with a growing sense of the value of the privilege. We are free, and not in bondage to a law or rule, because we have this true purpose and rejoice in what is bestowed upon us. This is the sentiment and attitude of the genuine son of the University who thankfully appreciates the glory of his sonship. The impulse of his gratitude unites with the inspiration coming from the manly sense of privilege, or of duty, to bear him on with energy, and with sincerity also.

I commend to you this thought, my friends. The duties of this place are not tasks to be avoided or disliked. They are what brings into our possession the peculiar blessing which has fallen to us. The gateway of knowledge is near them, and, what is even better than this, the gateway of a thoughtful life, pure in its happiness and ever increasingly rich in its gifts. In the thoughtlessness or the pleasures of the moment you may forget this truth. You may suffer the hours to pass without taking advantage of them. You may even--as some have done before you throw away the good which is ready for your reception. But so soon as you summon yourself back to the right working of your mind and view things as they really are, you will see that this is the result of thoughtlessness indeed-you will see that it is not the use but the abuse of what is given you, an abuse which is unworthy of your manliest character, and especially unworthy of one who owes such great possibilities to the kindness of that Friend who allots all things in wisdom and love. Think what the place is, and what it involves of good for your life-think of the source from which the privilege of dwelling in the place and knowing its good in your own experience came to you-and then follow in the line of your thinking. You will then need no exhortation from another, but will move joyously to duty and privilege from the impulse of your own deepest and loftiest sentiment. We call you only to let the thought of the allotment of the pleasant places abide with its genuine power within your soul constantly; and we know it will be well with you, if your action is in harmony with your thought. This harmony is true manhood, and has in it the promise of these years.

And then, what shall we say of friendship and the brotherhood? The son of the University who connects the fact of his sonship with the allotment of the Divine Friend and Father will have, here again, a sentiment to guide him and an inspiration to impel him in relation to these elements of his life. Being conscious of the

blessings which they involve and of the true purpose of living here, he will seek the friendships which have the most of good within them, and will ever try to be worthy of the great brotherhood. The University life is the best for character in the formative period, largely because it offers such opportunities for friendly influence, while the working of its own spirit is always towards the selection of those whose friendly influence is the best. We judge things rightly, not by the evil side which we sometimes see, but by the tendencies, and by the inward spirit which guides and moves. And when we judge thus, who can doubt that in these seats of thought and learning the inspiration is for good? There is no place in the world where the men of highest purpose, and manliest spirit, and purest thought and life are more sure to gain the approval of the common sentiment, and none where the influence of such men more naturally and gently and powerfully works its way into any or every receptive soul.

The duty of your life here, my friend-nay, I may better say, the privilege of your life here-is so to take into yourself these best influences which the familiar associations of the place offer to you, that the noblest part of others' lives shall become, in some true sense, a portion of your own. If you do not carelessly or wilfully turn away from the choice and pure friendships to the lower and baser ones, which, alas, are sometimes possible even here, you will surely gain the good as you open the doors of your heart. It will find its way into your inmost living constantly, and after the most helpful and delightful manner. Its entrance will be through that daily intercourse by means of which friends become united together. Its working power in the soul will be manifest in all the lines of character and experience. Its results will be a larger and continually larger measure of itself-a good which you will understand more thoroughly, as you understand more and more fully, in after years, what you are and have become. I ask you to think of the blessing and to make it your own.

And what can duty to the great brotherhood be for you, but to live worthily of membership in it? The man who knows, in any measure, what the gift bestowed upon him in the University is, and who thankfully acknowledges it as a gift for his true life, will not need to be reminded of the obligation imposed upon him by reason of the fact that he shares it with a great company both of the past and the present. He will rather, as he rejoices in the knowledge that he is surrounded by inspirations coming from

those who are seen and those who are unseen, give his energies willingly and joyfully to the bringing of his personal life into harmony with these inspirations. He will take care not from the sense of duty merely, but from the grateful impulses of his heart-that the pleasant places, in which he is spending these years, receive no harm or defilement from his presence in them. He will keep himself pure and thoughtful and earnest and honorable, because the spirit of the brotherhood is such. The son of the University, he will feel, must be deserving of the name. The favored man-favored of the all-disposing Father-who has received the inheritance which has been handed down from the older brothers of the household, as they passed on to other scenes with ennobled life, will strive in all faithfulness to gather for himself the fruit of the inheritance and, when he has satisfied his own wants, to leave it in all the riches of its blessing for those who follow him.

The years here are, as we have said, the formative years of life. In view of this happy, yet serious and all-important and impressive fact, action and purpose in these years become essential to the future. The course turned here into the right line will be always right. The knowledge, and thought, and friendship, and the soul's life coming from them, which are established here, will be secure hereafter. All things, as we may say, are in your power to-day. As the gateway of the year and the life opens today, let me point you to the blessing which lies within the gateway, and say to you, as one who has long known and loved the pleasant places, that, if you will receive to yourselves the true spirit of the University, you will find it ever an inspiration toward good; and let me say, also, that the spirit of the University is the spirit of duty as impelled by thankfulness-the spirit which recognizes in the allotment of our life the gift of a Divine Friend, and rejoices to be worthy of the blessing which He bestows.

