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YALE ALON WEEKLY
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New HAVEN, CoNN., OCTOBER 1, 1896.
THE DATE OF ISSUE.
With this issue, the Weekly adopts
Thursday as its publication day. We
make the change because the new
date «allows much better time and op-
portunity to the staff for the prepa-
ration of each issue. We do not be-
lieve that any loss or inconvenience
will result to subscribers from this
change. The paper, at its foundation,
was published as early in tthe week
as possible, because it was then miade
up very largely of records of the ath-
letic events which principally occur-
red on Saturday. While it is still
the policy of the paper to present ali
athletic news as accurately and in-
terestingly as possible, we do not feel
that this department will suffer any
on account of this change. It has
been the tendency of the paper, as
fast as it was possible to develop our
resounces, to offer more and more miat-
ter whose value would not be materi-
ally affected by a difference of twenty-
four hours in its presentation. Att
the same time, there is no intention
to change the character of the Week-
ly as a disseminator of as timely news
matter as we can obtain.
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THE BRYAN MEETING.
If matters ethical were like matters
mercantile, Yale University could ex-
hibit an enormious credit balance
when all the entries for last Thurs-
day’s episode on the Green had been »
made. But two wrongs are still two
wrongs, and it availeth not for one or
the other party to seek the creation of
right by any treatment of them. And:
so all tthe transconitinen'tal, horizion-
less lying that has been done about
the Bryan meeting in New Haven, is
not for the credit of those lied about;
but leaves the facts in ithe case as they
were and the responsibility for them
where it belongs.
Elsewhere the Weekly prints an
unvarnished story of the affairs of .
that afternoon, of interest to Yale
men. It is superfluous to add that
whit is there, shown, as little as it is
compared with what was said to have
happened, furnishes ground. for very
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keen regret. Call it thoughtless, in-
nocent, impulsive mischief, without
malice, or premeditation, if you will.
So it was, but that doesn’t excuse
those who participated in it, or save
the University from sharing their
blame. Under all the circumstances,
and particularly in view of the
wretched management of the affair
which so tried everyone in the crowd,
it was not strange that the explosion
was heard. It did damage, neverthe-
less. Those who are used to student
erowds are used to such breaks, and
preaches of the proprieties. ‘That fact
doesn’t make the occurrence seem
any better to those who are not used
to them, nor does it change the essen-
tial character. of the acts that are
performed. Only a very small portion
of the University had anything to do
with the affair. But that reflection is
not as pertinent as it would be were
the solidarity of Yale life a less con-
spicuous feature of the institution,
and were it not common to give to
the University a full share of praise
and glory; when any of its members
acted well their parts and won honor.
Unless we wish to abandon one of
the most fundamental characteristics
and as well one of the great sources
of strength of Yale life, we must all
stand up to take our share of the dis-
repute of acts by Yale men that are
not up to the standard which the edu-
cated gentleman should hold, and
we must admit that the University
flag is lowered when such acts are
performed. Things were done and
said last Thursday by a number of
members of the University, that it is
not the part of gentlemen to do and
gay. ‘That's the fact to face. And an-
other fact to face is, that occurrences
of that sort are not the rarest things.
It ts not’-most important-to show at
such a time as this, that nineteen
twentieths of the University never
throw their selfrespect aside or forget
their responsibilities as gentlemen of
Yale. The question of the hour turns
on the means of making the sentiments
of this vast majority of the Universi-
ty’s sons so potent as to make such
incidents as those of last Thursday
impossible.
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TO CLASS AND ASSOCTATION SEC
RETARIFS.
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and greatest usefulness of the Yale
Weekly, that those who are in' such
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should always keep this paper fn
mind and supply us, on the earliest
mail, with such data as come to their
fhianidis. The papers  field,. fn
its single department of ‘A humi-
mi news, is literally wiorld-wilde
and its staff must include correspon-
dents wherever Yale men are. We
again remind class and association
secretaries that we consider them as
our correspondents and that we hope
to hear more and more frequently from
them in the future. It will be a favor
if secretaries will notify us when in
need of a supply of cards and en-
velopes for this correspondence. aS
It is probably unnecessary to add
that any others, whether in official po-
sition or otherwise, who come into
possession of news of any kind in te-
gard to graduates or university affairs,
will place us under grateful obliga-
tion by early forwarding to this office
all such intelligence.
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By the death of Professor H. A. New-
ton, Professor W. Gibbs succeeds to
the head of the Mathematical Depart-
ment and Professor A. W. Phillips
will take his classes in Differential
and Integral Calculus. ea
DIVINITY SCHOOL OPENING.
Size and. Character of Classes—Lec-
_ tures Announced.
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The opening address before the The-
ological Department was delivered on
Thursday afternoon, September 24 by
Professor L. O. Brastow who took as
his subject, “The Religious Life of the
Theological Student.”
