comes in March, the nine has no chance to play any if it remains in New England for the vacation. The Yale management would be pleased if the faculty should reverse its decision to allow the team only twentyfive games and would add two during Easter week, one of which would be Yale's annual game with Georgetown in Washington. Unless this can be arranged, Yale and Georgetown will not meet this year on the diamond, for the first time in years. Rowing is one of the most popular sports at the University of Washington, and at present there is considerable agitation in favor of raising funds to send a crew East to compete with the University of Wisconsin. The crew has secured the Government life-saving station of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition for club house and training quarters. Racing shells are being built on the ground by the Pacific Yacht and Engine Company under the direction of Herman Vogler, of Independence Cup defender fame. It is expected that the boats will be completed February 1. The interest in rowing has even spread to the co-eds. They have secured a coach and will begin practice as soon as warmer weather comes. Plans are laid for four crews, one representing each class, as well as a varsity women's crew. All of the seventy-seven colleges and universities composing the Intercollegiate Athletic Association were represented by delegates at the annual convention in New York, December 28. The principal subject of discussion was the revision of the football rules for the purpose of making the game less dangerous. Many opinions were presented, and after a long discussion the whole question was referred to the Football Rules Committee by a practically unanimous vote. The resolution read: Resolved. That the football rules committee of this association be instructed to use every possible endeavor to bring about such a modification of the rules as shall in their judgment tend to reduce to a minimum the dangers of physical injuries to the players and at the same time retain, so far as may be feasible, the most desirable and wholesome features of the game. The following is Princeton's list of dates for both the indoor and outdoor track season: February 12-Boston Athletic Association, indoor meet, at Boston. February 19-Princeton, indoor meet, at Princeton. March 5-Georgetown University, indoor meet, at Washington. March 15-New York Athletic Club, indoor meet, at New York. March-Trenton Young Men's Christian Association, indoor meet, at Trenton (date undecided). April 23-Navy, at Annapolis. April 30-University of Pennsylvania, annual relay races, at Philadelphia. May 7-Yale, at New Haven. May 10-Annual Caledonian games, at Princeton. May 14 Cornell, at Princeton. May 21-Columbia, at Princeton. May 27 and 28-Intercollegiates, at Philadelphia. May 27 Princeton interscholastics, at Princeton. The following is a list of some of the football captains for next year, with their positions: Team Name Position Halfback Fullback Keegan Tackle Fullback Fullback Hamilton ...Sidle Rochester ...Mellen ....Barrett Amherst....Campbell .Halfback ..Quarterback Tackle .Halfback ..Halfback .Halfback Quarterback ....Guard .Halfback Tackle .Fullback ...Center Halfback A meeting of the Intercollegiate Fencing Association, which at present includes Yale, Harvard, Princeton, Pennsylvania, Cornell, Columbia, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, West Point, and Annapolis, was held January 2 at the Hotel Astor. It was decided to hold two quadrangular meets on March 19 at West Point and Annapolis, respectively. At West Point the teams representing Cornell, Yale, Harvard, and the Army will cross foils. At Annapolis, Pennsylvania, Princeton, Columbia, and the Navy will compete. As the result of these preliminary bouts two teams will be eliminated in each meeting, which will be conducted. purely as team matches. The two winning teams at West Point will meet the two winners of the Annapolis meeting in this city in the intercollegiate finals on March 25 and 26. The finals will be conducted in the form of a round robin, each contestant meeting all members of the opposing teams in turn. The place where the contest will be held has not yet been definitely selected, but the bouts will probably be conducted in the grand ballroom of the Hotel. Astor. Yale's baseball schedule is: April 2-South Orange Field Club at New Haven. April 6-Trinity at New Haven. April 9-New York Nationals at New York. April 14-Hartford League at Hartford. April 16-Fordham at New Haven. April 20-Bucknell at New Haven. April 23-Vermont at New Haven. April 27-West Point at West Point. May 4-Wesleyan at New Haven. May 6-Virginia at New Haven. May 7-Andover at New Haven. May 11-Williams at New Haven. May 14 Pennsylvania at Philadelphia. May 18-Brown at New Haven. May 21-Holy Cross at Worcester. May 24-Amherst at New Haven. May 28-Columbia at New York. May 30-Brown at Providence. June 4 Princeton at New Haven. June 8-Syracuse at New Haven. June 11-Princeton at Princeton. June 16-Princeton at New York. (In case of tie). June 18-Cornell at New Haven. June 21-Harvard at New Haven. June 23-Harvard at Cambridge. June 25-Harvard at New York. (In case of tie). A practically new game of football for Southern Colleges was evolved at a meeting of the rules committee of the Southern Intercollegiate Association, held at Atlanta, Ga., January 15. The committee is composed of: Dr. Dudley, of Vanderbilt; Professor Riggs, of Clemson; the Rev. Phillips and Coach Cope, of Sewanee; Colonel Snelling, Professor