The II H oration and poem will be given in Massachusetts Hall on the last Thursday of the month. Orator, Mr. W. M. Groton; Poet, Mr. J. C. Goodwin.
ONE of our most prominent literary societies was greatly amused the other evening at hearing one of its shining lights assert, in debate upon the Modoc war, that the only way for our government to deal with the wary red man was to pursue a similar course to that adopted by William Tell in his Treatment of the Pennsylvania Indians. Somewhat later, a member accused the president of the society of having abrogated all the authority in the matter. But our Biblical editor got right up and came away when the orator began to talk about the guiding spirit of faith which supported Isaac in his sacrifice of Abraham. Whither are we drifting? (Since writing the above, a Western exchange has named the precise locality in language which our Biblical editor, being a Unitarian, objects to.)
THE University Nine will play a match game with the "Bostons," on May 21, at Boston, and with the "Princetons," on May 22, at Cambridge.
THE day for the Beacon Cup races, originally appointed, was May 31; but as the second game between Harvard and Yale, on Jarvis Field, is fixed for the same day, the races are postponed until June 2.
THE Yale Freshmen have refused to play our Freshman Nine unless they are allowed to take Sheffield S. S. Freshman also. Our Academic Freshman Nine have sent a second challenge, offering to play against their University Freshman Nine on any grounds in Massachusetts or Connecticut, and giving them a liberal share of gate-money if they will play on the 17th. This day is not convenient for Yale, and, after a great consumption of the electrical fluid, no definite answer has at present been obtained.
AN unfortunate mistake was made in regard to the "Liber Studiorum" prints in our last issue. The set bought for the collection is complete, and is one of the thirty-two similar sets found in Turner's house after his death.
SCENE, History Recitation. Instructor and dig in the foreground; populace asleep.
INSTRUCTOR. I am sorry that the text-book gives no fuller account of this extraordinary man.
DIG (wistfully). Are n't there any other works to be obtained, sir?
INSTRUCTOR. Yes! - no - yes! You may obtain at the Library a very good autobiography, written by himself, which -
IN future it will be well for undergraduates to uncover themselves when about to address the watchman. We have reason to believe that neglect to do this, twice repeated, will be construed into "systematic insult of a college officer."