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UNIVERSITY COURIER.
During the revolution the students were enthusiastic rebels. The news of the first battles echoed loudly, we may well believe, in the quiet cloisters of the college. The young patriots joined eagerly with the citizens in celebrating the great event of the first blow for liberty. Studies were abandoned and military drills took their place. It was found almost impossible to keep up the regular exercises of the classes. And during almost the whole war, the college was in a state of confusion which endangered its continued existence.
It is unnecessary to speak of Yale College as it stands to-day. Its name and fame are as wide-spread as the Union. Its past is written in the history of the country, its present prosperity is indicated by the annual catalogue. Six hundred students are gathered within its walls to-day: its two lower classes are numbered respectively one hundred and twenty-eight and one hundred and thirty-four, and its corps of instructors are not inferior either in number or reputation to that of any other institution on this side of the Atlantic.
CHAPEL RHETORICALS.
Thursday, November 2.—E. C. Little attached a communistic moral to the French revolution. "When the great Jehovah said,'Man shall have dominion over the fowels of the air,and the beasts of the field,'He had no reference to the house of Bourbon." The earth was made not for kings but for men.
Friday, 3rd.—An awful pause for the space of twenty minutes, when the "Women in Council," to the number of sixty-five, swept gracefully to the front. First orator, Miss Anna Murphy. A forcible plea for the Christian faith came with a musical ring and an earnestness which won hearty applause. "All truth which lives independent of reason, and asks no favors from it, will take no law which reason tries to dictate." Second orator, F. D. Hutchings, as the next speaker put it, "dragged his poor shambling limbs to the stage," and rendered "The Genius of Nationality" in a manner quite commendable considering his surroundings. "Poor Hutch!" He was followed by a few well-chosen remarks from Mrs. Fairchild, of Leavenworth.
JUNIOR ELOQUENCE.
Monday, 6th.—Orator absent. The Chancellor filled the blank with a few hints on etiquette. Hereafter the ladies "ain't going to whisper no more," and the boys won't applaud the "Women in Council."
Tuesday, 7th.—Junior still absent. More remarks by the Chancellor.
Wednesday, 8th.—Miss Agnes Clark presented "The Elements of Success."
Thursday, 9th.—Another Junior absent, which gave the Chancellor one more opportunity to make his little speech.
Friday, 10th.—The Chancellor still to the front. In a few well-chosen, almost syllogistic, remarks he stated a major and a minor premise, from which he drew the following conclusion: As regards student life, financially, it doesn't pay. But in the fight of moral greatness, formation of character, and individuality, it is beyond the computation of dollars and cents.
Monday, 13th.—"Junior" Butler, "Our Ben," championed the cause of John C. Calhoun. Paid a tender tribute to the mistakes of a great mind. Weeping in the gallery.
Tuesday, 14th.—The orator of the morning being absent and there being no professor of elocution present to to appeal to, the chapel meeting was adjourned.
Wednesday, 15th.—An excellent oration on "The Progress and Development of the Arts and Inventions" wadelivered by Miss Agnes Emery.
SOCIETY NOTES.
OROPHILIAN SOCIETY.
Friday, November 10.
The society opened at the usual hour. W. H. Johnson, Speaker pro-tem., in the chair. Reading, Miss Howe; declamation, Miss Bassett; essay, Miss Bell; oration, "The Mound Builders," by Mr. The question, "Resolved, That the Jews have been justly ostracised both by governments and society," was argued on the affirmative by Whirlow and Seaton, and on the negative by McLaren and Dean. The decision was given in favor of the affirmative. D. C. Hamilton and Miss Bell were elected to fill the offices of critic and organist respectively. Seven new members were elected.
SOCIAL SCIENCE CLUB.
Programmes of the Social Science Club for Friday, November 24 and Friday, December 1: Oration, J. F. Tucker; debate, affirmative, L. H. Leach, negative, E. C. Little; essay, Geo. Watson.
December 8. —Oration, E. A. Brown; debate, affirmative, J.W.Brewster, negative, Geo.E.Rose; essay, Fred.A.Stocks.
OROPHILIAN.—Organized 1867. Chartered 1872.Meets in Orophilian Hall every Friday, at 2:30 p.m.New students especially invited. Miss LINA E. GANO, EDMOND BUTLER,
Miss LINA E. GANO, EDMOND BUTLER,
Secretary. Speaker.
OREAD.—Organized 1870. Meets in Oread Hall every Friday at 3 p.m. Visitors always welcome.
MISS ELLA KEIST, J.P.JACKE,
Secretary. President.
NORMAL.—Organized November, 1881.Meets every Friday at 3 p.m.Normal students admitted as members.
MISS ELLA KEIST, OLIN TEMPLIN,
Secretary. President.
SOCIAL SCIENCE CLUB.—Organized September 15th, 1882. Meets in Prof. Canfield's room every Friday at 3 p.m. Composed of students in the advanced classes. Members of the Faculty admitted as associate members. J.F.TUCKER C.C.DART,
Secretary,
FRATERNITY NOTES.
The Wesleyan has flourishing chapters of four Greek fraternities, viz.: Phi Delta Theta, Phi Gamma Delta, and the ladies' fraternities, Kappa Kappa Gamma and Kappa Alpha Theta. The former two possess as fine society halls as can be found in the west.
The Greek letter fraternities of the University of California are getting a splendid "showing up" just at present. The Phi Delta Theta is commended and the Zeta Psi exposed.
The public exercises which closed the annual convention of the Delta Upsilon fraternity were held in University Hall, Thursday evening, October 26. After the exercises a splendid banquet was partaken of.
The Faculty of Perdue College has decided that the Greek letter fraternities exert an evil influence over the