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New HAVEN, Conn., APRIL 8, 1897.
PROFESSOR WILLIAMS’ PAPER.
Professor Williams has done a service
to all Yale men in his presentation of
the case of the four years’ course at
Sheffield Scientific School in his paper
read before the Sigma Xi Society and
reprinted in full in this issue of the
Weekly.. Temperate as it is, and judicial
in tone,
reason of the very liberality of its
‘spirit, a very strong impression in favor
of the lengthening of the Scientific
School course. The point of view is
splendidly broad. We like that part of
it in which the dignity of science is
so well demonstrated, and that scholar-
ly view of the power of science in the
modern world. We do not remember to
have seen any where as clear a State-
ment of the character of the Scientific
School as distinguished from. the
schools which are founded for the tech-
nical training of men. It is a paper
worth the most careful attention.
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BIDDING FOR THE RACE.
The negotiations for the place of the
triangular race between Harvard, Cor-
nell and Yale have taken an unfortu-
nate turn. T'wo cities are bidding for
the privilege of this athletic exhibition,
presumably under the stimulus of those
who have the placing of the exhibition
in their hands. That must be the popu-
lar interpretation of it. The managers on
the part of the different Universities
are undoubtedly acting under a most
laudable motive, namely, the desire to
locate the race where it will be well
rowed and where the burden of expense,
which is always heavy, shall be least
felt by the different organizations. We
would not criticise what they have
done in the matter, from the stand-
point of the spirit in which they have
acted, but the fact remains that the
result has been unfortunate and that
Yale, Harvard and Cornell are placed
in a position of offering at auction the
mercantile advantages of the athletic
exhibition which they are ready to give.
It takes the sinews of war to conduct
college athletics, but college athletics
lose their charm altogether when they
are affected by the mercantile spirit.
The course of college athletics in recent
years has been unconsciously in this
direction. It is well to sacrifice some-
thing rather than to permit this tend-
ency to grow any stronger.
it carries with it, perhaps by |
STRAIGHT SUBJECTS FOR DEBATE,
They are still talking over the debate
up at Harvard. Mr. Joseph Parker
Warren has written a communication
to the Crimson in which he tries to find
the practical reasons for Harvard’s de-
feat. He says very frankly, that how-
ever firmly Harvard may believe in her
interpretation of the issue, it is not well
for her to refuse to meet any construc-
tion offered, answering their opponents
on their own ground, although still
holding to her interpretation as the
correct one.
Mr. Warren’s second point is one that
Harvard and Yale and every friend of
debate will agree on without any ques-
tion. He says that some means must
be taken whereby the question at de-
bate shall be made so clear that there
shall be no chance for squabbling over
the interpretation. Of course, the inter-
pretation of a question is a very import-
ant point in the work of any debater
or public speaker. At the same time,
there is always enough to do when the
issue is clear. and the debate is much
more interesting when it is a square
out-and-out fight.
Mr. Warren holds that in the four
debates that he has heard in San-
ders Theater, three have been impaired
by a disagreement as to the subject.
He suggests first the framing of the
subject with the greatest degree possi-
ble of brevity and clearness. Then he
suggests, if there is still the slightest
possibility of disagreement, reference
to a third party, if necessary, for a
final declaration of the issue. After this
interpretation has been made, no other
construction should be allowed exCaa
by agreement on both sides.
We doubt very much if it is well to
try to define quite as careful
ly as that. Get a good straightforward
subject and any attempt to quibble will
fail. The subjects have been carelessly
worded. But this trouble will work it-
self out. Intercollegiate debate is still
in its infancy and some things about
it, some fundamental regulations of it,
have yet to be learned. Of course, we
are not quite as keen on this sub-
ject of interpretation as our friends at
Harvard owing to the issue on Friday
in which, as we believe, a matter-of-
fact, straightforward interpretation
won over a theoretical and academical
treatment of a live subject. But that
is not what we started to talk about.
Yale is ready for any forward move- .
ment in this goodly academic rivalry.
Sn sol ART
HARVARD SPIRIT,
The talk which Mr. Theodore Roosevelt
gave the Harvard men last Fall has
not been forgotten up there, and there
is many a sign of a revival of college
enthusiasm and the awakening of a
spirit which makes all college enter-
prises most successful. It is, of course,
only a difference in conditions and en-
vironment that has made the most
marked difference in this matter hbe-
tween Harvard and Yale.
