Norwich bulletin., 1915-11-19

W the precedent established at the Yale Harvard game last fall, a collection for the Red Cross relief work in Eu- rope was taken at the Yale- Prince ton game last Saturday. The total of the collection amount to $5,276.S0. the game Saturday the sum tGAal compares very favorably with the $S,000 which was contributed last year. Between the halves a squad of Boy Scouts marched to the middle of the field. carrying a big Red Cross banner and Red Cross flags were raised on both the Yale and Prince ton poles as signal for the begin ming of the collection. The whole amount of the collection was taken up in about l2 minutes. The contTi- buttons will be used in part for the purchase of hospital materials and part to aid the Red Cross work in Servia and among the ArmenianS. The proportion devoted to the pur- chase of hospital material will be put at the disposal of the New Haven Chapter of the American Red Cross, which was engaged last winter and will also be engaged this winter in the preparation of bandages, articles of clothing necessary for the wound ed, and surgeons and nurses equip ment.
 The regular November meeting of the Vale Corporation was held in Woodbridge Hall. Monday. At the Corporation luncheon the portrait by Sergeant Kendall, director of the Yale School of the Fine Arts, of Professor Addison Van Name was exhibited. As this was the eightieth anniversary of of Addison Van Names birthday, Li- brian Emeritus of Yale University. ex- tends to him it's sincere congratula- tions and takes this opportunity, in presenting the Library with a DOT trait of him by Sergeant Kendall, to years of modest and devoted service in the Yale Library entitle him to be honored and remembered with grati- tude by the present and future genera tions as one of the builders of the modern University, especially because of his skill. scholarly Judgment, and indefatigable industry in. increasing our book collections The title of John Clayton Tracy in the Sheffield Scientific School was changed from Professor Of Structural Engineering to Professor of Civil Engineering, as Prof. Tracy becomes the head of the department of Civil Engineering, ow- ing to the death of the late Professor DuBois.
 The gifts reported include the Alex ander Kohut Memorial Collection of over 10000 volumes in the general field of Sernitics. With this has come an endowment fund of $7.o00. one-half
 subscribed by the son of Dr. Kohut,
 namely George Alexander Kohut of
 New York, and the remainedr by the Yale University Press, to establish the Alexander Kohut Memorial Fund. An other significant gift connected with the Semitic department is that oi $1.4o0 from Mir. Ogden Hammond ot f1aa Nlrar 1f G fnr. tA Iie-1, ment of a publication fund "in memory of Mary Stevens Hammond, and in recognition of the distinguished ser vices to the University by Professor Albert T. Clay" Mrs. Hammond lost her life on the Lusitania- second endowment in memory of Lusitania victim is that of the E. Bliss Thomp- son Scholarship in the Sheffield Scien. tific School. MT Thompson was g member of the Class of 1904 S. The foundation. established by his. widow
 is for the purpose of an annual schoi-
 arship of $500 to be awarded a recipi- ent who shall be determined upon by the Governing Board of the Sheffield Scientific School. The Corporation voted that Alumni Day should be held
 this year on Washington's Birthday l as usual.
 R. M. Seotten, Yale 1914, who to. gether with three other Yale mer
 spent last year teaching at Yale in,
 China, has given out some very in 1 teresting information as regards tn, l development of the Changsha institu | ton. MT. Scotten devoted the great CT part of his time to athletic activ. ities among the Chinese students, ant with Dr. Hume secured some interest
 ing physical measurements. The com parison between physical data of Chin l csc and foreign men shows that tn, ! former are inferior at most points This finding refutes the theory o some that so-called simplicity of liv ing conditions and absence of associa 1 tionS of advanced community life tent ] toward health and soundness- Tn, conclusions rather point out the ad | vantages that attend the convenience and even luxuries of civilization Dur ing the year 1914-1915 each one of tn
 69 new students has been given complete physical and medical exami nation, following the precedent startet last year. The same methods and ap paratus were used as are used at Yale These examinations showed in severa cases a marked necessity for immed fate medical attention and in each cas- the student received the proper treat | ment. In order to stimulate athletic and advance the physical welfare O the students a student athletic asso citation has been formed. modelled af ter the Yale system, with the contro and management of athletics entirel in the students hands, although tn faculty athletic director is an honorar member. The students have take
 great interest in the scheme and in