Image provided by the Yale Club & Scholarship Foundation of Hartford, Inc.
About Yale Alumni Magazine | View Entire Issue (Feb. 4, 1897)
Votume VI. No. 17. NEW HAVEN, CONN., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1897. YALE UNION OFFICERS. Elections for the Second Term.—Pres, Studinski’s Address, At the regular meeting of the Yale Union held last Friday evening, Janu- ary 29, the election of officers for the ensuing half year took place and re- suited as follows: President, Charles H. Studinski, ’97, Pueblo, Col.; vice- president, H. Bingham, Jr., ’98, Hono- lulu, H. Es secretary, EKd- ward 15s Smith, "97, Hart- ford, Conn.; treasurer, Herbert W. Fisher, ’98, New Haven, Conn.; ex- ecutive committee, E. H. Hume, ’97, New Haven, Conn.; R. E. Hume, ’98, bew Baxen. Conn; and:J.:k: Clark, $69, Brooklyn, N. Y. The treasurer’s report read at this meeting showed that the expenditures for the past term were $99 andthe receipts $154.34, leaving a surplus of $60.34 in the treasury. Mr. Studinski, upon taking the chair as presiding officer of the Union, showed his intense interest in the work before him in the following re- marks: “The Union deserves to be con- gratulated for the position it holds in our University life today. We have triumphed for the first time over our eld-time rivals, Harvard and Prince- tom. The history of our past year has been glorious. It is for us to see that the future is a fit partner of the past. “In the Spring debates, if the men who represent us meet our opponents convinced that they have the undi- vided support of the University, then even if we are beaten, defeat will be victory; while if the team feels that it has the half-hearted support of the University in caSe of winning, even then victory will be defeat. ‘Prof. Hadley speaks of the fact that the high stand man works for him- self and is selfish, while the athlete works for his college and is patriotic. But his charge will not hold against the debater. The debater’s position in the University is unique. He is pri- marily a thinker, and thus takes his place ,.u.+ by the side of the student. But he tries also to promote the in- terests of his college; and is as loyal and patriotic as the athlete. Both together are fit representatives of tthe Yale type of man—the one represent- ing the brawn, the other the brains, and when the University recognizes each alike we shall be working toward an ideal that deserves to be com- mended.”’ About the U. of P. Challenge. Manager Abbott, of the University of Pennsylvania Basket Ball team, is quo- ted in the Philadelphia Press as having said recently in regard to the corre- spondence between Yale and Pennsylva- nia about a basket ball game : ‘¢ The only correspondence held be- tween Yale and Pennsylvania was with- out any mention being made of a guar- antee. I wrote to Dr. Anderson. asking him if it were possible to arrange a game between the two universities, and Manager Marshall replied that as the Yale Basket Ball team had not been rec- ognized by the Yale Athletic Associa- tion they could not do anything for the present. ‘*J would have been willing, and I know that our athletic association would now be willing, if our Faculty Athletic Committee acquiesced, to play Yale without any mention of the finan- cial end, either in Philadelphia, New Haven or elsewhere. No mention of a guarantee was made nor could any be taken from anything I wrote.” This conflicts somewhat with the statement in the last Weekly, which was secured from officials, and which gave as Yale’s reason for not accepting the challenge the lack of sufficient guar- antee. Manager Marshall of the Yale team, when further interviewed upon the matter, made the following state- ment: ‘‘I wrote Pennsylvania that I could not definitely arrange a game until I had seen the captains of the va- rious athletic teams of Yale to see what support they would give me, as I didn’t care to bring up Pennsylvania without proper support.” Mr. Marshall further said that the fear of not being able to make the trip a financial success was a motive for de- clining the challenge, although he may not have so explained to the Penn- sylvania manager. Hope is not aban- doned of arranging a game between these two universities, and if proper ar- rangements can be made this end will undoubtedly be brought about. vy Senior Promenade Committee. The Senior Promenade committee was elected last Monday night. The following were on the informal ballot: Hi, “Hilk. dr... 62, W. Dareacn 39, A. R. BE. Pinchot, 47, A. F. Judd 45, J.P. Saw- yer 39, F. M. Crosby 39, W. L. Good- win 35, J. R. Judd 33, L. Hinkey 31, Gi P.. Day 31,:R.i4de ba Pytus..29,..J.. 1. Lineaweaver 29, F. F. Russell 