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SCHOOL AND SECTIONAL CLUBS.
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There are at present in the Univer-
sity thirteen school clubs and eleven
sectional clubs, which include in their
membership a large percentage of the
undergraduates as well as some men
of the graduate departments. The ob-
ject of these organizations is to bring
together all men in College, who were
prepared at the same school or who
come from the same locality, and when
the clubs are properly managed and
well supported they may prove a
source of considerable pleasure to their
members and of benefit to the Univer-
sity.
SCHOOL CLUBS.
Of the twelve school clubs, the An-
dover Club is by far the largest, hav-
ing an enrollment of 238 members.
Last year the club held a smoker in
the Winter term, at which quartets
from the Glee and Banjo Clubs were
present, and a similar gathering will
be held this year. The officers of the
Club are: President, F. M. Crosby, ’97;
Vice President, H. W. Letton, ’975.;
Secretary, E. Sawyer, ’98; Treasurer,
Deni. Day, ’22:
The St. Paul’s School Club, with a
membership of 112, stands next to the
Andover Club. Smokers are held an-
nually to which a representative from
the school is invited. This year’s
meeting will be held during the’ Win-
ter term. ‘The officers, elected this
Fall, are: President, E. 8S. Harkness,
°97; Vice President, HE. H. Brewer,
’°97S.; Secretary, G. D. Montgomery, ’98.
The Hillhouse High School Club was
organized last year and at present has
80 members. At its first annual smok-
er, a Slight departure was made by in-
troducing a debate on an appropriate
subject. Its second smoker was held
November 30, 1896, a large number be-
ing present. The officers, elected last
Spring, are: President, W. A. Hart,
*97; Vice President, Arthur Brewer,
*97S.; Secretary, H. B. Wright, ’98.
The Hotchkiss Club. was organized
four years ago and has a membership
of 69. At its annual smoker last year
it was decided to offer a literary prize
of twenty-five dollars, to be competed
for by members of the graduating
class of the school. Its fourth annual
smoker was held on October 7, at
which the following officers ‘were
elected: President, R. S. Hincks, ’97;
Vice President, W. G. Cooke, ’97; Sec-
retary, R. EF. Dyer, ’98S.; Treasurer, C.
ai, Welles, Jr.;° ’99.
The Lawrenceville Club of 47 mem-
bers like the others, holds annual
smokers, but this year it was decided
to have a dinner during the Winter
term in addition to the smoker already
held. A feature of last year’s smoker
was a negro quartet. The officers are:
President, T. M. Brown, ’97;. Vice
President, F. A. M. Schiefflin, ’97S.;
Secretary, M. Delano, ’98.
The Cutler Club is of very recent
origin, the organization meeting hav-
ing been held only last week. The
membership is not yet obtainable. It
has been decided to hold a banquet
some time in the Winter term. The
following officers have been elected:
President, Henry S. Coffin, ’97; Vice
President, Arthur R. Townsend, ’97S.;
Secretary, Forsyth Wickes, ’98; Treas-
urer, G. Morris, Jr., ’°98; Supper Com-
mittee, R. W. Carle, ’97, Chairman; J.
S. Rogers, 798; John B. Adams, ’99.
The Hill School Club of 33 members,
the St. Mark’s Club with 29 and the
Exeter Club of 25 members, also hold
annual smokers similar to those of
other clubs. Last year’ Principal
Amen of Exeter was present at the
club meeting, while the St. Mark’s
Club invited guests from Harvard and
Columbia, as well as representatives
from the school to attend its gather-
ing.
Other school clubs are the Taft’s
School Club of 18 members, the West-
minster Club, the Mt. Herman Club
and the Williston Club.
SECTIONAL CLUBS.
The sectional clubs are in many
ways similar to the school clubs and
their object is the same. Some of
these clubs represent single cities,
others states, while the Southern Club
includes all men from the South.
The Southern Club with 79 members
is the largest sectional club. It was
YALE ALUMNI WEEKLY
organized some years ago, but held a
smoker for the first time last year. In
the present year, a smoker
held in December and a banquet dur-
ing the Winter. The officers are:
Presideat, G. L. Parker, ’°97; Vice
Presidents, R. S. Hume, ’98; R. M. Les-
ter, ’97S., and C. Stoll, *97 L. S.; Sec+
retary, G. S. Cowan, ’98.
The largest club representing a city
is the Hartford Club of 75 members,
- At its smoker of last year addresses
were made by several prominent alum-
ni from that city. The officers are:
President, E. L. Smith, 97; Vice Presi-
dent, E. H. Owen, ’978.; Secretary, H.
