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.
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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.
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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.”
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A bill making it a misdemeanor to
play football was introduced into the
Pennsylvania legislature last week.
