Votume VI. No. 16
NEW HAVEN, CONN.,
NINETY-GIGHT'S PROMENADE.
Advances Made in the Management.
The Question of Expense.
The Junior Promenade festivities of
the Class of 1898 came to a close with
the Promenade itself on Tuesday
evening, January 19. The program
and arrangements of the week were
substantially the same as last year,
being limited to two days in accord-
ance with the Faculty decree of a year
ago.
In general it can be said of this year
that the ‘‘Prom.’”’ guests were not as
numerous as last year, but it was
noticed that many more arrived in ad-
vance of the regular events. The ten-
dency resulting from the above men-
tioned Faculty decree is towards an
early beginning of the events and it
has come to be almost a regular cus-
tom for many men to bring their
friends on to New Haven on the pre-
ceeding Saturday and to arrange an
informal dance for that evening.
Each year the Promenade committee
make every effort to avoid the mis-
takes and inaugurate improvements
over the work of the preceding com-
mittee, and in two distinct lines the
committee this year has taken a
marked step in advance. Last year,
as will be remembered, the prices
paid for the boxes rose far above any
figures previously given for this pur-
pose, but this year the prices were
all very moderate, and it can be said
that the Juniors at least were given
a good opportunity of entering into
the Promenade gaieties without the
usual extravagance. The cause of
this decrease in the prices paid is
attributed to two reasons: first, that
the arrangements for the disposal of
the boxes were more satisfactory than
ever before; second, that there was
an unmistakable falling off in the
numbers, who wanted boxes and thus
the bidding at the open sale did not
rise as high as usual. é
The plan for disposing of boxes has
already been roughly outlined in the
Weekly and is an entirely original
plan of the Ninety-eight committee.
A certain number of boxes were set
apart for disposal among the
Academic Juniors and Scientific
Seniors. A certain reasonable price
was set upon each box by the commit-
tee, determined according to its lo-
cation, size and other advantages.
Any member of these two classes who
desired a box was called upon to
hand in an application to that effect.
In filling these applications preference
was given to those handed in by
feur names, ahead of those presented
by three persons or less. In this way
a tendency was created towards an
economical occupation of boxes. The
order of choosing boxes was deter-
mined entirely by lot, and in this
way each person, when his turn came,
could take a box at whatever price
he desired out of a fairly large selec-
tion. The prices of these boxes al-
lotted at this sale ranged from $30 to
$75, while the prices paid by Juniors
in the corresponding sale last year
ranged from $43 to $125, being a re-
duction of almost 50 per cent. This
remedy for a previous important ob-
stacle is one deserving of great praise
and is keenly appreciated by all, The
arrangements at the armory on the
right of the ball were practically the
same as those of last year, although a
great improvement was noticed in the
dancing floor, which had been newly
laid by the armory authorities. This
improvement therefore, is not en-
tirely due to the members of the com-
mittee but was rather brought about
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forms of known elements.
- mencement.
The Chemical Club.
The Chemical club of the University,
which was organized at a meeting of
those interested in the matter on Fri-
Gay, January 15, promises to be one
of the most successful clubs in the
University. Harly in the term it was
decided to form the club, and letters
explaining the object and methods of
the proposed organization were sent
to thirty-eight men, who were known
to be interested in such work. On
Friday evening thirty-five men were
present at the first meeting. Among
them were President Dwight, Prof. A.
W. Wright, Prof. Gooch, Prof. W. H.
Brewer, Prof. Mixter, Dr. Mendel, Mr.
Campbell of the experiment station
and Prof. S. W. Johnson, who was
elected president. In addition to these
nearly all the assistant instructors
in the laboratories were present.
Dr. Kreider read a paper on “Argon
and Helieun,’ in which he discusse
the work done on these substances
with veference to whether they are
elementary substances or _ alltropic
Prof. A. W.
Wright, Dr. Mendel, Mr. Bowden and
Mr. Boltwood then read short papers
cn recent discoveries in chemistry, and
other topics of interest to chemists.
The program for the year was then
presented. The club will meet every
two weeks in one of the laboratories,
and papers wiil be presented on live
topics of interest to chemists and in
this connection the members will take
up reviews of journals which deal with
the branches of chemical work. ,
The officers elected are: Prof. S. W.
