Yale Letter.

The inspiring events of anniversary week have been watched throughout at Yale with unabated interest, and it has been the universal regret that the occasion was so appointed that attendance was not within the range of possibility. And while the details in themselves have been of a most absorbing character, the substantial honors so plentifully conferred upon our faculty are the chief reasons that this great celebration has been a significant one to Yale. The title is in no case the sole ornament of the man, and it is safe to venture that a good majority have by perseverance and superior abilities acquired reputations destined to be permanent.

The staid conservatism of Yale underwent a convulsion some two weeks ago quite startling in its extent, whose effects happily have not yet entirely disappeared. This commotion which stirred college sentiment so deeply and attracted quite general notice from the press of the country, was occasioned by an editorial in the Courant protesting in earnest language against the system in vogue at the Sabbath services. The genuine truth of its ideas combined with their strong expression, are what earned for the article its universal attention and approbation. There is a rumor - so indefinite as to almost fail of being a rumor, except that it is not denied by persons of authority - that a new and entirely satisfactory system of supplying the college pulpit will with the ensuing year be adopted.

Foot-ball stock can be said to be neither buoyant nor depressed. A feeling of uncertainty exists quite unusual, and, for the most part, inexplicable. The method of estimating the relative merits of elevens by the comparative scores, has this year been unreliable from the fact that Yale in her inter-collegiate contests has played with teams materially weakened, and represented by a large number of substitutes. Besides, the fickleness of her play, as observed by able foot-ball critics, has been her distinguishing characteristic. In the game with Pennsylvania, Saturday, the score of which was 75 to 0, the main point of interest was the number of men disqualified by Mr. Moffat, the referee; there being no less than five, three from Pennsylvania and two from Yale. A few emphatic allusions, made by the captain of the Pennsylvania eleven, to the necessity of bringing along as substitutes the whole university, in case disqualifying continued, is perhaps a fair comment upon the general opinion of the justness of these decisions.

Ex-President Porter returned from a four and one half months' foreign trip on Sunday. While abroad he has been the recipient of the highest honors, a degree from Heidelberg and an L. L. D. from the University of Edinburgh. His usual good health is restored, and he will resume, after the Thanksgiving recess, his old position with the seniors as instructor in Ethics.

A resolution passed last week by the faculty to the effect that after the present college year the Junior Promenade could not be held unless within the first two weeks of the winter term, was published this morning; it has aroused considerable indignation. The cardinal virtue of this most notable social gathering of the year has been the relief it affords to a long and dreary session. It would be premature to predict at present that any definite action will be taken by the students.