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Votume VI. No. 32 THE Y. MM. 6, A, SECRETARY, Mr. Sallmon’s Work and KReputation. His Successor. _——_——— Mr. William H. Sallmon, ’94, general secretary of the Young Men’s Christian Association, leaves the University this week to accept the position of general Secretary of the Student Christian Union of Australasia. Mr. Sallmon was one of the deacons of his class, served on 2a number of the Asosciation’s com- mittees during his college course, was elected President and has been General Secretary ever since graduation, while studying in the Graduate Department for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. During his secretaryship the Yale As- sociation has made great progress, the credit for which is largely due to his untiring efforts. Starting with a very small nucleus of workers in the Scien- tific School, a distant branch of the Association has been built up in that Department of the University, with committees on Bible study and mem- bership and with rooms of its own on College Street. Mrs. W. F. Cochran’s generous gift of a lot and building for the exclusive use of this work, which Mr. Sallmen was able to announce a few days ago, is a sign of the very rapid growth of this branch. A similar work has been set on foot in the three sraduate schools of the University. During his administration the mem- bership of the Association has in- creased from 500 to over. 1,400, and the annual receipts from $2,000 to $3,000, a new department of systematic benefic- ence has been founded, the City Mis- sion Committee has secured the use of a building with room for business and for lodgers, an employment bureau for needy students has been carried on, $3,000 has been added to the endow- WILLIAM H. SALLMON. ment fund by the Graduate Committee and agencies for reaching members of the incoming classes, helpinjr them se- cure rooms and board and interesting them in the student Christian work have been developed. The hand book, edited under his supervision for the benefit of Freshmen, is now the work from which all similar books are eopied. Mr. Sallmon has been a prominent figure in all the intercollegiate work of the Young Men’s Christian Associa- tion. In 1894 he made a tour of the col- legesin the Maritime Provinces of Can- ada, in 1895 of the colleges in Ontario and Quebec,. and during his secretary- ship he has spoken in all the principal colleges and universities in the Middle and New England states. Ho has been one of the speakers at almost all the large Y. M. C A. conventions held in this vicinity during the past few years ~ getts, NEW HAVEN, CONN., THURSDAY, MAY 27, 1897. and has contributed numerous articles to the religious press on Association topics. A paper read before the Inter- national Convention of the Y. M. C. A. in 1894 was published and has had so large a sale that a new edition is scon to appear. But his chief work has been in build- ing up the Bible study department of the college associations. The systems and courses in the Yale Association are due to him and he has trained and constantly helped the leaders of the Bible classes here. For three years he has had charge of the Bible study work at the Student’s Conference at Northfield and for one year at the Summer School at. Knoxville, Tenn. His “Outlines in the Life of Paul,” al- though only published a year ago, is used in every large college association and in many churches and city asso- ciations. Two similar volumes on the life of Jesus and the Parables. are now in press. He is also editing a series of sermons entitled “The Culture of Christian Manhood.’ Mr. Sallmon for several years past has conducted a large Bible class for business men in the Bridgeport Y. M. C. A., and during the past year has had a large class at the United Church in this city. A year ago he had charge of the Bible work at Rosemary Hall, Wallingford. Through his classes at Northfield and Knoxville and by means of numerous personal letters he has done a great deal in developing Bible study work among students in all parts of the United States and of Canada. Here at Yale he has a host of friends who cannot speak too highly of his ef- forts for the Christian life of this Uni- versity, and he goes to his new and larger field of usefulness accompanied _by the best wishes of the many men who have found him a true and faith- ful adviser, and with the _ heartiest gratitude from the Yale Association, Which he has lead to so many suc- cesses. ss Mr. Sallmon’s new work will be to Organize and conduct twenty-five stu- dent Christian Unions, in the various colleges and universities of Australia, New Zealand and Tasmania. These universities are arranged on the En- glish plan, but it was desired to in- troduce the American methods of con- ducting Christian work. These Austra- lian Unions have been in existence barely a year and are as yet quite un- developed, so that the entire work of laying the foundation for their future development will fall upon Mr. Sall- mon. He will have his headquarters at Sydney, but will be constantly on the move from place to place, to visit the various universities and colleges under _ his control. Thomas F. Archbald, who graduated from the Academic Department in 1896, will take the place of Mr. Sall- mon as General Secretary of the Uni- versity Y*.. M. ©; A: He was @ ween con of his class, Vice President in Junior year, and President of the Asso- ciation in Senior year. He always took the part of a leader in the Christian work of the College, and during the past year has been studying for the ministry at Auburn Seminary. He will Pursue courses in the Graduate De- partment during his stay in New Ha- ven, with the intention of continuing his studies at the Seminary in later years. cre te The Intercollegiate Shoot. The fifth intercollegiate shoot for the trophy offered by ‘‘Fishing and Shooting”’ will be held at Wellington, Massachu- Friday morning, May 28. Yale, Harvard, Princeton, Columbia and Uni- versity of Pennsylvania will send teams. The trophy is to become the property of the college first winning three times and as Princeton has scored two victories, the coming contest may be the deciding one. Yale and Harvard have each won once. The teams will consist of five men each and Yale’s representatives will be chosen from, Jamot Brown, ’99 (captain), C. R. Bement, ’97 S., Arthur Corlies, ’97S., J. E. Bulkley, ’99, C. B. Spears, 1900, and C. B. Schley, ’99S. The Yale team has been