Sanford, and Coach Coulter, of Georgia; Dr. Pollard, of Alabama; Professor Randle and Coach Heisman, of Tech.; Frank Dobson, of Stone Mountain; Tom Bragg, and Reynolds Tichenor of Auburn. Southern football hereafter will have rules which prevent "piling up,' body checking, tandem plays, line shifting, and boys playing against men; in other words, prep school teams are not allowed to play against college teams. All penalties are removed from the forward pass; every player must be physically examined at the start of the season and at other times during the season, and the responsibility of an injured man continuing in the game is placed on the athletic director of the institution he represents. No swearing during the game is allowed. This new game is to have no goal kicking. The scores accrue by the advance of the ball. Placing the ball on the twenty-five, twenty, fifteen, and five yard lines net one point for each five-yard advance. The game is divided into quarters with a five minutes' rest between quarters with a playing time of sixty minutes. The Conference basketball schedule for the balance of the season is: Feb. 3-Minnesota vs. Iowa, at Iowa City. Feb. 5-Purdue vs. Chicago, at Chicago. Feb. 5-Indiana vs. Illinois, at Champaign. Feb. 5-Minnesota vs. Wisconsin, at Madison. Feb. 8-Purdue vs. Indiana, at Bloomington. Feb. 12-Chicago vs. Minnesota, at Minneapolis. Feb. 12-Northwestern ana, at Bloomington. VS. Indi Feb. 18-Chicago vs. Purdue, at Lafayette. Feb. 19-Chicago vs. Indiana, at Bloomington. Feb. 19-Northwestern vs. Iowa, at Iowa City. Feb. 24-Iowa vs. Purdue, at Lafayette. Feb. 25-Wisconsin vs. Minnesota, at Minneapolis. Feb. 25-Iowa VS. Indiana, at Bloomington. Feb. 26-Illinois vs. Chicago, at Chicago. Mar. 1-Indiana vs. Purdue, at Lafayette. Mar. 4-Illinois vs. Purdue, at Lafayette. Mar. 5-Illinois vs. Indiana, at Bloomington. Mar. 5-Chicago vs. Wisconsin, at Madison. Mar. 7-Indiana vs. Wisconsin, at Madison. Mar. 9-Minnesota vs. Illinois, at Champaign. Mar. 10-Minnesota vs. Purdue, at Lafayette. Mar. 12-Purdue vs. Wisconsin, at Madison. RELIGIOUS ACTIVITIES At Syracuse University about 400 students are attending the Bible study classes. In all of the fraternities at the University of Montana Bible classes are being conducted. At Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Me., there are nineteen Bible classes, with two Normal groups; 65 men attending on an average. At the University of North Carolina the Students Self Help Department has been transferred from a faculty committee to a committee of the Y. M. C. A. At Vanderbilt University a football bible class has been organized, with eight members of the varsity team and the coach attending. There are also six fraternity bible classes. At Highland Park College, Des Moines, Ia., an engineers' class, taking up the problems of "Science and the Bible," under a capable professor, has an attendance of fifty in its second month. Washington and Lee has over 300 men in mission study in thirty-eight classes led by students. The classes are held at the various boarding houses immediately after one of the Sunday meetings. The extension department of the Colorado College Y. M. C. A. is conducting three Sunday-schools of the nearby villages, with fourteen college students as teachers and an average attendance of 100. A plan is on foot to purchase a permanent home in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia for the Southern Summer Conference of the Y. M. C. A. Virginia is endeavoring to raise $2,000 for this purpose. About $700 has already been secured. At the close of the football season at the University of Mississippi the Young Men's Christian Association gave a banquet to the football team. As a Mar. 12-Minnesota vs. Chicago, means of promoting a true athletic at Chicago. spirit and high ideals for athletic men it was very successful. The captain and coach, especially, were sincere workers for the Young Men's Christian Association throughout the season. At the opening of the present college year at Wesleyan, a Sunday vesper service, attendance at which is required of all students, was established. Eminent preachers of various denominations have taken part, and have presented from different points of view topics of especial interest to young men. The service is brief-lasting less than an hour-and thus far appears to have solved in large measure the vexed question of church attendance at Wesleyan. The Student Volunteer Convention at Rochester during the holidays brought together 3,600 delegates representing over 725 educational institutions in the United States and Canada. With guests and others the average attendance at the meetings was over 5,000. These conventions are held once every four years. The last one was in Nashville in 1906. An interesting series of speeches were made by men of prominence in various lines of church and missionary work. At the University of California there has never before been anything corresponding to the chapel services of Eastern colleges. The Y. M. C. A. executive committee inaugurated with the beginning of the present semester service for Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday to supply this lack. The meetings will be similar to ordinary college chapel exercises, except that the leaders or chaplains will deliver short talks. The chap lains are chosen from the ministers of Berkeley. The University of Washington Y. M. C. A. has secured as its headquarters the Arctic Brotherhood Building, which was erected for the Alaska - Yukon - Pacific Exposition. This