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‘3 NI WEEKLY BOATING PLAN SETTLED. Yale-Harvard-Cornell Race Finally Arranged. The plans for the coming boating sea- son were definitely settled at a confer- ence held in New York, Saturday after- noon, February 20. It was decided that the Yale-Harvard-Cornell race should be rowed at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., on June 24th or 25th, the decision being left to Harvard. It was also agreed to hold the race between the Freshman crews representing the three universi- ties on June 23d. The regatta commit- tee, which will govern these contests, will probably be composed of one man from each University. The referee will he selected later. This conference was held in conse- quence of correspondence which passed between Harvard and Cornell last week. In accordance with the agreement drawn up between the Yale and Har- vard Athletic managements, something over a week ago, in regard to the boat- ing plans for the coming season, Har- vard immediately took steps towards obtaining Cornell’s permission to allow Yale to become a third party to their race. A letter was received on Febru- ary 16 by the Cornell Navy Manage- ment, dated February 14, the very day upon which the Yale-Harvard agree- ment was signed, in which special at- tention was called to the following clause in the agreement: “Yale is will- ing to make a third party in the Har- vard-Cornell race at Poughkeepsie in 1897, if Harvard so arrange.” The letter then continued: ‘‘We therefore propose 10 you to admit Yale as a party to our race this year.’’ The entire freedom of Cornell to act in the matter just as she might see fit was fully and frankly recognized. Harvard undertook neither to urge nor advise. She did not claim that Cornell was in any way bound by obligation to Harvard or even in courtesy to Harvard to accept the prop- osition. The letter said: ‘“‘We know perfectly well that we have no right to ask this of you, and that even the most unselfish courtesy would not re- quire it of you.” The despatch of this letter from the Harvard Management was followed by the arrival of Capt. Goodrich of the Harvard crew in Ithaca. He held a consultation. with Commodore Murdock and Professor Wheeler of Cornell, which lasted over two hours, and finally an affirmative answer was drawn up by the Cornell Management. The exact wording of the reply follows: “We are in receipt of the proposal of the Harvard Boat Club that Yale be admitted to the Harvard-Cornell race this year. We cordially accept this proposal, and proffer the counter re- quest that the University of Pennsyl- vania and Columbia be admitted to the Same race. In case such an arrange- ment be made, the date, July 2 or June 25, will be acceptable to Cornell for the race,’’ The final decision was made at last Saturday’s conference, at which Captain Goodrich of Harvard, Professor B. I. Wheeler of Cornell, I. A. Cowles of Co- lumbia and Thomas Reathe of the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania were present. Cornell’s reply to Harvard’s proposition was here considered and Mr. Goodrich stated that owing to Havard’s agree- ment with Yale, the proposed five-cor- nered race would be out of the ques- tion. The agreement for a Yale-Har- vard-Corneli race was then easily reached and the dates arranged as stat- ed above. Cornell later arranged to. row a race at Poughkeepsie with Columbia and the University of Pennsylvania, July 2. thn tdi wer Handball Club. Handball is the latest athletic sport to which Yale men have turned their attention and several very good play- ers have been discovered in the Uni- versity. A court has already been provided, located in the boxing room of the gymnasium, and it is the plan of the members of the club to hold tcurnaments sometime during the Spring term. Dr. W. G. Anderson, director of the gymnasium, is an earnest supporter of the game, and believes that im winter it will do much towards keeping the athletes, who are candidates for the regular teams, in good condition. At the meeting held to organize a regular club about forty undergradu- ates were present, and the following committee was elected to have charge of the permanent organization and constru:tion of the new court: W. R. Letcher, ’98, C. M. Gallup, ’97S., W. Noyes, ’98, EF. Crampton, 1900, C. A. . Burden, and H. G. Watson. Senior Awakening. (N. A. Smyth, ’97, in the Yale “ Lit.’’”) Common sense, then, must not rob us of these dreams. They should not van- ish as we pass into manhood, but grow more real. Our purpose should grow | firmer with the years. Experience may teach us where our bias lies: it is a blind guide if it would put a limit around our effort. It should teach not the confines of our cell, but the loop-_ hole of escape. If the purpose of the. boy had remained strong as he passed into manhood, the rock would sooner or later have yielded to his strength. We are weak not in power but in pur- pose. We are limited not from with- out, but from within. The real tether is twisted of three strands, lack of faith, lack of purpose, lack of deter-. mination; lack of power is but the. combination of these three. There is much truth in the remark of the great pessimist that the more SO- ciable a man is the more intellectually poor and generally vulgar you will find him. Examine those you know and see if much of their sociability is not a mere huddling together to find in each other’s company a warmth which their own intellectual rags and tatters