coached this spring by Mr. George S. McAlpine ‘of New York, the well- known amateur shot. A YALE MAN'S EDUCATION. Now and Ten Years Ago—Optional Figures. When the present Academic Senior class receives its diplomas, its mem-: bers will collectively have spent over half a million hours in recitation or lec- ture rooms. To be more exact, and as- suming that a two-hour exercise in a laboratory is an equivalent of a one- hour exercise in the class-room, the class will have received instruction col- lectively during 73,755 working days of eight hours each, namely 202 years and 25 days, longer than the history of the College.. | Bach department of study has, of course, contributed various amounts of instruction to the education of ’97. The Classics have contributed some 24 per cent.; the European Languages, except English, the next largest slice, or 14 per cent.; then comes Political Science with 13 per cent; .Philosophy, Mathe- matics and History, each with 10 per cent.; the Natural Sciences with 9 per cent., and English with 8 per cent. The other departments, like Biblical Litera- ture, Art, Music, Physical Culture and Military Science contribute less than 1 per cent. each. The above percentages, then, represent the relative importance of the various ingr>dients of the typical "97 man’s College education. This edu- -¢ation make-up differs considerably from that of the class which graduated ten years ago. The typical ’°87 man studied twice as much mathematics; a third more Classics; about the same amount of Natural Science, Philosophy and Hnglish; two-thirds as much His- tory and EHuropean Languages; and about one-fourth as much Political Sci- ence. The figures for the next Senior class, as far as they have been tabulated, show little change from the ones given above, except in the case of English, which will supply a larger share of ’*98’s educational outfit than it did in the case of ’97. The following figures indicate the relative importance of the leading stud- ies in the four-years’ curriculum of the two classes, *°98 and ’86 ¢the present elective system began with the latter class.) Class of 1886 1898 Per Per Cent. Cent. Philosophy Brey 9 Political Sciences Gi. avers... o. 3.5 11 PL IStOGY set A oe eet os {i 11 European Languages ...... 10 14 ba Fed GE) 7 CMe Pee Rees Wwreess Gee ane Os. 11 BHASSICS. woes ee ‘Be 23 Natural Sciences ............ 7 8 ra tiemaniCs: oo vo oR ces 19 9 From these figures it is seeen at a glance that Political Science, History and HKuropean Languages have greatly increased in importance in the College curriculum; that Philosophy, English and the Sciences have remained about stationary; and that the study of Mathematics and the Classics has fall- en off. —_————__o0—___—— The Art School Commencement. The annual anniversary exercises of the Yale School of Fine Arts will take place in the Art School at half-past eight o’clock on Monday evening, May 31. The anniversary address will be delivered this year by Professor Weir on “A Recent French Master.’ At the conclusion of the address the prizes of the School will be awarded. The most important of these is the ‘Wwill- iam Wirt Winchester Paris Scholarship Prize,” which is the largest prize of its kind, offered in America, The com- mittee of artists’from New York who will act as a jury of award will be: Mr. J. Carroll Beckwith, N. A., Mr. Fred- erick Dillman, N. A., and Mr. John H. Twachtman, S. A. A. Price Ten Cents. Wickets for the Poughkeepsie Race. | Under the system adopted by the University Navy management for the handling of tickets for the observation train at Poughkeepsie it is announced by the management that those mem- bers of the Alumni Associations in New York, Brooklyn and Boston must obtain their tickets by application to the secretaries of their respective as- sociations. These Alumni Associations will be supplied according to appli- cation by Mr. H. S. Van Duzer, 31 Nassau street, New York, who is chair- man of the College Committee. This will take care of a great bulk of the applications, including many of the Weekly subscribers. In order to accommodate those sub- scribers who wish to attend and do net belong to the three associations named, the Weekly has made arrange- ments with the Navy management to fill their applications. These subscrib- ers must apply to the Yale Alumni Weekly for a form, which, when prop- erly filled out, must be sent to Joseph S. Wheelwright, 122 North College, with the proper amount of cash to cover the purchase price and regis- tered mail, if the latter is desired. The applications must surely reach Mr. Wheelwright before June 10th at noon to receive attention. The price per ticket is $2, and no one will be permitted to have more than three seats. When writing for a form of applica- tion, direct your letter to Race Depart- ment, Yale Alumni Weekly. —_—____+4____— Wale-Princeton Game Tickets for Weekly Subscribers. The Weekly, desiring to accommo- date those of its subscribers who will attend the Yale-Princeton base ball game June 5 at Yale Field, has made an arrangement with the Baseball Management for a limited number of grand stand tickets. The -price of these tickets is $1.50, and includes ad- mission. They may be had by appli- cation directly to the Yale Alumni Weekly, Ticket Department. Each ap- plication must be accompanied by re- turn postage and cash to cover the pur- chase of tickets. It is of the utmost importance that application be made immediately. Applicants wishing their tickets sent by registered mail must enclose eight cents in stamps for that purpose. The Weekly will not be responsible for late applications. —_——_—_—_—_+>@—______- The Intercollegiate Games, The annual intercollegiate track games will be held this year on the Berkeley Oval, on Friday and Satur- day, May 28 and 29. Each college is allowed to enter in each event eight men, from which five only will be al- lowed to start. Yale will therefore be represented by from three to five men in every contest. The trial heats in most of the events will take place on Friday, and the men who represent Yale who are to take part in either these or the field events will leave New Haven on Friday morn- ing The rest of the men will leave Friday evening for New York, where Herta will stay at the Murray Hill Ho- el. For those who intend to see the games, the easiest means of arriving at the Berkeley Oval is to take the New York Central locals, leaving at short intervals from 42nd Street Station for Morris Heights. ~
