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NEw HAVEN, CONN., FEBRUARY 25, 1897.
A PRINCELY GIFT.
The verification of the good report of last
week, that Yale had been made the principal
beneficiary under the will of one of her grad-
uates of large means, makes the news from
LeRoy the most important of this college
year, and makes this year one of the most
memorable in the modern history of the Uni-
versity. Great riches have of late been poured
into the lap of some of the other universities
of America, but these princely benefactions are
very rare events for Yale. It isa particularly
unusual experience for the University to re-
ceive such agiftin sucha peculiarly acceptable
form. The provision for an Alumni Hall is
only the carrying out of the wishes of all the
friends of Yale, and the appropriation of the
rest of the fortune to the strengenthing of
most important branches of academic learn-
ing, is a means for the developing of the very
constitution of Yale.
The figures of the financial value of the
gift, given in this issue of the Weekly, are ob-
tained from the university officers and repre-
sent their best estimates of the value of the
property.
Of the man who has thus become one of
Yale’s greatest benefactors, and of the influ-
ences which made the hold of his alma mater
upon him so strong and which are therefore all
the more impressed upon the men of to-day,
who guide Yale,as the very essence of her spirit
and the principles cf her highest policy, we
can say no more than has been said in another
part of this paperin the letter of the Hon.
Daniel H. Chamberlain. For his tribute to
William Lampson, in the name of the sons of
Yale, we give him our thanks. To his earnest
prayer, as he closes his letter, we add our
fervent Amen.
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THE BOAT RACE.
Cornell’s answer to Harvard, in the matter
of the boat race, was courteous, generous and
manly. The highest requirements of the
fairest and most liberal ideas of sport could
not have dictated anything better than that.
A great many Yale men will undoubtedly be»
genuinely sorry that Yale’s boating policy did
not allow for the acceptance of the counter-
proposition. Probably Harvard’s ideas of the
right kind of a boat race did not allow for
such a contest. But ifit could have been, it
would have been most acceptable to a lot of
people, who don’t pretend to know anything
about what is oris not ideally the best aquatic
contest, but who want Yale to take every
chance to show a friendly good will to all
American colleges. We all know, however,
that Yale’s course in this matter has been
taken in the full conviction that itis neces-
sary to the preservation and development of
THE WORD * COED,’’
The following editorial appeared not
long ago in the Daily Palo Alto, the
journal of the Leland Stanford Uni-
versity:
“We wish to enter a protest against
the use that is made of the word
‘co-ed’ in referenec to the women stu-
dents of the University. Only this
week there came among our exchanges
a paper containing a half-tone cut of
Roble gymnasium, to which was ap-
pended the title: ‘Co-eds’ Gymnasium
on the Campus.’ No one who rightly
understands the origin and significance
of the term would think of applying
it to a single part of the students of
this University; in an etymological
sense, perhaps, all are ‘co-eds,’ as wom-
en here are accorded the same priv-
ileges and opportunities as men and
on an equal footing. But we can not
hope that a literal interpretation of
the term is always intentioned. The
time has not yet come when all re-
membrance of its origin and of the cir-
cumstances which gave rise to it are
forgotten. So it is incumbent upon
us to discountenance as far as possible
its use.”
There was something in this which
was not clear. Some would view its
indirectness and incompleteness as
only a part of the blindness of phrase-
ology which sometimes marks college
editorial utterances, when they are on
subjects which have real importance
in the editorial mind. This explana-
tion did not satisfy the Weekly. It is
not given to any such uncomplimen-
tary construction of Palo Alto editor-
ials. Therefore investigations were
pushed in the immediate vicinity of
the Palo Alto’s home with zeal for a
space of time. Discoveries have been
made, but no satisfactory solution of
the editorial invective could be found.
It may have indirectly something to
do with it; that those called ‘‘co-eds’”’
in the California colleges do not like
the appellation. They say that they
wish to be known simply as the wom-
en students of the University. Some
of them—we trust a small minority—
have insisted on the official and for-
mal use of the word ‘“‘ladies,’’ and have
succeeded at one of the universities in
having the women’s lunch and retiring
room called the ‘‘Ladies’ Room.’’ This
is certainly bad, and, without involv-
ing ourselves or straining diplomatic
usage, it should be perfectly proper to
xpress the hope that the women stu-
dents may triumph over the ladies.
And it would be gallant to add that
we hoped that they would altogether
rout those of the other sex who insist
on the use of the word “co-eds.” But
there is no use in expressing vain
hopes, and we expect to see many
imposible things, before this can be.
