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HARVARD AND YALE CATALOGUES.
The Yale Catalogue has keen grow-
ing moré and more complete and been
adding to its information of the Uni-
versity very rapidly in these latter
years. It is a very much more formid-
able, also @ much more serviceable
publication than it was ten years ago.
There is yet, as it seems to us, chance
for development.
There are not a few points suggest-
ed in the Harvard Catalogue. It
seems to us that a catalogue ought
to contain all the information possi-
bly needed by an intending student.
Under the first head would come the
publicatiow® of such details as exami-
nation schedules in the different
eourses. Under the latter would come
4 list of the lectures, evening read-
ings, concerts and the like, “in addi-
tion to the courses of instruction de-
scribed on the preceding pages,’’ to
quote from the Harvard Catalogue,
where these appear.
The table in that part of the Har-
vard Catalogue referring to the Grad-
uate Department, showing Colleges
from which the students have come,
is of interest, and of value. This is
also given concerning the Law School.
This is omitted in Yale’s publication
in both of these schools. In the Har-
vard Catalogue also there is printed
a list of the external aids to study
and research, which are furnished by
the different clubs and conferences.
We have these here at Yale and it
fSeems to us they are important, and
to be referred to in any resume of
the resources of the institution.
Harvard has a lot of fellowships
and scholarships. Yale has a good
many too, but she does not seem to
record them all. For instance, we
do not find in the Yale Catalogue any
references to the graduate scholar-
ship provided by the alumni of the
Pacific Coast, for studies at Yale by
@ graduate of one of the California
colleges. The California alumni
ought to have more imitators in that
Z00d work. In this line we might
refer to. some of the scholarships up
at Cambridge. There is the scholar-
Ship of the Harvard Club. of Chica-
go, the Scholarship of the Harvard
Club of San Francisco and of the
Rocky Mountain Harvard Club, al-
though of the latter it is recorded that
“it is in abeyance.”
There is one page in the Harvard
Catalogue that reads very well; Yale’s
corresponding page will be reading
better one of these days, if her friends
consider her interests with discrimi-
nation. In the chapter on the Uni-
versity Library, the number of books
in the various libraries of Harvard
are given. They foot’up a total of a
few thousand less than half a mil-
lion. Yale’s total of the several li-
braries of the University is about
245,000.
The official estimate of the _ ex-
penses at Yale, as all know who are
familiar with our catalogue, is classi-
fied under three heads, “lowest,” ‘“‘av-
erage’ and “very liberal.” These
are, respectively, in this year’s cata-
logue: $350, $545, $880. Harvard has
four heads, “low,” ‘“‘moderate,” ‘“‘lib-
eral,’ and ‘‘very liberal,’ the figures
for which respectively are: $372, $472,
$622, $1010.
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PRINCETON AND DEBATE.
Princeton has ben thinking over her
recent reverses ini contests forensic
and her editors find texts for strong
sermons to their charges. .They ac-
cept, after the good way of their col-
lege in such matters, without excuse,
the decision of the referee, and ad-
mit Harvard’s proper title to her lat-
est victory in maters intellectual. The
Alumni Princetonian does not hesi-
tate to say that the cause af this
continuation of defeats ‘“‘must' be
traced to the lack of interest in this,
as well as in other intellectual pur-
suits.” It turns with apparently some
satisfaction in another direction, add-
ing: ‘‘Also it is a pertinent fact to be
noticed that it is not only the under-
graduates who dc not take as much
interest in debating as in athletics”
but the same thing can be said of the
alumni. When the time comes in
which the debater takes the same po-
sition and is treated with the same
regard as the football and baseball
‘player in college and is invited with
him to attend the banquets given by
and is ac-
the alumni associations,
corded the same recognition by them,
we may expect to see debating put
on a higher plane and incidentally to
win a few victories from our oppon-
ents. It is the prominence given to
athletics in general as well as to the
individuals that makes Princeton suc-
cessful and this will be the case in
debates also.’ |
The confession is still more complete
when it is admitted that at Prince-
ton it does not seem to matter so
much “if we are defeated in debate, so
long as we win in athletics.”
