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4 ae YALE ALUM WEEMLY. Published every Thursday during the College Terms and conducted by a Graduate Editor and Associate seats und Assistants from the Board of Editors of t YALE DAILY NEWS. SUBSCRIPTION, - $2.50 PER YEAR. Foreign Postage, 85 cents per year. PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. Checks, drafts and orders should be made payable to the Yale Alumn! Weekly. All correspondence should be addressed, Yale Alumni Weekly, New Haven, Conn. ADVISORY BOARD. For College Year, '96-7: H. C. Rosrinson, 53. J. R. SHEFFIELD, ’87. W. W. Skippy °65 S. J. A. HARTWELL, ‘8958. CO. P. LinpDsLey, 75 S. L. S. WELCH, "89. W. Camp, °80. E. VAN INGEN, '91 8. WwW. G. DaaaettT, °80. P. JAY, '92. EDITOR, LEwIs S. WELCH, °89. ASSOCIATE EDITOR, WALTER CAMP, ’80. NEWS EDITOR, GRAHAM SUMNER, ’97. ASSISTANTS, JOHN JAY, °98, D. H. Day, °99. A. S. HAMLIN, °99. BUSINESS MANAGER, EK. J. THOMPSON. (Office, Room 6, White Hall.) Entered as second class matter at New Haven P. O. New Haven, Conn., NOVEMBER 19, 1896. THE NEW YORK GAME. The annual football game with Princeton will be won or lost, before ano*her issue of the Weekly. We will venture to predict nothing, but will say some things with emphasis. Yale will go into the game with a team as well prepared as brains and good judgment and devotion to the Univer- sity and hard work can prepare the best men at present available in the University. The captain of the eleven is one in whom every player, every coach, every student, has implicit confidence. Strong personal influence is added to an unusual knowledge of and ability in the game to make his control of the men the best. He is aided by those who have been with him through hard fights, and by oth- ers, still new to big battles, who would give almost anything to aid him to a victory. The news columns tell again this week the familiar story of the de- votion of Yale graduates to her. Dr. Hartwell completes now his third week of continuous service as coach. It is his vacation this year. The names of the others who are with him at the close, or have come up from time to time through the sea- son are familiar to all who follow Yale’s football history with interest. They have put much of their spirit and science into the players who wear the blue stockings. The team will do its best. We hope for victory. Win or lose we expect a creditable record. And we expect, too, from the players of both elevens, the kind of football which is worthy of them as_ representatives of the Universities of Princeton and Yale. In the men who meet the Yale play- ers on Saturday, this University has found honorable antagonists in va- rious sports and on the platform. We trust that the game will at least have this result—the strengthening of mutual good will and respect. Hv- ery player has, to an unusual degree, the honor of his university in his hands. XALE: ALUBAINT ee YALE OFFENDS AGAIN, It is always a pleasure to pick up evidences of a friendly, generous spirit from the press of a sister uni- versity. It is also our aim not to let pass any bit of writing which has a particularly keen edge to it. We feel, therefore, particularly fortunate in being able to seproduce the following illustration of a delicate courtesy and a razor-blade sarcasm. We quote from the Harvard Lampoon:— ‘How satisfactory it is to win a game on its own merits and to feel that every point won is fairly won and every point lost, fairly lost! Had the Indians succeeded in breaking our defence at the five-yard line, and had they scored their touchdown and its accompanying goal, we would have been proud to acknowledge the In- dians as our betters. But, as it was, it was of ourselves that we were proud! And rightly proud! “It is rumored that the position of post tradership has been applied for by a certain prominent member of Yale College. Of course, certain qual- ifications are necessary for this po- sition. We understand that hitherto the trader has been accustomed to cheat the Indian, and so derive ad- vantages, or so-called advantages, for his fellows, at the expense of the poor red man. And what is even more dis- graceful is the fact that in some in- stances the trader was a supposed friend and helper of the Indians. Now, if this worthy representative from Yale feels himself competent to fill such a position, or if he can show by his past record good reasons for his election, we certainly feel that the choice would not be an unworthy one. “Ts there not some connection be- tween these two, some _ inference which might be drawn?’ This is very far from cruel. The execution of the victim is accom- plished by such a delicate turn of the rapier, that he must consider it al- most a pleasure to die in this way. It is a pity Yale can’t please Har- vard writers better. She rever has been able to. If this University is not causing direct offense in actual encounter, being forbidden the oppor- tunity because of fear (on the part of other than Harvard athletes) of the contagion of bad manners and morals, she must needs rasp the tender spirit of justice of the Cambridge pen-uSers so unselfishly sensitive to every in- equity, by unspeakable impositions, fit only for Turks when “reforming” the government of Armenia, practiced on those who have not-yet learned enough to escape from her. The his- tory of athletics, as written afore- times by the pens of Harvard, is one of the most remarkable compilations which the college press of the coun- try could furnish. One about to read it need not be afraid of being bored by repetition because he _ already knows the history of athletics. However, these things were