YALE ALUMNI WEEKLY -
NEW YORK YALE CLUB,
Membership and Aims of the New
Organization.
Yale men in the neighborhood of New
- York have long felt the need of a Club
‘which will supply the demand for a
common meeting place, afford more op-
portunity for the renewal of old as-
sociations, and form a center of ac-
tivity in the interest of the University.
The need has been felt. naturally most
strongly by the younger alumni, be-
cause, while the older graduates have
numerous club affiliations, formed in
the course of long residence in the City,
the younger ones, and especially those
who have only recently settled in New
York, have no such privileges, and
there is at present no way for them
to secure the advantages which nec-
essarily follow from contact with alum-
ni of more mature years.
The present movement comes natur-
ally from the) younger men. For some
years they have regarded with envy
the advantages afforded the Harvard
alumni by the Harvard Club of New
York City, and have pointed to the
success of that organization, as, suffi-
cient demonstration that their present
plan cannot be regarded wholly as an
experiment, nor its success regarded as
conjectural.
The Harvard Club is now finishing
the tenth year of its) existence. During
this time it has exerted an active and
increasing influence in the affairs of
Harvard University, and has grown
from an original membership of 350 to
a present membership of over 1,000.
Its annual dues since its inception
have been fixed at $20 for resident grad-
uates of five years’ standing, and $10
for all others. The initiation fee is $10
for all members.
From the beginning it has maintained
a club house, with bed-rooms for non-
resident members; a restaurant, where
inexpensive meals may be obtained; a
large room for meetings, and the cus-
tomary conveniences of a Club House.
Monthly entertainments of an educa-
tional or literary character followed by
a supper, are held throughout the year,
and an annual dinner to which all Har-
vard men are invited to attend.
By thus offering a congenial atmos-
phere at moderate cost, it has proved
particularly attractive to the younger
men who cannot afford a greater ex-
penditure, and to this feature its suc-
cess in great measure has been due.
THE GENERAL SCHEME PROPOSED.
In accordance with the _ general
scheme followed in the case of the
_Harvard Club, a number of recent Yale
graduates a few days ago drew up and
submitted to their immediate acquaint-
ances for their approval, the following
pian:
A Club to be organized for social pur-
padSeS.
Tio be controlled by a Board of Man-
agers to be elected by the Club.
Any person is qualified for member-
ship who has received a degree from
the University, or who, being twenty-
one years of age and upwards, has been
connected with any. department at Yale
University as a student or instructor
for at least one year. But no student
in any department of the University
Sshali be eligible unless he shail have
already received a degree from the Uni-
versity.
Persons resident in New York City
or Brooklyn shall be resident members.
All others shall be non-resident mem-
bers.
The entrance fee shall be ten dollars
for all members. The annual dues shall
be twenty dollars for resident members
who have been five years out of the
University, and ten dollars for all oth-
ers and for non-resident members.
Visitors may be admitted as follows:
Non-residents, on introduction by a
member, may enjoy the privileges of
the Club for a period not exceeding two
weeks. Residents may, on invitation by
a member, enter the Club as a visitor
with such member, and pass any part
of the day or evening in the Club in
company with him. No member shall
have more than two such guests at any
one time.
THE GROWTH OF MEMBERSHIP.
After this plan had been signed by
300 graduates, it was submitted to the
general body of the alumni by means
of a circular letter from Noah H.
Swayne, 2nd, Class of 1898 (address, 120
Broadway), who is acting as tempo-
rary secretary, and the list has now
srown to more than five hundred, dis-
tributed as follows:
Classes of 1896 and 1896S.........+-+. 33
Classes of 1895 and 1895S.........-+- 60
Classes of 1894 and 1894S........---: 55
Classes of 1893 and 1898S.........->+> 36
Classes of 1892 and 1892S........-+:> 45
Classes of 1891 and 1891S.......--++: 24
Classes of 1890 and 1890S........-+>: i
268
Previous fo 1800 ies ok is oko es ee oe =
503
TOHAL. . 6.2 cnc e wee ene necsensese cr ’®
Among these names are Benjamin D.
Silliman, ’24, oldest living graduate of
Yale; Champion Bissell, °50; Bilis H.
Roberts, ’50; Isaac H. Bromley, 533
Charlton T. Lewis, 53; Dr. E, W. Lam-
bert, 754; Thomas G. Ritch, 754; Charles
T. Catlin, 56; J. Evarts Tracy, ’5TL.S. ;
Robert M. Galloway, 58; W. A. Stiles,
59; Francis Delafield, ’60; William H.
Hurlbut, ’°60; James W, McLane,, M.D.,
61; Frederick A. Ward, 62; Hon. Dan-
iel H. Chamberlain, °62; Henry Holt,
62: M. C. D. Borden, 764; M. G. Hyde,
65; Dr. L. Duncan Bulkeley, 66; JO-
seph T. Whittlesey, 67; Allen W. Ev-
arts, 69; Charles W.