Harvard is not content with talking
about and hoping for a change, but is
doing things which will insure it. In
other words, she is making the condi-
tions of college life more and more fa-
vorable for the development of the col-
lege spirit. Witness the great dinner
which the Juniors held at the Vendome
last week. There were no less than 230- -
members of the class present and they
talked right at each other in the most:
frank way and showed a lot of class
and college spirit. Mr. Fletcher Dob-
yns, for instance, stirred up plenty of
enthusiasm by a call on the class to
work together more enthusiastically
and unselfishly for the success of de-
bate.
If Harvard develops herself along
this line, her power in all intercolle-
giate rivalry will be remarkably in-
creased.
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There are seven Yale men on the
Faculty of the Chautauqua School of
Physical Education which opens July
5th.
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YALE AND NEW HAVEN.
An Indifferent Attitude on the Part
of the University.
Walter Allen,’63, in an address on
“The Public High School in a Free
State,’’ delivered in the United Church
on Sunday evening,March 28, made
some remarks on the position of Yale
in New Haven. He said in part:
“While we are proud of the Universi-
ty which gives our city world-wide
distinction and honor, it ought not to
absorb too large a share of the gener-
ous regard of the citizens, to the detri-
ment of the city’s own educational in-
stitutions, like the high schools and
the public library. It is a question
whether our own people would not be
better off, if these proper objects of
our nurture were not so completely
overshadowed by the University in the
esteem of the classes, which give di-
rection and impulse to the thought of
the people in educational matters. The
University itself has no such intimate
organic relation with the system of
public education as enables it to exer-
cise the great influence, that is exer-
cised as a constant factor by the State
Universities in the West. It holds
somewhat aloof from the life of the
people of Connecticut and there are
signs that it does not enjoy the popu-
lar regard and sympathy that it once
had, while, perhaps, it acquires for its
uses a larger share of the money of
citizens who have money to give away.
The College Library is not the people’s
library. The College Museum is not
the people’s museum. The College Art
‘School is not the people’s gallery. The
schools which appear to enjoy the most
favor of the University authorities are
not the public schools.”’
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Freshman Athietic Reform.
A great deal of attention is being
given this year to the problem of mak-
ing the Freshman Athletic organiza-
tions self-supporting. In previous
years the managements of the Fresh-
man teams, most especially of the crew,
have usually finished the season with
a considerable deficit in their accounts.
These debts have usually been left un-
til Junior year, when they were paid
off by the surplus of the Promenade
Committee, and this custom has natur-
ally caused a lack of responsibility in
the classes for supporting their organ-
izations.
Two remedies have been proposed.
One is to place the management of the
Freshman teams in the hands of some
competent upper-class man, who by his
additional exverience would be better |
fitted to bring the organizations out
ahead. The second plan is to hold the
Freshman managers personally respon-
sible for all debts incurred by them,
and thus impress upon the classes the
responsibility of their position. The
first method has not been received with
much favor. It has been tried at
Princeton with success, but at Yale it
is thought that to take the manager-
ships out of the hands of the Fresh-
men would simply defeat the end in
view and would decrease rather than
increase the interest in the organiza-
As for the second method,
evidently unfair to make an individual
responsible for debts that properly be-
long to the whole class.
This year. the Faculty has discussed
the advisability of making a rule that
the Freshman crew cannot compete
with other colleges, unless, at a certain
date in advance, it can show enough
money vledged to guarantee its finan-
cial success. So far no rule has been
made, but it is probable that in the near
future some action will be taken to
place the responsibility where it be-
longs, and to avoid the misappropriation
of funds subscribed to the Junior
Promenade.
In the College Pulpit.
The preachers in Battell Chapel for
the remaining Sundays of the year are:
April 11.—Rev. C. R. Lamson, D. D..,
Hartford. Conn.
May 2—Rev. Charles Cuthbert Fall,
pastor. of the First Presbyterian
Church, Brooklyn, N. Y.
May -9—Rev. S. E. Herrick, D. D..
Boston.
May 23.—Rev. W. R. Richards, D. D.,
Plainfield, N. J.
May 30—Rev. A. J. ge ae
Brooklyn.
June 6—Rev. J. W. Cooper, D. D.,
New Britain.
June 13—Rev.
D.. New York.
20—Bishop John H. Vincent,
DB .,
George Alexander, D.
June 27—Baccalaureate Sermon, by
President Dwight.
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In spite of reports to the contrary,
it has been definitely ascertained that
no date for the Yale-Harvard football
game has yet been settled upon. It is
improbable that any definite result of
the negotiations will be reached before
next term.
The Yale Golf Club will have a ee
match with the Staten Island Cricket
Club golf team at Livington, Staten
Island, on Saturday, May ist. There
will be eight players on each side.
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