T. Ware, 97; Treasurer, D. C. Twich-
ell, 798.
The Chicago Club, organized this
year, has a membership of 13. The
officers are: President, H. W. Letton,
’97S.; Vice President, J. S. Mason, ’98;
Secretary, J. C. Belden; °978.;. Treaas
urer, EK. H. Noyes, ’978.
The Brooklyn Club also was organ-
ized this year and has 67 members,
The officers are: J. F. Pierce, °97; Vite
President, A. Corlies, *97S.; Secretary,
EF. H. Simmons, ’98.
One of the most active and interest-
ing of these clubs, is the Hawaiian
Club. Though its membership is limit-
ed to li, it is the most energetic of all
the clubs. Meetings being held every
three weeks. At its third annual ban-
quet held last year students of Har-
vard and Wesleyan who reside at
Hawaii were present, as well as the
Hawaiian legation at Washington.
This year’s banquet will be held Jan-
uary 17 to celebrate the anniversary
of the cverthrow of the Hawaiian
monarchy in 18938. The only officer of
the club is the President, A. F. Judd,
ste Ole
Other sectional clubs which hold an-
nual smokers or banquets are: The
Cincinnati Club of 41 members, the St.
Louis Club of 33, the Cleveland Club
of 31, the Buffalo Club of.22, the Col- |
orado Club and the Minnesota Club.
Some of the cities which send the
greatest number of men to Yale are
not represented by clubs owing to the
inconvenience of managing too large a
body. Such is the case with New
York and New Haven.
to Yale to warrant the foundation of
a club, and the tendency at present
seems to be decidedly in that direc-
tion.
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Co-operative Eating Clubs. |
Among a number of members of the
class of 1889 there originated the idea
of forming eating clubs which should
be managed by men from their own
body. The advantages of this soon
became obvious and the idea has been
handed down and improved upon until
at the present day it is recognized as
the best method for the accommoda-
tion of students.
The plan is very simple. Rooms are
rented in some suitable location, a
cook obtained and the usual arrange-
ments made for student waiters. It
requires two men to manage these
clubs; of these one orders provisions
and attends to the details of the ser-
vice while the other has charge of the
financial affairs.
There are now four co-operative
clubs in College and ail are managed
with great success, there being no
difficulty in keeping a full list of mem-
bership. The price of board is. Six
dollars per week and all the money
collected is expended in whatever way
the members choose. At the end of
the year should there be any surplus
it is equally divided. The club in the
Senior class consists of eighteen mem-
bers, each of the two Junior clubs has
twenty members and the club in the
class of 1899 has twenty-one members.
The advantages of such a system of
board are chiefly that no money what-
ever is contributed except what is nec=-
essary for the direct support of the
club, and also that the members have
full control of their own table and
can modify it as they please. Thus it
is brought about that board is sup-
plied at cost prices and there can be
no chance for dissatisfaction on the
part of any who share the expenses.
This system also offers to the student
who manages a club opportunities for
helping himself through College, as
these services entitle him to free
board.
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THE BOOK SHELF,
(Conducted by ALBERT LER, “S1.]
The man who gets one bit of val-
uakle information or knowledge out of
every book he reads should esteem
himself fortunate. Out of some books
we may gather much more than a sin-
gle nugget, but there are so many
empty vessels we are forced to handle
that the average in the relation of
benefits to volumes is kept pretty low.
Upon this premise I would not have
it understood that there is only one
thing worth remembering in Mr. Ham-
ilton W. Mabie’s “Essays on Books
and Culture.’”’ (New York: Dodd, Mead
& Co.), for this would be an injustice
to a collection of carefully written
studies, but I will say that the reader
of the book may consider his time well
spent if he retains in his memory one
particular piece of advice that Mr.
Mabie has to give. It is a hint that
has been given by other writers in
other books, but it is one that may be
given again and again by essayists in
the future to the benefit of all who
will heed. Under the head of ‘Time
and Place’ Mr. Mabie discusses the
Subject of utilizing the many spare
moments of the day in reading the
books that one wishes to read but that
one frequently leaves unread .because
of “lack of time.” There is no lack of
time to the man who uses the waste
of the day, the only secret is to ‘have
his book at hand” when the precious
minute arrives. There must be no
fumbling for the right volume, no
waste of time because one is uncer-
is due to ne-
glect to decide in advance what di-
rection one’s reading shall take and
heglect to keep the book of the mo-
ment close at hand.
