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For College Year, °96-7:
H. C. ROBINSON, °53. J. R, SHEFFIELD, °87.
W. W. Skippy 65S. J. A. HARTWELL, °89 8.
C. P. LinpsuEy, 75 S. L. S. WELCH, °89.
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NEWS EDITOR,
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Entered as second class matter at New Haven P. O.
New HAVEN, Conn., DECEMBER 10, 1896.
THE SUPPORT OF CHESS.
The Yale Chess Club is doing more
this season than ever, to make the
Yale showing in the tournament a
good one. An enthusiastic interest in
the game is restricted, we know, to a
comparatively small number of stu-
dents. At the same time, everybody
appreciates the high intellectual value
of chess, and it is not necessary to
spend any time in arguing that the
showing of a College in a chess tourna-
ment has considerable significance.
Yale has appeared to very great dis-
advantage hitherto, and everyone
ought to be sufficiently interested in
the credit of the University, to do
everything in his power to make the
showing in the tournament this year
the very best possible. The Chess
Club has taken the responsibility of
engaging a very excellent coach from
New York, whose influence on~ the
players is already very noticeable. It
will be really most discreditable if any
lack of interest on the part of the
University keeps the treasury of the
Club so low that some patriotic
alumnus, as so often in times past, is
obliged to meet the expenses of prepa-
ration for the tournament. It is to be
hoped that the students and alumni,
who have the opportunity of doing so,
will take tickets to the tournament,
whether they can use them or not.
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FRESHMAN FINANCES,
It is not a surprise to one who re-
members the editorial columns of the
News during his own time in College
to find, at least annually, and gen-
erally in each season according to the
style of athletics thereof, warnings
and lamentations over the deficits in
the finances of Freshman organiza-
ticns. The College is not more cer-
tain to convene nor athletic contests
to occur, than are these mournful edi-
torials to appear.
Monday’s News has a Fall philippic
on this theme, and calls attention to
the plan adopted at Princeton for
avoiding the evils ordinarily incident
to the business management of the
Freshman organizations. The mem-
bers of the Junior Class have been put
in charge of the finances, and the re-
sult, in the case of this Fall’s foot-
ball eleven, we are told, has been a
comfortable balance at the end of the
year after all bills have been paid.
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The News doubts the wisdom on gen-
eral principles of such a plan, but is
emphatic in saying that some change
should be made, if these organizations
continue to demonstrate what seems
now to be an inherent weakness in
the svstem.
The only criticism possible on the
comment of the News is its leniency.
It is indeed time _ that something
should be done when it has come to
be a custom for Freshman deficits to
remain uncovered for two years and
then to be met, if met at all, by the
surplus in the hands of the Junior
Promenade Committee of the Class.
The delay is bad enough but the cus-
tcm of diverting funds raised for one
object, and largely by subscriptions, ~
to another purpose, is a great deal
worse. The News is very mild, we
repeat, when it says that such @
method of finance is a matter “for le-
gitimate doubt” as to its propriety.
The fact that there ought not to be
any surplus from - Junior Prom-
enade is a comparatively unimportant
feature of the case.
volved is the serious thing.
Business managements of student
organizations used to be as a rule,
with very few exceptions, bad. Uni-
versity organizations here at Yale have
improved, as we have pointed out,
under the business-like influences of
the Financial Union. Some such in-
fluences must affect Freshman organi-
zations. It is carrying the idea of ed-
ucation, through self-government, a
point too far to allow it to involve the
business honor of the whole class, and
reflect as it does on the University as
a whole.
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SEND IN NEWS.
At this time of year the alumni as-
sociations in different parts of the
country are preparing for their an-
nual meetings, revising their mem-
bership, changing of officers, and in
general doing things. It is not pos-
sible for the Weekly to keep accurate-
ly posted on ali this Yale news with-
cut the co-operation of the officers of
the different associations. We especial-
ly request the secretaries of the dif-
ferent alumni associations, whom we
consider on our list of correspondents,
to let us know what is going on in
their particular provinces.
And we also particularly desire that
all graduates who are in possession
of news about Yale men and Yale af-
fairs, be quick to transmit it to. us,
and send with it any suggestions they
may concerning the University, or the
course of he Weekly.
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CRITICISM OF YALE.
The University is just now going
through another season of criticism
and assault. We have been left alone
for a few days, probably out of a false
sense of sympathy over the result of
the football season. But the good
work is taken up again and the bom-
bardment continued. This institution
is hardened to it. Its officers and
members pursue their traditional si-
lence, which is dignified, and which in
the end redounds to the good name
and the right opinion of the Univer-
sity.
But there is no reason why Yale
men, who are or can be in communi-
cation with the disseminators of news
in different parts of the country,
should not correct misstatements, and
do all in their power to promulgate
the truth about Yale affairs.
