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1877 fre held at such time, and place as may be hereafter 

 agreed upon, 



Mr. Ostrom offered the following resolution, to take the 

 t)lace of the first section of the amendments to the consti- 

 tution, which was carried:— 



Resolved, That students of colleges, members of this As- 

 sociation, candidates for degrees of A. B., Ph. B., LL. B., 

 M D.,P- D., or any similar parallel or course, or any 

 students studying for an advanced degree, not to exceed 

 t W o years, provided it be an unbroken continuation of his 

 previous course, shall be eligible to row in the regattas of 

 this Association. 



Mr. Ostrom was desirous that future races of the Associa- 

 tion be rowed in eights, but Mr. Sage proposed, and his 

 motion was adopted, that the races in future be rowed in 

 fours without coxswains. This will considerably lessen 

 the regatta expenses. 



Mr. Goodwin, of Columbia, offered the following:— 



Resolved, That any college not a member of the Associa- 

 tion wishing to participate in the regatta of 1877 can do so 

 by making application to the Regatta Committee before 

 June 1st, 1877, provided such college or colleges are ap- 

 proved by the Regatta Committee. 



The resolution was adopted. It is, however, only in- 

 tended for the present year. 



After much discussion the 11th of July was decided 

 upon as the date for holding the regatta, but the location 

 was not decided upon. Places will be drawn for on June 



1st. 



Mr. William Blaikie was unanimously chosen referee, 

 and Mr. Cross, of Princeton; Mr, Butterworth, of Co- 

 lumbia, and a Cornell representative were selected as 

 judges. 



—The Argonaut Rowing Club of Toronto, has had a 

 most successful season, from a pecuniary point of view. 

 Owing to additional aocommodation afforded for storage of 

 boats and the attractions offered to junior members, the 

 club having added a new four-oared gig to their list o f 

 boats, the membership has largely increased. They now 

 liave the largest stock of racing and practice boats owned 

 by any club on the continent, as well as accommodation 

 for about fifty private boats. 



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A feature of this winter's sport will be a ret urn to the 

 fashionable exercise of roller skating which was in vogue 

 here some ten years ago. Since it has become so fashion- 

 able with the higher classes in England and France, our 

 democratic America must of course take it up again. Con- 

 sequently, preparations are in progress to transform the 

 Hippodrome into a great roller skating resort, as also the 

 Brooklyn Rink- at the latter place they are now laying an 

 asphalt floor for the purpose. 



FOOT BALL . 



The long anticipated match between Yale aud Columbia 

 was played on Saturday last, on the ground of the St. 

 George's Cricket Club at Hoboken. The weather was any- 

 thing but propitious, a cold biting wind sweeping over the 

 ground, and rendering preliminary games of leap frog, etc., 

 necessary to keep anything like circulation in the thinly 

 clad bodies of the contestants. The game was played by 

 eleven men on each side, and according to the Rugby 

 Union Rules. Yale sent on the magnificent team with 

 which she has beaten Harvard and Princeton, and by ad- 

 mirable discipline and most excellent play succeeded in 

 scoring another victory. Time was called at 3:15 p,m. 

 Columbia having won the to3s, and electing that Yale 

 should take the "kick off," Baker, the Captain of the 

 visiting team, made an excellent effort against the strong 

 wind, and sent the ball weli towards Columbia's gaol; here 

 it was stopped and sent back, and a lively scrimmage 

 ensued. Finally Train, of Columbia, secured the ball and 

 touch down. Pryor, however, failed to send the ball over 

 the string. After another scrimmage Yale secured a touch 

 down, and Bigelow, of that team, was more successful in 

 the "try," sending the ball clean over Columbia's string, 

 and securing first goal for Yale. Time, 44m. 45s. The 

 second goal was taken by Yale in just 2m. 30s., Bigelow 

 being again successful in the kick arter a touch down, ob- 

 tained by the fine play by Baker and others. For forty- 

 five minutes longer Columbia worked hard to make up 

 lost ground, but it was of no avail, and time was called 

 with two goals for Yale, and none for Columbia. The 

 teams were as follows: — 



Yale— E. V. Baker (captain); W. I. Bigelow (backs); 

 W.D. Hatch, O. D. Thompson, W. C. Camp (half backs); 

 W. V. Dormer, W. H. Taylor, R. Wurts, G. H. Ciarke, 

 N. U. Walker, W. C. Camps (forwards). Columbia— W. 

 H. Radford, W. F. Morgan (backs); G. M. Hammonds, W. 

 H. Ward (half backs); E. W. Price, (captain), W. E. Hil- 

 dreth, J. W. Pryor, E. M. Train, F. D. Weeks, G. DeH. 

