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YALE ALUMNI WEEKLY,
Published every Thursday during the College Terms
and conducted by a Graduate Editor and Associate
regal and Assistants from the Board of Editors of
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ADVISORY BOARD.
For College Year, ’96-7:
H. C. RoBINSON, °53. J. R. SHEFFIELD, °87,
W. W. Skippy, ‘658. J. A. HARTWELL, 89S.
CO. P. Linpsiey, 75S. L. 8. WELCH, ’89.
W. Camp, °80. E. VAN INGEN, 91 S. .
W. G. DAaaettT, °80. P. Jay, °92.
EDITOR,
Lewis S. WELCH, °89.
ASSOCIATE EDITOR,
WALTER CAMP, °80.
NEWS EDITOR,
GRAHAM SUMNER, ’97,
ASSISTANTS,
H. W. CHAMBERS, °99.
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JouHn Jay, '98.
BUSINESS MANAGER,
-E. J. THOMPSON, -
(Office, Room 6, White Hall.)
Entered as second class matter at New Haven P. O.
New HAVEN, CONN., JANUARY 28, 1897.
THE PROMENADE.
Elsewhere is printed a review of the
events
gives to our readers an idea of the
relative merits of the means used by
the Class of Ninety-eight and sug-
gests what still remains to be ac-
complished to make this gay season
more thoroughly carry out its best
ends. It is certainly cause for con-
gratulation that the committee did
lay a heavy hand on the excesses. of
auction sales and therein did
they officially could to discourage ex-
travagance. It was a favorable year
to initiate such a reform, and the sale
after the Juniors were’ supplied
showed that it would probably have
been impossible for last year’s figures
to have been matched even if the op-
rertunity had been given. The fact
is, allowances aren’t as large as they
once were and the financial condi-
tions of the country are reflected in
the narrowed margin for extras in the
treasury of most students.
Such things as a “Prom.” could of
course be run with a gcod deal less ex-
pense if thare cculd be some con-
tinuity of management which would
be quite possible without taking away
from those who give the ball their
rights and opportunities of manage-
ment. A student with excellent busi-
ness qualities, who had served on his
Promenade committee, remarked last
year that he would like to take the
contract of the Promenade at some-
thirg less than the usual expense if
the only requirement were to keep up
the standard of other years. He
thought the margin of saving which
experience would allow him to make
would keep him a year at college.
The Promenade committee are ex-
cellently well chosen and are men with
a high standing in their class. But
they meet the quite large business
questions involved, without previous
experience and they are not able to
treat with the men who supply the
principal equipments cn the basis of
ressible treatment with them in the
future for the same privileges. These
men have one order to fill and the
future of the business is entirely out
cf the hands of those who give them
the order.
of Promenade ‘week which
what.
YALE AND HARVARD NEGOTIA-
TIONS.
The comments of the Journal and
Courier of this city on the history of
the negotiations ‘between Yale and
Harvard reprinted elsewhere, are
hardly more than the situation as far
as it can be known to those outside,
seems to warrant. It will, we trust, be
pessible some day to print the facts
about these negotiations which will
clear up a good many matters. It
seems to us that the delay, and if it
shall come about, the failure, of the
efforts towards reconciliation are due
to unsatisfactory conditions on both
sides. There is not the organization
tc best carry on such negotiations.
What is done and what is left undone
is not what the great body of both
Yale and Harvard men want. That
is enough to condemn the system
under which it is conducted. We beg
to be taken literally. We mean e€xX-
actly what we say. There is no ill-
feeling here towards Harvard oF
towards any person but a very keen
serse of disappointment.
We are not able to describe the prog-
ress of these negotiations in detail, at
least until they are completed, for very
obvious reasons, but it is only proper
to suggest that comments on any per-
sons connected with these negotiations,
or on the ways and means employed,
should be withheld until the whole his-
tory is known.
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ABOUT “ YALE’? ENTERPRISES
AGAIN.
Up to the hour of going to press we
are reasonably confident that the de-
tails of the trip of the College eleven
through the South are at last cor-
rectly and fully stated. We have no
desire to linger on the unpleasant
subject but venture to remark that it
seems quite understood now, that
these expeditions whether they will-
fully and without authority use the
name of Yale or by carlessness allow
themselves to be carried along by that
word, are heartily and universally dis-
approved by the students, graduates
and friends of the University. We
sincerely hope that we have seen the
last of them.
