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...acsorbing topic at present is the event of the second annual winter games, which will be held during Friday and Saturday of this week, and will be given under the auspices of the Y. A. A. and Second Regiment C. N. G. The number of entries far exceed those of any previous in-door athletic meeting which Yale has ever held and a number of prominent athletes will contest. The rules which will govern all contests will be intercollegiate, allowing members of the A. A. U. and N. A. A. A. A. to compete. The first evening will be devoted...
...afford much enjoyment to the members, yet a definite object is in view, and a certain amount of hard work must be done. The uncertainty in regard to the cost of transportation renders it impossible to state exactly the cost per man of the trip. It will, however, not exceed $400, and probably will be nearer $300. The State government will give guns, blankets and saddles to those who wish them, and the National government has given Professor Scott a letter which enables him to buy provisions at a reduced rate from any army post near which the expedition...
...Chemistry. In 1849, to the class of which President Eliot was a member, was given the first instruction in chemistry in any American college. At that time Professor Cooke was the sole lecturer and teacher in the department of chemistry, and the accommodations for carrying on the work were exceedingly limited. The lectures were given in the room at the north end of Univesity, and were illustrated only by the crude and imperfect apparatus brought by Professor Cook from the laboratory which he had used when a boy in beginning the study of chemistry. For ten years the department...
...Yale Junior Promenade will occur next Tuesday evening. This is the great society ball of the season and holds a far more prominent place there than any social event does here. The arrangements, as now made, promise that the promenade this year will exceed in brilliancy those of previous years. The decorations, by Gunzel of New York, will be on the same general plan as last year, but more elaborate. The dance music will be played by Landor's orchestra and Wheeler and Wilson's band will play during the intermission. The programme is as follows...
...recognized as a truism by all sparrers, many men in past years have been deterred from entering our meetings on account of the very inequality. If I am not mistaken, there was an attempt made last winter to institute a class composed of those whose weight did not exceed 117 or 118 pounds, to be known as the bantam-weights. The attempt falling through, the originators refused to enter a ring where the contestants would be so unevenly matched...