This Department of the University
opens with 101 men enrolled,
with the possibility of a few more.
The incoming class numbers 29, of
whom 9 come from Ambherst and 38
from Williams. Other Colleges repre-
sented are: Harvard, Dartmouth,
Oberlin, Beloit and Wesleyan. All but
one are college trained men.
There are several additions to the
Middle and Senior classes. The grad-
uate class contains 11, being much
smaller than for the past two years.
There are 5 Armenians, 1 Japanese
and 1 colored. The Welsh colony
which has been here for the last three
years has gone, and no representative
of that nationality is here for this
year.
The only change in the Faculty is
the coming of Dr. Benjamin W. Ba-
con to the chair of New Testament
Criticism and Interpretation.
The first and great event of the
year in the Theological Department is
the Lyman Beecher course of lLec-
tures by John Watson, D. D., better
known as Tan Maclaren. Dr. Wattson’s
subjects are:
1.—The Genesis of a Sermon.
2.—The Technique of a Sermon.
8.—The Problem of Preaching.
4—Theology; The Theory of Re-
ligion.
5.—The New Dogma.
: 6.—The Machinery of a Congrega-
tion.
7.—The Work of a Parish.
8—The Public Worship of God.
9—The Minister’s Care of Himself.
These subjects have the old time
ring of the early years of this cele-
brated course.
Other lectures will be delivered dur-
ing the year by Hon. E. J. Phelps,
Hon. Justice D. J. Brewer, Professor
Charles E. Garman of Amherst, Dr.
George ‘A. Gordon, Dr. George W.
Knox, iand other leading men.
Miesors. C. S. Thayer, °95 T. S., and
A. G. Beach, °96 T. S., are pursuing
studies in Germany under the Hook-
er and Dwight Fellowships.
\Aidditional premiums offered this
year are the Downs Prizes offered to
the Middle and Senior classes for
Scripture and Hymn Reading.
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Changes on the Campus.
Owing to the demolition of Old
Chapel and the completion of the
Phelps’ Memorial Gateway, the Cam-
pus presents a changed appearance to
the University member as he returns
this year. The gap in the brick row,
first opened by the tearing down of
North Middle College in the summer
of 1895, is thus made wider. The
Campus has a more open appearance
and the individual buildings are seen
to more advantage. ‘This is especial-
ly the case with the Phelps’ Gateway.
‘Authority for the removal of Old
Chapel was given by the Corporation
at the meeting last June in Com-
mencement week and the work of de-
molition was commenced in the early
part of the vacation. The ground has
now been leveled off, and an asphalt
walk has been laid across the Campus
from the Phelps Gateway south of the
Treasury building to the Reading-
Room. -
Old Chapel was dedicated November
17, 1824, when Rev. Dr. Jeremiah Day
was President, and was devoted to the
religious exercises of the College until
the onening of Battell Chapel, June
18, 1876. Then the place of worship
was changed into recitation rooms on
the first two floors, students rooms on
the third, while one recitation room
and the Classical Club quarters occu-
pied the attic.
Phelps Hall, as the Gateway is
correctly called, will be dedicated on
October 9. The recitation rooms,
though still in an unfinished condi-
are now occupied and replace
tion,
those lost by the removal of Old
Chapel. The Classical Club also have
their quarters in this new pbuilding,
together with other University officers.
WEEKLY
Changes in the Law School.
it has been announced that C. W.
Pierson, ’86, who is now a member of
the New York bar, will give a new
course in the Law School in “New
York Code and Practice.’ Also, Hon.
EK. D. Robbins, ’74, who will lecture on
“Medical Jurisprudence,” and W. F.
Foster, L. §. °94, who is to give a
course of lectures on “Contractis,”’ have
been added to the board of instruc-
tors. Mr. Pierson was valedictorian
in ’86, and Mr. Robbins held the same
position in ’74. Mr. Foster won the
John ‘A. Porter prize in 1895.
Hon. N. Shipman, LL. D., Judge of
the United States Circuit Court, began
recently a course of Jedtures to
Seniors on “United States Practice.”
Professor Thayer of the Harvard Laiw
School, Storr’s lecturer for this year,
will deliver a series of addresses on
the “Theory of Law and Evidence,”
beginning on Oct. 26. These lectures
will be oven to all University students.
Statistics show that the number al-
ready entered in the student list is
larger than that of the same time last
year.
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The Medical School begins its work
today (Oct. 1.) Following the exam-
mle of nearly all of the  prin-
cipal Medical Schools of the country
the course has been lengthened from
three to four years. The Faculty will
remain the same in number as it was
last year.
Yale Law School
For circulars and other information
so ts) Apply-40-.. .
Prof. FRANCIS WAYLAND,
Dean.
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