Norwich bulletin., 1914-03-13
BULLETINS SPECIAL YALE LETTER
Two Evidences That Spring Has Opened-Sgnia Ri Honor For Two Norwich Men-Society For Recognizing Attn letic Merit Suggested-Yale Band Formed.

are in favor of it. Membership is to be
 won, according to the plan, by the
 ability to attain satisfactory marks in
 a list of specified events. There are
 to be two grades The requirements full honor will include these tests;
 100 yard dash, II 3-5 seconds; 12O
 yard hurdles, 20 seconds; running
 broad jump, IS feet; putting 16 pound
 shot, 30 feet pole vault, feet, $ inches; throwing the baseball, 250 feet
 bunting a football 120 feet; 3-mile
 run, IS minutes. 30 seconds; 10 mile
 walk, hours, 30 minutes; 10O-yard
 swim. A junior grade will require
 slightly modified tests along the same
 lines.
 That the requirements for full mem
 bership are not lax and that the man
 who gets a Reg" for athetic ability will earn it, is granted. Directors at leading American gymnasia strongly ly in favor of it, among them pr. w.
 c. Anderson of Yale. Undoubtedly it will tend to strike balance between
 the most common athletic events.
 There is many a man who can run
 three or six miles, who couldn't for anything, without practice. do a cred itable pole vault. There are some football players who couldn't run a
 mile in 6 minutes, perhaps, and there
 whom a hundred yard swim would feaze.
 About the close of the college year
 Yale athletes may take the idea up, it
 is planned and those who qualify then,
 will make the charter membership of
 the Yale chapter.
 A major sport championship is re- garded as the greatest need that Yale
 now has, in the opinion of 54 members of the Senior Academic class, from the
 statistics gathered for the class book.
 This is need that is strongly indicat- ed this year, more than ever before, while 37 members of this years class
 in comparison fifth 13 last year feel that the greatest need the col lege is more professors of person.
 ality sufficient to inspire greater in terest in the curriculum. More money
 that is, a larger endowment, is placed first by 30 men. The scattering votes cover a long list of interesting topics.
 Two men vote for Dwight Hall off the campus and two others think that the abolition of the Hotel Taft would be the greatest benefit Yale could have. One man insists that better food is the crying need.
 On April 4, is to be held the third annual conference between the Yale examiners and representatives of the secondary schools, in the entrance eX- animation papers for June and Sep tember of this year. The purpose of the meeting, which is unique in giving Ine preparatory ScnOOlS tnlS OppOrtun- ity is to make use of the experience of those teaching the subject in prepar- ing the examinations. The prepared examination papers are submitted, in proof. to the representatives of the schools, and there is a discussion of
 the questions and quite often the best
 means of teaching the subject, the proper age at which the subject should
 be taught, and other matters related. The teachers of the secondary schools have welcomed the opportunity in the past 2 years and 30 representatives | at least will be in New Haven next month. A Vale band is tho newest organi- ! zation to be formed. Six or seven years ago such a band fiourished and thrived and made itself generally use full during the spring activities. Then it died out and the Yale orchestra was left in sole possession of the campus music This week twenty men met and pledged their support with a vari- ety of instruments and Yale band for the Yale ball games seems to be assured. Besides the games, there are promised a large number of cam pus concerts this spring by both the orchestra after the usual custom, and fllo