 Brower, H. F.Morewood (forwards). Umpire for Yale— 

 G. T. Elliott, of Yale. Umpire for Columbia— W. H. De- 

 forest, of Columbia. Referee— Mr. Seamans, of Harvard. 



BASE BALL. 



The League Association held their first annual conven- 

 tion on Dec. 7th at the Kennard House, Cleveland, on 

 which occasion delegates from seven of the eight profes- 

 sional clubs comprising the League were in attendance. 

 The Board of Directors had met the day previous to take 

 action upon questions brought before them, but only one 

 case was acted upon and that was in regard to the failure 

 of the Athletic and Mutual clubs to play their full quota of 

 championship games. This violation of the League rules, 

 it would appear, was regarded as equally criminal with 

 that of indulging in the worst phase of fraudulent play, for 

 the Board agreed upon a sentence of expulsion from the 

 League Association, a disgrace which could not have been 

 increased in the way of punishment had the clubs in ques- 

 tion been guilty of the worst violation of the League code 

 of laws. While making the two clubs in question justly 

 amenable to censure, the League might have avoided such 

 an extreme penalty as they enforced. The result will be to 

 elicit a sympathy for the expelled clubs, and greatly to de- 

 crease the popularity of the League. They have unwisely, 

 too, re-adopted the fifty cent tariff, and though the new 

 regulations for membership admit of a club's joining the 

 league before April 1st, the rules are so worded as to prac- 

 tically exclude all but the wealthy stock company organiza- 

 tions. They adopted a rule prohibiting all League clubs 

 from employing players who have signed agreements to 



play with co-operative clubs, unless it be done before April 

 1st. This will have some effect in reducing the list ot re- 

 volvers . The League retains the rule prohibiting a League 

 club from playing within five miles of the grounds of 

 another League club, and they also prevent two League 

 clubs existing in one city. The new list of members of the 

 League gives the ruling power to the Western members by 

 a vote of four to two, or Chicago, St. Louis, Louisville 

 and Cincinnati against Boston and Hartford. The contest 

 for the championship for 1877 will therefore be confined to 

 those six cities, New York and Philadelphia being left 

 out in the cold by the League this year. 



The amendments to the rules include the adoption of a 

 rule doing away with fair foul balls, or rather limiting the 

 extent of ground such balls can be hit to. They adopted a 

 rule allowing but one make of ball to be used in League 

 club contests, the double covered Mahn ball of last season's 

 use, containing the customary ounce of rubber, being the 

 League club ball for 1877. It is not a lively ball, though 

 not as dead as some balls used in 1876. This throws the 

 base balls of Messrs. Peck and Snyder, Ryan, Ross, Reach, 

 Shibe, &c.,iout of the League market and gives the mo- 

 nopoly to Mr. Mahn of Boston. Only six clubs out of the 

 two thousand and odd in the country are, however, obliged 

 to use the League ball for 1877. A rule was also adopted 

 increasing the size of the bases from one foot square to fif- 

 teen inches square ; also tor obliging base runners to run 

 to first base only on the direct line of the base ; also oblig- 

 ing players returning to bases on foul balls to run back to 

 them instead of walking back as was previously optional. 



The rule admitting of foul bound catches was retained, 

 though against the Boston vote. Mr. Young was author- 

 ized to issue the books of the constitution and rules, so as 

 to be in the hands of the clubs by January. The league 

 publish a lengthy circular in defence of their action in 

 expelling the clubs, and making the strange statement that 

 every man in the League nines during 1876 was '"a good 

 and true man," in other words, that they were all honor- 

 able men. The habitues of the various city pool rooms of 

 New York, Chicago, St. Louis, or Philadelphia, will smile 

 in their sleeves at this. On the whole, it will be seen, that 

 the self-same policy has been pursued by the League at 

 their convention as marked their March proceedings. 



SKATING. 



The ball went up at ten o'clock on Tuesday morning at 

 Prospect Park, and the skating season of 1876 and '77 at 

 this popular resort was then and there inaugurated. The 

 weather proved very favorable for the full enjoyment of 

 the sport, and the skatiag lake was crowded. On Saturday 

 a ball match on skates will be played at the large, lake. 



