Norwich bulletin., 1913-01-31

l still retains his supremacy as the fa- | vor3te campus character of Yale, the
 vtsws of the te class s of 5sn,o asls l blanks. The genial university police
 man, whos is the close friend of hun | dreds of Yale men, and whose office i refuge to the oppressed, received 294 l votes. Kligerman, known to genera | tions of students as a seller of second l hand furniture. is given only 12 votes. | But Klig naturally is not so much of 1 campus character since the faculty recently excluded him from within the | quadrangle and confined his activities 1 chiefly to the sidewalk of Chapel | street and to York street. sRosey
 who. too. is one of the figures familiar | to all Yale men of recent years, got
 few votes. and Dean Jones was l voted by handful of men to be the | favorite of the campus.
 Tennis is the favorite sport with 80
 men, and baseball and football come next with 51 and 45 votes respectively. The Times leads the New York news papers, getting 191 of the senior votes. The Sun received 43, the Tribune 19. Dickens is the favorite prose writer with Al votes,~and Kipling is second with 37. Crossing the Bar is the fla vorite poem, and the 1dyllS of the King come next. Tennyson is the favorite poet, and he received 9s-votes to 39 for Shakespeare. Maude Adams is regard ed as their favorite actress by S3 men,
 
 actor. Billie Burke appeals to the sensibilities of 34 Yale men. Lincoln Is voted the favorite character in his- tory, Napoleon second, the choices be- amusement in the theater. dancing claims 19. and reading has charms for IT men more intellectually inclined.
 The Washington's birthday fence rush has been the subject of a good bit of undergraduate comment during the week. In view of the fact that in the last few years there has been notice able lack of interest in this historic clash between the sophomore and freshman classes for the possession of the sophomore fence, there has been some sentiment in favor of ending the custom: Last year, for instance, the class of 1914 was less than half repre- scented against the freshmen. Over organization Is one of the charges against the present method of conduct ing the rush that in the old days used to go on all the morning, sometimes all the afternoon, everywhere a group of freshmen encountered band of soph- omores. Now the fight Is confined to Is minute period immediately after morning chapel on Feb. 22. The fresh men mass at one side of the campus and at a given signal plunge down narrow lane left by hundreds of spec tators to capture and hold the sopho- more fence If 1t is muddy. and 1t frequently is. some of the more thoughtful hesitate about crawling around on hands and knees in their good clothes along the coveted fence, from which they are hurled back, or over which they are hurled. by the silk halted, cane armed sophomores. Many think that IS minutes is hardly a long enough time for decisive rush and the presence of crowd or out siders has also interfered with the fun. The senior council IS considering a plan for changing the rush which will make it a success this year.
 Vale underoraduates were found more enthusiastic over grand opera than in any other college town he had been in, said John Mccormack, the Irish tenor of the Metropolitan opera company, who sang Rudolfo in La Boheme at the Hyperion Tuesday He refuted the statement that the college man fails to appreciate the higher forms of art and music. He said he understood that Harvard had a su- perior musical sense than Yale, but although I have never sung at Har- yard. 1 can't imagine any more appre- ciative audience" He did say that deepness of musical thought is gener- ally lacking in American students.
 Eighty men have reported for the university crew winter training on the rowing ma chimes and in the tank, but while this number is 13 more than last year, the weight is unusually low Since 1909, when the average was 174 pounds, the weight of the squad has been steadily declined: and this year it has reached the minimum at 167 5-s pounds. The squad averages 20 years months-3 months younger than last years For the past five years the height has been feet, this year IL IS feet 10 inches.
 The Harvard varsity club has just published a book containing all of the Yale Harvard boat races. football baseball and track games from the first competition down to@the present
 Rowing began on Lake Winnepesau kee in New Hampshire in 1852. and goes on with intercollegiate races at Springfield and Worcester, Mass, at Saratoga then at New London, back on the Hudson at Poughkeepsie and a t last back on the Thames; 51 varsity races have been rowed in all between Yale and Harvard, and the record gives Harvard the lead by one VIC tory Since the four cared boats have raced Yale has won 4. Harvard 10. Of the 14 races.
 In baseball. the two uniyersities have met every year since 1888. with the exception Of 1891 and 1sse. Yale has won 16 of the AZ annual series, Harvard has taken 25. and three years the games were tied. Track meets began in 1891. and only in 1898 were these athletic relations suspended Harvard has won Il meets. Yale 10.
 Football was inaugurated in 1875 and except for five years-lS71, 1S5b. 1887. 1895, 1S96-there have been champion ship meets. In this one department of the four major sports has Yale rec- ord of consistent victory; of the S4 games, Yale has taken 23. Harvard 6. with tied. Since 1908 Yale has won but one game. Harvard has taken two and two have been GO ties.
 The Ohio club is one of the most consistently active bodies in Vale. Their especial programme is to in crease the number, already large, of western students, especially from the high schools, in the university. They have sent Yale pamphlets to all of the 300 odd high schools in Ohio and have conferred with the Yale faculty about proposed entrance changes. Dean Jones gave decisive reply at an Ohio club meetine this week, and his state ment of the policy of Yale is inter esting to all who have been following one of the most pressing of all Yale problems, the regulation of entrance standards. The eastern high schools are nearly as much interested as are the western. Dean Jones said that Yale wants western high school men as we'll as men from the big prepara- tory institutions of the east. How to get these men to come to Yale Is the real Frot,1ern It has been suggested