done, except in the case of the Lampoon,. by earlier generations. Besides that they have never meant anything. They have been no indication of what Harvard players and most Harvard students, knew and felt. These have probably laughed at them aS much as Yale men have. bg But the Lampoon ought to be orig- inal. The assumptions, on which it bases its pleasing words, of the de- sire and practice of Yale men to win at any cost, and of the indifference of their Cambridge rivals to. scores, while holding tenaciously to spotless- ly pure methods, were wearisome commonplaces shortly after Jacob Heminway had enough followers to make a team. 0g Riddle, ex-’98, is rowing on his col- lege crew at Cambridge, England. I'he Sophomore German will be held on Jaruary 18th. W EE KLY DISTRIBUTING SEATS. An Unprecedented Demand for Yale- Princeton Tickets. The football management this year reserved for Yale applicants a much larger number of seats than were ever used before. It seemed sure that the Yale demand would be met, but when the applications had closed and the com- putation was made, it was found that the demand exceeded the supply by over eight hundred seats. In the sup- Ply were counted all accommodations, in both covered and open _— stands, though the applications almost invari- ably called for covered stand seats. Efforts were immediately made to make up the deficiency, by requests to New York and Princeton, and by send- ing a man to New York to buy up every ticket in sight. But these ef- forts still left a shortage of several hundred tickets and when the distri- bution was finally made no less than 132 undergraduates were refused any tickets whatever. All subscribers to the Yale Alumni Weekly, whose applications were re- ceived on time, were given seats. Every effort possible waS made by the management to give the subscribers what they asked for, and when the limit of the covered stand was reached, the best open seats possible were offered. The football management is mak- ing every effort this year to keep tick- ets for the Princeton game from the hands of speculators. The manage- ment will therefore buy back all tick- ets which holders do not wish to use themselves. If holders wish to dispose of tickets on the day of the game, they may leave them with Tyson & Bro. either at the Windsor or Plaza hotels, New York. A record has been kept of the names of all men to whom allotments of seats have been made, and if these seats are found in the hands of speculators the names of the men who obtained the allotments will be published. —_——_—_+04—___— Kilustrated Art Exhibit. An exhibition of the works of the leading illustrators of the day was be- gun at the Art School, Wednesday evening. The drawings have been loaned to the Art School by “The Century and “Scribner’s’ magazines, and will be on exhibition for two weeks, | In “The Century” division the pict- ures of Castaigne are most prominent, including his well known Olympic scenes as well as sketches of modern life. Several of Gibson’s drawings and Frederick Remington’s scenes of cow- boy life, together with works by Kenyon Cox, J. Pennell, W. L. Dodge, G. W. Edwards and G. Gaul make this section of the exhibition exceed- ingly attractive. Among the drawings loaned by Secribner’s are the illustrations of an article entitled “A Day at Olympia,” drawn by Corwin K. Linson. One curious piece is a print by the famous Spanish illustrator Vierge, while two Japanese scenes by Robert Blun are also unique specimens. Illustrations of “Old Gardens,’ by M. A. Cowles and Orson Lowell’s works figure promi- nently. Among other artists whose work is represented are: Loeb, Guipon, Sterner, Pyle, Thul- strup, Klepper, G. Cowles, Verbeer, Lehme, Fraser, Helmick, Wright, Bacher, Wiles, Baker, Kline, Mc- Carter, Church, Adney, Pape, Frost. * —_—___+0e—___—__ In the College Pulpit. The schedule of preachers for the present fall term has been announced as follows: November 22—Rev. Henry Van Dyke, D. D., New York. November 29—Rev. H. M. Curtis, D. D., of Cincinnati. December 6—Rev. A. H. Merriam, of Hartford. December 183—Rev. J. H. Twichell, of Hartford. ENN IZEN ZN ZA ZAN ZEN ZAN ZA ZANVZAENSIZ s% M rt 4 “7x : ‘The George H. Ford Company. -s ORIGINAL «=* EXCLUSIVE Souvenirs are designed by this House, produced in silver, gold and metals : in their factory on the top floor of their Building or imported by them from : sagpats, France, Germany and Austria. Observe their YALE BEER STEINS and fine French China with Yale devices. : : Catalogue on Application. FAS ZIP AE AS AS AS AP AS AS AS HS \\ 06 oF ; z a 2 | 1 SS 7% SEAS ASTAT AS AS AS AS ASAE AS AS AS ASAT AS TS L v The C, Wylilys Betts Prize. The C. Wyllys Betts prize is award- ed annually to that member of the Sophomore class in College ‘“‘who shall have exhibited the most meritorious work in the required compositions of the year, and in a special essay on a prescribed subject.’’ The “special eS- say” for 1897 is to be “A Study in the Style of Thomas DeQuincey,’ based on the following works: “The English Mail Coach,” ‘‘Suspiria de Profundis,” “Conversation,” ‘The Revolt of the Tartars.” ——___ +4. A new cinder track is to be laid at the University of Pennsylvania, on Franklin Field. It will be under the grand stand and will be used for Win- ter practice. Tighe. Lane, Wheeler & Farnham, Attorneys at Law, 109-112 Manhattan Building, St. Paul, Minn. AMBROSE TIGHE. JOHN W. LANE. HowaRkD WHEELER CHABLES W. FARNHAM, 1851 - A CORPORATION - 1896 having Forty-five Years’ successful business experience offers for sale 54% 20 Year Income Bonds, which are just as good as Governments. 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