Norwich bulletin., 1915-04-02

: The subject of taking moving pic
lures of Yale undergraduate life and
activities has attracted considerable
attention recently, and committee has
been appointed to investigate the plan.
John K. Howe, I'll, has been appointed
chairman of the committee. In June,
1914, in response to wide demand
from the alumni associations of the
country, the Yale corporation request
ed the advisory board to consider the
possibility of taking moving pictures
of Yale life and to make suggestions
as regards financing them. The COM
mittee was organized last October and
at once found that the first thing to
be done was to make arrangements for
photographing the football game,
which also marked the opening of the
new bowl. Accordingly, contract was
made with one of the motion picture
companies to make the films and to
pay the committee a percentage of the
receipts from exhibiting the films, in
return for the exclusive right of re-
cor ding the game and the privilege of
exhibiting the films. Pictures were
also taken of some of the preliminary
coaching, of practice, the coaches, and
of other scenes in New Haven, and
these films have been exhibited at
number Of the alumni association din
ners during the winter. The returns
realized on the exhibition of these
films were not as large as was ex-
pected, and so the progress lately has
been somewhat hampered. However, a
few pictures have been taken during
the winter, and it is expected that the
committee will have very little difficult
ty in raising sufficint funds to carry
through the project. The committee
has made plans for several series of
films, covering the different features of
Yale life fairly completely. The first
series is to include the leading athletic
events, football, baseball and rowing,
together with some of the minor sports.
A second series will include campus
scenes, such as Calcium Light night
and Omega lambda Chi. Probably one
series will be utilized to cover all
Commencement week events. A film
that will perhaps be the most impor-
tant is one depicting the chief events
of the history of the university, along
the lines of the bi-centennial pageant,
and including many of the old customs.
The dramatic association and, the three
athletic associations have pledged their
aid and in many cases have given 1t.
The faculty approves the plan and has
given valuable suggestions. They have
sent many suggestions and have asked
for the films at an early date.
The fourth annual conference be-
tween the Yale examiners and the Of
fetal representatives of the secondary
schools to review the entrance exam
ination papers to be given in June and
September, 1915, will be held on April
10 in New Haven. Representatives
from the faculties of schools in Con-
necticut, Massachusetts,, New York,
New Jersey and Pennsylvania will be
present. The purpose of these conven-
lions is to bring about better under
standing between the schoolmasters
and the college professors; to deter
mine set of examinations satisfactory
to both the college and the preparatory
schools, and to exchange ideas for the
solution of the problems which con-
front both school and college. The
visitors will be the guests of the uni
versity at luncheon and will devote the
entire afternoon to the conference.
The sixty fourth congress of the
United States which went into office
March 4, has II Yale graduates among
its members, of whom six are in the
senate and eleven in the house Of rep
resentatives. Connecticut leads in the
number of Yale graduates, both sena
tors and two representatives holding
Yale degrees. Frank B. Brandegee
graduated from Yale in 1885. and
George Payne Mclean was granted an
honorary degree of M. A. in 1904. John
@. TiIson was a member of the class
of 1891, in addition to his B. A. he re-
ce:ved the degree of LII. B. and M. L.,
both from Yale. Ebenezer Hill was
at Yale only two years, receiving an
honorary degree of M. A. in 1892. Other
Yale men in the senate are Francis G.
Newlands of Nevada, who was a mem
Der of the class of 1857, until the mid
die of his junior year. He received his