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Votume VI. No. 6. NEW HAVEN, CONN., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1896. Price Tren Cents. THE MCLAUGHLIN MEMORIAL, A Description of the Book-plate given with the Prizes. Elsewhere in this paper is printed a reproduction of the book-plate, com- pleted last year, and given then for the first time with the books of the McLaughlin prizes. It is not out of place, in printing the facts of this me- morial, to recall the facts in the life of the teacher in whose honor it was established. Professor McLaughlin entered the class of 1883 at Yale, and immediate- ly proved his preparation and abili- ties to be excellent. Upon graduation he received the Douglass Fellowship, and pursued literary studies at New Haven. One year later he was ap- pointed Tutor in English literature, six years after, Assistant Professor, and in June, 1893, a Professorship of Rhetoric and Belles Lettres was cre- ated for him. Just after the decen- nial meeting of his class in June, he was taken ill with typhoid fever and died July 25th at his home in New Haven. Soon after his death, the feeling that something ought to be done to pre- serve his memory arose in the minds of several of his more intimate friends and classmates. <A subscrip- tion list was immediately started, to which a large number of his friends, classmates and pupils, eSpecially those in the classes of 1893-1895, liberally gave. By these means, a fund of one thousand dollars was raised from the income of which two prizes in books valued at $50 were first offered in 1893, for the encouragement of Eng- lish composition, to members of the Freshman class. It was decided to offer these prizes every year to each Freshman class because Professor McLaughlin devoted himself with such signal success to the instruction of Freshmen in English literature. THE BOOK PLATE, In connection with the books that are awarded as prizes, is given a book- plate designed by E. D. French, the artist, which is described by George Dudley Seymour in Ex Lib: s as fol- lows: “The plate at once suggests the me- moral characterof the work. Indesign- ing it the aim was first of all to make it tell its story, and tell it plainly, and satisfy the artistic sense after- ward if possible. Within the main tablet the superimposed smaller tablet contains the dedicatory inscription in open Roman letters. The space in the lower portion of the main tablet is to contain the autograph signature of the President of the University, the name of the student who has won the prize, and the date. The Roman chal- ice above the dedicatory tablet, in a rayed nimbus, represents the Holy Grail, and stands for Professor Mc- Laughlin’s interest in the Arthurian Legends, and for the richly spiritual side of his own life. To other friends, who knew of his admiration of Browning, it will recall the line he loved to quote from ‘‘La Salsaz,’’ ‘On- ly grant my soul may carry high through death her cup unspilled.’ “On either side of the nimbus and the chalice, on a ribbon twined in and out through the clustering fronds of a mass of beautiful foliations, is the line, “Think clear, feel deep, bear fruit well,” from Matthew Arnold’s poem - “Progress.” This was perhaps Pro- fessor McLaughlin’s favorite line of modern verse. He thought that it came nearer to expressing the heart of the best of modern thought than any line that he knew of, and he hoped some day to see it carved upon the wall of one of the College build- ings. The Seal of the College placed centrally below the dedicatory tablet, sufficiently identifies the plate with the University. “Mr. EFrench’s task waS made a very difficult one by the necessity of giving prominence to two separate inscriptions, but he proved equal to it, and has produced a plate fresh, simple, direct and of almost classic elegance. “The two prizes given each year are paid in money, which is to be at once used by the winners in the pur- chase of books. They then draw from the custodian of the plate a cCorres- ponding number of prints, signed by the President of the University, and upon which the names of the win- ners, and the year, are engrossed or written. The books thus acquire a permanent and distinctively memorial character, which could not have been given to them by the ordinary inscrip- tidn.” —_————- + o> ___—_—_ California Alumni Scholarship. The establishment of the California Alumni Scholarship, which is to be awarded vwach year by the Yale Alumni Association of that State to a grad- uate of some California University pursuing non-professional studies in the Yale Graduate School, was an- nounced in the Weekly last Spring. The yearly income of the fund raised is $300 and the award of the scholar- ship by the California Alumni Associa- tion has just been announced. The incumbent the present year is