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.”’
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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
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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.
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‘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.”
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