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ADVISORY BOARD.
For College Year, ’96-7:
H. C. Rosrnson, 53. J. R. SHEFFIELD, ‘87,
W. W. Skippy, ‘65S. J. A. HARTWELL, °89S.
Cc. P. Linpsuey, 75S. L. 8. Wetcn, ’89.
W. Camp, 80. EK. VAN INGEN, ‘91 S.
W. G. DaaGerr, 80. P. Jay, 92.
EDITOR,
LEwWIs 8S. WELCH, ’89.
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ASSOCIATE EDITOR,
WALTER CAMP, ’80.
NEWS EDITOR,
GRAHAM SUMNER, ’97.
ASSISTANTS,
JOHN JAY, °98, H. W. CHAMBERS, ’99.
R. W. CHANDLER, 1900.
BUSINESS MANAGER,
E. J. THOMPSON, Sp.
(Office, Room 6, White Hall.)
Entered as second class maiter at New Haven P. O.
NEw HAVEN, CONN., FEBRUARY 18, 1897,
THE HARVARD AGREEMENT.
There is no use in trying 1o express
at any length the feeling which is uni-
versal in the Yale family over the rati-
fication of the treaty of peace with
Harvard's athletic management,
Things are now simply as they always
should be, and as they always would
have been if the desires of the great
majority in both colleges and in both
graduate lists could be always and at
once effective. Whatever one’s opin-
ion of the incident which separated
Yale and Harvard, or the responsibil-
ity for the alienation, the opinion was
held without dissent that nothing had
happened which cculd justify the sep-
aration. —
There is always a compensation, and
the great enthusiasm with which the
two universities meet again is of
course largely the result. of their dis-
content over this forced separation,
and in so far as it promises the con-
duct of their future relations on a
more liberai basis, and in a more
thorough spirit of fair play and sport
for sport’s sake, by so much _ the
separation will have been proved a
blessing in diszuise.
The provision of the beard of appeal,
which should be constituted from men
of the highest starding at both Har-
vard and Yale, is perhaps the most
valuable feature ; of the new regime. It
makes almost impossible any serious
breach.
As to the boating program, in which
we are still left in some doubt, we
believe that the issue will be satis-
factory. One cannot have any serious
objection to meeting another college
on the water, when it is understood
that Yale meets such college incident-
ally and not as a part of a plan to
contest indefinitely the claim of supe-
riority. We wish that such institu-
tions as Cornell, who have from time
to time expressed a desire to meet
Yale, which has not been satisfied,
could see more clearly than we be-
lieve they do, the reasons for Yale’s
unwillingness to enter into permanent
athletic relations with these colleges.
It is simply a physical necessity to
restrict the principal athletic contests
to one, or at most two rivals, whom
location and previous relations with)
us indicate as our natural antagonists. |
Without overdoing athletics, no col-
lege can meet all the good crews of
the East, nor all the good football
teams, nor all the good baseball nines. ,
It is possible for all the colleges to
come together in track events, and.
very pleasant.
However, with the understanding
clear that it is for the time being, and
only as an incident of a necessary pro-
gram, to meet such a worthy aquatic
foe as Cornell would be a pleasure.
Should Yale win from her, Yale men
would be pleased, but this University
would not thereby make claims to any
particular superiority. Should Cornell
win, no one would begrudge her all
the satisfaction which it would bring
her.
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A CONVENTION OF ALUMNI ASSO-
CIATIONS.
A letter from Yale ’66 published to-
day will, we hope, result in something
more than an interesting reading of it
by the
ment of the work of the alumni asso-
alumni.
ciations to say that the zeal and devo-
tion, which they express whenever oc-
casion offers to their Alma Mater has
never been directed as effectively in
practical assistance to the institution
as it might reasonably be expected it
would be. This by
include all associations,
any
means, but
is a statement that is generally true.
The national convention to organize
and direct the energy in practical lines
would be, it seems to us, a most val-
does not,
uable step.
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THE SIGNERS.
The fact that their names were at-
tached to the final instrument is not in
itself sufficient ground for especial con-
gratulations to Dr. William A. Brooks,
of Harvard, and Mr. Walter Camp, of
Yale. Signers are not always the men
who make ready the important thing
signed. In this case, however, it was
so, and the signers of the compact were,
for all practical purposes, the makers
thereof.
One of these signers and framers hap-
pens to be the associate editor of this’
paper. Never mind. It is not always
necessary to consider the personal feel-
ings of such an officer or indeed to pay
any attention to him. It is necessary
to give the history of such an important
matter as the reconciliation of Harvard
and Yale, and it is a privilege which
the WEEKLY refuses to abandon, out of
any false sense of modesty, to empha-
size the way in which this good thing
was accomplished.
