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ADVISORY BOARD,
For College Year, °96-7:
H. C. Rosrnson, °53. J. R. SHEFFIELD, ’87..
W..W. Skippy °65 S. J. A. HARTWELL, 89S.
C. P. LInDsLEY, %5 8S. L. S. WELCH, °89.
WwW. Camp, ’80. E. VAN INGEN, '91 8.
W. G. DaaaeEttT, 80. P. JAY, 92.
EDITOR,
Lewis S. WELCH, ’89.
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ASSOCIATE EDITOR,
WALTER CAMP, ’80.
NEWS EDITOR,
GRAHAM SUMNER, °97.
ASSISTANTS,
JOHN JAY, °98, D. H. Day, 99.
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NEW HAVEN, CONN., OCTOBER 8, 1896.
THE BEGINNING OF THE YEAR,
There is no excitement at this open-
ing of another year of Yale iife, but
there is a great deal ‘n which the
friends of the University may take the
most thorough satisfaction. ‘ine very
times have net had
1.pon numbers
trying business
the depressing effect
that might have been reasonably ex-
pected. On the contrary in all de-
partments, the ‘figures have cither
been well held or definitely and even
remarkably increased. This is not in
itself a standard of the truest suc-
cess of such an institution as Yale, as
the Weekly has hitherto ».bserved. It
is, however, an indisation of an un-
impaired and even increasing cen fi-
dence in the University. This confi-
dence, it may be as well to say, was
never any better merited than in the
present equipment of the Uiiversity,
in the spirit of its instruction ard
scholarship, and in the tone Oe ate
student life.
A ead ae
MR. SEWALL’S LETTER.
Elsewhere is printed a letter from a
Yale graduate, protesting against the
demonstration at the Bryan meeting,
and urging the necessity of University
action on the matter lest the acts be
given too much character and signifi-
cance. The letter was intended for
publication in the first issue, but was
crowded out in the makeup.
The request of the writer for public
denunciation by the University au-
thorities or students, of the disturb-
ance on the Green, raises a point that
had already been carefully considered,
both by officers and students. The fail-
ure to take such a step as that pro-
posed was, if we are. correctly in-
formed, due to the simple fact that
there was not sufficient character or
gravity to the incident to entitle it
to such consideration. It would be as
reasonable to call for a University
meeting, or a Faculty pronunciamento
if half a hundred men celebrated too
intensely an athletic victory, and fell
foul of local sentiment in some other
city. The offenders would be disci-
plined if the official eye could reach
them, and they would gain anything
but favor in the eyes of their fellows
who would feel a share in their dis-
credit; but to take action upon such
an incident, as though it were a Uni-
‘versity affair would be only to seem
to give it a character which it did not
possess.
There are much more appropriate
ways of getting at offenders in such
cases, and we have some confidence
that such measures, more and more
frequently employed, will reduce to
the minimum all such difficulties. It
is indeed time that the notion of the
irresponsibility of students be less fre-
quently appealed to and thus less fre-
quently relied on in the excuse or pal-
liation of acts of definite discourtesy,
or worse. There is no danger that a
high standard on these points will lead
to prudishness.
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THE ACTION OF THE CLASS OF ’90.
The class of °90 at its sexennial
meeting last Commencement, adopted
certain resolutions on a matter of very
deep interest to those to whom the
conservation of old Yale, as well as
the development of new Yale, is a
matter of anxious concern. These res-
olutions were printed in the Weekly’s
Commencement issue. Many, however,
of the present readers of the paper
may not have seen them. Others will
not regret their reappearance as pub-
licly as possible. We feel safe in say-
ing that the great majority of Yale
graduates sympathize strongly with
' the sentiments they contain. The res-
olutions follow:
‘“‘Whereas, It seems to be the present:
policy of the Corporation of Yale Uni-
versity to remove from the Campus, at
a date not far distant, all vestiges mg a
the older buildings; and
‘Whereas, We have found in the
presence of these venerable buildings,
hallowed as they are by memories of
the past, a continual inspiration to re-
alize in our time the spirit of this
place; therefore be it
“Resolved, That we, the class of 1890,»
desire to express our regret at what
we recognize as inevitable, and our
earnest hope that those in authority
may see fit to preserve a part, at least,
of South Middle College, that some- .
thing,
never-changing spirit of Yale.
“Rasolved, That copies of these reso-
lutions be transmitted to the Presi-
dent of Yale University and to the.
Editor of the Yale Alumni Weekly.” —
These resolutions breathe the most
loyal Yale spirit. They breathe at the
same time the most truly progressive
spirit. They recognize that the
strength of Yale in the future must
beside the ground itself, may .
remain from the earliest days as a,
visible emblem of the ever-growing, ;
saat
rest on the spirit which has given to.
Yale its strength in the past, a spirit
of whose qualities every visible me-
morial of the great past speaks as no
history or record can speak. The men
who framed and endorsed these reso-
lutions would say to those who are
shaping the future of Yale, that piles
of brick and stone, and gifts of prec-_-
ious metals can not make the Yale of
the future, anymore than they have
made the Yale of the past. These res-
olutions cry out against materialism.
