member. Since the class has no doubt survived as many conditions as any former class at Yale, it has the merit of surmounting difficulties. Craftiness piloted many of fits members through the perils of Scylla and Carybdis. '66 in the only class that has taken three Yale Lit. Medals.

We have been favored in losing only one man by death during our course. Joseph Wilson Finley died during Freshman year, aged 29 years and 10 months, lamented by all who knew him as a true scholar, friend and man. To his memory the class erected a monument.

We have as a class been united. Going forth to the various avocations and struggles of life, nothing can we so well cherish as the dear old motto

46 Το Κοινὸν Συνδει."

Memorabilia Valensia.

Commencement Exercises at Yale College, 1866.

Sunday Afternoon, July 22.-Baccalaureate Sermon by REV. W. B. CLARKE, Monday and Tuesday, July 23 and 24.--Examination of Candidates for admission to College.

Monday Evening.-Concio ad Clerum, by Rev. L. PERRIN, of New Britain. Wednesday Morning, July 25.-Business Meeting of Phi Beta Kappa Society.

Wednesday Evening, July 25.-Oration before Phi Beta Kappa Society, by HON. A. D. WHITE, of Syracuse, and Poem by HoN. G. H. HOLLISTER, of Litchfield.

Also on Wednesday, Class Meetings are appointed for Classes of 1816, 1821, 1826, 1836, 1840, 1841, 1846, 1851, 1856, 1860, 1863.

Thursday, July 26,-COMMENCEMENT

Senior Appointments for Class of 1866.

VALEDICTORY.

F. N. Judson, Bridgeport.

SALUTATORY.

H. Cole, Claverack, N. Y.

PHILOSOPHICAL ORATION.

Marcellus Bowen, Marion, O.

HIGH ORATIONS.

C. M. Southgate, Ipswich, Mass.
C. M. Clay, Paris, Ky.

S. B. St. John, New Canaan.
L. Hall, East Hampton.
W. G. Bussey, Utica, N. Y.

ORATIONS.

C. A. Collin, Penn Yan, N. Y.
J. L. Cowles, Farmington.
E. Coffin, Irvington, N. Y.
G. S. Payson, Fayetteville, N. Y.
S. Spier, Norwich.

M. D. Collier, St. Louis, Mo.
F. S. Chapin, East Bloomfield, N. Y.
H. O. Whitney, Williston, Vt.
C. H. Adams, Chicago, Ill.
D. P. Sackett, Tallmadge, O.

DISSERTATIONS.

H. Downes, Northville, N. Y.
W. H. Bennett, Hampton.
J. K. Creevey, Westbrook.

J. T. Graves, Easthampton, Mass.

H. B. Mead, Hingham, Mass.

H. W. Foote, New Haven.

I. Pierson, Hartford.

FIRST DISPUTES.

G. E. White, New Haven.
A. F. Hale, Springfield, Ill.
W. E. Wheeler, Portville, N. Y.

SECOND DISPUTES.

R. E. Smyth, Guilford.
E. C. Starr, Guilford.
G. P. Davis, Hartford.

FIRST COLLOQUIES.

E. E. Goodrich, New Haven.
E. Y. Hincks, Bridgeport.
H. P. Holmes, Worcester, Mass.
C. P. Biddle, Carlisle, Pa.
G. L. Bishop, New Haven.
J. U. Taintor, Colchester.
J. Brand, Saco, Me.

SECOND COLLOQUIES
R. P. Gibson, Stamford, N. Y.
L. Lampman, Coxsackie, N. Y.
E. A. Caswell, New York City.
J. S. Davenport, New York City.
R. W. Todd, Dover, Del.
L. C. Wade, Pittsburgh, Pa.
J. H. Wood, Albany, N. Y.

Editor's Table.

WE had anticipated a long chat with our readers in this, the closing number of the year, but want of space will compel us to be brief, for our good printer has informed us that the other matter has exceeded its intended limits, leaving but little room for the table. Nor, in truth, do we feel particularly talkative, now that examinations are over, and with them the little excitement which they alone could induce in this lifeless weather. We should much prefer to doze with you under the trees, a place more proper than this for such a proceeding, and one where every body is at liberty so to do.

We congratulate you all on the closing of the gates of the Yalensian Andersonville, and our escape from thence, after having exhausted every means of torture which the ingenuity of our keepers could devise. For ourselves, the old sanctum never seemed so dear to us as it does now, since we were beginning to fear that

we had gazed upon its familiar walls for the last time. We are pleased to learn that the faculty are discussing the project of making such a change in the third term as will bring these annuals earlier in the season. An alteration of this character is certainly desirable. Think of undergoing examinations, as we have done of late, with the thermometer at 103° in the shade. If the human mind were a mere machine, capable of working equally well under all circumstunces, there might be some propriety in the present arrangement. The wants of the moral and physical man also claim consideration.

The reception of Maj. Gen. Sherman is the only event of interest that has transpired of late, and was quite an unusual occurrence in college life, it being, we learn, the first formal reception given by Yale to any public man since the visit of Daniel Webster to this place, now some twenty years ago. We shall never forget what a strange thrill of delight ran through the old chapel at the announcement of his coming, nor our emotions an hour after, on actually beholding in our midst the hero of Atlanta and the grand march to the sea. Those stern features were by no means unfamiliar to those who had observed with any interest the many engravings of them scattered throughout the country. The massive forehead, clear grey eye, and firmly cut chin, discovering itself under the close trimmed beard, were such as we had always pictured to ourseves, and revealed truthfully the character of the man. His speech, too, was such as the General always makes, plain and practical, but marrowy and concise. We once heard a newspaper editor of long experience remark, that Gen Sherman was the only public man he had ever known whose speeches could not be condensed, at least one half, without serious injury to the sense.

Another college year has rolled away, and the time has arrived for another class to go forth from Yale into the world. Accordingly, upon "ye jolly Juniors" falls the mantle of Senior dignity, while our vacant places are in turn filled by the emancipated Sophomores, who now possess the right to if not the actual enjoyment of that far famed Junior ease, and seem nothing loth to abandon to their successors a position seldom remembered with pleasurable feelings. We suppose, however, the thought of being no longer a Freshie, is in a degree a compensation to the new fledged Sophs. At least it was so with us. While we all rejoice at our promotions, we regret that they spring from the departure of the Class of '66. We shall miss their familiar faces on our return. May their success at Yale be a type of that which awaits them in the world.

To Undergraduates.

In accordance with annual custom, the Board of Editors offer for competition the Yale Literary Prize, consisting of a gold medal, valued at twenty-five dollars. Each contestant must be a member of the Academical Department, and a subscriber to the "Lit." His essay must be a prose article, not exceeding in length ten pages in the Magazine. It must be signed by an assumed name, and accompanied by a sealed envelope containing the real name of the writer; and it must be sent to the undersigned on or before Satuday, Oct. 13. The Committee of Award will consist of two resident graduates and the Chairman of the Board, who will keep secret the names of the competitors until the prize has been awarded.

A. E. DUNNING, Chairman Board of Editors.