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The Oracle met xvitli i ready sale this morning. General Seeretary Mertz, of the S. C. A. wil] go home to Loganeport, Iiid., for his vaeation. Prof. Chas. S. Denison haa been unable to meet his classes for some time on account of illuess. The '96 ioot ball team won easily from Saginaw's high school eleven on Satürday. The score was 56 to 4. The senior laws vrill probably hold a meeting to-morrow after lecture to take actiou in regard to a class annual. The literary contestants in tlie pronouncing contest for to-morrow evening met this afternoon in room 3 for practioe. President GiJchrist, of the S. C. A., will spend his vaeation in Canada, visiting McGill university during liis absence. The expenses of the Yale-Princeton game were .$9000, or $5000 less than last year. The colleges will divide about ,$28, 000 '. The Peripatetic Club of Harvard is a dubious name for a society of professors. They are not Coxeyites, but they do lots of walking. The total registration in Brown University this year is 611. Of these, 301 ; are from Kliode Lsland and 117 from Massachusetts. Miss Frett will )oal the treshman S. C. A. prayei" meeting this evening, and Miss McLachlan will do the same for the sophomores. The S. C. A. Library 11 be recatalogued diiring the vacation, ande; the management of Fred Irwin. The decimal system will be used. Saturday evening's concert of the Glee and Banjo clubs in Detroit was ïighly spoken of by the Free Press. A eception was tendered the boys iu the fternoou. N. M. Cameron, '95 law, and Detroit Ñews correspondent, has been conflued ,o his room for two weeks on account of jursting a blood vessel, under his knee, while in the gymnasium. O. J. Larson, law '94, who has located n Calumet, has organized a literary ociety among the Finns of that place, t is known as the Snelling literary soiety and Mr. Larson is president. Don't spend all your money for Cliristnas on your best girl. Save fifty cents or a present to the Athletic Association and yourself, and attend the benefit Glee and Banjo Club concert of Jan. 12. The question for debate between Co:nell and University of Pennsylvania is "Resolved, That the most effective means of restricting the liquor trafile is to elimínate the element of private profit." i The ÏT. of M. Daily wants to know vvhat has become of the offer made by Prof. Stanley to rehearse college songs once a week with the studente. The offer is still open and will no doubt bp accepted by the students after tlie holidays. S. B. Thorne, '96, was unanimously elected captain of the Yale University foot-ball eleven for next year. Thorne's home is New York, where he prepared at Berkeley school. He played fullback on liis freshman eleven and halfback two years on the 'Varsity. Prof. H. C. Adains is on the program of a conference in bistory, political sci-ence and economy, and socialogy, to be held at Chicago University during the first week in January. Kepresentatives will be present f rom the various colleges and universities of the Mississippi valley. Dr. C. B. Nancrede has received a vote of thanks from the directors of the Athletic Association for his generosity to the foot ball team. He rendered tbe boys considerable professional service and presented his receipted bill to the Association. An enthusiastic meeting of the candidates for next spring's base ball team was held last Saturday evening in room 9. The meeting was called largely for the purpose of giving Trainer Keene Fitzpatrick an opportunity to meet the men. Training will begin at once after the vacation under the direction of Mr. Fitzpatrick. Caspar AVhitney says of Michigan(s eleven, in ' this week's Harper's : "Michigan lias made altogether the prize record of the western colleges by defeating Cornell on Nov. 24, in Detroit. With the exception of Ohl at full back, Cornell had its regular team, but was fairly outplayed by the westerners, wbo showed unexpectedly brüliant play." Yale refused to have anything to do with l'eiinsvlvania this year, charging the Quakers with introducing professionals into their team. Novv the faculty committee of the U. of P. sends a communication to Yale inviting her to come down to Philadelphia and investígate the Conditiou of affairs which led to the charge. It is problematieal what Yale will do about it. She wóuld undoubtedly have a hard time proving the charge. The last Harper's Weekly has this on the all-absorbing question of the hour : "One of the most noticeable and of course natural results of the tremendous progress that has been made in football science the last few years is the developtnent of high class