Votume VI. No. 19.
NEW HAVEN, CONN., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1897.
FOR A NATIONAL CONVENTION,
A Move to Make Alumni Associations
More Effective.
Editor Yale Alumni Weekly:
Sir:—The organization of our alum-
ni associations throughout the coun-
try has done and it doing much _ to
keep up the interest and enthusiasm
of the alumni in the University, but
social reunions sometimes lose _ their
attractions after many repetitions.
Can these organizations not be made
useful in some practical way to the
University, without seriously taxing
the members? Very many alumni,
who take very little, if any, interest
in the social side, would join them and
pay the annual dues, if they felt that
by so doing they were benefiting the
institution.
There are many ways in which this
can be done: :
First, there is the Law Library. Let
the associations of each State arrange
among ctheniselves to supply this
Library with all the State and Federal
reports, digests, revised statutes and
annual session laws of their own
States, not provided for by local as-
sociations. Many of these have _ no
practical value for Law students, but
ought not Yale University’s Law
Library to be made one for legal learn-
ing and research? To these might be
added complete collections of the
charters and ordinances of the differ-
ent cities of the country. If it were
known that such a collection were in
our Library, would it not bring stu-
dents of municipal government to our
University? Nothing will tend to the
development of suitable charters for
our cities so much as the study of the
experiments in this line in the past
and a knowledge of their successes
and failures. |
Secondly, this would furnish means
to supply the University Library with
the past and present annual reports
of the various State governments and
their departments, as also all those
of the United States. The Library
should have complete sets of all these
reports in its Department of Ameri-
ean History.
Thirdly, it would be possible in this
way to secure complete collections by
States of the minerals, &c., of each.
There would be very little expense in
procuring such books, reports, &c., of
recent years, but considerable for the
older editions. The suggestion of the
want may lead to the presentation of
many of the latter by graduates, who
have sets or series of the old volumes.
There can be no harm in making the
suggestion, and once the ball is start-
ed the results will more than justify
the effort.
In order to avoid duplication and
waste of forces, it would be well for
the associations in each State to con-
sult together and divide up the work.
In addition to this, why would it not
be well to arrange for a convention,
at New Haven, of delegates from all
the associations
ment week, to discuss such questions
as the above and see if the ideas can-
not be extended.
For many years part of this has
been done by individuals for certain
States, but is it not time for a sys-
tematic and permanent movement to
be organized?
YALE ’66.
February 6, 1897.
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Reported Gift to Yale.
On the death of Mr. William Lamp-
son, 62, of whom an obituary notice is
printed in another column, the report
has been circulated from his home,
Leroy, N. Y., that a sum of $750,000 or
upwards will come to Yale University.
Mr. Lampson is known to have been a
very wealthy man, and one of the execu-
tors of his will is quoted as saying that
the bulk of his property has been be-
queathed to Yale. No information was
obtainable from the University authori-
ties, up to the time of the WEEKLY
going to press, as the will was not to be
read until after the funeral Wednesday,
Feb. 17, and no official announcement
had yet been made.
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A joint concert of the Yale and Brown
Musical Clubs is to be given in Provi-
dence, R. I., Wednesday, February 24.
It is the first joint college concert that
has been given in Providence: for some
time and every effort is being made to
insure its success.
HARVARD AND YALE.
A Simple and Strong Fivesyear Com=-
| pact in Athletics—How the Agree~
ment was Reached.
f
| A formal agreement for the resump-
‘tion of athletic relations between Har-
vard and Yale was drawn up and
signed last Sunday. by Mr.:W. A.
Brooks, dt. chiara. “8... ane . mar.
Walter Camp, Yale ’80, being the fully
empowered representatives of Harvard
and Yale, respectively. Although it
has been generally understood during
the past week that the reconciliation
was close at hand, no definite in-
formation could be given until the re-
cent meeting of Mr. Brooks and Mr.
Camp had taken place. The main
features of the agreement are. the re-
newal of athletic relations for a perivd
of five years, the requirement that all
events except rawing should take
place upon college grounds, and the
appointment of a graduate committee
of arbitration for the settlement of all
‘disputes.
The text of the agreement follows:
“It is hereby agreed by and between
the Harvard Athletic Committee and
the Yale Athletic Management that
there shall be annual contests in row-
ing, football, baseball and track ath-
letics between the representative or-
ganizations of Yale and Harvard, be-
ginning March 1, 1897, and ending
March 1, 1902, the details of these con-
tests to be left to the managers and
captains.
‘Tt is also agreed that all contests,
with the exception of rowing races,
shall take place on college grounds,
and that the net gate receipts shall
be equally divided between the two
contesting organizations.
“This agreement is conditional upon
the appointment on or before April 1,
1897, of a committee to consist of one
graduate of each university to whom
shall be referred all disagreements in
any way relating to athletics and all
questions of eligibility. The decision
of this committee to be final.
“Tn case of a disagreement between
the members of this committee it
shall have the power to call upon a
third person to settle the particular
question in dispute.
“Owing to Harvard’s present boat-
ing agreement, Yale is willing to make
a third party in the Harvard-Cornell
race at Poughkeepsie in 1897 if Har-
vard so arranges.
“Yale is to be definitely informed of
the decision regarding and the date
of the race on or before March 1,
1897.
“Tf the race for 1897 is arranged
Yale is to have the privilege of nam-
ing either Poughkeepsie or New Lon-
don for the race of 1898, the races of
succeeding years to be governed by
the main body of this agreement. If
the race of 1897 is not arranged, that
failure shall in no wise affect the gen-
eral agreement, and the place for the
race of 1898 shall then be governed by
the terms of the general agreement.”
This settlement of the athletic diffi-
culties between Yale and Harvard,
originating at the time of the footbeli
game in the Fall of 1894, is regarded
by all parties familiar with the facts
of the case as a most Satisfactory ar-
rangement. In order to _ bring it
about it was necessary for both col-
leges to yield certain points, which
