YALE ALUMNI WwHrRHEKLY
THE BOOK SHELF.
The R. Herndon Company ,of Boston,
Mass., have just completed arrange-
ments for a book entitled “Universities
and their Sons,’’ which is far and away
the most generously planned work of
its kind yet put forth. The universi-
ties treated are to be Harvard, Yale,
Princeton and Columbia.
The plan contemplates not only the
historical sketch of each university,
which will give not only the facts of
its life, but its prevailing characteris-
ties and its influence. This will be in
the case of each institution a ‘very
complete and scholarly treatise. The
work will then proceed from that to
give the important facts in the lives
of all of the graduates of each of the
universities of whom biographical ma-
terial can be secured. The living gradu-
ates of these four universities will be
entered and their biographies and por-
traits printed, just as far as it is pos-
sible, by a most careful system of can-
vassing, to secure them. Of the gradu-
ates who are not living, the more
proininent characters will be picked out
and treated.
The editor-in-chief of this work is
Gen. Joshua L. Chamberlain, LL. D.,
ex-President of Bowdoin College, and
ex-Governor of Maine. The historians
of each of the universities have been
picekd out, after consultation with the
Presidents, and are as follows:
Of Harvard, Mr. Roscoe Thayer,
Editor of the Harvard Graduates’
Magazine; cf Yale, Prof Charles Henry
Smith, of the History Department; of
Princeton, Prof. John DeWitt; of -Co-
lum bia, Dr. J. Howard Van Amringe,
of the Mathematical Department of
that University.
There is also an editor for each col-
lege in the Biographical Department,
that is, the department of the _ bio-
graphies of the graduates, and the edi-
tor of each one of these is, of course,
a graduate of the particular university.
For Harvard, the editor is Hon. Charles
| Oe Be Wingate. who is Managing Edi-
tor of the Boston Journal; for Yale,
the Biographical Department will be.
in the hands of Mr. Albert Lee, editor
of Harper’s
known to readers of the Weekly in his
Qernp>
s Round Table, who is also |
conduct of the Book Shelf. This part
of the work will be undertaken for
Princeton by Mr. Jesse Lynch Wili-
iams, the author of Princeton Stories.
Henry G. Paine, editor of Harper's
Weekly, will handle the biographical
work of Columbia.
The publishers seem to appreciate ‘the
Size of the work which they have un-
dertaken, for they expect to have five
volumes, each volume to contain no less
than 500 pages. Each volume will be
royal octavo in size and printed in very
clear type on heavy weight paper. The
length of time necessary to compile the
biographies is counted on as consider-
able, and it is not expected to finish
the work inside of three years.
The first volume, however, which will
be made up of the histories of the dif-
ferent universities, in the chronological
order of their foundaéion, will be com-
pleted within the current year. Atter
that the volumes will be issued as com-
pleted.
It will not be attempted to keep all
the graduates of one college together,
but the work will, of course, be sys-
tematically arranged and indexed. 4,
The character of the men who have
been secured to edit this volume is of
the highest. It is an undertaking which
would certainly fail if not kept up; to
a very high standard. On the basis
which has been established for it, it
would seem to promise a most interest-
ing contribution to the historical and
personal literature of our universities.
It is quite natural that the work
should be. published in very handsome
form, and that the workmanship shall
be as dignified as possible.
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Law School Changein Vacation.
The faculty of the Law School have
voted that the terms of the Law De-
partment of the University shall here-
after be absolutely coincident with
those of the Academic and other de-
partments. The year of the Law School
has hitherto been one week = shorter
than those of the Sheffield School and
Yale College, and the vacations have
generally come at different times. This.
change will prove more convenient for
many .reasons, and is welcomed by
every: one, in. spite. of the fact. tha’ ‘it
Shortens the summer vacation of .he
Law School by-a week. The new rule
will not go into effect until next Fall,
and Cameron,
Fayerweather Will Case.
~- As The Weekly goes to press the fol-
lowing press report dated March 9, at
Albany, regarding the Fayerweather
will case is published in the New York
Post: “The Court of Appeals to-day de-
nied the motion of the next of kin of
John B. Fayerweather ,the late mill-
ionaire leather merchant of New York
city, to amend the remittitur made in
the decision of the case one month ago,
by sending it back to the Judge before
whom it was originally brought, to
pass upon the validity of a certain re-
lease of rights made by the widow and
next of kin to the executors under the
will. The division of the estate, as
ordered by the late decision of the
court, stands, and the remittitur un-
amended must now be filed.
“The decision of the Court of Appeals
of a month ago gave the estate covered
by the ‘deed of gift’’ to the twenty col-
leges named in the will. Then came the
motion of the next of kin to refer back
to the trial Judge the matter of the
release of rights made by the widow
and next of kin, which was decided to-
day. Under this latest decision, unless
new litigation .should come_ up, the
money will be divided among the col-
leges mentioned as soon as the neces-
sary steps to do so can be taken.’’
The sum to be divided is $3,000,000,
and Yale’s share is $150,000.
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“Lit” Board Organizes.
‘The election of .officers of the ’98
Board of Editors of the Yale Literary
Magazine was held in the “Lit.” office
Friday, March 5. Franklin Atkins Lord,
of Moorehead, Minn., was
elected Chairman for the coming year.
David deForest Burrell was chosen
Financial Editor.
The different departments of the pa-
per were assigned as follows: Editor’s
rapice, FF. A. Lord; Portfolio, D>: deF.
Burrell; Notabilia, G. Morris; Memora-
bilia, A. D. Baldwin; Book notices, E.
C. Streeter. The incoming Board will
take control with the April number.
The following three couples will con-
stitute the Yale Whist team to play
with Harvard at Cambridge on April
10: Cameron, ’99, and Bryant, ’99, Sher-
"OT, Beecher; 98,
wood, ‘99, and Cooke,
"998.
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A SHARP BATTLE.
(Continued from fifth page.)
should have acquired such a mastery of
subtle wit and biting sarcasm; it
is incredible that such wisdom, such
‘sprightliness,” could be found in an
infant prodigy. Surely he is old and
experienced, he_is venerable and wise,
the weight of knowledge must lie heavy
upon him, and we are fearful for only
one thing, lest his gray hairs go down
in sorrow to the grave before the world
shall recognize his fame. A cup of
sympathy then to The Chap-Book and
him who writes the notes. Be of good
cheer; through your influence the limi-
tations of college magazines may yet
be established; with your aid the clas-
sics may yet be brought into the college
curriculum; Utopia is coming, you may
yet behold it—Utopia, when no one but
venerable and wise Chap-Book writers
may express an opinion, and it shall
be a sin for one to differ with another.
New Rule for Sophomores.
A rule has recently been passed by
the Faculty by which the Sophomores
who are members of the College Choir
are allowed six extra cuts a term, pro-
vided these cuts are not taken in the
shape of extra marks. In the case of
Juniors and Seniors, who have the
privilege of continuing service in the
choir as a one-hour elective course,
this allowance was not made. ~
Before this rule was passed the So-
phomores received nothing for their
services on the choir. Under the pres-
ent regulations a penalty of two marks
is imposed for absence from choir re-
hearsal.
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