“Of course, it may be advanced that
one cannot carry large octavo vol-
Paal “umes about in one’s evercoat pocket
to read on horse cars and in trains—
Where most of us waste an hour or
two each day—but there are many
idle half hours at home where forty
or fifty pages of the octavo, if con-
veninetly near, may easily be dispos-
ed of. Thus, at the end of three or
four days, we find that we have read
a good book in the few minutes wait
before dinner is announced. JI have
done this thing myself, and have been
Surprised at the achievement. And
the octavo bugbear is not so great
nowadays when publishers are learn-
ing the wisdom of providing us with
‘portable’ literature. I have a fond-
ness for the book that will slip con-
veniently into my coat pocket,—and
most of my coats sag on one side from
this habit of carrying books about
with me. But there is truly a com-
pensation for it all in the end.’
A little book that will fit very well.
into anybody’s coat pocket, and that
is not heavy enough to make the light-
est fabric sag (thanks to good paper
and a graceful cover!) is ‘‘Lady
Bramber’s Ghost,’ by Charles Char-
rington (New York: Stone & Kimball).
This tale may hardly be called a nov-
el, scarcely even a novelette,—more
properly an incident; but the incident
is cleverly and interestingly told.
Lady. Bramber. is a famous literary
woman of London, but all her work is
done by her “Ghost,’’—a genius who
has a passion for anonymity and who
accepts a small annuity from her lady-
ship in compensation for everything
he writes. Lady Bramber gets the
glory that she revels in, and the
“Ghost” retains his anonymity and his
place in life. This scheme affords the
author an opportunity to expound a
reculiar philosophy. It is to the effect
that the world has always been made
up of the workmen and the exploiter,
and that greater success May be
achieved if such a division of labor is
made, the workman being unable to
give his best labor to the world with-
out the help of an exploiter. This
odd theory is very cleverly elaborated
for the purposes of the story, and
while exaggerated to a degree, it car-
ries a certain conviction with it which
is materially strengthened when we
reflect that it has now become almost
the rule for great writers and artists
to have agents (exploiters) who do
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nothing but place the work perform-
ed by their ‘‘workmen.’’ The time has
not yet arrived, however, (thank
Heaven!) when the “exploiter’ gets
all the credit for the labor performed,
—as was the case with Lady Bramber.
But so long as the “Ghost’’’ was satis-
fied, it is not for us to complain. All
we may do is to refrain from being
zhosts!
Still another edition of the “‘Rubai-
yat” comes to us this week, this time
from far San Francisco, where the
Dodge Book and Stationery Company
have published a small paper covered
booklet containing the 101 stanzas of
Fitzgerald’s fourth edition. It is of-
fered to us on good paper and in con-
venient form, and furthermore the
price is low.
We have also received: ‘“‘The Be-
ginners of a Nation,’ by Edward Eg-
gleston (New York: D. Appleton &
Co.); “The Bible as Literature,’’ with
an introduction by the Rev. Lyman
Abbott, D. D., (New York: Thomas Y.
Crowell & Co.); “An Introduction to
English Fiction,’ by. W. E. Simonds,
and “Four Years of Novel Reading,”
edited by R. G. Moulton, (Boston: D.
C. Heath & Co.)
Mr. Batterson’s Papers.
The interest in finance, so wonder-
fully stimulated by the campaign, is
not altogether abated, by any means,
and the layman as well as the scholar
still seeks for light. Either of them
will find clear illumination in the vol-
ume of papers, written during the sea-
son of especial agitation for the Trave-
lers’ Record and now published in book
form. Their author is Mr. James G.
Batterson, of Hartford, president of
the Traveler’s Insurance Company, who
writes of such themes not only in the
light of the experience which his un-
usual business life has given him, but
with all the aids at hand for the student
and scholar, which he has always been.
The title of the book is ‘*Gold and Sil-
ver as Currency, in the Light of Experi-
ence, Historical, Economical and Prac-
tical.” ‘The work is at once most thor-
ough and clear. |
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The Alfred Barnes Palmer Scholar-
ship for the Class of 1900 has been
awarded to Roger Crossman Peck of
North Bennington, Vt. The fund for
this scholarship was given in 1892 by
the Rev. Charles Ray Palmer, D. D.,
in memory of his son, Alfred Barnes
Palmer, 92. The income is paid to a
student in avowed need of beneficiary
aid, and of high rank in scholarship.