Norwich bulletin., 1915-05-07
BULLETINS SPECIAL YALE LETTER
Change Chapel Service be Effective Next College Year to be Awarded Members of Second Varsity Crew Complete List of Phi Beta Kappa Members-Studying Social Conditions in New York.

Kappa honorary society has recently issued new volume which contains the names of all the members of the ale chapter since it's founding in 17S0. It also contains a list of the honorary members, a revised print of the constitution, and the names of the chapters in the various colleges. special feature of the book is a complete geographical index of the living members The statistics pulp lished in the catalogue show that since the chapter was founded in No- Vember, 17SO, a total of BITS under graduates from the Yale chapter have won the key. There have also been 4S honorary members not graduates of Yale college. There are at present r. 549 living members, including those recently initiated from the class of 1916. It is decade since the last catalogue was issued. The society is the oldest and the most honored in the college. The admission standard was recently raised in order to establish a higher standard in the society. Hfth- erto members have been elected in the Junior year. Under the new ruling no one. will be admitted until the be- ginning of the senior year, when the sixteen men who have the highest standing for the three years will be elected. To be chosen in this first sixteen is one of the highest honors a Yale student can attain. At the CIlu OI CA4S SSIilOE year, these S1XI6en members may elect from their class, in order of standing, enough members to bring the total to ten per cent of the class. In no case will the total membership exceed this number.
 At the 5rayton Ives sale in New York last week Alexander s. Cochran, Yale '96 bought for the presentation to the Elizabethan club the first edition of the first English translation of the Essays of Mantaigne, published in made by John Florio, who is supposed to be connected with the Tempest, for Shakespeare used this translation of Montaigne for the speech of Gonzalo describing his ideal commonwealth. The Club copy has two extra leaves not contained in any of the three copies in the British Museum: and an inlaid portrait of F1orio, by William Hole engraved in 1911. The copy was formerly owned by the Rev. Dr. Peter Cunning, and later by Robert Hoe, at whose sale in April, 1911, it was pur- chased for $605. It was bought by MT. Cochran last week for $700. The Club F1orio is of unique interest be- cause it was Queen Elizabeth's own copy, authenticated by the heraldic stamps impressed in the center of both sides of the original calf binding. The Club already possessed Elizabeth's
 
 tion of Livy, published in 1900.
 On last Saturday a party of univer- Sity men interested in industrial work under the direction of A. Dewitt of the Sheffield Christian association wis ited lower New York to study the so- cial condition there. In the morning the living and industrial conditions were studied at Ellis Island. In the afternoon the party inspected the rest rooms of the National Suit and Cloak company and other industrial houses. Dinner was taken at one of the Mills hotels. These hotels were founded in order to afford the poorer classes the comforts of larger insti- tutions at a minimum charge. In the evening Chinatown and some of the missions of that section were visited These industrial trips have been pop ular in tfGe last few years in that they usually form a part of the courses in social problems given by professors who have had extensive experience along these specific lines.
 A few Yale students have avaiIed themselves of the opportunity offered by the Bureau of Appointments to en- ter the volunteer service of the Ameri- can Ambulance hospital in Paris for the coming summer. The service is entirely volunteer, and the men who enter these will be employed as chauffeurs. The men who enter this service will gain considerable ex- perience and at the same time become factor of the great help in the re- lief work which the United States is carrying on abroad during the European war. At present there are over sixty volunteer chauffeurs, the majority of whom are college grad uates, three being from Yale.