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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?’’
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