Cc. Gulliver, ’70; Walter S. Logan,
John B. Uhle,
72: Frank L. Hall, ’72; !
ley, ’73; Eugene H. Lewis,
"103
Clarence D. ASh-
73: Henry
W. Farnam, ’74; Thomas T. Sherman,
74: Timothy Davenport, °75; Dwight
A. Jones, ’75; James B. Dill, "76; Otto
G. Bannard, ’76; George M. Tuttle, °77;
Co ME Clarke: o's. Dr. Holbrook
Curtiss, ’°77S.; Roger Foster, ’78; James
P. Pigott, ’78; Julian W. Curtiss, 19;
Lieut. Gov. Timothy L, Woodruff, 19;
Henry W. Taft, ’80; David C. Lines,
80: Sherman Evarts, ‘81;
Bartlett, 81; Arthur L. Fisk, *83; Thom-
as L. Southworth, ’83; Maxwell Evarts,
84: Ellsworth Elliott, Jr., °84- Fomile
Schultze, ’85; E. L. Richards, JT., 853
Arthur L. Shipman, ’86; H. B. Ketch-
am, ’87; Henry L. Stimson, BR. WW. Aa
McQuaid, ’89; A. Henry Mosle, 89
Charles H. Sherrill, Jr., ’89; Herbert
Parsons, 790; Lewis 8. Haslam, "90; Ga
Beekman Hoppin, 791; Robert W. Pom-
eroy, 91; W. P. Hamilton, 915.5 Will-
iam N: Runyon, ’92; O. A. Schreiber,
°92: Moses Taylor, ’93; Noah " Swayne,
2nd, ’°93; Derby Rogers, 798: George B.
Case, 94; L. S. Stillman, 794; Frank L.
Polk, 794; Lamont Dominick, 795; Sher-
man Day, ’96; S. L. Quinby, 96S.
Graduates who may wish to join this
Club, may communicate with the tem-
porary Secretary above named.
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English Department Changes.
Next year will see some important |
changes in the English Department ©
the University. New courses will be
offered, the old instructors will be given
slightly different work, and one new
teacher will be added. :
Professor Albert S. Cook, who has
been at the head of this Department
for a number of years, will devote him-
self almost entirely to work in the
Graduate School. He offers only one
course next year, “Old and Middle Eng-
lish,” in the Academic Department.
This is open to both Junior and Sen-
ior classes. His courses in the Grad-
uate School have not yet been an-
nounced. This change will undoubted-
ly strengthen the Graduate School in
English to a great extent.
Professor William Lyon Phelps, who
has had the Sophomore class in Eng-
lish this year, will hereafter give his
entire attention to the upper classes,
He offers five courses, two of which
are new, “English Literature of the
Seventeenth Century,* open to Seniors,
and ‘‘American Literature,’ open to
Juniors.
Professor H. A. Beers offers several
new courses, His, “English Verse-
Narrative’ for Juniors has never been
given in the University before. Be-
sides this, he has a course in ‘“Mod-
ern Drama’ for Seniors, ‘“SShakespeare”’
for Juniors and ‘Victorian Literature”
for Seniors.
Mr. H. A. Smith will give a new
course in ‘“‘English Literature of the
Highteenth Century’’ next year, and an
entirely new course will be offered in
“Troilus and Criseyde, and the Troy
Story in English,’’ of which the instruc-
tor has not been assigned.
In the Sophomore class, the work will
be under the charge of Mr. Charlton M.
Lewis and. Mr, H. A, Smith. “fe
Freshmen will have a new instructor
in Mr. Edward B. Reed. Mr. Reed is
a graduate of Yale in the class of ’94.
While in college he was an editor of the
Yale Literary Magazine,. and showed
great proficiency in the study of Eng-
glish. After graduation, he studied in
the Graduate School, receiving the de-
gree Of Ph.D. last year. Since that
time he has been studying abroad at
Munich and Paris. The course of in-
struction in the two lower classes will
not be materially changed.
In the Sheffield Scientific School,
Professor Thomas R. Lounsbury, head
of the Department, has been granted
a leave of absence by the Corporation
and his place will be filled by Dr. Wil-
bur L. Cross, who has been his assist-
ent rp gaer th otee The course of in-
ruction wi cover a period fro
Chauser to Wordsworth. Z
Gould, ’70; William _
"71: Henry C. Deming,
Philip G.—
* vania 15, Lehigh 5,
HARVARD.
A meeting of Harvard graduates was |
recently held in New York to consider |
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the plans for a new boat house. A |
committee was appointed to raise $25,- |
000, if possible, and to draw up the |
action will |
plans. No immediate
be taken.
To celebrate its fifteenth anniversary
the Crimson held a dinner at the Ven-
dome, Boston, on ‘April 16. Mr. F. M.
Williams, President of the Crimson
Alumni Association, was toastmaster.
Mayor Higginson, Mr. Lehmann, Dr.
Brooks and W. K. Otis, ’98, President
of the present Crimson Board, were
among the members who spoke, and all
seemed to appreciate the opportunity
of the college daily to center the in-
terest of the University in the most
worthy direction.
J. S. Mason, ’98, was invited to rep-
resent the Yale News, but was unable
to attend.
The Senior Class at Harvard has
voted to give up Friday, June 26, Class
~Day and to hold the exercises of that |
day on the preceding Thursday.
PENNSYLVANIA.
Professor Edward Drinker Cope, the
distinguished paleontologist and pro-
fessor of zoology and comparative
anatomy at the University of Pennsyl-
Vania died on April 12. His literary
work along his line of activity has
made him an authority. His name as
a paleontologist is associated with
those of Baron Cuvier, of France, and
Sir Richard Owen, and_ Professor
Marsh of Yale.
Edward A. Paulton’s “Very Little
Red Riding Hood’”’ is being produced
with great success by the Mask and
Wig Club. Their first performance
was at Atlantic City, on April 17.
| OTHER NOTES.
“Stanford will) not compete in the
Mott Haven games this year, as sever-
al of their best men would be dehar-
red by reason of their short connec-
tion with that institution.
~ College base ball games on Saturday,
April 24, resulted as follows: Dart-
mouth 4, Harvard 3; Princeton 11, State
College 1; Cornell 44, Union 5; Pennsyl-
University 4.
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