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NEw HAVEN, CONN., APRIL 15, 1897,
“ An institution with two thousand
students and two hundred teachers’
which moves on its course along the
lines of advance in education, is to
grow into an institution having four
hundred instructors and four thou-
sand students, and having its move-
ment into new fields of study and
in the sphere of higher ideals and
higher possibilities. The thought
that the demands of such an insti-
tution can be supplied from the
resources already at command, or
from the gifts which will be received
in the early future, is an idle
thought for which there is,no foun-
dation. The law of all growing life
is, that it continually asks for more.
When the asking ceases, the life
begins to decline and decay,’—rom
President Dwight’s Report.
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: THE NEXT WEEKLY.
The next issue of the Weekly is on
April 29. This. is in accordance with
the custom of the paper at the time of
the Easter recess.
SCHOLARSHIPS VS. PRIZES.
Scholarships seem to be better appre-
ciated in the universities to-day than
prizes. Harvard has quite an abund--
ance of attractions for special work of
the latter kind, which are quite indif-
ferently competed for. The report for
the last year shows that some of the
best of the prizes there in various
branches had very few competitors and
that a number of them could not be
awarded on account of the quality of
the work.
Yale is not overburdened with prizes,
and the best of them here retain their
attraction for the students. Some are
even more earnestly competed for than
ever. The Ten Hyck competition con-
tinues keen and the honor of award in
this competition of oratory and writ-
ing has placed it very high in the list
of college honors. The Deforest winner
is also a man much envied in the eyes
of his fellows and succeeding classes
show, if we are correctly informed, no
less zeal in their work for this prize.
The announcement of awards at Com-
mencement seems to be the piece of in-
formation in possession of the Presi-
The conspicuous announcement of the
award of more important prizes at Yale
makes the general interest probably all
the more keen. The Harvard corre-
spondent of the New York Evening
Post gives as one of the reasons for the
falling off of the interest there, the for-
mal, very quiet way in which the an-
nouncement is made.
It does not yet seem to be the case
that there is an excess of prizes at
Yale. However, we can learn from
Harvard’s experience. As long as there
is doubt as to just how far one kind of
stimulus to special effort may be ap-
preciated, it is not well to hazard all —
too scanty resources. There is a way
of stimulating study and of giving men
of brains and limited means the best
opportunities for study along their own
lines, which is never in danger of being
unpopular.
This means is by scholarships.
has not enough scholarships and rather
than to increase her prizes, excellent
as they are, it is right to urge those
who wish to stimulate the best work
here by the best men, to give their
means to the founding of scholarships.
After most serious and active effort on
the part of the friends of the school, the
William ‘Wirt Winchester fellowship
prize was established in the Art School.
There is no doubt about its popularity.
Competition this year is keen. The fel- —
lowship prize is $1,500, and gives the
winnertwoyears’ study at Paris. Yale’s
splendidly successful Musical Depart-
ment needs such aid more than any-
thing else now, to make its work most
effectual. Three good scholarships, to
allow their winners to spend a year or
more in Europe,where a musical educa-
- tion can be best perfected, would have
an immediate effect in original and
earnest work. But this is only a sug-
se eR.
gestion. ~~ :
Scholarships are needed in almost
every line of liberal study here. They
form the logical way of advancing edu-
cation and developing the very best
scholars. By their means a man with
little or no money can begin -his life’s
work as well equipped as he whose al-
lowance is unlimited. The winning of
a scholarship is the winning of an hon-
ored position, and not the securing of
beneficiary aid. Yale’s University de-
velopment should be marked by a large
increase in scholarships.
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Our rowing expert has it on the very best
authority that it is the high aim of the Yale
oarsmen to “.rip the catch through.’”’ Wehave
never seen the catch ripped through, but it
has been carefully observed by men of high
reliability, who assure us that we should not
take undue alarm. Every one used to be a
good deal disturbed to learn that the Univer-
sity oarsmen “fell over on the finish,” or at
last report had ‘** hung on the catch.’’ But the
monotony of these dramatic experiences some-
what blunted the keen edge of anguish. This
latest sensational report has, it must be ad-
mitted, stirred people up a good deal, but until
more is definitely known, we urge all to keep
perfectly cool.
