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YALE ALUMNI WHEHEKLY. TALE NaN WEENLI. Eaitor, aa by Gra the Board of Editors a YALE DAILY NEWS. SUBSCRIPTION. - $2.50 PER YEAR. Foreign Postage, 85 cents per year. PAYABLE IW ADVANCE. Checks, drafts and orders should be made payabie to the Yale Alumni Weekly. All correspondence should be addressed, Yale Alumni Weekly, New Haven, Conn. ADVISORY BOARD. For College Year, '96-7: H. C. ROBINSON, 53. J. R. SHEFFIELD, '87, W. W. Skippy, 658. J. A. HARTWELL, °89S. C. P. Linpsiey, 75S. L. 8 WeEton, ’89. W. Camp, ’80. K.. VAN INGEN, 91 & W. G. Daaastt, 80. P. Jay, 8. EDITOR, Lewis 8 WELCH, °89. ASSOCIATE EDITOR, WALTER CAMP, 80. NEWS EDITOR, GRAHAM SUMNER, ’97. ASSISTANTS, JOHN JAY, °98, H. W. CHAMBERS, ’99. R. W. CHANDLER, 1900. BUSINESS MANAGER, EK. J. THOMPSON, Sp. (Office, Room 6, White Hall.) Entered as second ciass maiter at New Haven P. O. NEW HAVEN, CONN., May 6, 1897. THE 2.25 RULE. Yale athletics have suffered, from one point of view, unusually in the last six months, from the application of the 2:25 rule. It cost the Football Team a half back, it has already deprived the Nine of one of its pitchers and it threat- ens dire things to the Track Team. This is a loss from that standpoint which judges athletics by scores. From a truer test, the conclusion may be differ- ent. The rule is open at once to the charge of unjust discrimination against those who have the energy and ability and character to devote themselves: success- fully to athletics or other representative pursuits, like work with the musical clubs or on a college paper, and in favor of those who have no energy and show no ability, and little character. The loafers can continue their loafiing and those who are given to much mer- rymaking can continue their merry- making ’neath the elms of Yale, if they keep. their classroom record up to two on the scale of four. An athlete must desist from his healthful work for the University team, and the would-be editor, at least in the Scientific School, must temporarily pigeonhole his aspi- rations, if he does not, at the same time, make a classroom record better, by a large percentage, than the loafer or the merrymaker. In other words, if he tries to do anything, he must do a great deal more. It is rather a reversal of the rule that “to him that hath shall be given.” There is another view of it, though, and it is really the practical view. Ath- letes, college musicians, and college journalists have undertaken special work, entirely outside of the regular curriculum, which, in itself, endangers or at least makes more difficult, proper classroom work. Despite a sympathy which is at times felt for the man who thought Yale would be a very pleasant place if it were not for its religious and literary exercises, there is a consensus of opinion that at least one of the rea- sons for coming here is to ‘“‘study some.”’ And it is certainly a part of the busi- ness of the Faculty to see that those who start to go through College, shall do a modicum of studying and shall reach graduation day on schedule time. It is also true that these men, ath- letes, musicians, and journalists, are easily classified. The Faculty have them plainly in sight and have the par-> ticular temptations and dangers of their positions plainly in sight. They act accordingly. A Faculty member was queried a short time ago by a Uni- > versity Captain as to why the loafer. and the merrymaker were not treated in the same way. The reply was that they would be if they could be as easily classified. It is true that the athlete and the others who are ruled against in this way do often need a comfortable mar- gin in order to keep their honorable con- nection with their class. It is also true that when they don’t keep their honor- able connection with their class, they not only do themselves harm but they do the College or the University harm. The college athlete is a man in the public eye. If he is dropped, the echo thereof is heard world. On the whole, it seems to us that the 2:25 rule is a good rule, but it would not do any harm if there were a little more co-operation at times be- tween those who know just how near the stepping-off place the candidate is walking, and the University Captain who, quite unconscious of any danger, has begun to frame his whole policy on the belief in this man’s presence on his team. If the Division Officer or Class Faculty can not do this any more than it is done at present, then there should be some man here who knows just what these dangers are and can warn the Captain earlier in the season and assist him in discovering just where his charges stand, and help keep them off slippery places. On the one hand is an experienced Faculty relentlessly do- ing its duty; on the other hand is the Captain, who knows the duties and dan- gers of his position only by tradition, and very often a Freshman in his charge who does not know his duties and his dangers at all. There is an important wheel in the athletic system at Yale which either doesn’t work at all or very erratically. We do - not believe it would do violence to any good tradi- — tion if athleties, -and-the--College at ~ large, as far as it is affected by ath- letics, had the benefit of experience and maturity