are not able to provide. But it is with a more positive effect of mixing with so- ciely that we are concerned now. . Why is it that most of us lose SO early that aspiration for greatness, that yearning to surpass ourselves and oth- ers, which is one of the noblest forces in humanity? It is because the voice of the world around us—the common sense—deafens us to the higher call. True, the association of men with men lies at the base of all the world’s ad- vance. Man calls to man in notes of encour- agement and stimulation, yet there are other louder tones that distract and re- strain. Take heed that you hear the fainter call. The voice of humanity urges us On, and in the same breath it holds us back. In the pleasures of com- panionship our dreams fade away. As we mix with men our eyes foilow theirs, till we are all staring vacantly at one another instead of at some far-off goal. We seek not our dream of greatness but the esteem of our fellows. Our education instead of development of power becomes an endeavor to pick up a superficial culture wherewith we may make ourselves fit to be talked to at some social function. We try to amass information rather than to learn to think. Read the magazines of to- day and see how gifted men are, writ- ing not to achieve an ideal of greatness but to truckle to the popular gullet. Dainty fancies and spicy sentences, but not a trace of honest, earnest effort for what is really worthy! In what ball- room ever originated anything but pet- ty diplomacy or in the companionship of the saloon what but ‘peanut poli- tics?” “Find me your great man and I will show you one who is much alone” —an old truth—and no less true that in mingling overmuch with others we are becoming incapable of greatness. These old dreams of ours! Many a bitter struggle they have caused us, and will cause yet if we cling to them. Many a man will think us moody and unpleasant, for discouragement and dis- appointment are the pacemakers of an aspiring soul. Much pleasure they are to deprive us of, for who ever was truly great that did not work? Yet they hold up before us something nobler, more worthy of us than mere pleasure. The voices of those around us, our own im- mediate comfort, the overwhelming sense of our limitations, bid us wake from our dreams. Aye, wake we must, Sooner or later—hbut wake not to sad remembrance, but to fashion the reality after the pattern of our dream. <td ~~ “The Crime of °97,” (Yale Record.) That flighty old female, Dame Rumor, was right for once in sowing broadcast the seeds of consternation and terror when she spread what the Owl hoped was an unfounded report, that the Day of Prayer was to be abolished. Not only did the Campus residents wear a dejected and mourn- ful air, but the news came to us that in Darkest Sheff, the list of utter pros- trations was growing daily. Nothing but the calcium light of history will ever be able to reveal the dubious and Shady means by which the “crime of 97” stalked through the congress of deacons with the stealthy tread of a cat. The devacationizing of Sheff, is not by any means as simple a matter as this assembly seems to think, and the Owl ventures to prophesy that it will go grumbling down the ages until Sheff. Libre, well organized, and with the smouldering fires of injured inno- cence bursting into flames of courage arises in its might and demands the rights of independence. regularly on the harbor. ATHLETIC PROSPECTS, - Winter Work of the Various Organ- izations. It is impossible as yet to obtain any accurate idea regarding the prospects of the University Base Ball nine this spring. Candidates for the battery po- Sitions were called out some two or three weeks ago and have been gradu- ally cut down from thirty-five at the outset to the present number, seventeen. The most promising catchers are De Forest, ’97; Turnbull, ’98, and Hecker, "99, who played this position on their respective class teams, while of the new men, Goodwin, Davis and Sullivan have shown up the best so far. The leading candidates for pitcher are Hamilin, Hall, Dunn, Betts, Alexander, Wallace and Stuart. The old University men began their work Tuesday, February 23. The fol- lowing members and substitutes on pre- vious teams are now in college: Letton, Greenway, Murphy, Bartlett, Hazen, de Saulles, Keator and Fincke. All the candidates for the nine were called out this week. About eighty candidates for the Freshman team are now in training un- der the charge of F. H. Simmons, ’98. They have been at work over a week in the cage. The University crew candidates have been steadily at work since January 20. They numbered thirty-two at the out- set, and for three days were able to row on the harbor, but the snow and ice soon forced them to work entirely in the tank, until February 11. Since that date the crew has been rowing again The coaching has been done entirely by. Capt. Bailey, until last Monday, February 22, when J. M. Longacre, 96, came up and spent some time with the crew. The men are doing fairly well for this time of the year, although their work is still very ragged. The candidates have now been cut down to about eighteen men. The last four places in the boat are the only ones that have been filled by the same men with any degree of regu- larity. The following men have filled them during the past two weeks: No. 8, Simpson, 797; No. 7, Langford, ’97 S.; No. 6, Whitney,.’98; No. 5, Bailey, ’97. The remaining positions are very uncer- tain, the various candidates — being changed