Bleachers are to be erected soon upon the new field. A chemical laboratory has been erected on Boston Avenue. The basement of East Hall has been completely renovated and new rooms made. A. B. Start, '97, has received the appointment of correspondent for the Boston Daily Advertiser. Rumor has it that a new fraternity is soon to appear on the Hill, probably that of Beta Theta Pi. Dr. Freer, formerly Dr. Michael's assistant in Chemistry in this college, was on the Hill last week. The college bookstore has been located in the new post office, a very convenient place for the students. Metcalf Hall will soon be finished, and the young women of the college have fine and commodious quarters. The Russell lecture was given in Goddard Chapel, Sunday, September 23, by Rev. T. E. Busfield, of Utica, New York. A supply of the Boston University and Tufts College Co-operative Society catalogues has been received, and may be had of the book-seller. The entering class numbers about eightyfive, of which forty-two are regulars, thirty-five engineers, and eight specials. Seventeen members of the class are ladies. Mr. D. T. Montague is to be the postmaster at College Hill this year. The post office has been moved from the old place into the Commons Building, where it has very fine quarters. Eugene Averell, '95, is the Prohibition candidate for the legislature from the eighteenth district in Lynn. His reputation as an honest man and a straightforward citizen should secure his election. Thanks should be given to Mr. Montague for having a public telephone placed in the post office. This is a thing that has long been needed, and will doubtless be found very convenient in many cases. The following officers have been elected by the class of '98: President, E. M. BARNEY. Treasurer, E. S. LEWIS. Professor Fay made a trip to Southern California and British Columbia during the summer, being absent from the East about six weeks. The remainder of his vacation was spent at his home at Tamworth, New Hampshire. President Capen attended the Massachusetts State Convention of the Universalist Church, at Plymouth, last week. He spoke enthusiasHe spoke enthusiastically of Tufts in general, and especially of the part which the young women are taking on College Hill. Professor Kingsley has lately exchanged same duplicates from the museum with Brown University. He has already received and mounted, in the best possible manner, a considerable suite of invertebrates from Naples. He also expects several dozen skeletons and specimens of reptiles and invertebrates from Europe. At a regular meeting of the class of '97, held September 26, the following were elected for the college year: — President, R. B. SANFORD. Vice-President, MILTON HUSTON. Treasurer, JOHN EILLS. Foot-ball Manager, W. S. PARKS. This year Delta Tau Delta will have its quarters in the new club house on Curtis Street, just below Professor Dolbeare's residence. All the young men in the Chapter will take their meals in the house, while six have rooms and will make it their home. The Chapter is fortunate in having secured as matron Miss Russell, of Boston, who was formerly a matron at Wellesley, and who has had long experience in Boston. The boarding club is well started, and bids fair to have a prosperous year. Of the many improvements noticeable at the opening of college this year, none seemed to meet with so much appreciation from the students as the new Commons Building. The spacious dining-room has been neatly furnished, and will accommodate all of the students. Even the young ladies, who heretofore have found no place at the general college board, have been given a sung little corner for their temporary use. The board is the best that has ever been given on the Hill, and general satisfaction has been expressed with the management. Professor Graves has for some time believed that the ability to read Greek fairly well would be acquired by an average student in a single year, just as in the modern languages. His beginners in Greek of the last two years, who have done in one year what corresponds to three There will soon appear from the press of Rockwell & Churchill a small work entitled. "Alternative Sentences to Accompany Part I, of the Joynes-Meissner German Grammar." The work, which is in Heath's Modern Language series, was prepared by Orlando F. Lewis, of Tufts, '96, at the request of Professor Fay. Two groups of sentences are given, to be used in alternate years with the sentences in the grammars, allowing a little more variety for the instructor and making it less likely that a student will rely upon work done by another in a preceding year. The publication is the result of careful work on the part of Mr. Lewis. It will be used this year in German I., b. House built on Sawyer Avenue during the sumEvery one admires the Delta Upsilon Chapter mer. The house is a large, three story, shingled building, with a broad piazza in front, and at mings. The interior of the building is finpresent is painted a dark olive, with white trimished in southern pine, cypress, and white wood. On the first floor are the society parlors and culinary department; the two upper stories furnish fourteen men with rooms, in the shape of seven suites, and there is a spacious billiard and card room in the basement. Though the interior finishing is not quite completed, the house is already occupied, and the society will shortly dine at its own table. The foot-ball season opened with a practice game with English High School, September 27. Considering that the eleven had almost no previous practice with the signals, that it labored at a disadvantage in having no captain, that the new athletic field was in very poor condition, and that the coaching of the backs had been conspicuous only by its absence, the supporters of the eleven ought not to feel discouraged at the results of the first game. The fact that the opposing eleven was able to score, while it is to be deplored, is not at all significant of poor playing on the part of Tufts. The work behind the line was, however, very ragged, and the chances for improvement here are great. SEPTEMBER 29, Tufts and B. A. A. met on the South End grounds in Boston for the first schedule game of the season. The first score was 20 to 10 in favor of the B. A. A., but the game as a whole was not interesting. If it served to demonstrate that the centre of Tufts's line is strong, it showed no less clearly that the ends are lamentably weak. Gains of 30 and 40 yards were made around Tufts's ends at the will of the opposing team. Lane started the game with a long kick, and in one minute from the time B. A. A. obtained possession of the ball they had scored a touchdown, from which Atherton kicked a goal. Score, 6 to 0. The remainder of the first half was very onesided, Tufts having the ball only once, and then losing it almost immediately. In the second half Tufts's backs gained through the tackles again and again, while all attempts of B. A. A. to force the line were completely frustrated. During the whole of this half the play was very quick, and Tufts plainly demonstrated that the offensive game is her strong