YALE UNIVERSITY BULLETIN.

No. 60.-WEEK ENDING SEPTEMBER 29, 1888.

Sunday, September 23.-Public Worship-Battell Chapel, 10.30 A. M. Rev. President Dwight.-Yale Young Men's Christian Association Monthly Meeting-Dwight Hall, 6.45 P. M. Address by President Dwight.

Wednesday, September 26.-Psychology (University Lecture)-Professor Ladd. 194 Old Chapel, 4 P. M.

Thursday, September 27.-Law School-Fall Term opens-Lecture Room, No. 13 Court House, 12 M.-College Faculty Meeting-7 Treasury Building, 4 P. M.

Friday, September 28.-Berkeley Association (Evening Prayer)-Room 89, Dwight Hall, 6.45 P. M.

Yale Law School.-Professor Wayland will meet the undergraduate classes in the Junior Lecture Room, No. 13 Court House, at 12 M., on Thursday, September 27. Professor Baldwin will meet the graduate class in the Faculty Room, No. 18 Court House, at 12.30 P. M., on the same day.

No. 61-WEEK ENDING OCTOBER 6, 1888.

Sunday, September 30.-Public Worship-Battell Chapel, 10.30 a. M. Rev. Joseph Anderson, D.D., of Waterbury.-General Religious Meeting-Dwight Hall, 6.30 P. M. Address by the Rev. H. P. Nichols, of Trinity Church.

Monday, October 1.-School of the Fine Arts-School year opens. Wednesday, October 3.-Medical School-Matriculation examination. Medical School, 150 York st., 9 A. M.-Psychology-(University Lecture) -Professor Ladd. 194 Old Chapel, 4 P. M.-Semitic Club-Paper by Professor Harper, on The Work of the Club for the coming Year. Room B, East Divinity Hall, 7 P. M.

Thursday, October 4.-Medical School-Fall Term opens-Medical School, 150 York st.

Friday, October 5.-Berkeley Association (Evening Prayer)—Room 89, Dwight Hall, 6.45 P. M.-Lecture Preparatory to Communion ServiceDwight Hall, 7.30 P. M.

Hugh Chamberlain Greek Prize. -The Hugh Chamberlain Greek Prize, being the income for one year of a fund of one thousand dollars, given in 1886 by the Hon. Daniel H. Chamberlain, LL.D., of New York City, is divided between Bernard Melzar Allen, of Waltham, Mass., who was prepared for College at Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., and Emanuel Frank Snydacker, of Chicago, Ill., who was prepared at

the South Division High School, Chicago; honorable mention is also made of the examinations of Henry Barrett Hinckley, of Northampton, Mass., who was prepared at the New Church School, Waltham, Mass., and of William Lloyd Kitchel, of New Haven, Conn., who was prepared at the New Haven High School.

This prize is offered annually to the members of the class entering College, for the best examination in the Greek required for admission.

Bristed Scholarship Examination.-The next examination for the Bristed Scholarship, which is open to members of the Sophomore and Junior classes in College, will be held on May 6, 7 and 8, 1889. The subjects for examination will be as follows:

In Latin, Cicero-Tusculan Disputations, Book I; Lucretius-Book V.; Catullus-the selections in Crowell's edition; Vergil-the Georgics; Horace-the Epistles; Latin Composition.

In Greek, Homer-the Iliad, with questions on the composition and form of the poems, their historical value, the Homeric language; Plato-the Phaedo.

In Mathematics-to the end of the Sophomore year's work.

No. 62-WEEK ENDING OCTOBER 13, 1888.

Sunday, October 7.-Public Worship, followed by Communion Service -Battell Chapel, 10.30 A. M. Rev. President Dwight.-General Religious Meeting, to be addressed by students-Dwight Hall, 6.30 P. M.

Monday, October 8.-Preservation of Health (Lecture to the Divinity School)-Leonard J. Sanford, M.D. Room B, East Divinity Hall, 2 P. M. Wednesday, October 10.-Psychology (University Lecture)-Professor Ladd. 194 Old Chapel 4 P. M.

Thursday, October 11.-College Faculty Meeting-7 Treasury Building, 4 P. M.

Friday, October 12.-Berkeley Association (Evening Prayer)—Room 89, Dwight Hall, 6.45 P. M.

Lectures in the Divinity School.-Leonard J. Sanford, M.D., late Professor in the Yale Medical School, will give a course of six lectures on the Preservation of Health, to the Students of the Divinity School in Lecture Room B (East Divinity Hall), on successive Mondays, at 2 P. M. beginning on Monday, Oct. 8.