We do not, by any means, class the
Yale fockey team’s trips with such
excursions as we have spoken of, but
we feel so strongly on the subject that
ve venture to hope that some definite
central authority shall be developed
which will prevent all men who have
regard for the good will of their fel-
low students from initiating any
enterprise under the name of Yale
without the fullest sanction of those
who have the right to give it. Just
who should have the right and how
this will work out is only a question of
means. The principle is a very im-
pcertant one and graduates will be im-
patient of any further neglect of
ordinary precautions in this line.
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THE CALIFORNIA SCHOLARSHIP.
The statement in the editorial in
the Yale Alumni Weekly .of January
14th was in error in saying that the
Yale Catalogue did not make mention
of the scholarship given by the
alumni of California. The description
of that scholarship was carlessly over-
looked. It appears in proper place
and in proper form and looks very well
too. And as we said before, we would
like to see more announcements of
that kind in the catalogue.
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S. L. Fuller, ’98, has been appointed
by Captain Cabot, of the Harvard
eleven, to act aS manager of the team
next Fall. He is at present the man-
aging editor of the Crimson and Ad-
vocate.
D. D., pastor of
church of Cambridge,
ALUMNI EUND ASSOCIATION,
A New Appeal for Subscriptions
From University Graduates.
The Yale Alumni University Fund
Association sent out the usual circu-
lar letter to alumni in January. It is
printed below:
“This Association makes at this time
its annual appeal for funds for the
general purposes of the University.
Its aim is to afford an opportunity to
all to assist their Alma. Mater. Con-
tributions have in the past ranged
from $1 to $1,000. Any sum, large or
sn-all, will be sladly received and will
help to swell the total. In 1896 there
were received 2 contributions of $200,
24 of $109, 21 of $50, 67 of $25, 224 of
$16, 260 of $5 and 33 of $1.
“The Association has in the past
five years appropriated from such
contributions an average of over $10,-
000 annually to the income of the Uni-
versity. It is hoped that contribu-
tions will be continued annually, but
no promise for the future is asked. No
student at Yale ever paid full value
for what he received. Let us all, as .
help in this way to repay our
Yale.”
very sincerely, Payson Mer-
rill, °65; George A. Adee, ’67; Thomas
Thacher, °*71; Otto T. Bannard, ’76;
Henry W. Calhoun, ’83; Percy R. Bol-
ton, ’86 S.; William W. Skiddy, ’65S.;
Robert W. De Forest, ’70; Thomas
DeWitt. Cuyler, ’74; Walter Jennings,
50; Wm. Adams Brown, ’86; William
F. Judson, ’90S., directors; William W.
Farnam, ’65, treasurer, New Haven,
Conn.; Lewis S. Haslam, ’90, secretary,
120 Broadway, New York.
alumni,
dept to
Yours
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The February Journal of
Science.
The following are the principal arti-
cles in the February Journal of
Science :—
ART. VIII.—Outlines of a Natural Classifi-
cation of the Trilobites: by C. E.
BEECHER. (With Plate ITT.).-.....-- 89
TX.—Preliminary Trial of an Interferential
Induction Balance; by C. BARUS..---- 107
X.—The Multiple Spectra of Gases; by J.
TROWRRIDGE and T. W. RICHARDS .. 117
XI.—Studiesin the Cyperacee; by 'T. HOLM.
(yy on Pode 1.) ee eee 121
XII.—Simple Instrument for Inclining a
Preparation in the Microscope; by
2A. AGUA Ra) Re scuscce. 3 eee esa + 129
XIII.—Nocturnal protective coloration in
Mammals, Birds, Fishes, Insects, etc.,
as developed by Natural Selection; by
on. VaR. fo ee st 32
XIV.—Nocturnal and diurnal changes in
the colors of certain fishes and of the
squid (Loligo), with notes cn their
sleeping habits; by A E. VERRILL..- 185
XV.—The Stiulinodontia, a Suborder of
Eocene Edentates; by O. C. MARSH.. 187
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In the College Pulpit.
The following preachers will oc-
cupy the College pulpit during the
winter term:
January 31—Rev. Daniel Merriman,
D. D., of Worcester, Mass.
February 7—Rev. A. H. Bradford,
D. D., of Montclair, N. J.
February 14—Rev. George Gordon,
D. D., pastor of Old South church,
Boston.
February 21—Rev. William K. Hall,
First Presbyterian
church of Newburgh, N. Y.
February 28—Rev. Alexander . Mc-
Kenzie, pastor of Shepard Memorial
Mass.
March 7—Rev. Prof. Robert
Thompson, of Philadelphia.
March 14—Rev. Chauncey W. Good-
rich, of Orange, N. J,.
March 2i—President M. W. Stryker,
of Hamilton College.
March 28—Rev. Henry
of New York City.
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