players. A few years back an extraordinary good player stood out so prominently that the eflulgen.ee of hi Btar wás nut lessened liy even the approach of others. Thns i we often licar to-day men cited who, hile they were undoubtedly Btrongand (lii great work in their time, wotild be rather outólassed by the most killed exponents of modern foot ball. Astndy of these all-Ameriean elévens will Corrobórate tliis statement. There are probbly a few men whose work, as we recall t, would seein impossible to better in oint of brilliancy and efficacy ; and yet f we earefully consider the quality of hose wliom they met, and thedifference i play then and now, we mast come to lie conclusión that the science of foot ball to-day is greatly superior to what it vas two or three years ago." cornell's prosfects for '95. It is expected that Cornell will have even a strouger eleven next year than they put, on the field this season. That they are coming into the first rank of football teams is shown by the stoady mpiovenient they have made in the past few years. Cornell will lose but three men next yrar, but in the case of two of these, the two guarda, their places will be hard to fill. At right tackle, Rogers, '9G, will probably be seen again. On the other side, Freeborn, '97, played daring the early part of the season, and will probably liold the position next year. However, it is expected that Hall, who finished the season in this position, will return for gradúate work next year, and that he vill give Freeborn ii rub for the place. ■U the lei't end, Beechara, '97, lias made a line record tliis sestson, and liis work eompares favorably with tbatof Hinckey or Trenchard. Ou the opposite end, raussig, '97, fllls the position aeeeptibly. Back of the line, Captain Wyccoff will play at quarter, and Ohl, '97, vill undoubtedly appear as full back igain. At half back, Dyer, '96, and Starbuck, '96, have played and will play oext year. The fonner hits the line well but is not a fast runner. A prornsing candidate for half back is Steinacher, '97, who was a substitute this rear. Cornell is hoping to retain Marshall Newell as coach next year. WHO IS THIS, MR. STAGG. Many men now in college remember a farnous Yale pitoher who lingered urnder alma mater's care untold years preparing himself for the inlnlistry. Iiu-identally, he maaaged to snatch vlctory on the diamond from all corners If we remember rigüitly, it was chiefly because of this pitcher's perreimlal residence at New Haven that the time limit was eetablished in baseball. WJien he was at last excluded, he decided that amateur sport offered a better field for pious labors tha.ii the regular ministry. He therefoa-e became a píiid instructor in athl.rtics and finall secured a position as director of pjiysical culture at a western umiversity, where, it may be supposed, he deemed th eneed oí atliletic puritj' greatest. His llrst act was to play upan the eleven he was training, and to captain it. This caused 6harp commemt im the west, to gay tJie least. He replied to thitt witli many piO'US sophistrii'S, and in the opring he pitthed on the nime and eaptalned it. At a recent iintercollegiate athletic meeting in Chicago, he entered one oi his intiuctors, who was, like hiinselí, a professional. 'WJieii the entry was protested, Mr. Ha.rry Cornisli, physical director oí the Chicago Athletic Association, who, though neither a college man nor a divine, is a sportsman, threw it out without discussion.- O'Utiog. ONCE MORE IT IS SHIELDS. Ed. C. Shields will again captain the base ball team. Those inembers of last year's nine who are now in the University, met last evening in the Psi U house and their ballots, together with those of the team who had to vote by letter, unanimously elected him captain for 1894. The unanimity of the choice is indicative of the spirit in which the election will be received by the student body. Mr. Shields, with the experience he had with the team last year, will no doubt be able to bring out a nine this year of which every student will feel as proiïd and for which they will veil as loud as they have this fall for the foot ball eleven. His re-election augurs well for the success of the base ball season of 1895. In conversation with Captain Shields last night after his election, he said that the base ball men would probably begin work at once after the Christmas vacation. The gymnasium is in such shape that it is not at present known just whatthe work will consist of. In regard to an eastern trip Mr. Shields said that none would be taken tliis year. Manager Weeks is hard at work figuring un a schedule but is not able at present to announce of