If anyone doubts the feeling of Yale
men on this point, or our assertion
that the vast preponderance of senti-.
ment is in favor of the preservation,
entire, of such a memorial as South
Middle, or better irreconcilably opposed
to the destruction of such a monu-
ment of the past, we can only regret
that he was not in Alumni Hall at the
Commencement dinner to hear the re-
sponse to the sentiment of one of the
speakers, that somehow, somewhere,
that building must be preserved. We
‘chafe under
IWS Tiga eka
have been told that we ought not to
discuss this question.. We cannot re-
frain from the discussion of this ques-
tion.
pokes eee
THE VISIT OF DR WATSON.
The most interesting feature of the
opening of the Fall term, is the pres-
ence at the University of the Rev. Dr.
John Watson (Ian Mac Laren) of
Liverpool, whose lectures, sermons
and talks, have made no little im-
pression on the intellecutal and spirit-
ual life of the ‘University. The lec-
tures in the Lyman Beecher course be-
fore the Divinity School, delivered
each day to an audience that crowd-
ed the College Street Church to its
doors, have been full of the spirit of a
theology that is such a theology of life
as one would look for from this writ-
er, already known and loved here. It
has been good to see the Yale School
thus strengthened in its constantly
upward movement, and the confidence
in its rational and vital system of
teaching is much increased by the
presence of a lecturer of the strength
of spirit and breadth of view of Dr.
Watson.
At Sunday’s sermon at the Chapel,
despite tthe forbidding notices on the
doors that no seats would be reserved
for visitors, every bit of room to the
gallery steps, was taken, and a Ser-
‘mon fifty minutes) long seemed only
too short to a audience accustomed to
teaching of more than
half that time. For the informal talk
at Dwight Hall in the evening, in a
pouring rain, the University appeared
in such force as to crowd and over-.
flow the large room. There was no
doubt in the minds of any who attend-
ed these meetings that any criticism
on any part of the religious life of the
University could not be reduced to the
statement that there was not a Ssuffi-
ciently responsive community. —
een gags ae
Dr. Baldwin’s “ Revolt of the
Tartars.”
books recently issued
Among the
and published by Yale professors is
one by Dr. Charles S. Baldwin, in-
struetor of rhetoric. He has edited
with notes and introduction the “Re-
volt of the Tartars’’ by. Thomas. De
Quincey. The book is from the press
of Longmans, Green & Co. New
York and is especially intended. for
prepratory school work. The text
printed is that of Hogg’s collective
edition (Edinburgh, 1853-1860), which
was prepared by the author. Besides
very full notes and introduction, the
book contaiis a biographical sketch
of De Quincey, suggestions fer teach-
ers, and a chronological table. All
notes excent De Quincey’s are rele- ©
gated to the end of the book. The ar-
rangement of the critical apparatus
is throughout such as_ to facilitate
questioning, the usual examinations
papers being thought unnecessary.
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“Life of Paul.”
Mr. William H. Sallmon, General
Secretary of the University Y. M. C.
A., has just written a book entitled,
“Studies in the Life of Paul.’ This
course has been taught at two student
conferences and the Women’s Confer-
ence at Northfield and in the Yale
University Association. It is emi-
nently adapted for individual study or
for use in Sunday School, Young Peo-
ple’s Society or Association Bible
Classes.
Besides the lessons, the book con-
tains a bibliography of study helps, a
chronology of Paul’s life, suggestions
to leaders, and also suggestions for an
extension of the course, with a sam-
ple outline of the book of Galatians.
The Brown Herald is holding a vot-
ing contest in order to decide upon a
name for the Freshman Class of
Brown University.
Generous Gifts to Chicago Uni-
versity.
Mrs. Julia Bradley, an aged wo-
ran of Peoria, Ill., has bestowed all
her fortune, estimated at $2,200,000,
upon the University of Chicago, on
condition that a branch school shall
be built at Peoria. It will be called
“The Bradley Polytechnic Institute,”
and two-of its seven directors will be
connected with the University of Chi-
cago.
In the proffered use of another half
million dollars worth of property, the
University of Chicago is now in the
way to possess the finest inland lake
biological station in the world. This
magnificent supplement to the Hull
gift of $1,000,000 for biological labora-
tories is due to Mrs. Edward Roby, E.
A. Shedd and C. B. Shedd. It makes it
possible for the University to control
all the land and water it desires of
the 3,000 acres around Wolf Lake and
the channel connecting it with Lake
Michigan. Mrs. Roby also offers to the
‘University an unrivalled water course
for a University crew. Most of the nec-
essary buildings for dormitories for
biological students and for boats will
also, be given by Mrs. Roby and the
Shedds, if their offer is accepted.
+> > —
W. H. Lewis, the old Harvard cen-
ter, is writing 1 ‘‘Primer’’ of college
football.
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