in the way of general counsel in such matters, from somebody. - ov < vey THE MEDICAL SCHOOL. One of the best bits of news in Presi- dent Dwight’s Report was the informa- tion that $50,000, given without restrict- ion by the late George Bliss, of New York, had been turned over to the gen- eral endowment of the Medical School. That branch of the University has been doing very good work, and has already shown itself quite entitled to the most generous treatment on the part of those who would aid medicine and who would aid Yale. This acquisition of $50,000 comes also at the same time that the bequest of the late Dr. Hunt of Hart- ford is realized. This amounts to $25, - 000 and while its exact disposition has not yet been determined, it will un- doubtedly add to the equipment of the School in some practical and substan- tial way. An addition of $75,000 makes a good year for the Medical School and it is the very earnest hope of all those who know about the School that this will be only the beginning. ~<thy Li Ge. ag New Arrangement of Sopho- more Mathematics, Two sections will be offered the Soph- omores next year in the Elective Math- ematical course. The first is designed for those who intend to carry mathe- matical studies into the higher branch- es and includes Graphic Algebra, the Hlements of Analytical Geometry, and the introductory Principles of the Dif- ferential and Integral Calculus. The second section teaches the principles of Plane and Spherical Trigonometry ap- plied to Mensuration, Surveying, Navi- gation. and the elementary problems of Practical Astronomy, and is desirable for those who are ready to drop Math- ematics at the end of the Sophoraere year. ‘round the (college). A METEORITE DISCOVERED And Presented to the Peabody Mu- seum by Class of 1857. ‘The Mineralogical Collection of the Peabody Museum has recentiy§ re- ceived a very important contribution, through the generosity of members of the Class of 1857. This is a meteoric stone weighing sixty five pounds, and both for its size and mineralogical structure of a very unusual degree of interest. It was found April 10th, 1894, by Mr. H. T. Martin, on the Smoky Hill River, Gove County, Kansas, miles east of Jerome. Mr. Martin was then engaged in hunting fossils, and his attention was attracted by this mass, Whose appearance was quite foreign to the rock of the neighborhood. It proved on examination to be a meteor- ite, of the circumstances of whose fall nothing has been learned. The same State has furnished a number of other meteorites at points considerably dis- tant from that where the present one was discoverd, and it is possible that some of them may prove to have been parts of the same original meteor. The exhaustive chemical and micros- copic examination which will be under- taken before long at the Museum will serve to establish the peculiar charact- ers of the specimen and to bring out any relationship to others, if such ex- ists. ‘It is very rare to obtain meteoric stones ofthis size, for while masses of me- teoric iron are often much larger (the well-known Texas iron in the Peabody Museum weighs 1635 pounds), the more fragile character of the stones usually results in their being broken up into much smaller mases before they reach the earth. The largest stone hitherto preserved in the: Yale collection is one which fell at Weston, Conncticut, early in the century; its weight is about half that of the Kansas meteorite. The British Museum, it may he mentioned, : has only two stones which are as large as this new one. The stone has been placed in the cen- ~ ter of the case devoted to meteorites in the Mineral Room. >> a at The Northfield Conference. The World’s Student Conference of ¥ounse Men’s Christian ASs- sociations will be held from June 25 to July 4, at Northfield, Mass. _ This date conflicts with the Commencement exercises of Yale and many other colleges, and so the at- tendance of college men will be some- what less than usual, but as all ar- rangements had been made for the above dates it was impossible’ to change the time. The list of platform speakers is as follows: President Fran. cis L. Patton, D.D., LL.D., Princeton University; Rev. Alexander McKenzie, D.D:, Cambridge, Mass.; Rev. Henry Van Dyke, D.D., New York City; Mr. James L. Houghteling, President of the Brotherhood of St. Andrew; Rev. A. F. Schauffler, D.D., of New York City. Mr. Moody will also preside at the platform meetings. Professor E. I. Bosworth, Oberlin College, will conduct the Normal Training classes. Mr. L. Wilbur Messer, Chicago, will have charge of the work in Normal Devotional Bible Study, with reference to training men to lead such classes in College Associations. A registration fee of $5 must be paid before rooms will be assigned. If any delegate should be unable to attend, this amount will be returned if noti- fication be given before June 19th. Further information may be had by writing to H. W. Georgi, 40 East Twenty-third Street, New York City. — ws a Ane, get In the first game of the Yale Inter- scholastic Baseball League played May 1, Bridgeport High School defeated the Tare aha High School by a score of to 4, Ghe Bachelor 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. 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