The Caritoline Lake and Union Pond were also well 

 patronized on Monday last, and skating is in full operation 

 in Brooklyn, while in New York there is none to be had 

 owing to the absence of proper provision for the sport at 

 Central Park, where excellent ice is at command. 



Nothing Like Soap.— When John Roach builds a noble 

 steamship like the City of Peking, the firm of John Roach 

 & Sons get a great deal of newspaper flattery and public 

 praise. If steamships were articles of common purchase, 

 the natural result of all this reputation would be that every- 

 body would buy those made by this firm. So it is the 

 world over, that those products conspicuous by reason of 

 their excellence are most largely bought by the people. An 

 apt illustration of this fact is noticeable in that article of 

 common domestic use, soap. Everybody uses soap, and 

 naturally everybody wants the best soap that is made. A 

 good many years ago, when actual merit was essentially 

 necessary to success, B. T. Babbitt, the now great soap 

 manufacturer of the world, put his brand of "Best Soap" 

 on the market. It was then the best soap made; it is still 

 equally the best, and as a natural result nine-tenths of 

 American families use it. It is therefore a matter of more 

 than usual concern that this manufacturer has introduced 

 a new soap— B. T . Babbitt's Toilet Soap— a soap for the 

 face and hands and bath, for family use outside the laundry. 

 It is strictly vegetable, a soft, splendid soap for the skin, 

 and without a particle of foreign substance in it. There 

 are no chemicals to give it a color, no artificial scent to 

 make it acceptable by a false odor. Yet it has a lasting, 

 delicate, agreeable perfume, the effect of its pure vegetable 

 oil ingredients and its perfect manufacture. The cakes are 

 large, about twice the size of the usual toilet article, and 

 the price is very low. Five years from now nine-tenths of 

 all the families in the country will be using B. T. Babbitt's 

 Toilet Soap to the rigid exclusion of other makes, just as 

 they now use his "Best Soap." Mr. Babbitt will get a 

 great deal of public'favor at once, and newspaper mention, 

 as in this instance, because everyone knows that his pro- 

 ducts are conspicuous for their actual superiority.— N. Y. 



Tribune. 



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Desidebata in Smoking.— According to Dr. Berthand, 

 in the Tribune Medicale, whatever be the mode of smok- 

 ing, direct contact of the tobacco with the "mucus buc- 

 calis"— mucous lining of the cheeks— and the teeth must 

 be avoided ; cigars should be smoked in an amber, ivory, 

 or enameled porcelain mouthpiece ; to smoke, by relight- 

 ing them, portions of cigars that have been extinguished, 

 together with the system of blackened and juicy pipes, 

 must be avoided, as it is the surest way of being affected 

 by nicotine ; every smoker would do well, if practicable, 

 to rinse his mouth after smoking, and it would be well to 

 subject pipes and bowls in which tobacco has been burned 

 to frequent washings either with ether or with water mixed 

 with alcohol or with vinegar. The cigarette is preferable, 

 by reason of its slight quantitative importance, and the 

 paper which interferes with the contact of its contents 

 with the buccal mucous membrane ; but to realise all the 

 desiderata in this case it would be necessary to have the 

 "papelito" made of flax thread, and to abstain from the 

 practice— which has been so universal— of retaining the 

 aspiration at the back as the mouth, so as to pour it out of 

 the nostrils afterward. 



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— F.Steele & Son, jewelers, of Hartford, Conn., have 

 issued one of the handsomest illustrated catalogues of 

 goods that we have ever seen. One of its most conven- 

 ient features is the classification of goods into groups, ac- 

 cording to price. The buyer can determine at a glance 

 what he can purchase for fifty cents and what for $1,000. 

 This firm is said to have the finest establishment in New 

 England, outside of Boston. 



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—On the ice bound ponds is now heard the hum of the 

 festive Miss-Skaters, 



M m §ribUc*fion&. 



BOOKS RECEIVED. 



The Centennial Frog, and Other Stories, Claxton, 

 Kemsen & Haffelflnger, Philadelphia, Publishers. For sale byJas, 

 Miller, 647 Broadway . 



This is an attractive child's book for the Holidays, profusely illustra- 

 ted, which will no doubt prove entertaining to all who have any curios- 

 ity to learn the story of Lieut. Frog of Frogmarsh. 