building will afford splendid and attractive quarters, and give the association first-class club facilities. A new scheme of Bible study is be ing worked out in one of the fraternity houses. One of the professors is going to lead a class at which all the members of the fraternity, and especially the freshmen, will be pres ent. The Bible will be used as the text, but the class will be one in Christian ethics and problems vital to fraternity life. The new Catholic Chapel for students of the University of Wisconsin was dedicated January 27 by Bishop James Schwebach, LaCrosse. Archbishop Sebastian Messmer, of Milwaukee, delivered the principal_address, and Bishop Fox, of Green Bay, and other dignitaries of the church were present. A special feature of the dedication was the attendance of a large number of alumni of the university who belong to the church. Altho the Baptist, Congregational, Presbyterian, Methodist, and English Lutheran churches have also appointed pastors who devote them selves to the welfare of university students of their denominations, the Catholic Church is thus far the only one to provide a separate edifice for students. The work of the Young Men's Christian Association at Brown University has shown greatly increased vigor this $2,000 and the alumni are now contribyear. The total budget for the year is uting toward this sum. The various student bible classes now number twenty-three. Each of these meets once a week-sometimes a fraternity group, sometimes a group living in a single dormitory. Over two hundred students are enrolled in these classes. The leaders meet regularly with some professor or some city pastor in normal groups. The course most popular is that using as a text-book: "The Social Teaching of Jesus" by Professor Jenks of Cornell. The Association is also undertaking special responsibility in the Fountain Street Mission of Providence. Here a work is done for the submerged tenth. The students are expected to provide entertainment for Saturday evenings, and to help the men through friendship. The Association is also furnishing teachers for the Italian Mission of Providence, the aim of which is to provide education and helpfulness to Italians above the school age. The aim of all this work, which is under the charge of the Social Service Committee of the Brown Association, is thus set forth by the leaders: "To be a brother to some discouraged man." DEBATING AND LITERARY The annual Colorado Dramatic Club play will be produced February 16. The play selected is Pinero's "The Times." The seniors of the University of Colorado have selected Shakepeare's "Love's Labours Lost" for production in June. Students in Dartmouth's Greek department will sometime during the second semester present in Greek Ohio Wesleyan and Syracuse Uni- Sophocles' "Oedipus Tyrannus." versities have entered into a twoyear debating agreement. Wabash and De Pauw will in March debate on the subject, "Resolved, That the laboring classes of the United States would advance their best interests by organizing themselves into a separate political party." The editing and publishing of a book of songs of all nations for use in the association of Cosmopolitan clubs and by other college societies was given to Mr. Lochner at the recent association convention at Ithaca. It is planned to have every civilized country of the globe represented with native songs, with the English translation of the verses, in the new book. On January 14 the University of Oregon debating team defeated that of the University of Utah. The Oregon team had the affirmative of the question, "Resolved, That all corporations engaged in interstate business should be required to incorporate under the Federal law, it being mutually conceded that such a legislation would be Constitutional and that a Federal license shall not be available as an alternative solution." MUSIC AND DRAMA Sometime in February the Union College Dramatic Club will produce "A Family Affair." "She Stoops to Conquer" will be presented by the Dramatic Club of Allegheny this year. The juniors of Oberlin College will produce, the latter part of February, Pinero's "Sweet Lavender." The Amherst oratorio orchestra, composed of faculty members, students and citizens of the town, will sing Mendelssohn's "Elijah" on March 16. The Harlequin Club of Purdue University will produce "The City Chap," a comic opera written by George Ade and set to music by Benjamin Hapgood Burt. The Mask and Wig Club of the University of Pennsylvania presented at their club house on December 21 and 22 a musical comedy entitled "Follies of the Day," the work of a member of the class of 1910. The dramatic department of the Wisconsin English Club presented W. B. Yeats' "The Pot of Broth," and "The Heart's Desire, on Dec. 15, under the direction of Prof. J. F. A. Pyre of the English department. The first presentation in America of a play by the Dutch dramatist, Dr. van Eeden, was given by students of the University of Kansas shortly after the holidays. The play, a translation, takes its name from the title rôle, "Ysbrand.” At the University of California's Semi-Centennial Celebration next spring, Sophocles' "Oedipus Tyrannus" will be presented in English under the direction of the Department of Greek. Students, faculty, and alumni will be represented in the cast, which will include a chorus of fifteen men. The music which will be used is that composed by the late John Knowles Paine for the Harvard presentation in 1881. The translation adopted will be that by Thomas Francklin, D.D. |