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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.
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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.
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“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,
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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,
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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.
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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. ~