Populab Science Monthly. — The ever welcome Popu- 

 lar Science Monthly conies to us again, and with a contents more varied 

 and entertaining than ever. Indeed, this periodical, which occupies a 

 field unfilled by any other magazine in this country, or perhaps in the 

 world, seems to improve each month, and under the guidance of its 

 able editor, Mr. Youmans, exercises a widespread and healthy influence 

 on the minds of a large circle of cultivated readers in the United States. 

 It contains each month many of the most important discoveries in 

 science that are of interest to the general public, by far the greater part 

 of which would be wholly inaccessible to most readers weie it not for 

 some such medium of communication as the present. For it must be 

 remembered that the material which is here collected, and presented In 

 an attractive and intelligible form, was originally scattered through half 

 a hundred reports, journals, proceedings of scientific societies, and pri- 

 vate papers, and, besides this, was apportioned among four or five differ 

 ent languages. Now, for any reader not specially interested in the 

 subject to attempt to keep up with the march of science, is, under these 

 circumstances, quite out of the question, and the public at iarge have to 

 thank Mr. Youmans for the constant additions to their knowledge of 

 scientific progress which his admirable journal affords. To collect all 

 this material, and to cull from it matter which shall prove not only in- 

 stinctive but entertaining as well, is a task of no small magnitude, and 

 one requiring great judgment, as well as accurate scientific knowledge, 

 and the manner in which tfiese duties are here performed leaves nothing 

 to be desired. 



We have said that the present number is especially attractive, and a 

 brief review of ita contents will justify the statement. The leading ar- 

 ticle is by Prof. Tyndnll on "Fermentation and its Bearings on the 

 Phenomena of Disease. " This is a report of a lecture delivered before 

 a Glasgow audience, and is in Prof. Tyndall's usual entertaining and in- 

 structive vein. He first discusses the nature and growth of the various 

 ferment plants and the influence of temperature on their development, 

 and asserts that there is no experimental proof whatever of spontaneous 

 generation. From this he proceeds to the consideration of the low or- 

 ganisms which give rise to putrefaction and contagion, and of the possi- 

 bility of preventing these effects by proper precautions, and closes by 

 predicting, at no distant day, the triumph of surgery over disease. The 

 article is well worth reading and pondering. 



An interesting and practical essay by Prof. Maxwell, taken from 

 Ifature, treats of the "Protection of Bnildings from Lightning," after 

 which Mr. Wedderburn gives n» "Mormonism from a Mormon Point of 

 View" at some length. "More about Mechanical Tools" is followed by 

 what must be regarded by Americans at least as one of the most valuable 

 contributions to this number; we refer to Prof. Morse's paper, entitled 

 "What American Zoologists Have Done for Evolution." We regret that 

 it is not in our power at present to review at length this very detailed 

 and able exposition of the labors of our leadintr scientific men. This j 

 however, is a pleasure that we intend shortly to give our readers and 

 ourselves. It is sufficient here to say that Prof. Morse discusses quite 

 fully what has been done by our most successful workers in science- 

 giving to each his meed of praise, and summing up with some very in- 

 structive conclusions and suggestions relative to the well being of the 

 human race. With the exception of Prof. Huxley's second lecture the 

 remaining articles are short. "The Laws of Health," "Canine Sagacity," 

 "The Constancy of Motion," and a sketch of Prof. Mayer, all of them 

 very readable, and each conveying its lesson. 



The lecture by Prof. Huxley is, no doubt, familiar to many of our 

 readers, but will well repay reperusal. The beauty and excellence of the 

 woodcuts with which it is illustrated are a marked feature of the article. 



The Editor's Table is interesting reading, and the discussion of the 

 evolution question is happily carried on with much vigor and humor. 

 Dr. Taylor's position, as an opponent of the great biologist, is, by this 

 showing, not a very strong one. One point which is to be taken into con- 

 sideration in this argument is the great disadvantage which the theologians 

 labor under in knowing little or nothing of biology, while their opponent 

 is a master of the subject. It would seem to an unprejudiced mind that 

 defeat must surely await them. 



Trie miscellany in this number of the journal is extended and interest- 

 ing and the magazine, as a whole, probably contains more valuable in- 

 formation than any volume of the same kind that has been issued for a 

 long time. 



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