We have heard talk of a similarly
frank nature before from Princeton
when that college was not doing her
duty in athl2tics, and we have seen
very salutary results (from a Prince-
ton standpoint) from such confes-
sions and plain speakirgs.
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The recent action of Cornell in fol-
lowing Harvard’s lead, in giving to
the degree of Bachelor of Arts a mean-
ing very different (not to use any oth-
er adjective) from that which it form-
erly held universally, and which it
Still holds in Yale and many another
college, has not passed unchallenged
among educators. It was before a
meeting of teachers at Syracuse that
President Stryker of Hamilton made a
spirited attack on this policy which
he called ‘‘a counterfeiting of the trade
mark of the college.’ He used other
language of unmistakable meaning in
gard for
~ who
decrying a course which seemed to
him to be simply a yielding to the
utilitarian spirit of the day, and the
deference of education to what many
think are the calls of business. Early
specialization and the putting “an
edge on pot metal’’ was not at all to
his liking. President Schurman was
there, and, of course, was particular to
claim for Cornell a most solicitous re-
a liberal education. He
seems to have won the day for his
cause, for the meeting liked what he
said and tabled a resolution which
condemned his policy towards’ the
' Classics.
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The Faculty of Sewanee University
have recently passed a rule forbid-
ding a man whose stand has_ been
below average to appear on any team
representing the University.
The Purple, the University paper,
commends the step and says that the
“loss to a team of a player that has
not brains enough or determination
enough to make that average cannot
be deemed irreparable. Th sour
opinion, it would be a good riddance.”
Mr. Whitney of Harper’s Weekly com-
mends this incident to some Northern
colleges. We believe there is a practical
unanimity nowadays, among. those
have the best interests of
athletics at heart, on the point of the
requirement that an athlete should
keep up his college work regularly.
- Yale has gone farther in this line than
any other college with whose rules we
are familiar and requires not only
average stand but twenty-five hun-
dredths over average on the part of
any one representing any athletic
team or any other organization, like
the Glee Club. The rule has some-
times seemed harsh, particularly so in
the sudden application of it in the case
of some student who failed to realize
how precarious his position had been;
but the result is bound to be good.
Bo SP oe
Dr. Cuyler at Yale.
[From an interview with the Brooklyn Eagle.]
“One of the pleasantest experiences
I have had recently was when I ad-
dressed the Yale College students a
few evenings ago on ‘The Secret of
Spiritual Power.’ Dr. Parkhurst, Seth
Low and Bishop Potter addressed the
students last Winter and I spent a
very delightful evening with the boys,
but,” added Mr. Cuyler w ‘th a smile,
‘college boys are college boys, and
when I got through with my address
they got together and gave the col-
lege yell, just the same as though it
had been an address on one of the
usual daily topics. I wonder what
Lyman Beecher would have thought
if he had heard at the close of one of |
his soul-stirring adidresses that tre-
mendous ‘rah, rah, rah,’” and the
doctor suited ‘the action to the word
by giving in a modified way an ex-
cellent imitation of Yale’s overwhelm-
ing cry.
Yale Men as State Officers,
In the Connecticut General Assem-
bly Yale is represented by thirteen
graduates, one of whom is in the
state Serate, the remainder being in
the House. They are as follows:
George E. Lounsbury, ’68, Senator;
Representatives, Frederick L. Averill,
"95, George H. Cowell, ’68, Wiliam J.
Neary, °92, John H. Barnes, ’81, Ed-
ward M. Day, 794, Russell Frost, ’77,
John Brown, ‘87, Orren W. Bates, ’91,
Thomas D. Barclay, ’70, George H.
Jackson, ’89, C. H. Ricketts, ’79, and
Gen. W. Mason, ’78.
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The annual debate between’ the
University of Pennsylvania and Cor-
nell will be held in Philadelphia on
March 6.
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