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H. C. ROBINSON, 53. J. R. SHEFFIELD, '87,
W. W. Skippy, 658. J. A. HARTWELL, °89S.
C. P. Linpsiey, 75S. L. 8 WeEton, ’89.
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ASSOCIATE EDITOR,
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NEWS EDITOR,
GRAHAM SUMNER, ’97.
ASSISTANTS,
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R. W. CHANDLER, 1900.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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In the first game of the Yale Inter-
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1, Bridgeport High School defeated the
Tare aha High School by a score of
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mouthpiece of the Alumni.
*“*The Bachelor of Arts’ pursues a commendable
policy of conservatism. It 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
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