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YALE ALUMNI WEEKLY THE DEBATING QUESTION A Harvard Debater Renews the Dis- eussion of Faculty Coaching. ——— On the subject of “Faculty Coaching in Intercollegiate Debates,” Mr. Fletcher Dobyns, one of the promi- nent Harvard debaters recently wrote to the Harvard Crimson as follows: “My attention has been called to an article in the Yale News by Mr. C. U. Clarke, president of the Yale Union, in which he discusses the action of the conference on intercollegiate debating held at New Haven last Spring. I shall not discuss the questions considered at the conference but I wish to correct several of his statements of fact. He says that ‘The utter prohibition of faculty help proposed by one of the Harvard delegates was considered im- practicable.’ utter prohibition of faculty help.’ We only asked that such help be limited to the giving of information. We op- posed only the revision of speeches by members of the faculty and their par- ticipation in practice debates. “Mr. Clarke says that ‘It was found impossible to come to any agreement upon the subject, Harvard holding a differant opinicn as to the point at which faculty assistance becomes un- justifiable from that of either Yale or Princeton.’ At first the Princeton rep- resentatives did side with Yale, but after we had explained our position they joined us and supported us in all the discussions of this question. They did join with Yale in asking that the debates be limited ito undergraduates. “After saying that reports of faculty coaching had been exaggerated Mr. Clarke says: ‘We fully explained these exaggerated accounts to the Harvard delegates last Spring, appar- ently to their satisfaction.’ I cannot understand what made him think that we were satisfied when the confer- ence closed with a complete disagree- ment between Harvard and Princeton on the one side and Yale on the other. We were glad to hear that these re- ports had been exaggerated and of course we believed their statements in regard to the matter. But they did not deny that members of the faculty had often participated in practice de- bates and it was to this that we ob- jected. At any rate we cared little about the past, we desired some definite planis for the future, and this Yale absolutely refused to join us in making. It is to be hoped that the three uni- versities can come to some under- standing upon this question in the near future.”’ 2 The Glee Club Concert. The «annual promenade concert of the University Glee and Banjo Clubs was held in the Hyperion theater last Monday evening, Jan. 18. The num- bers on the program were all en- thusiastically received and many en- cores were called for. Mr. Parker’s singing met with the usual degree of universal approbation which has al- ways greeted his appearance, and Mr. Lapham’s rendition of ‘Jonah,’ fol- lowed by other selections of a similar nature, was another feature of the evening. The whole program was characterized by novel and interest:ng productions which served to keep the enthusiasm of the audience at a high point during the entire concert. The members of the Freshman class, as usual, occupied seats in the upper gallery and at times gave full vent to their desire to freely express senti- ments upon any occurrence that might - happen. Through fear that some disturbance might take place and cause the loss of certain Freshman athletic privileges, leaders of the Class were warned by upper classmen tto keep matters as quiet as possible. The only act of the Freshmen was to lower a 1900 banner in the middle of the concert, which was attended by prolonged cheers from above, but remaining compara- tively unnoticed by the audience be- low, produced no further disturbance, We did not ask for ‘The. College Graduates in the De. partment Schools. 7 The following table shows the rep- resentation in the various depart- ments of Yale University by graduates from universities and colleges of the world: Law School—Yale University, 75: Dartmouth College, 1; Williams Col- lege, 1; Wesleyan University, 3; 'Trin- ity College, sity, 4; National Normal University, 1; scattered 17. Medical School—Yale University, 18: Wesleyan University, 2; Trinity Col- lege, 1; scattered 6. Theological School—Yale University, 18; Harvard University, 4; Amherst College, 10; Cornell University, 2; Dart- mouth College, 4; Beloit College, 6; Williams College, 5; Wesleyan Univer- sity, 2; Trinity College, 1; Gettysburg College, 1; Bucknell University, 1; Bos- ton University, 1; Marietta College, 2; University of Iowa, 2; scattered, 43. Department of Philosophy and Arts —Yale University, 139; Williams Col- lege, 1; Wesleyan Universily, 2; Trini- ty College, 2; Gettysburg College, 3; Northwestern University, 1; Bucknell University, 2; Boston University, 2; Marietta College, 1; University of Iowa, 1; Pomona College, 3; Universi- ty of Michigan, 2; Smith College, 7; Vassar College, 5; Smith College, 7; University, 3; scattered, 56. ~Graduajte Department of Sheffield Scientific School—Yale University, 37; Harvard University, 3; Amherst Col- lege, 1; Cornell University, 5; Williams College, 1; Gettysburg College, 1; scait- tered, 4. The graduates are scaittered in all throughout one hundred and twenty- one colleges, situated in America, France, Switzerland and Japan. Pwes i a Dr. Brinton to Lecture. A course of lectures will be de- delivered on five successive Monday evenings, beginning January 25th, by Professor Daniel G. Brinton, M. D., LL.D., of the University of Pennsyl- vania, on the subject of ‘“‘The Re- ligions of. Primitive Peoples.’ Dr? Brinton is well known as a specialist who is both learned and interesting as » a lecturer. The course is delivered at Yale under the co-operation of the American Committee for Lectures on the History of Religions, on which committee Yale is represented. A rare opportunity is afforded by these lectures for those who are in- terested in themes which bear on sociology, anthropology or compara- tive religion. Special advantages are offered to students for admission to the course, the price of their tickets being fifty cents, while at the general sale the price is $1.50. ——__e ---— ‘The Church and Young Men.” Mr. Charles S. Macfarland, ’97 T. S., has an article in the current number of the Open Church, entitled ‘‘The Church and Young Men.”’ The article bears on the difficulty and the import- ance of obtaining the services of young men in church work, and cites as an instance, when this object was accomplished and became productive of very successful results, the work of the Rev. B. F. Leavitt in the Congre- gational church at Melrose Highlands, Mass. This example here described demonstrates, to use Mr. Macfar- farland’s own words, “that young men can be reached best by young men and that they can best be reached by young men’s means.” ————-_») ee ———___——_ He—You seem pensive. She—Do I? He—Yes, vou do. She—I don’t think that I am. He—Don’t you? She—No, really, I don’t. He—I think you are. 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