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3n Memoriam.
To the Editor of the Yale
Weekly, Sir:—
One or two inaccuracies in the notice
of the death of Laurens Hamilton, in a
recent issue of The Weekly, perhaps do
not ‘necessitate reproducing the facts
of his short life and his most untimely
death. At the same time, I wish to see
the record in this paper complete and
accurate in all details, of one who had
to do with important steps in the pa-
per’s development.
Laurens Hamilton was less than
twenty-five years old when he died on
the 19th of last month, in New York,
after a week’s illness, which was pro-
longed for this brief time only by the
splendid spirit with which its fierce at-
Alumni
tack was met, and the excellent consti-
tution which resisted for a time a dis-
ease that promised from the start to be
swiftly fatal. Laurens Hamilton was
Yale
Committee and his editorial position on
the News Board have been set down in
these columns. An error occurred in
noting the place of his business since
leaving college. He was connected with
the Manhattan Trust Company, of
New York City.
And a second reference to this very
sad event is not made because it is
hoped after recovery from the first
sharp sense of loss to be able to indi-
cate in any satisfactory way just what
that loss means to those who knew
well Laurens Hamilton. It was, how-
ever, impossible to refer to it at the
time.
_ Now, when one has time to think
quietly of his association with this
young son of Yale, it is possible to
touch a single point which, from the
Yale and general, college standpoint
makes the life and death of such an one
of significance. He typified college
character in perhaps its most attract-
ive and ‘most excellent forms. One
hears in the life in a college community
of many a popular man. One also not
infrequently meets directly, or through
his friends, those characters that are
correctly described as lovable. But pop-
ularity is not the term with which one
is satisfied when he wishes to learn
what a man really is, and the word
- Jovable does not carry with it the high-
est points of character. The one may
mean a mere compliance with environ-
ment. The other may mean a warm-
heartedness that is often unaccompan-
ied with positive force. a
When, however, one of whom his
classmates use both these words always
in speaking. is known also to have his
own clear ideas of the right way to live
and to hold to them, and, in matters
practical, shows clear judgment and
good sense and ability to do those
things which are given him to do,.when
placed in any position of responsibility,
then there is a kind of man whose high
rating as a friend is easily understood
and for whom the general good will is
a strong compliment. I believe it was
because of this very havpy combination
that all those who knew Laurens Ham-
flton had invariably such a good word
for him.
His gentlemanliness was genuine and
hence his courtesy invariable in all
his dealings with his fellows. His short
record in the service of the comvany
with which he was connected since
eraduation demonstrated still further
the more substantial qualities which he
had shown in college.
It is due to the influences of such
lives as men live who are of such grain
and fibre and spirit, as was Laurens
Hamilton, that college life has such .
a strong hold on all who take it in the
right spirit, leaving with them a memo-
ry and an influence, which experiences
most adverse do not weaken, and by
means of which they hold their faith in
their fellows.
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Professor Eugene L. Richards who
has been away during the entire college
year owing to illness, has returned to
New Haven. His leave of absence was
for the period of an entire year, how-
ever, and he will not resume his classes
until next September.
The Buchelor of Arts,
Is praised by all Yale men, and is the
mouthpiece-of the Alumni.
‘«“*¢The Bachelor of Arts’ pursues a commendable
policy of conservatism. Tt is always on the side of the
RIGHT, and is growing to be regarded as containing
the best general Alumni sentiment in regard to Col-
lege matters. College papers are usually prejudiced,
but the Bachelor of Arts is not in this sense a College
paper. Itis out of College.’’— Hxuchange.
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the remaining Sundays of the year are:
May 2—Rev. Charles Cuthbert Hall
pastor of the First Presbyterian
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