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.”
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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N. Candee has been elected by the
Serior class in the Law School to edit
the “Law School Shingle’ for the en-
suing year.