Norwich bulletin., 1916-02-18
BULLETINS SPECIAL YALE LETTER
First Call Brought Out Many Candidates for 1916 Crew
Armory to be Built Yale Field-Footbal SQUAD Meet
New Coaches-Report by Bureau of Appointments.

at a meeting OF the Hartford Alumni
association. What is to be done?"
PRESIDENT Hadley asked, "for the large
mass Of men either in the college or in
the select courses of the Scientific
school, who wish to make use of the
opportunities afforded by the college,
put who have not chosen their profess
slonsF He suggested three methods
OF stimulating student interest. The
nrst was to improve the quality Of the
teaching. The second was the organi-
zation Of intellectual competition such
as obtained at the present time at
Oxford and Cambridge. Lastly the
University must be doing things in
science and letters of which its grad
yates are proud. A university that
sets standards Of achievement for the
world will set standards of achieve
ment for its students. Speaking along
these lines the president pointed out
the many deficiencies with which the
IacuIty had to contend, and how these
faults at Yale were slowly being Grad
lcated by the university authorities.
A special meeting devoted to the in
terests of the Yale in China Mission
was held in Dwight Hall, last Sunday
evening. Over $50 of those interested
in the work attended the meeting. The
speakers of the evening were Profess
sors Reed and Breckenridge, DR.. F. L.
Gates, H. V. Smith, 1912, and S. c.
Gee. 1917. DR.. Gates was a member
OF the WEIGH lexner party which re-
Gently returned for their visit to China
in the interest of the China Medical
Board, Rockefeller benefaction. This
party inspected Ya-h and were much
impressed by the Yale groups work
in securing cooperation of the Chinese
gentry and literati. An interesting
feature of the meeting was an illus
trated talk by Amos P. Wilder, Secre-
tary of YALE n-China. Mr. Wilder
showed interesting pictures of the
country surrounding Changsha, of the
city OF Changsha, of the buildings of
the 1a-H and the members of the mis-
sion. 1t was announced that gifts ag-
gregating about $4,000 have been re-
ceived or promised to Yale-in- China
for equipping the new campus at
Changsha. Eight new buildings for
the campus are now in course of con-
struction and it is planned to move
the college plant from it's present To-
cation in the spring. A large number
of men who will graduate this June
have already expressed their desire to
serve year at Ya-n.
The first of February the bureau of
appointments issued its report of the
work done from September 1 to De-
cember 81, 1915. A comparison with
the statement of last year for the
same period shows a great increase in
t4le 1uH1Def OF positions secured and
the total amount of earnings. The
number of men left unaided has also
siderably larger than in 1914 but the
number of men left unsided has also
increased. The large number of men
unaided thus far this year may prob
ably be explained by the fact that 40
men have been offered various kinds
of work but the work was either not
accepted or else there was no report of
1t made to the bureau. The other 65
men have received no work through
the bureau principally because many
of them have registered for one kind
of work only for which there is no
demand. The total number of posi-
tons secured this year from Sept. 1
to Dec. 81 is 1,43S, compared with SIS
during the same period last year. The
total number of men receiving work
also increased from $50 to 427. The
largest item in the earnings is the
derived from positions in con-
nection with board. One hundred and
ten men found work of this kind earn
ing $5,196.50, a better record than that
of 1914. The total amount earned up
to Dec. 81 is s16,0S7.27, almost double
the sS,526.70 earned last year.