what it will consist. A CHANCE TO SHOW l'ATKIOTISM. There was i great exliibition of college spirit and patriotism a few weeks agp when ihe University eleven defeated the Cornell team 12 to 4. It was undoubtedly one of the greatest displays of the kind that has ever been seen in this vicinity, whicb. is sayingagood deal. On the evening of January 12, the first Saturday evening after vacation, there will be another opportunity to show this same spirit, although in a more practical manner, perhaps, than before. It will be the occasion of the benefit concert of the Glee and Banjo clul is to the athletic association, notice of whicli was given on the evening of the Cornell jubilee. The offlcers of the association and of the clubs are trying to make this concert coimt a great deal toward putting the baso bal) team squarely on its feet next spring and placing thena whére they muy beassured of all the uecessary finnncial aid in working toward as successful a seasou as the foot ball team has liad this f all. It will be a student very much lacking in the essential of college spirit wlio will not do his best to make up a big crowd at this coucert of Jau. 12. The admission will be íiíty ceuts. It is hoped that University hall will be crowded to the doors. AN ALL WESTERN' ELEVEN'. The Chicago Inter-Ocean chooses its ideal western foot ball eleven as folio vs : Kuil, Wiscons'n, center; Captain Allen, Chicago, and Captain Fulkerson, Purdue, guards ; Alward, Purdue, and Balzendahl, Wiscons'n, tackles; Setater, Michigan, and Sheldon, Wificons!a, ends ; Lyinan, "Wlsoomsin, quarterback ; Karel, AVlsconsin, and Ewin?:, Chicago, half backs ; Atkinson, BekKt, full back. Substit-utes - Jacobs, Wiscomsin, and Alli'U. lowa, guards; AVoolsey, Lake For est, and Roby, Chicago, tackles ; Hayes, Mich 'gan, Oberve, Northwestern, and Schacht, Illinois, eaids ; Hearing, Chicago, quarter back ; Buscliniiin. Purdue, and Perbert, llitlrgan, half back; Gale, Chicago, full back. "In the all-western team chosen. there are four captains. Judg'ng from hls exper'ence with heterogeneous players at Chicago, -C. "W. Allen would mnkc the best captain. He is a good judge of men, and knows how to keep a team harmonious. He never loses nis temper, and, thoroughly familjar with the game, he is quick to use every advantagè. Lyman would grve the signáis. In goal kicking tíie team would be weak, but Lyman would probably be the surest." In tliis team are flve Wisconsin inen, two from Chicago, two from. Purdue, one from Mdcihigan and one frorn Beloit. Tlie Inter-Ocean man In speakimg of Captain Henninger's chanc lor guard says: "Tlie only question would be raiised about MlcJiigan's big guard HeiMV.nger. Jacobs plays a stronger line game than the Michigander, and Allen, oí Iowa, would get in tliree plays to his one." Öf Senter, he says : "The choice oí ends would be niuch more difficult on account of the scarcity of good men. Seutei', though, would get a place on the team on tlie first day. He is far and away the best end in the west, barring Hayner, of Labe Fórest, who lias been playiaig back tjiis year.'' Of course, Michigan, ha ving' but one man on the team, is not in a positíon to give an tmprejudiced opinión of this selectiom, but Wisconsin certainly may, having nearly half the eleven. This is what the Daily Cardinal says of it : "Tlie all-western team as p-ublished yesterday in the Chicago Inter-Ocean is, we sihoulil .ar, not by any means the best one that could be selected and shows quite plainly that it was written by a Chicago man. Mímnesota certalnly sliould be comsidered and eitlier Michigan or Minnesota could probably furniish men wno could outplay some of the men credited to Purdue amd Chicago. The number oí Chicago men who a.re given substitute positions is noticeable. Bunge and Harding, of Minnesota, could undoubtedly handle Fulkerson OT Alleo, who are given t-he positions oí gua-rds. Giving Gapt. Allen, of Chicago, the capacity oí the team is tlie moist remaa-kable of the statements. Ca.pt. Allen's híindling of the Cliicago team certainly has been 'remarkable,' if trying evei-y player iin almost eery position on the team will give a man a good iinderstanding of his players. Oapt. Allen certainly sliould understand his men pretty well. Either Lyman or Baird oould undoubtedly do better in handHng the team than Allen." In the gloftminir, oh, my rtarling, Where tlie niiilii; ai'e six mouths long, If I stayed till raidnjght. djirlinsx, Would you thlnk thfttit was wrone;? 'ould you work the oíd eras on me? Would you murmur soft acd low, Tliat I miïht be late for breaki;it Or the clock was six nreeks slow.' -Detroit Free Press.