about in a different order each day. The training table will be started earlier this year than usual owing to the fact that the work has been consid- erably harder. There are somewhat over one hundred men now in training for the track ath- letic team. Their work has consisted purely of outdoor running for the long distance men and indoor practice in starting for the sprinters. This winter work serves rather to keep the men in good muscular condition than to aid them very much in their running, as no accurate judgment can be formed of a man’s ability in that line until he has had a fair chance on the outdoor track. An unusual number of small competi- tive games will be held this year in the gymnasium and individual runners, as well as relay teams, are being sent out to compete in games of other associa- tions, in order that the men may be- come accustomed to rnnning in com- petition. Much of the work in the training of new men is supervised this year by the more experienced men, so that more accurate count can be kept of each man’s improvement, en ti de ee Reunion of Ninety-two. There will be a reunion of the Class of 1892 at “The Circle,’’ corner of Highth avenue and Fifty-eighth street, New York City, on Saturday, February 27, at 7 p. m. An informal supper will be served, at a total cost (including drinks, cigars, etc.) of $1.50. Notices have been sent to every Ninety-two man in or near New York, whose address could be obtained; but you are earnestly requested to urge upon any others you may know of the necessity of putting in an appear- ance. It is hoped that these little meetings may become regular occurrences, and tend to keep alive in us all that good fellowship which so characterized the Class during our College life. Please reply as soon as possible to Alfred H. Swayne, 120 Broadway, Nw York City. PIERRE JAY, GEORGE B. HOLLISTER, ALFRED H. SWAYNE, Committee. Even if you are very particular, we are not troubled. We like it. Our particular aim is to suit par- ticular people. EXEMPLI GRATIA: We have Six Hundred pieces,—all different patterns,—for Colored Shirts. You can have your pick now, but they are being gobbled up. Samples? Yes: we'll mail you scores of them, with pleasure. Don’t you want something nice in Rugby ties? Drop in on, or drop a line to: CHASE & CO., New Haven House Building. The Yale News Banquet. The twentieth annual banquet of the Yale Daily News was .held at Heu- bleins Cafe, Wednesday evening, Feb- ruary 17, and the control of the paper was then formally handed over to the Ninety-eight board. About seventy were present, including many invited guests. Unusual interest was furnished by the presence of representatives from both the Harvard and. Princeton college papers, each of whom made speeches after the banquet. This was the first time that these universities had been represented at a Yale News banquet and the time was most opportune, as it came in the wake of the final recon- ciliation between Yale and Harvard. Toasts were responded to as indicated in the last issue of the Weekly, except that C. W. Wells, 796, took the place of Prof. W. L. Phelps, as representing the Faculty. After the banquet an informal smoker was held. The list of invited guests follows: Soop. Bapeock, jr, “87, PP. He Bailes, 97, T. M. Barnes, ’97, L. M. Bass, ’97, BH. W. Beattie, 95, C. W. Beers, ’97 S., J. W. Best, ’97S., McKinley Boyle, 97, E. H. Brewer, ’°97 S., R. S. Brewster, 97, G. C. Brooke, ’97, Walter Camp, 20, T. L. Clarke, ’97, C. F. Clemons, 95, FX. M. Crosby, ’97, M. J. Dodge, ’98, ‘A F, Draper, 97; C. M. Fincke,. "97, TE. E. Garrison, ’97, J. G. Gerhard, ’97, C. Gillette, 97, G. C. Greenway, Jr., °98S., WF. R: Griffith, '97S.; H. T. Halbert, 95, F. N. Jessup of the Princetonian, A.B: Judd, 707,.0,.2. Judd, 797, Hs M- Keator, ’°97, C. P. Kitchel, °97, Knox Maddox, ’97, J. MacGregor, $7) 23h; > Ae. L. Munger, ’97, S. Paterson, ’97, C. F. Prescott of the Harvard Crimson, A. R. E. Pinchot, 97, N. A. Smyth, OT, i622. Thompson, R. de P. Tytus, "OT > ie. S. Welch, ’89, C. W. Wells, "06, 362: A Wells, 97, J. 8. Wheelwright, 2d, °97, N. A. Williams, ’97. ath, Lip Res An age A New Y.M. C. A. Secretary. Mr. Wm. H. Sallmon, ’94, who has acted as general secretary of the Yale Young Men’s Christian Association for the past three years, has accepted a call to the secretaryship of the Aus- tral-Asian Christian Union, a union corresponding to the Young Men’s Christian Association in this country. Mr. Sallmen’s field of labor will be among the colleges of Austral-Asia, New Zealand and Tasmania, where he will organize and supervise the Chris- tian work, with headquarters at Syd- ney, New South Wales. He expects io sail in June, and will be away from this country two years. He then plans to return and study for the de- gree of Ph.D. at Yale. After that he will devote his life to the teaching of the Einglish Bible in colleges. Mr. Sallmon was president of the Young Men’s Christian Association here in his Senior year, and his three years’ services since graduation have been followed with marked success in the definite line of his work. Mr. Thomas F. Archbald, ’96, who has been studying at the Auburn The- ological Seminary, has accepted the invitation from the graduate cOmmit- tee, who have charge of the Christian work here, to take Mr. Sallmon’s place and act as general secretary during the coming year. Mr. Archbald was a deacon of his class and president of the Young Men’s Christian Assoc?a- tien durine his Senior year. ~