point. r. e., r. t., { { B. A. A. Eddy WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3, Tufts lined up against Andover at Andover. The playing of Tufts, on the whole, was not as good as in the previous game, being weak in both offensive and defensive work. The backs, however, put up a better game, especially in interference, but there is yet great room for improvement. The game was marked by some unnecessary kicking on both sides, Tufts's many fumbles, and Andover's quick playing. Tufts got the ball on Andover's kick-off and advanced slowly, Robinson scoring a touchdown in five minutes. Lane kicked for goal; the ball struck the cross piece and, bounding over, won the game. Tufts again advanced the ball, on Andover's kick-off, to the opponent's twenty-five yard line, where Andover got it on a fumble and finally scored, as time was called at the end of the first half. Andover failed in her try for goal, the ball striking the cross piece, but, this time, bounding under. In the second half, neither side scored, although Andover quite outplayed her oppo nents. Twice she had the ball within a few feet of Tufts's goal line. The first time, Tufts held Andover for four downs. The second, Tufts got the ball for a touchback which C. D. Clark of Tufts refereed, while Centre. 1. Lane 1.50 a year; single copies, 10 cents. will be sent to all subscribers until ordered and arrears are paid. 5, THE changes which were made in the engineering courses at Tufts at the beginning of this year were significant as illustrative of educational tendenecialism, which a few years ago seemed likely to make it quite out of question be a man of broad education, is happily giving way in the colleges before the ucational thinkers. The policy of some of the strongest technical schools in the - governed by the assumption that men seek the instruction of these institutions of becoming proficient in this or that profession. While this assumption may in the case of such schools of law, medicine, and theology as are strictly graduainly open to criticism in the case of all institutions which take men directly from The college is not, according to the advanced ideas, performing its functions by those who are under its guidance, if it does not provide for breadth in intelHence the growing tendency to treat the men in engineering departments of as technical students learning a trade upon the basis of the limited education ory schools, but as seekers after the higher educational facilities and broadene college. The man with a technical education without a broad foundation is et of a college. The recognition of this fact is causing leading colleges to ments in undergraduate technical training as have been made at Tufts this à of certain collegiate studies to the curriculum of the engineering courses. lege is able to do this thing is demonstrated the superiority, in breadth, of its neering profession to that offered by the schools which are purely technical. some of the best men who were in last year's team and are still in college do not find sufficient inducement to continue practice this year, yet the spirit of the men in the under classes is so good that by the time a few games on the home field have been played, foot-ball enthusiasm ought to be at its height. The management has secured as coach, Mr. Hamlin, whose experience at Yale and with the Chicago Athletic Association has well fitted him to bring out the best that is in the material at his command. Besides proper training, however, plenty of encouragement from the students at large is necessary for the maintenance of a strong team. The game with Hyde Park on our own grounds next Wednesday will give the management an opportunity to test the measure of appreciation which the students have of its efforts in behalf of foot ball. A large attendance at this and all subsequent games played at the Hill means not alone financial support of the team, but also moral encouragement of those who are endeavoring to raise the standard of athletics at Tufts. Although the beginning of the foot-ball season may seem early in the year to speak of base ball, yet the success of the Tufts nine the coming spring depends entirely upon the action, before the snow flies, of those who have in charge the new athletic field. If proper steps are taken now to put the diamond in condition, there is every reason to believe that the team of this year will be a good one and that athletics at Tufts will be put upon a paying basis. With plenty of clay and loose stone within a mile of the grounds, the expense of putting in a skin diamond, which is now recognized to be the proper kind, would be very small. But this trifling expense seems to stand in the way of a successful ball season this spring. There is plenty of enthusiasm among those who want to play the game and among those who want to see the game played, but enthusiasm cannot last long when it is fed on the uninteresting sight of free games with fitting schools. The management stands ready to make engagements with the best college teams in New England for games to be played at College Hill, if it can be assured that it can pay the necessary guarantees. No management has ever been able to pay good teams to come here, and never will be able to do so until games are played in enclosed grounds; and never until good teams do play here will Tufts take the position in the college base-ball world that she is fitted and ought to hold. Men will give money and enthusiasm to the support of a team if they can see it play a few good games, but it cannot be expected that they will do much for it if they do not get some of the benefits of the playing. The reasoning of this is simple enough, and it does seem as though those who have power in the matter ought to have sufficient foresight to see that a small expense now in laying out a diamond will prove a profitable investment in the near future. The TUFTONIAN has secured as its correspondent in the Medical School, Mr. John F. Ryan of the Junior class. The interest which the men in the medical department have shown in the past in our college institutions has been commendable. If all who are connected with the school will co-operate with Mr. Ryan this year, the TUFTONIAN will guarantee that they will be well paid for their interest in its welfare. Special recognition ought to be given here of the generous services of Mr. R. M. Pearce, '94, who contributed to our columns with great regularity last year and whose signature was inadvertently omitted from the notes in our last issue. Oliver Wendell WHEN Dr. Holmes quietly " fell asleep," the other day, there passed away the last representative of a great literary school-the great American school, in which Emerson, Longfellow, Whittier, Lowell, and Holmes were the masters. "The school, which is now dead, was typically American, free, genial, optimistic, democratic, moral." Dr. Holmes was distinctly a member of this school, but he occupied a position peculiarly his own. Emerson was the thinker who produced nuggets of pure truth. Longfellow sang himself into the affectionate regard of all men - his exquisite, yet simple, melodies appealed with an |