Mr. Warren Estelle Lloyd of Berke- ley, California. Mr. Lloyd received the degrees of B. L., and M. L., from the University of California, in 1895, and spent the past year, in the Uni- versities of Berlin and Munich. His studies in the Yale Graduate School this year, are in the Departments of Philosophy and English. Se ee ee Improvement in Car Lines to the Yale Field. It was Officially announced-. last week that the city authorities had granted to the Fair Haven and West- ville Electric Railroad the right to lay double tracks along Derby Avenue from Norton Street to West River. They have also empowered the com- pany to build a pile bridge, exclusive- ly for railroad purposes, north of the present bridge, over West River. It is the intention of the city at some time in the near future to e lirely re- build the bridge which now crosses West River at the foot of the Field. The car company began work im- mediately to extend the track direct- ly to the gate of the Field, so that passengers will be saved the climb up the hill. The double tracking of Der- by Avenue will also greatly facilitate the handling of passengers to and from the Field, as the company in- tends in the future to run double the number of cars that run under the present system. A force of seventy- five men has been put to work and it is expected that the double tracks will be layed in about three weeks. ERB OTE Bin in, SEE EEE ETS ES At a meeting of the Junior Class in the Scientific School held last week the following class officers were elect- ed: E. Drummond, President: A. S. Post, Vice-President; T. Fisher, Sec- retary and Treasurer. whether or McLAUGHLIN. MEMORIAL ,BOOK-PLATE. TICKETS FOR THE GAME, Method of Application by Yale Weekly Subscribers—Other Arrangements. eee Subscribers to the YALE ALUMNI WEEKLY, who desire tickets for the Yale-Princeton game, to be played in New York, November 21, will please send at once to the Ticket Department, Yale Alumni Weekly, New Haven, Conn., for the special application blanks provided for them. Definite directions will be given for the filling out and for- warding of these blanks. Each appli- cation can be for three seats only, and all tickets must be secured through these applications. As the time is lim- ited for receiving applications, imme- diate attention to this matter is urged. In sending for. application blanks it is requested that a two cent stamp be enclosed. Other details of the arrangements have been announced by the manage- ment as follows: : The committee of graduates of Yale and Princeton, with Mr. H. 8S. Van Deuser of Harvard, who has in the past so generously rendered most efficient service in the management of these matters, will again take charge of preparations at the Field, both be- fore the game and on the day of the game, thus relieving the under-grad- uate menagements of much responsi- bility. The ticket contract has been placed with the Globe Ticket Company of Philadelphia, who will duplicate the order of last year. Thus the arrange- ment of seats, boxes, and coach po- sitions will be exactly the same as heretofore. No large blocks will be assigned to any Alumni Association or other or- ganization before it is determined not this will interfere with an impartial allotment on the regular applications, and no_ seats will be put on public sale until all ap- plications from graduates and under- graduates have been filled. Tickets allotted wili be given out Monday, November ié6th, and what- ever tickets are left will be put on sale on that day. Owing, however, to the fact that the admission tickets were counterfeited last year, no ‘“Ad- missions” will be sold until the day of the game. Only ticket agents of established reputation will be entrust- ed with public sale. The public at large is requested to assist in dis- couraging general speculation by re- fusing to buy tickets except from firms whose names will be published later. In general prices will be the same as have prevailed heretofore, vizZ., seats in covered grand stand, $2; in open stands, $1.50; boxes from $18 to $32; coach positions, $50. —_____s@- ——_ Junior Society Elections. The following men from the Senior class were initiated into Junior fra- ternities on Tuesday evening the 27th. Psi U.—R. S. Chisholm. Delta Kappa Epsilon—G. L. Parker. Alpha Delta Phi—A E. Kent. Zeta Psi—F. C. Dodd, C. Walworth, EF. M. Wilson. > —— University Club Elections. A meeting of the governing board of the University Club was held last week and the following men were elected to membership: P. D. Mills, ’97S., W. G. Low, ’97, H. L. Batter- man, ’97 L. S., Herbert Scheftel, ’98, F. Williamson, ’98, W. F. Dominick, ’98, G. J. Wesley, ’98, W. Meigs, ’98, and H. B. Wilcox, ’98. or ooo N. Candee has been elected by the Serior class in the Law School to edit the “Law School Shingle’ for the en- suing year.
