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| 4 YAEL; “A ToleeeN I W EK LYZ ]} make the effort. And we consider the good naine of the city, and which y A] ALUMNI WHF success which was attained this year menace the future usefulness of the Steins or od ° : 4 as warranting very warm compli- University. y Pi? ments. ape 6@e Ca k d Published ev “« SLL) fH ar Ss. yaa oe 4 during the College Terms and conducted by a Graduate Editor and Assocate error and Assistants from the Board of Editors of é YALE DAILY NEWS. SUBSCRIPTION. = $2.50 PER YEAR. Foreign Postage, 85 cents per year. PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. Checks, drafts and orders should be made payable to the Yale Alumni Weekly. All correspondence should be addressed, Yale Alumni Weekly, New Haven, Conn. ADVISORY BOARD. For College Year, ’96-7: H. C. RoBINson, 753. W. W. Skippy, ‘658. C. P. LINDSLEY, 758. W. Camp, ’80. W. G. DAGGETT, *80. J. R. SHEFFIELD, °87, J. A. HARTWELL, °89S. L. 8S. WELCH, ’89. E. Van INGEN, "91 S P. JAY, '92. EDITOR, LEWIS 8S. WELCH, °89. ASSOCIATE EDITOR, WALTER CAMP, °80. NEWS EDITOR, GRAHAM SUMNER, ’97. ASSISTANTS, H. W. CHAMBERS, °99. D. H. Day, 799. BUSINESS MANAGER, EK. J. THOMPSON. (Office, Room 6, White Hall.) JOHN JAY, 98. Entered as second class matter at New Haven P. O. NEw HAVEN, CONN., FEBRUARY 4, 1897, TO EVERY YALE MAN. It is cne of the most common of all the common experiences of Yale men to be told that their gold will be grate- fully received for this, that, and the other cause of the University. Tt makes no difference what the last be- quest has been. It is always made evident to im that the resources are behind the demands and op- portunities of the day. The whole Yale family is continually considering just what part of their individual in- comes they may with justice to them- selves devote to the support of their alma mater. It is one of the strongest ties tnat bind them. All look for- ward to the time when Yale is wealthy and able to do at least a small per centage of the work which is imme- diately before her. However much may pour into her treasury we shall not soon see this millennial season. These days of grace and business ad- versitiecs certainly do not foreshadow it. So we expect no rebuke but a polite and even willing compliance with our request to listen once more to the old, cld story, and put in what you can as the box goes around. 'This week it is the University fund which comes to you. Everyone ought really to read its letter and everyone ought to con- tribute | according to his means towards it. There is no question that the money is being well used in the service of Yale and there is no doubi that this fund has saved Yale from serious embarrassment and is still needed to help in the almost super- human effort to make the two ends meet. The directors of the fund are those who command every confidence. Really every alumnus can give some- thing and even the smallest gift has much powerful good in influence on others. Re See A re eR Be —“-—- +> > —____—_ THE PROM. SURPLUS, We admire the sincerity and zeal with which the Promenade committee sought to keep the income this year as near aS possible to the expenses of this event, and .it is really refreshing not only to see in these days an enter- prise for which such an effort is neces- sary but also to see men willing to So well has the work thus far been earried, that we sincerely hope the committee will make their whole record good and so wind up the affairs of this event as to leave the “Prom.” management of 1897 a highly worthy example for committees of the future to imitate. This will not be dcue, however, if the committee uses the surplus for the payment of class debits, as has been done in the past. There is no justification in financial ethics for such use of funds of a uni- versity event, not a small part of which are subscribed as for an evetit in which the university has an in- terest. If committees made up of ex- cellent men have in the past followed such a course, the best that can he said for them is that the real relations of financial matters are often not clear to men until they have been taught them by experience or by an observa- tion which a college education gener- ally does not afford. The members of the Promenade committee are trus- tees, in charge of funds whose disposi- tion must be strictly according to the spirit and letter of the terms on which they received the funds. Time was, and within only a few years, when members of the Promenade commit- tees divided the surplus among their own number. Undergraduate’ senti- ment has: improved. It would not tolerate a thing like that to-day. There is a chance for it to go still further ahead. If there turns out to b2 a surplus, the surplus should go to objects in which the whole University has a direct interest. ———__+eo—__—__ YALE AND NEW HAVEN. On last Sunday evening the United church contained a very large audi- ence of the people of New Haven, who had come to listen to the discussion by Prof. George P. Fisher and Prof. Arthur T. Hadley of Yale. The meet- ing was under the auspices of the Mens’ clu of that church, an organi- zution wrich undertakes to carry on Sunday evening meetings which shall be in a general way, discussions of topics of current interest that are soinewhat out of the line followed in the ordinary sermon. These meetings have commanded the services of very excellent speakers and have been largely attended. The discussion Sunday night was on “The Dangers and Safeguards of Our Free Institutions,’ and it is hardly necessary to