Votume VI. No. 18.
NEW HAVEN, CONN., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1897.
THE NEWS EDITORS.
Officers of °98 Board—Work of the
Past Year.
A meeting of the Ninety-eight News
Board was held for organization on
Monday afternoon, February 8, and a
chairman and business manager were
elected to hold office for the ensuing
year. Julian Starkweather Mason, ’98,
of Chicago, Ill., was elected chairman,
and Frederick Ely Williamson, ’98, of
Cleveland, O., business manager. The
Ninety-eight Boerd will formally take
control of the paper after the annual
banquet, which is to be held on
Wednesday, February 17.
Mr. Mason, the new chairman, is the
son of E. G. Mason, ’60. Three broth-
ers, before him, have been editors of
the News, H. E. Mason, ’89, HE. H.
Mason, ’92, and R. B. Mason, ’°95. Of
these H. FE. Mason and R. B. Mason
were chairmen of their respective
boards.
The members of the Ninety-eight
News Board received their elections as
follows: John Jay, New York City,
Darius Edward Peck, New York City,
and Julian S. Mason, Chicago, [IIl.,
February, 1895. Robert Harvey Gay,
Burlington, Vt. and Alexander Ingersol
Lewis, Detroit, Mich., June, 1895. John
Shillito Rogers, New York City, David
Frameis Rogers, New Caanan, Conn.,
and Fred. Ely Williamson, Cleveland,
O., February, 1896. Henry King Smith,
New York City, June, 1896.
RECENT CHANGES.
The Weekly published last year an
article entitled, “How the News is
Run,’ which dwelt at some length up-
on the manner of getting out the Yale
Daily News and Yale Alumni Weekly.
During the past year several changes
have been made in the management Of
these papers.
The Ninety-seven board instituted a
radical change in the election of two
chairmen to take charge respectively
of the News Department and the Edi-
torial Department of the paper. As
these are entirely separate and inde-
pendent fields for work, each chair-
man could give sole attention, with-
out distraction, to his especial depart-
ment of work. This arrangement has
worked in general very well, although
it has never been able to rid itself of
the natural drawbacks of any system
that does not put the entire responsi-
bility one one man.
A change has also been made in the
system of competition. In previous
years the “heelers’” have been re-
quired to hand in work to both the
LTaily News and the Yale Weekly at
the same time. The Ninety-seven
management originated the scheme of
separating the work, The college year
trad already been divided into two
periods of competition of eighteen
y.eeks each. The ‘“heelers’’ were now
@1vided into three divisions, each to
work six weeks, or one-third of the
entire time, upon the Weekly, and
twelve weeks upon the News. This
not only greatly simplified the work
of the contributcrs, but afforded the
editors a ketter chance to find out
through personal contact how deserv-
ing the individual contributors were
to become editors. =
The system of crediting has contin-
ued to develop in the line of giving
credit for the quality rather than
quantity of the work. This is especial-
ly true with Weekly work. An article
which is well and carefully prepared
often gains credit of two or three times
the number of words it contains :
R.
F. C. Yeomans, ’9%7.
A, B. Kerr, °97,
G. P. Day,.’97.
[Reprinted, by permission, from the Yale Banner.]
THE RETIRING NEWS BOARD.
S. Hincks, ’97. & Sumner, 97. R.C. Gilmore, 97. T.M. Brown, 97. C. R. Hemenway, ’97.
F. T. Murphy, ’97.
F. W. Pyle, ’97.
A year ago the number of: editors
upon each class board was reduced
from ten to nine. This change elimin-
ated the chance of a tie vote upon
any question, and tended to give more
responsibility to each editor. The ad-
visability of reducing the Board to a
still smaller number is now being dis-
cussed, but it is improbable that such
a step will be taken in the immediate
future.
The YVale-Harvard Debate.
The following subject has been sub-
mited by Harvard for the debate with
Yale on March 26th: ‘‘Resolved, That
the United States should adopt defi-
nitively the single gold standard and
should decline to enter a bimetallic
league even if Great Britain, France
and Germany should be _ willing to
enter such a league.” The Yale officials
have not yet decided which side of the
question to take.
The first prelimirary trials for the
Academic Department wil be held on
February 23 and 24. Speeches on this
trial will be limited to six minutes,
and speakers will be given their choice
of sides.
On the preliminary trials thirteen
men will be chosen to compete on the
final trials, to be held ‘n. March 1.
On this trial each man will be allowed
twelve minutes, and the Yale-Harvard
debaters will be chosen from six Aca-
demic, three Law School, two “Sheff.”
and two Divinity School men, who
will be allowed to compete in the
finals.
w=
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Greenway, 1900, and Greenleaf, ’99S.,
mee vont taken on the University crew
“Ua ° 7
lation of
FIGURES ON OQPTIONALS.
Wale and Harvard Educational Sys-
tems Reduced to Statistics.
On the basis of the completed tabu-
the elective and required
courses of the Academical Department
for the present college year, the fol-
lowing figures have been computed.
The present Senior class has dis-
tributed its work during the last two
years of its course among the thirteen
various departments of study in the
following proportion (the percentage in
brackets indicates the similar distribu-
tion in the ‘class of 1886.):—
Mental and Moral Science, 20.9, (19);
Political Science, 26.1, (7.33); History,
20.8, (5); Huropean Languages, ex-
cept English, 8.7.(21); English, 6.7 (11.9);
Biblical Literature, 1.8 (0); Ancient
Languages, 3.1 (5.5); Natural and
Physical Sciences, 9.1 (15.4); Art, 0.8
(0.1); Music, 0.4 (0); Physical Culture,
0.02 (0); Military Science, 0.07 (0). It is
seen from
these figures that the
present graduating class has in its
last two years given greater attention
‘to the study of history and political
science than did the class of 18,6; they
have given about the same amount of
time to the study of philosophy, and
much less to that of the ancient and
mcdern languages, of mathematics and
the sciences, while the new depart-
ments of biblical literature, art.
music, etc., created during the past
ten years, have attracted them but
little.
This change in the distribution of
their work in Junior and Senior years
is, of course, largely due to the fact
that many studies which were for-
merly pursued in those years have now
been pushed back into Freshman and
Sophomore years. The following
table takes this fact into account. It
gives the total number of hours of
instruction, by recitation, lecture or
in the labratories (counting a two-
hour laboratory exercise as the equiva-
lent of one hour’s instruction) given to
the members of the two classes, 1897
and 1896, during their four years in
college.
Per Cent.
Subject Hours 1897. 1886.
PRALGSODAY. Vien vs bak use ROL: OT 9.1
Political Science........ 75,207 12.7 8.5
Histery sis Bs ee 16.2 7.2
European Languages.. 85,173 14.4 10.
WUNSTISH 8s. hk ve ee . 48,147 8.2 9.2
Biblical Literature...... 5,214 0.9 00.
OLS GSES Fo5 iS, vn Vena dt 24.1 34.8
Seiences ........ evctsane eee 8.9 7.4
Mathematics ..........02 57,980 9.7 18.8
MPD hae ee ct igsis. , Spee 0.4 0.05
EE eb ow ee swiss oc Le 0.2 00.
Physical Culture ....... 66 0.01 00
Military Scienee....... a: 231 (0.04. 00
It is seen from this table that the
amount of time given by the class of
1897 to lectures, recitations and
similar college exercises during i‘s
course foots up to nearly 600,000 hours,
or, to be exact, to 73 years, 2 months
and 1 day. The education of the typi-
cal Ninety-seven man consists then,
one-quarter of classics; one-seventh of
French and German; one-eighth of
political science; about one-tenth each