Dr. Brooks and Mr. Camp have done
an unusual service for their respective
universities. It is not necessary to say
that they alone could have brought
about this result. It is not necessary to
say much about it. They did it. They
practically ‘‘did the trick” twice, and
in the opinion of those who watched
with care the long negotiations after
the first paper, drawn by these gentle-
men, had failed of confirmation, the
final salvation of the whole matter, ina
compact so eminently fair and reason-
able, was a far greater achievement
than the first understanding reached
between them.
It is without prejudice to the services
of many on both sides, both graduate
and undergraduate, who co-operated in
this matter, that so much credit is given
to these two men. It is true that some
conditions were very favorable. The
students and graduates of both univer-
sities wanted the agreement almost to a
man. But that does not mean any-
thing, necessarily, when it comes to
It is no disparage-.,
~
making agreements. You can make
fun of intercollegiate diplomatic diffi-
culties, but they are very real things.
The whole incident is, by the way, an
interesting study in the management of
inter-collegiate athletics.
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A MEXICAN ALUMNI ASSOCIATION,
It takes a close and anxious mem-
ory to set forth any instances of the
decease or collapse of Yale alumni
associations. He who runs may read
every season the story of some new
association formed in territory not be-
fore fully occupied by an organiza-
tion. On irregular occasions Yale men
do get together even in foreign coun-
tries, but we believe the proposed
formation of a Mexican Alumni Asso-
ciation is something rather unique.
We wish it all possible success. May
it be an effective member of the army
already highly organized and infused
With a magnificent spirit, though not
often campaigning on the aggressive.
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A BREAK.
The Bachelor of Arts has a great
many excellent things, and most of
the things are so. It will take a great
many things that are both excellent,
and are so, to make up for such a Slip
as occurs in its editorial notes of Feb-
‘ruary. Perhaps it is well to repro-
duce the entire paragraph:—
“The profound seriousness with
which athletics are taken at Yale
is shown in the condemnation of a
team of football players using the
name of Yale in a Southern trip dur-
ing the Christmas holidays. They
were Yale students, and they did not
pretend to call themselves the ’Varsity
team. We can see no harm in their
amusing themselves in playing foot-
ball as they pleased, with whom they
pleased. But though they succeeded
very well, they were mercilessly
pounced upon by Harper’s Weekly and
»the Yale News, as if they had been out
on an expedition for the avowed pur-
pose of slinging mud at their Alma
Mater.”
The “profound seriousness’? referred
to is the seriousness with which Yale
men guard the gcod name of the Uni-
versity, to confound which with a
merely sensitive regard for Yale’s ath-
letic reputation shows carelessness of
fact, ‘ack of observation and flippan-
cy. An attitude like
preface for the clear misstatement at
both ends of the second sentence of
the paragraph. The eleven was not
an eleven of Yale students. Only one
was connected with the University,
and only four had ever had any -such
connection... They were advertised
broadcast as the Yale eleven. Sen-
tence number three is as irrelevant as
its predecessors are untrue. The con-
clusion of this pathetically complete
break of the Bachelor of Arts is con-
sistent. It is a wonder that anyone
objected to this performance!
sure. The Football Association should
have supplied this | band with
men and means for an_ indefinite
junket, rather than that anyone
should have criticised.
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Bronze Tablet for Brown.
The Rhode Island Society of Sons
of the American Revolution has pre-
sented Brown University with a large
bronze tablet, which has been placed
in the northwestern corner of Uni-
versity Hall. The tablet commemo-
rates the occupation of that building
by the Patriotic forces. and _ their
French allies during the Revolution-
ary War. For six years all academic
work of che University was suspend-
ed. The Faculty, students and under-
zraduates, with hardly an exception,
were engaged in the service of their
ecuntry.
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The University Glee Club of New
York City, composed of college gradu-
ates, will give its second concert of the
sesson on Thursday, April 29th, in the
MacGison Square Garden Concert Hall.
{this is a fit: -
To be —
Steins or 3: :
aaus Cankards.
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colors, GERMAN
WARE, brown
DOULTON, -% blue
with College Seal
Growlers “‘Here’s to
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COMPANY.
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In the College Pulpit.
The following preachers will oc-
cupy the College pulpit during the
winter term:
February 21—Rev. William K. Hall,
D. D., pastor of First Presbyterian
church of Newburgh, N. Y.
February 28—Rev. Alexander Mc:
Kenzie, pastor of Shepard Memorial
church of Cambridge, Mass.
March 7—Rev. Prof. Robert Ellis
Thompson, of Philadelphia.
March 14—Rev. Chauncey W. Good-
rich, of Orange, N. J, .
March 21—President M. W. Stryker,
of Hamilton College.
March 28—Rev. Henry A. Stimson,
of. New York City.
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John D. Wombacher, ’97, has been
elected captain of the University of
Michigan eleven for next Fall.
The Yale basket ball team was de-
feated by the Twenty-third Street
Branch of the Y. M. C. A., Saturday
night, February. 13, by a score of 26-3.
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