say to the Yale men who know those who spoke, that it was very instructive and very stimulating. Its net result- could hardly be other than a distinct gain to those who heard it, particularly in their equip- ment for the juties of citizenship, and it was evident that the instruction and suggestions offered so well, and with such evident pleasure by these aistinguished representatives of the Yale Faculty, were appreciatively re- ceived. : That is why we make special men- tion of it to-day. It emphasizes a point which the Weekly touched a few weeks ago. When New Haven meets Yale, it is pretty apt to appreciate her. If Yale and New Haven met oftener in such a way as that of last Sunday evening, and in other of the various avenues of communication between the officers and instructors of the Univer- sity and the people and _ officers of the municipality of which they are a part, there would be such an understanding and such apprecia- tion on the part of each, as to alto- gether eliminate many matters of dis- agreement which now threaten the common peace, which reflect on the MR. HARRINGTON’S ADVICE, We will be pardoned for referring te the advice given to Ninety-four by its secretary in the circular letter issued in the present number of the Weekly. He tells them that henceforth he shall communicate with the Class through the medium of this paper and that it is for those who are not at present in a position to be reached by this communication to make _ the proper connections. That is what the Weekly is here for, and the more Secretaries who use it in this way and the more members of the classes who show their desire to receive class news aS well as other Yale news in this fashion, the better will it carry out its end. <> > i President Eliot does not shirk facts. Ten millions of dollars, he tells the friends of Harvard, is little enough for the successful carrying out of the work that is immediately before Har- vard. —__+eo—___ wmall wonder that the past year at Harvard was one of unusual anxiety in the disciplinary department, when no less than thirty-four students were either sus- pended expelled or otherwise separated from college for such offenses as aggra- vated dishonesty in written work, lying and attempting to buy of a printer some examination papers in advance of the ex- amination. These are rather serious de- linquencies, but it is to be borne in mind that the delinquents were found among nearly 2,000 young men. There are black sheep in every fold, not to mention numerous young men who go wrong by reason of carlessness and recklessness, rather than from a deliberate and vicious purpose. On the who've, the young men at Harvard are pretty well-behaved boys, as boys go.—Boston Herald. The gen us student doesn’t get as fair treatment as that once in a hundred times in the press. - ws a Yale Man Chosen Speaker in Japan. It is announced that Mr. Kazuo Hatoyama, a graduate of the Yale Law School in 1879, has been elected to the speakership of the House of Commons of Japan. Mr. Tokichi Masao, at present studying at the Yale Law School, wrote as follows to the New Haven Register concerning Mr. Hatoyama’s career: “In 1881, Mr. Hatoyama was appointed professor of international and Roman law in the University of Tokio. He retained this position till 1889 and at various in- tervals held the following positions: Dean of the University Law School, director of the Bureau of Law in the Department of Foreign Affairs, member of the Higher Civil Service Commission, etc., etc. In 1889 he resigned all these government )po- sitions, at the same time entering the bar and becoming one of its leaders. In 1894 he was elected to the House of Commons to represent one of the districts of the city of Tokio, and has since been re- garded as the parliamentary leader of his party, the Progressionists. “Mr. Hatoyama’s inaugural address as the speaker of the House is such a con- trast to “inaugural addresses’’ commonly are and is so characteristic of the man himself, that I have thought it worth while to ask you to insert my translation of it in your paper. He said as follows: ** ‘Gentlemen—The precedent established in this House is for a speaker to be in- troduced to the Wouse by the vice- speaker. In the unavoidable absence of the vice-speaker to-day, I take the liberty of placing myself in ‘the speaker’s seat, and introduce myself as speaker. I thave the honor to inform you, gentlemen, that His Imperial Majesty has been pleased to bestow upon me this im- perial patent in confirmance of your choice. I need scarcely say that during the term of my office I shall endeavor to discharge my functions faithfully in ac- cordance with what laws and ordinances command.’ “To the thousands and ten thousands of words used in the inaugural address of each one of those who have preceded Mr. Hatoyama in the speaker’s chair, the above is a remarkable contrast. Beside ‘being the speaker of the House, Mr. Hatoyama is a Railroad Commissioner, a member of the Council of State for the Doctorate Degrees (a council which de- cides who are entitled to doctorate deg- grees and who not), and the president of the Tokio College of Law and Politics. Is it not a fact that Japan, as in many other instances, so also in this instance, has shown her good sense in choosing this worthy Yale man to one of her most honorable positions?’’ as they - your. Nom, In FLEMISH WARE decorated in colors, GERMAN WARE, brown DOULTON, -* blue with College Seal Growlers “Here’s to good old Yale” are shown by * % THE GEORGE H. 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