A senior honor man on being told that the change battery would be used in the Harvard (exhibition) game, asked if new batters would be put in all around.- Princetonian.
It is proposed to enlarge Girard college. It is said that the income will warrant the admission of 200 more students. There are at present 1,130 in the institution.
Rev. H. Bernard Carpenter of the Hollis Street Church, will preach in Appleton Chapel, Sunday evening. Mr. Carpenter is a native of Ireland, and a graduate of both Dublin and Oxford Universities. He is deemed by many one of the most eloquent clergymen in the country.
W. A. Halbert. W. B. Noble, C. G. Parker, and T. H. Root of the senior class, have been chosen to deliver commencement parts. Hildreth will read a Latin part and T. Dunham a Greek part. The parts to be read by candidates for higher degrees have not as yet been decided upon.
The class musical clubs of Princeton held a prize contest last Monday, evening. President McCosh presented the award, a silver badge, which was assigned by the judges to the club from '86. Dr. McCosh also announced that a prize of $25 would be given to any undergraduate who should hand in before September, the best Princeton college song, words and music.
In the trial contests for the Oelrichs cup at New York to day, the contesting teams will be Druids of Ballimore vs. Stevens Institute; Harvard vs. Williamshurg Athletic Club; Princeton vs. New York University. Harvard is unfortunate in having to meet the Williamsburgs in the trial heat, as that club is the strongest one entered. The defeat of the Drulds Thursday, by a score of 5 goals to 3, is a source of surprise, and argnes well for the success of the crimson to day.
The following is received in a letter from a graduate of '87, who is at present editor of a prominent daily newspaper in the West. "I notice by the New York Post that the faculty have not put down in the new scheme of electives any course in journalism, short-hand, and some other things advocated by the college papers. To a person who knows something of journalism as it is supposed to be, and as it really is, the decision of the faculty seems to be a very wise one."