Many Yale graduates allow. the
newspaper reading public of their own
locality to get the very worst impres-
sion possible about their Alma Ma-
ter.
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ALUMNI FUND.
A Large Subscription Necessary This
Year—New Officers.
A meeting of the Board of Directors
of the Alumni University Fund was
held at the University Club, New
York City, on the evening of Decem-
ber 4, 1896, all the members except one
being present.
All the present officers were re-
elected for the ensuing year, as fol-
lows: Chairman, Thomas Thacher ’71;
treasurer, W. W. Farnam, ’66; secre-
tary, L. S. Haslam, 790. An Executive
Committee was appointed consisting of
Messrs. Thacher ’71, Merrill ’65, Adee
67, Bannard ’76, and Jennings ’80.
Messrs Skiddy ’65S., and Judson
"90 S., were appointed a committee on
the work of the Fund in the Scien-
tific School.
The question of increasing. the num-
ber of members of the Board was re-
ferred to the Executive Committee
with instruction to report at the April
meeting.
A vote of thanks was given Mr. M.
M. Barnum ’77 for his gift of a num- -
ber of record books for the use of
class agents.
The appointment of several new
class agents was announced, and
favorable reports made upon the re-
Sult of the canvass made last spring
of the two graduating classes.
A large portion of the evening was
spent in a somewhat informal discus-
sion of means to be used in increasing
the usefulness of the Fund to the
University, by increasing the number
of subscribers.
The Fund for the year ending in
June last showed a considerable in-
crease over the preceding year, but it
is hoped that an even greater increase
will be made this year, as the entire
amount available as income, $11,517.39,
was in June appropriated to the use
of the University, and it will be neces-
sary to collect at least $10,000 before
next June in order not to let next
year’s appropriation fall below the
standard set by the last four years.
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Outing for December,
Outing for December has, perhaps, an
unusual budget of news, comment. and
discussion on every kind of healthful and
interesting sport. Rollin Smith writes of
“Hunting the Mule Deer’: BWdward W.
Sandyss on “Hares and’ Hare Hunting’’:
James R. Benton on ‘A! Winter Day
With the Ducks’:*’R. B. Burchard on
_ Racing Schooners’”’: B. A. H. Verrill on
A Dsy’s Sport in Costa Rica,’ and
Price Collier on ‘Golf in America to
Date.” Mr. Curtis finishes his series on
American Amateur Athletes in 1896.”
Alice Lee Moque tells of ‘A Bohemian
Couple A-Wheeling Thro’ West Enegland’’
and ‘“‘Lenz’s World Tour A-Wheel’’ is
continued by a special correspondent,
How Peg’s Runners Rusted” is a good
story of ice-boating by Charles Floyd
McClure. The whole number is finely il-
lustrated, but especially interesting are
the illustrations of E. M. Allaire’s ar-
ticle, “‘At the Top of Europe,” while very
artistic, and appropriately so are the il-
lustrations of the decidedly original story
by Miss Justine Ingersoll. which opens
the number and which she calls. cine
Pectoral Cross.”? Captain Charles B. Hal]
continues his article on ‘The Nationa]
Guard of the State of Maine.”
The Monthly Review of Amateur Sports
and Pastimes is complete and interesting-
ly and intelligently done, as usual.
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The Senior’s Feelings.
[R. L. Munger in Yale Courant ]
It is a melancholy thing for the ma-
jority of men to feel themselves fairly
entered upon the last college year. To
be sure we all know that in the mat-
ter of dignity we are much compen- |
sated for the passing of time. It is no
small thing to cut names in an exclu-
sive table and to be ignorant of home-
sickness at Omega Lambda Chi. You
who are Seniors, gentlemen, have your
blessings.
And yet in a surprisingly short time
the leaves will be red. then blow about
your feet. and you will hunt your great
coat. Winter is here in a twinkling,
and then can any one of vou who
watch the time, say that some day
shall not find him gloomy: Tt is not
hard to see very vividly before you
the day when you shall go vacantly
along the walk with a diploma, think-
ing of four fine years and saying as a
boy aftr a fire, “All over.” Rut come,
gentlemen, it is but Fall: we have
time before us. There are no lions in
the way for a long time, and before we
must fight them it is a pleasant way.
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Basket Ball Schedule.
The schedule of the basket-ball
team, so far as has been arranged, is
as follows: Decernber 10th, Wesleyan
at New Haven; January 16th, Trinity
at New Haven; January 232d, Central
Y. M. C. A. at Brooklyn; January
28th, Wesleyan at Middletown; Jan-
uary %06th, Springfield Training School
at Springfield; February 6th, Trinity
at Hartford; February 18th, Twenty-
third Street Y. M. C, A., New York, at
New York.
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Cc. R. Rinehardt has been elected
captain of the Lafayette team for the
season of 1897.
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