The word is already strengthened in
usage by the support of a counterpart,
the name “ed’’ being used on the Pa-
cific Slope to designate a student who
isn’t a co-ed—to wit, a man student.
Things are even worse than this, and
the words “ed” and “co-ed” are used
as common designations of sex, not
alone in the human family. ‘‘Where
the development will stop,’ said a
traveler who has watched etymology
much in California universities, ‘no
ed but a philologist can sgsay.’’
It is pleasant that there are no such
problems here at Yale. It does not
seem to make any difference what
nomenclature is used. The women stu-
dents constitute a more and more
flourishing department of the Univer-
sity.
“eo-eds” in various theatrical produc-
tions, but have never rebelled. Per-
haps that is why they are more and
more often referred to simply as the
women students,
They have been represented as
late German
archaeologist and philologist, Ernst
Curtius of Berlin, which was presented
to Yale University last fall by J. M.
Sears, *77, of Boston, Mass., has been
received by the librarian of the Univer-
Sity Library, and has been found to be
in excellent condition. A careful exami-
nation shows that it is in no way dis-
appointing, and that it makes the Yale
collecton of books on Greek archaeolo-
gy, probably the best in the country.
The number of volumes in the libra-
ry is 3,500 with as many pamphlets.
Many of these volumes are large and
expensive folios, as the complete set of
publications of the Greek and Latin in-
scriptions, by the Berlin Academy and .
the British Museum, etc., amounting to
more than thirty volumes, of which the
list price would be about $700. Another
set of publications, the Monumenti, An-
nali and Bulletino, of the old Archae-
ological Institute at Rome, cannot be
obtained for less than $400. Other sets
of a comparatively small number of
volumes, but of great intrinsic and
pecuniary value, could be named, but
to enumerate important works in this
department which are not in this libra-
ry, would be a briefer task than to give
a catalogue of those which are here.
The library shows that it has been
gathered by a master hand, who has
earefully selected only the works of
real value. Of the pamphlets most are
now out of print, and many of real im-
portance are not to be found when
most needed, by the ordinary scholars.
Mr. Sears has conferred an additional
benefit upon the University, by declar-
ing it is his wish. that the library
should be placed where it can do the
most good, and not necessarily kept in-
tact, where it would be less useful, al-
though more conspicuous. AS the Uni-
versity Library already contains several
hundred duplicate volumes, the dupli-
cates will be desposed of to the Classi-
cal Club, to be placed in its library.
These will be sold to the Classical Club
at their market value, and the proceeds’
devoted to developing the classical side
of the University Library.
The Classical Club celebrated the ar-
rival of the Curtius Libray by inviting
Dr. Robert P. Keep, ’65, well known
as the principal of the Norwich Free
Academy and as a classical scholar, and
who lived for some time in the home of
Ernst Curtius, to make an address on
the life and labors of the eminent his-
torian of Greece. Among others who
spoke on the same topic, were President
Dwight, Prof. Thomas Dp; Seymour,
Prof. John H. Wright of Harvard Uni-
versity and Mr. Robinson, of the Bos-
ton Museum of Fine Arts. All of the
speakers, with the exception of Presi-
dent Dwight, were personally acquaint-
ed with Prof. Curtius, and gave enter-
taining reminiscences of their assocl-
ation with him in Greece.
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Washington’s Birthday Celebra-
lions.
Washington’s Birthday, as of old,
brought to the Freshmen the privilege
of carrying canes, and to the Sopho-
mores that of wearing high hats. ee
was rather a doubtful privilege to the
latter, for they had to contend for
their rights in a fiercely waged snow
fight.
Shortly after breakfast the Sophomores
began to gather about the Fence,
wearing high hats, which were more
remarkable for the marks of service
which they bore, than for the lateness
of their patterns. By ten o’clock nearly
one hundred and fifty of the ’99 men
had gathered. They formed in line and
marched, in lock step, down Chapel
Street, to Malley and Neely’s. They
turned in there and marched through
the entire store and out again onto
Chapel Street. From there they went to
‘Feublein’s,’ and through there. They
then started to return to the Cam-
pus, by way of Phelps Gateway. But
here the line of march was interrupted
by a crowd composed of members
from each of the other classes. How-
ever these were put to flight, and the
Sophmores made their way to. the
fence, where they arranged themselves,
to have their pictures taken. This was
not approved of by the other classes
and an extremely fierce snow fight was
the result. All was done though with
perfectly good feeling, and no one came
off much the worse, with the exception
of a few bruises.
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A literary club has been formed. in
the Sophomore class called the Sheri-
dan Club. The clube meets once a
week to read the works of Sheridan.
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