and the presidents house a few doors south of Chapel street on College. Hale may have lived in the town, or in Yale college which had few sleeping rooms for students, or in Connecticut hall At least he knew Connecticut hall and was daily in and out of it's entries as it is today, the rebuilding of 1905 by Grosvenor Atterbury, '91, -hay- ing restored the structure to its orig inal proportions and style. So that the location of a memorial statue of Ma than Hale, facing out from Connectlcut hall across the little college roadway to about the side of the original Yale col lege. is appropriate
 Plans for modern theatre for New Haven interest Yale men, who, past and present, have swarmed into the old Hyperion, there to sit in ancient seats, gaze down from terrific heights and suffocate in a truly awful atmos- phere. 1t will take the new theatre, which is to be erected at a cost of S350000 by the Shuberts next to the Hotel Taft on College street, 9 long time to compete with the Hyp in his torfc associations. It may be a de- crepit old place, but to Yale men who have been through a vigorous footbd4l night there or have followed that long list of passing shows that come to a college town som etimes first nights, at others, nearly the last. or have been fna1 4es themselves, the Hyp as long as 1t stands will bring back "reminiscences of jolly times.
 The new theatre will seat 2.0O0, will have 30 boxes, and the stage will be 40 feet deep and 90 feet wide. The same building will include modern apartment house.
 Phi Beta Kappa at Vale has wealth cred and is weathering a good many criticisms, some well deserved prob ably, others not. The mechanical meth cd of election, purely on the basis of marks, has been a target again in the last few weeks. It would not be sur prising if there came about some change in the way of choosing it's members, which is at present for the stand of 3.30 for two years consecu- tive work, or some revitaliZation of the chapter. so that it will come to mean something more than the wearing of a key.
 A step in this second direction was taken this week in a public lecture on Monday night by Prof Edward Bliss Reed, author of that charming collec- ton of little poems of Yale, Lyra YaIensis Old Christmas Carols was the subject for his interesting paper, but the singing by a mixed quartette of old French, German and English carols was an even greater source of enjoyment Such a programme is a thing that will put new life into Phi Beta Kappa,