Johnson,
consisting of Dr. Mendel,
wood and the secretary.
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The Basket Ball Challenge
From U. of P.
In regard to the refusal of the Yale
Basketball team to play a match with
the University of Pennsylvania, which
has generally been construed as a
desire to adhere to a certain athletic
tolicy, an explanation is here perti-
nent.
Last Fall a challenge was received
by the management of the Yale
Basketball team from the team of
the University of Pennsylvania. At
that time the Yale team was consider-
ing the advisability of taking a
Christmas trip, and it was their inten-
tion to play Pennsylvania on this
trip. The Christmas examinations
forced the management to give up
the trip and to decline the challenge
of the Pennsylvania team.
Another letter was received from
Pennsylvania asking for a game
e‘ther in Philadelphia or New Haven.
Owing to the slight attendance at
basketball games in New Haven, it
was imposible to guarantee Pennsyl-
vania the expenses of their trip and
the invitation for a game in Phila-
delphia had to be declined because
of college work. These. facts alone
were the considerations that forced
the management to decline Pennsyl-
vania’s challenge, the ‘“‘Yale policy”
kaving no effect whatever.in the de-
cision.
Law Students to Wear Caps
and Gowns.
The Senior class of the Law School
met last Friday morning and voted
to _wear caps and gowns at Com-
There was a strong op-
position to the proposition and: before
it was settled a motion to adjourn was
made and lost.
the ground that the caps and gowns
were an unnecessary and extravagant
adjunct.
The class’ also voted to have half-
tone portraits of each member print-
ed in the Law School “Shingle.’’
president; P. E. Browning, 3
secretary, and a program committee .-
Mr. Bott<— S
and representatives
-educationl interests.
The opposition took .
1897.
Price Ten CENTS.
PHOTO -BY-BUNDY.
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DR. HENRY
BARNARD, ’80.
IN DR. BARNARD'S HONOR.
The Hartford Celebration—Professor
Summner’s Suggestive Response.
On Monday of this week in the Hall
of the House of Representatives at
Hartford a remarkable tribute was
paid to the work in the cause of edu-
cation. of the Hon. Henry Barnard,
Yale ’30, whose influence on the edu-
cational systems of many states, and
indeed of the whole country, it is hard
to exaggerate. The speakers at the
different exercises of the day included
men of every creed, and from the
South and West, as well as from
Canada.
At the banquet in the evening, which
was enlivened by the presence of a
double quartet from the Yale Glee
Club, there gathered men and women
from the most varied walks of life,
of all forms of
Of the subject of
all this celebration, which had been so
admirably planned and carried out
under the direction of the Hon.
Charles D. Hine, Yale ’71, the Hart-
ford Courant says: “The central and
notable figure of the day was, of
course, Dr. Barnard himself, who nev-
er was more dignified, nor never so
venerable, like a very sage of old, as
he listened to the long and continued
complimentary allusions to himself
‘ and his work.”
A brief sketch of Dr. Barnard’s
work was given in the last Weekly,
and the yrogram of the celebration
was also printed. The response by
Professor Sumner was so suggestive a
contribution to educational discussions
that it is reprinted in full here. It
was given at the banquet in Jewell
Hall, after the toastmaster, Mr.
Dwight Holbrook of Morgan School,
Clinton, had made the introductory
address, and had proposed the first
tcast to “Henry Barnard, Nestor of
American Education,’ for which the
sentiment was: .
‘So much one man can da,
That does both act and know.”’
PROFESSOR SUMNER’S RESPONSE.
Mr. Holbrook introduced Professor
William G. Sumner of Yale Univer-
sity, who spoke on ‘‘The Teacher’s Un-
ccnscious Success.”
“Our respected friend in honor of
the first illustration of the sentiment
you have offered me. I remember
him as he used to visit the schools of
Hartford forty-five or fifty years ago,
when I was a boy in one of them. The
school boys were familiar with his
figure and I recall him distinctly as
we used to see him. Our _ teachers
honored him and taught us to honor
him. In some way which we did not
understand he embodied the care and
providence which was giving us our
schooling. We then attributed to him
more patriarchal dignity, perhaps, than
Ihe then deserved. We know now that
he first introduced some system of
regularity, some economy of time and
money into the old hapy-go-lucky sys-
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