Votume VI. No. 32
THE Y. MM. 6, A, SECRETARY,
Mr. Sallmon’s Work and KReputation.
His Successor.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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