Norwich bulletin., 1913-02-28
BULLETINS SPECIAL YALE LETTER
President Tafts Attitude Coming Back to the University
 Opposition the Flag Fisht-Lack of Interest in Lit erary Activty-Work in Engineering Departments Spring Football Practice

fitted me to lend some aid, however small, to carrying on the Yale spirit, in it's broadest and truest sense, shall be as happy at Yale as prefes- so as I was an undergraduate" The Wsshinqton's Birthday Fence Rush between the Academic Sopho-
 more and Freshman classes was not held this year, nor was the substitute. 8 fight to tear down a 1915 class flag placed on the top of 8 seven foot pole. to be located in the middle of the cam pus and to be defended by the sopho- mores against the inslaughts of the freshmen. The student Senior Council engagements and the two classes most concerned rose up in rebellion. The Sophemores held mass meeting and voted the lag rush down unanimously and the Freshmen took similar action. In consequence a time honored tradi- tion was broken and graduates are taking the opportunity to grumble at the loss of the old-time spirit.
 The amount of literary activity that manifests itself among Vale under gradu ates had light thrown upon it in an interesting way this week when the annual election of the board of editors of the Yale Literary Magazine was held by the Junior class. Five men were chosen from the class of 1913 to carry on the famous old Lit, dur ing the year to come, and this body was selected from a total of but eleven men who alone from the soc odd mepbers of their class had had an article accepted. Of the five chosen, one man had contributed s3 articles and another 19 in the race for the coverted chairmanship. Yale pro fessors and other literary men are critcizing the fact that so small a pro- portion of men do writing of this sort.
 By defeating Columbia on Wednes- day evening, Yale won the intercolle- giate championship in swimming, hav- ing won every meet during the sea son.
 President Hibben of Princeton uni versity is to be the guest of the Yale chapter Phi Beta Kappa at it's annual banquet on March 12.
 Plans to enlarge the Trophy room uable athletic collections are stored are under way. The cups and flags will be rearranged when the new floor plan is carried into effect.
 Spring football practice IS to be held in New Haven beginning on April f5, which date Head Coach Jones will officially take charge of the squad. Two or three assistant coaches are to be appointed shortly by Captain Ketcham, who plans to have-a squad of 40 men out By June, the men should be proficient in forward pass ing. bunting and catching punts, in which they showed such weakness in the Harvard game last falis and in formations. Last spring there were not enough line men out to form team, but Captain Ketcham plans to do better this year, in spite of the number of football men who go into crew and ether sports.
 Yale men will have a chance to enjoy the advantages of summer na val training in the United States navy, by the condition of a new arrange ment which has been made to- raise the standard of the Naval reserve and increase the number of persons in civil life who have had such training. To this end, college students are to be appointed to baltleShipS and cruisers of the fleets for next summer to receive training in the engineering and electrical departments, gunnery, and boats, besides the gen era1 routine of life on a war-ship. The cost for properly recommended college