EASTERN TEAMS STRONGEST

The results of Saturday's football contests show that with one or two exceptions the Eastern football elevens are showing results of weeks of strenuous coaching by playing to form as the apex of the season approaches. Most of the teams showed a marked improvement over their playing in the games of a week ago while others seemed to have failed to strike their strides.

The University, Cornell Pennsylvania and brown stand first among the elevens which demonstrated an ability to respond to the finishing touches of the latter-season coaching. Dartmouth and Yale, on the other hand, seemed to have suffered a slump which, in the came of Yale, will require nothing short of a sensational spurt to prepare it for next Saturday's game with Princeton. Little improvement was shown by the Yale eleven over the earlier games of the season. A week and inconsistent attack, together with a mediocre defence, was the undoing of the Yale machine, in spite of the fact that material for a strong eleven appeared available. Unable to score through Brown's line the Yale offence proved powerless in the open field and Brown's sensational running attack crumbled the Yale defence in the second half. Present indications point to the Princeton's team entering the contest next Saturday a strong favorite.

Saturday's Contest Best This Season.

Experts agree that the game in the Stadium Saturday was the best exhibition of finished football to be seen in Eastern football this season. Although neither team was able to show its entire offensive hand with the Yale games one and two weeks away, the victory of the University eleven, by the narrow margin of a single field goal, was an accurate indication of the relative strength of the two teams.

R. T. fisher '12, line coach of the University eleven, has the following to say about Saturday's contest in the Boston Herald:

"The Harvard eleven of 1916 is no longer a green team. They have been through the stress of a very hard-fought contest against a team which was physically their equal and against a team which was playing desperate football.

"The backfield men now know what is meant by hard tackling; the linemen know what it means to play through 60 minutes of hard, damaging work. Up to the Princeton game the team was distinctly an unknown quantity, but today the graduates of Harvard, the public and the coaches realize that they have an eleven which has been put to the test, and even with many of the breaks against them, were not found wanting.

Offensive Machinery Needs Attention.

"It now remains for the coaches and players to perfect the offensive machinery for its work against Brown and Yale. For several years past the Harvard coaches have decided to play a substitute team against whichever eleven it players on the Saturday preceding the Yale game. What the policy this year will be is still unsettle, although there is but very little to choose between the first eleven and the first-string substitutes. In fact, in all the games up to date, the substitutes have acquitted themselves fully as well as the first team.

"The Harvard-Princeton game on Saturday was like all other contests between these two universities in that it was a hard, tiring struggle form start to finish, with either team having a good chance of winning up to the final blow of the whistle. At the end of the first half, with the score nothing to nothing, it seemed that the veteran Princeton team would have the advantage at the end of the second half and everyone naturally expected to see Princeton start the last part of the game with a tremendous aggressiveness. But it took only a very few minutes of play to show that it was power at this time and it was this aggressiveness of the Harvard defence which forced Driggs to punt on his own 45-yard line, thus opening the way for the only score of the game."

Brown, Pittsburg and West Point stand in the front rank of Eastern college football elevens, as having so far no defeats to mar their slates. Brown, alone of these three teams, has not had its goal line crossed, the only scoring against it having been done through kicks by Rutgers and Yale. Saturday's results recorded the first defeats of the season for Princeton and Yale. The surprise of the day was the defeat of Tufts by Springfield Y. M. C. A. College, which turned the trick with a marvellous display of open play.

The total scored of the University and its future opponents follow:

Harvard, 184; opponents, 7.

Yale, 176; opponents, 41.

Brown, 233; opponents, 9.

Prof. Corwin Heads Exam. Board.

At the recent annual meeting of the College entrance Examination Board at Columbia University, Professor Robert N. Corwin, of Yale, was elected chairman of the board to succeed Dean Hurlbut, of the University. Thirty-five American colleges and universities, including Columbia, Cornell, Princeton, Yale and the University, are now associated in the College Entrance Examination Board. The entrance examinations of the University, Yale and Princeton were conducted this year exclusively by the Board, which examined in al more than 10,500 candidates.

The 69th annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the national science societies affiliated with it, will convene in New York City in the last week of December. Columbia University, New York University, the City College, and the American Museum of natural history will have general charge of the convention, at which an attendance of more than 2,000 is expected. Dr. Charles R. Van Wise, president of the University of Wisconsin, will preside.

The striking feature of the annual report of President Nicholas Murray Butler, of Columbia University, to the trustees of that institution is the announcement that the university is undercapitalized to the extent of $30,000,000. Dr. Butler urged an increase of the capital funds of the institution to this extent as necessary to meet the money situation by which the trustees are constantly confronted. Foremost among the objects for which money is needed is the establishment of a medical centre for which $12,000,000 is needed. An additional $6,000,000 the report states, is required for the endowment of industrial research laboratories in connection with the Graduate School of Engineering. A new dormitory for a thousand women graduate students is proposed. The completion of the new administration building and the erection of an athletic stadium along the Hudson river will consume most of remainder of the appropriation.

The General Education Board and the Rockefeller Foundation announced Friday an appropriation of $2,000,000 to be added to other property valued at $9,000,000 for the endowment of a medical school in connection wit Chicago University. This endowment, which is larger than that of any medical school in the United States, will make the new medical department the greatest school for the education of specialists in this country. The purpose of the new school is to make it unnecessary for advanced students, or physicians seeking special training, to study abroad. To this end, it is planned to have the staff of the new school made up of professors and assistants who have no private practice and who will give their entire time to teaching and research work in all branches of medicine. In this respect the school will be similar to the prominent medical colleges of Germany and Austria. When the new school opens about two years hence it will accommodate about 300