29, A. J. Draper 29, R. F. Ely 28. The final election resulted in the choice of the following nine men to compose the committee: Franklin M. Crosby of Minneapol:s, Minn., Chairman; William Darrach of Germantown, Pa., floor manager; James P. Sawyer of Rutland, Vt.; Albert F. Judd, Jr., of Honolulu, H. I.; Ebenezer Hill, Jr., of Danbury, Conn., Walter L. Goodwin of New York City; Amos R. E. Pinchot of New York City; James I. Lineweaver of Philadelphia, Pa.; James R. Judd of Honoluisag:- .. I. La 2 =~ Damages Denied for Football Injury. ‘ An interesting case was recently tried in the courts of Minneapolis, Minn., in which Costello, a member of the Duluth High school football team sued P. B. Winston, Jr., of the Minne- apolis Central High school eleven, for $F0,000. damages for injuries received in a football game, played between the — two teams in 1893. During the course of the game Costello was injured and taken from the field. The injury caused paralysis, and during the past summer Costello instituted a damage suit against Winston, the son of P. B. Winston, a wealthy contractor and ex-mayor of Minneapolis. It was supposed that the defence would ‘be founded on the fact that the game was a rough one, in which the defendant knew the danger, but several witnesses were found, who swore that Costello was not touched after he fell, in spite of the claims of the prosecuting attorney, who tried to prove that after Costello had fallen, ‘Winston kneed thhim, causing the in- iey. In the course of the trial the testi- mony was in favor of the defence, and tthe jury took but an hour to award a verdict in favor of the defendant. Wniversity Football Officers. The following officers of the Univer- sity Football Association for the col- lege year 1897-98 were elected last Fri- day 'Twichell, *98, Hartford, tresident, H. F. Benjamin, ’98S., Gar- rison-on-the-Hudson, N. _ Y.; President, . ic Conn.; vice- evening: secre- tary and treasurer, Ord Preston, ’99, Englewood, N. J.; assistant manager, Jamot Brown, ’99, Chicago, Il. Price Tren CEnts. PROFESSOR WILLIAM G. SUMNER. PROF, SUMNER OPPOSED. But He Will Serve Again on the State Board. Prof. William Graham Sumner of Yale, has been reappointed by Gov. Cooke to a position on the Connecti- cut State Board of Education. After the nomination had once been con- firmed by the State Senate, as a mat- ter of course, it was reconsidered on the request of Senator Marigold of Bridgeport, who thought it unwise for Republican senators to appoint to this position a man who held such economic theories as Professor Sum- ner. At a jater caucus of the Repub- lican senators who had voted to re- consider merely on the _ personal request of Senator Marigold, it was de- veloped, so it is reperted, that the ' Bridgeport senator was the only one who ventured to question the fitness of Frofessor Sumner for the office in which he has so ably served the State and it was voted to again approve the nomination. Senator Marigold’s at- tack resulted in expressions in the State press of strong disgust for what was called peanut politics and warm eulogies of the Yale professor. The New Haven Register, (Dem.) and Hartford Courant, (Rep.) were the strongest in their expressions. Frof. Sumner is quoted by the New Waven Palladium on the matter as follows: “I shall not feel like throw- ing up my position on the Board of Education because it would be giving up a public duty which I am able to perform; but if the legislature saw fit to drop me I should be very glad. I have been busy with other things and have not given any thought to this matter. I am a more radical free trader now than I used to be; but I Jo not know what that has to do with this business.”’ ; On being shown this statement by Professor Sumner, Senator Marigold, according to a press dispatch from Bridgeport, said: “Then he will not receive my sup- port. To have the Republicans ap- point Professor Sumner on our State Educational Board, would be virtually to endorse his theories. The present - condition of our country is due to the attempt to put into practice such doc- trines as Professor Sumner has long been teaching. He is one of the most formidable obstacles in the way of prosperity and Republicanism. When the unwisdom of his course has been <o plainly shown as it has been dur- ing the past four years; and he in- sists that he is more than ever de- termined to continue teaching his free trade herasias, I think it would be a erave mistake for the Republicans of Connecticut to honor him with a place on the State Board of Education. He will never get my vote.” —_———_~+»—___—_ A bill making it a misdemeanor to play football was introduced into the Pennsylvania legislature last week.
