Norwich bulletin., 1914-11-27
BULLETINS SPECIAL YALE LETTER
Full Schedule of Athletic and Social Activities for Winter Use of the Bowl for Other Than Football Games-En- tertainment for Students Remaining Over Holiday Re cess.

team are very bright During the sea- son eight games will be played at home and five on the Christmas trip.
 Tn wrestling many new men have entered the competition. A novice meet will be held in the immediate future at which time the new men will be classified. There will then be the university championships. open to all members of the university. Cap tain Latirner reports a most interest ing schedule. The first meet will be held with Columbia in New York about the middle of February, and after this follow Annapolis, the University of Pennsylvania, Harvard and Princeton. On account of the early opening of the skating rink the facilities for hockey pFa6 tice this year will be greater than ever before. Under Captain Chism the gymnasium team has made most favorable progress. Several vacan- cies still remain to be filled, but the close competition will result in the adequate filling of these. The sched- ule will probably include meets with Pennsylvania, Princeton. Rutgers and Brown, and will be concluded with the intercollegiates in March. Aside from this, the team will hold exhibition meets at several of the preparatory schools. In fencing, MT. Bartolie has under instruction q large number of men. Three teams have been chosen and trial meets will be held until inn mediately before the intercollegiates, when the final choosing of the uni- versity team will take place. The clubs also are beginning to report new activities as well as new members. Last week AIory's association elected 12S undergraduates to its member ship.
 university glee clubs have announced their winter and Christmas schedules, which are quite similar to those of previous years. It has been the cus- tom in past years for the orchestra to have it's big concert in the spring; but this year it has been decided to change the date to Dec. 16. In con trast with last years policy, when only one trip was made, at least four trips are planned for this year. Before Christmas, trips will be made to Meri- den and Waterbury. Immediately after Christmas the orchestra will give its annual informal concert before the Yale club of New York A trip to Philadelphia is planned for later in the season. The orchestra has shown its willingness to put itself at the ser vice of university activities by offering to play at the basketball games this winter.
 A meeting was held Monday in the trophy room of the gymnasium for all candidates for the university hockey team. Seventy-one men were present the largest number that has ever come out for this sport. Passes were given out to the candidates and Cap tain Sweeney outlined the work for the season This week there will be no regular practice, but all men are urged to do as much skating as possible, in order to get into shape Next Monday the regular practice will begin. On account of the size of the squad the new candidates will be given especial attention at first. A cut will be made about a week before the Christmas va cation, and at that time the squad to be taken on the Christmas trip will be picked.
 Tuesday was Tag day for New Ha- ven and Yale university. Over 700 young women were on the street cor ners and other busy spots in New Ha- ven and throughout the university, which the New Haven chapter of the Red Cross society is raising. The Yale Red Cross relief committee, acting in concert with the New Haven chapter, collected over $T5. Of the entire fund collected, half will go to the Red
 
 for local charity.
 For the large number of studentc who were unable to leave New Haven for the Thanksgiving recess various university institutions made special arrangements for their entertainment. Wednesday evening the Christian aS- sociation held a social gathering in Dwight hall for the academic students Here fireside talks and refreshments comprised the evenings entertainment On Thanksgiving day the university dining hall provided a large New England Thanksgiving dinner for all of its members free of charge. Non members were asked a nominal fee for this dinner. A big publication was held on Thursday evening in the Lowell Mason room of the Divinity school for the faculty and their wives and the students of that department of the university.
 A question which has arisen recently in regard to the bowl is the use to which 1t shall be put in seasons of the year when football is not played. Nu- merous means of utilizing this great enclosure have been suggested, among them plan to hold there voluntary military drill for undergraduates. su- perV1sed by government officers. Wal ter Camp, as a prime mover in this PAc AcJCINs AdS OU uSeIul- ness of the bowl as a place for drill ing. Though strongly opposed to the organization of compulsory drill at Yale, Mir. Camp thoroughly believes that voluntary drill would be the most valuable use to which the bowl might be put. In this case the action should come from the undergraduates them selves. Every man has to think out certain things for himself On think ing the matter over every one should be struck with the feeling that this na- ton is horribly unprepared for war. If a man would be willing to give up three or four hours a week to this drill, the outbreak of hostilities would ind him very good timber for a sol- dier. If such a movement were start ed by the right class of students, if the leaders were the agitators in favor of 1t. 1t would carry the whole college by storm in short order. Such things go by fashion in the college community as elsewhere, and once voluntary drill was firmly established at Yale it would not take long for it to become tradi- tional and its success assured. The contention that it would ruin the play ing surface can be answered because, except on great occasions, the border grounds outside the side lines and at the ends of the field would be suffi-