YALE LETTER.

NEW HAVEN, NOV. 23, 1895.

With the outcome of the Princeton game settle, a decided relief has come, not only to the members of the Yale eleven, but to the entire university. The game was a severe test in more senses than it has ever been before, and for an outsider it is difficult to realize what it meant to Yale or to what an extent general attention was given it here. The last two days of practice showed this interest even more conclusively than the game itself, and it may be added that the work shown in these last efforts, was more encouraging, and gave the first true prediction of the game's result as it really turned out. Previously in the season Yale's opinions were very reserved, and there was hope instead of confidence, in spite of the encouraging press opinions and the reliance the public seemed ready to put in that hackneyed article, "Yale sand." The Princeton game this year was undoubtedly a hard-fought, even, honorbly played contest, which ought to do a great deal for the continuance of this branch of athletics. Undergraduates have never before attended this game in such numbers; in fact, in this respect at least, it almost equalled the Springfield games.

The growth in the Musical Department has been alluded to formerly, but deserves further notice. This department was first suggested in 1888 by the Alumni Association of Fairfield county, and in 1890 the Battell Professorship of Music was established, and the first instruction was given, the chair being filled by Dr. Gustave Stoeckel. The first subjects treated were Harmony, Counterpoint, Tones and the History of Music, sacred and secular. The degree of Bachelor of Music was established by the corporation in 1893, the course to be of two or three years. After Dr. Stoeckel's resignation in 1894, Mr. Horatio W. Parker, of Boston, was chosen to fill the chair, and still officiates, with the field of the curses greatly enlarged. The latest step is the acquisition of temporary quarters of an excellent kind to carry on the work of the department, which probably will soon be on an equality with the other profesional schools of the University.

Yale should never cease to be thankful for its well constructed and equipped infirmary, whose practicability is being demonstrated with every patient who enters it. The University has tried to establish funds for erecting a pavilion or ward for contagious diseases, in connection with it, but adjacent residents are opposing the plan, and the city has stopped further preparation for the present, asserting that such diseases should be cared for in the special wards of the public hospital. It is hoped, however, that this opposition will soon be passed over, if it can be shown that the proposed pavilion would not be harmful to the public.

At the recent corporation meeting it was decided to erect a statue of President Woolsey, by both university funds and subscription.

The work of the Union continues its growth, and extemporaneous speaking has received great encouragement from the resolutions passed by the New York alumni. Their committee. Messrs. James Hillhouse, Gifford Pinchot and Herbert Parsons, are to ascertain the real status of debate here, and make recommendations for its improvement.

Yale has recently won much undesirable and undue notoriety from the thoughtless remarks of a woman reformer as to its moral character, which, at least, holds its own with that of other universities. Press comments have cesured the reformer rather than the object of her wrath.

M. Paderewski will give one public recital during his visit to New Harven, to be held on Dec. 3.

YALE NEWS.