Sunday Night's Eclipse

Prof. Huil paid little attention to the eclipse of the rnoon last night. What observations were taken were simply for curiosity's sake. Mr. Hall says that a lunar eclipse does uot amount to ïnuch from an astronomical point of view. It is only noted for the purpose of observjnjr the, moon's passage over small stars that cannot be seen at ali exceptat such a time. Such observations are of no acount unless several observatories work ogether. Previously this bas been one. At Harvard last night extensivo bservations were made, with the purpose in view of looking for a satellite. The next total eclipse of the inoon will ccur on Sept. 3, when extended obervations will be made here, with pecial regard to ascertaining the lunar itmosphere. L'NIVEBBITY XOTES. The Phi Delta Theta fraternity is to ïold its annual banquet on Friday evenW. G. Wallace, '94 lit., and fornierly assistant to Trof. E. D. Campbell, died ast week in Cincinnati of typhoid fever. Prof. Faulkner, of Ohio State University, will lecture next Friday afternooninthelaw lecture room on "The Constvuction of an Oration." Trof. Kelsey announces that he has secured rates of one and one-third fare for the states oL New York and Pennsylvania during the classical conference. University Vesper services were held in University hall last Tuesday, 4:10to4:30 p. m., and each Thursday and Tuesday thereafter. Professor Stanley and a chorus of 100 voices will assist. The public are cordially invited. Taka Kawada, '94 lit, wlio returned to Japan last summer, has eutered the Japanese naval service in the war. He was drafted in, and according to one of the Japanese laws, liaving heen out of the country for a time, he liad no option and had to go. The university committee of the Wisconsin legislatura has favorably reported a bilí appropíiating to the university $242,300 for the next two years. Besides this the university has a permanent one-tenth mili tax and a temporary one of one-eighth mili. A ministerial band was organized last Thursday evening in McMillan hall, or rather it was there organization of oue that existed two years ago. There are about twenty ministerial students in the University who belong to the club. A meeting vvill be held nextThursday eveninerin McMillan hall toadopt ion and el eet office rs. The Princeton faeulty committee on sports has forbidden any base ball games to be played between Princeton and the University of Pennsylvania this year. This decisión is based on the ground that áthletie contests between hese colleges have been the occasion of ntense bitterness during recent years. Princeton's management denies that Yale had anything to do in this matter. The Nation, the New York Evening Post, the Outlook, and mauy other lications have commented very severely upon the fact that the Yale "Lit" prize was not awarded this year because not one of the essays handed in was worthy of such recognition. The old debatina societies, which once formed so great a feature in college life, are also extinct. Yale's successive defeats in joiiít debate with Harvard for the past many years, and her comparative weakness in college journalism aud general literary aotivity emphasize the same point. Ou the other hand, in athletic matters Yale clearly leáds. The commenting papers referred to are inclined to lay the blame for this condition upon the present rage for athletics.