CIVIL SERVICE REFORM.
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Convention of College Leagues at
Philadelphia Last Week.
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The National Civil Service Reform
regular meeting in
Philadelphia, Pa., on Thursday and
Friday, December 10 and 11. Several
of the college leagues sent delegates
to the convention and a meeting of
these men was held on the afternoon
of Friday. The report of the Secre-
tary and Treasurer was read and ap-
proved and the following officers were
elected for next year: President, E.
E. Garrison, Yale, ’°87; Secretary and
Treasurer, H. M. Stephenson, of
Prineeton. The eppointment of the
members of the Executive Committee
and the various Vice Presidents, was
postponed until the other colleges be-
longing to the league could be heard
from.
It was decided to take active meas-
ures to further the organization of
civil service reform clubs in the col-
leges and universities of the country,
to aim to sugyest practical education-
al work for them to do, and find the
means of carrying out this work. It
was also decided to make an attempt
to increase the membership in the
league, and take steps to inaugurate
some kind of competition by which the
different clubs belonging to the league
shall be brought into closer corres-
pondence.
The members of the National League
and the college men present felt fully
repaid for the exertion of attending,
and could not but consider it a priv-
ilege to call. themselves members of so
active and important a body. Many
ideas were gained regarding the busi-
ness methods and concerns of the
country, and some plans were sug-
sested for making the various col-
lege clubs more active and practical.
A number of prominent men were
secured for addresses and talks before
the Civil Service Reform Club of Yale.
League held a
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The Gneist Library.
In February of last Winter the an-
nouncement was made in the col-
umns of the Weekly that a valuable
collection of 10,000 books, belonging to
the late Professor Rudolph von Gneist,
of Berlin, Germany, one of the lead-
ing authorities on the legal and in-
stitutional history of England, had
been bought for the University Li-
brary. This collection was supposed
to contain works on politics, history,
law, ete., besides a number of val-
uable periodicals, and would have
been a considerable acquisition. The
price for which the collection was of-
fered for sale was $2,500.
When the books arrived in New Ha-
ven from the Leipzig bockseller, who
had the sale in charge, only half of
them were found to be volumes of the
original Gneist Library, the remain-
der being of very small value. In this
way the Leipzig bookseller had tried
to swindle the University by padding
out half the collection with worthless
books and pawn them off as the en-
tire collection. The Library author-
ities immediately notified the seller of
the books that they would not be ac-
cepted on the conditions named, but
offered a fair price for the collection.
The German book dealer was unwill- -
ing to accept these terms and the
books have therefore been returned to
Germany.
The friends of the Library are very
much disappointed over this occur-
rence as they had hoped to obtain a
valuable acquisition to the University
collection.
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Washington (D.C.,)
Association,
Alumni
The annual business meeting of the :
Yale Alumni Association of Washing-
ton, D. C., was held on the afternoon
of December 8. The following officers
were elected to serve for the ensuing
year: President, E. O. Wolcott, 83
Hon.; First Vice President, Hon. John
Dalzell, ’65; Second Vice President, T.
EK. Clarke; Secretary and Treasurer,
James H. Hayden, ’87S.; Historian, F.
D. Head, ’748.; Executive Committee,
Ww. C. Whittemore, ’75, Chairman: H.
A. Bowers, °79; A. T. Ryan, 94; H. K.
Willard, ’79; A. G. Bentley.
The annual banquet of the Associa-
tion will be given in January.
YALE ALUMNI
Itenerary of Hockey Team.
The Yale Hockey team will play the
following games during the Christ-
mas vacation; December 16, Mont-
clair A. C. at Brooklyn, N. Y.; Decem-
ber 18, Pittsburg A. C. at Pittsburg,
Pa.; December 19, afternoon, Du-
quesne Country and Athletic Club at
Pittsburg; December 19, evening, Al-
leghany A A. at Pittsburg; December
21, Western University of Pennsylva-
nia at Pittsburg.
The team will consist of ‘A. FE.
Barnes, ’978S., Captain, cover point; H.
V. Ryder, ’97, forward; J. A. Hall, ’97S.,
forward; G. P. Sheldon, Jr., 1900, for-
ward; %S. Stoddard, ’99, forward; C.
S. Morris,-.’97S., goal. The team left
New Haven on Wednesday at 1:30 p.
m., and will leave for Pittsburg on
Thursday, December 17.
An attempt was made during the
past Summer to arrange a hockey
league between Yale, Harvard and
Brown. The management of the Yale
team, however, have decided that it
will be impossible to join this league.
The reason for this is that the Yale
team plays the regular Canadian
game in which broad sticks and a rub-
ber “nuck” are used while the Har-
vard and Brown teams play what is
known as “ice polo’? in which a com-
position hall is used. The difference
in the two games is so great that a
team accustomed: to play under one
set of rules would be at a very great
disadvantage playing under the other.
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Junior Literary Clubs.
The Kipling and Stevenson clubs in
the Junior Class have now been un-
der organization for over a year, and
a marked scourse of work has
been accomplished, which serves to
show that success has attended the
idea under which they were formed.
The object of the clubs is to read and
discuss the works of the author, af-
ter which they are respectively named,
the discussion generally being attend-
ed with light refreshments. Bi-weekly
meetings are held in the rooms of the
different members, those of the Kip-
ling Club being on alternate Thurs-
day evenings, and those of the Steven-
son Club on Monday evenings.
The Kipling Club now consists of
Sixteen members, its officers being
President, Gouveneur Morris; Vice-
President, R. J. Turnbull; Secretary,
J. S. Mason. The customary annual
banquet was held at Traeger’s on
Dec. 12, and in addition to the intro-
ductory remarks made by the toast-
masters, J. S. Mason, and J. W.
Wadsworth, Jr., toasts were responded
to by F. G. Hinsdale, J. O. Rodgers, R.
T. Garrison, I. N. Swift, R. J. Turn-
bull and F. Kernochan. Last year Mr.
Kipling not being able to attend the
banquet, sent an interesting poem in
reply to the invitation. As he is this
year in Hurope it was again impossi-
ble that he should attend.
The Stevenson Club has a member-
ship of fifteen with three members
of the Faculty as honorary members.
It officers are: President, A. D. Bald-
win; Vice-President, G. D. Mont-
gsomery; Secretary, C. D. Cheney. The
last banquet was held in June of 1896.
Dr. W. L. Phelps acting as presiding
officer. It is proposed to hold this
year’s banquet some time in the latter
part of the Spring, but a definite date
has not yet been fixed.
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California Alumni Dine.
The annual dinner of the Yale Alum-
ni Association was eaten at Delmon-
ico’s, San Francisco, Saturday, No-
vember 21. Besides the Yale men pres-
ent, were two guests. representing
Harvard, President George B. Merrill,
of the Harvard Club, and Mr. William
Thomas, each of whom responded to
the toast to his Alma Mater. Their
remarks were received with great en-
thusiasm, especially their expressed
hope for the renewal of athletic re-
lations between the two Universities.
Speeches were made by Thomas R.
Bacon, ’72, President of the Associa-
tion; F. S. Butterworth, ’95; General
W. H. L. Barnes, Captain J. S. Pettit,
President Martin Kellogg, ’50, of the
University of California, and Profes-
sor E. B. Clapp, ’86 Ph. D. An inter-
esting and enthusiastic letter was read
from Warren E. Lloyd, who holds the
graduate scholarship at Yale founded
by the Association. On the whole it
was the pleasantest meeting of the As-
sociation that has ever been held.
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