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VALE ALUMNI WEEKLY Published ev Thursday during the College Terms and conducted by a Graduate Editor and Associate Editor, and Assistants from the Board of Editors of the YALE DAILY NEWS. SUBSCRIPTION. - $2.50 PER YEAR. Foreign Postage, 85 cents per year, PAYABLE IN ADVANCE, Checks, drafts and orders should be made payable to the Yale Alumni Weekly. All Alumni Weekly, New Haven, Conn. ADVISORY BOARD. For College Year, ’96-7; H. C. ROBINSON, 753. W. W. SxKrippy, ‘65S. C. P. Linpsuey, 758. W. Camp, *80. W. G. DAGGETT, 80. J. R. SHEFFIELD, ’87, J. A. HARTWELL, °89S. L. 8. WELCH, ’89. E. VAN INGEN, 91 S. P. JAY, ‘92. 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. TREASURER, E. J. THOMPSON. (Office, Room 6, White Hall.) Entered as second class matter.at New Haven P. O NEw HAVEN, CONN., JUNE 10, 1897, THE NEXT WEEKLY. ° The next issue of the YALE ALUMNI WEEKLY will be on June 22. The suc- ceeding and last issue of the present volume will be sent out immediately after Commencement. en a THAT GAME. It may be possible for Yale only to be joyous over the game of last Saturday, but it is hard to discriminate in offering congratulations to the contesting teams. Other things being equal, Yale should have won, and the persistent fight of Princeton against a heavily adverse score at the very start was thoroughly characteristic of the spirit of Nassau and makes one of that College’s best records. On the other hand, Yale made that nice lead by excellent and sturdy batting, such as delights the soul, and then, having lost that lead, and, by all human calculations the game, recovered both by just the kind of thing that glorifies athletics—if we may speak in the spirit of Saturday afternoon—and makes these College contests the finest sport that is offered a sport-loving people from one year’s end to another. Mr. Keator and his men must be reasonably sure of the congratulations of this Uni- versity. Let us take pains to assure Mr. Wilson and his coadjutors that we have feelings of most respectful admiration for them. We believe them fully good enough for all the purposes of whole- some and exciting sport. —_—. + CRIBBING. To our mind the strongest point about the paper from Mr. Clark, published last week, is his call for recognition of the evil of cheating. It is not possible for us to see how anything of this sort can be treated in any other way than by directly facing it and admit- ting its presence. There seems to be more or less of a tendency here, among those who recognize that cheating is cheating, to avoid admitting that there is enough of it to take any decided Steps to eradicate it. Just so long as it is at all hushed up, so long will such action on the part of the Faculty be construed as winking at the theory, which some students actually seriously. hold, that it is a justifiable weapon in correspondence shouid be addressed, Yale ent from baseball. YALE ALU Maat the warfare between the students and instructors. It is true that the punish- ment is quite severe when one is detect- ed in the act, but is not severe enough, nor is the effect of it on the rest of the community marked enough for the pur- pose of discipline. Some time ago the Weekly printed the report of Dean Briggs of Harvard on the means taken there to eliminate this evil, a report which was very thor- ough and demonstrated, more clearly than we have seen elsewhere, the curse of the double standard of honor. It is not naturali for college students to do anything which is esssentially dishon- est, and once the real nature of this practice is admitted, the same stand- ard may be looked for in the relations of the student and Faculty as now ex- ists between student and student. It is better to err on the safe side. The training which college gives should send a young man into the world with a finer and stronger sense of honor than is usually met among men. The Lord knows that the pressure which will come on him in almost any relation in life to make that standard flexible will be strong enough to require the most nearly impregnable armor that educa-~ tion can give. ————_+>___—_- AS TO CHEERING. In thecomfortableness ofthe -occasion, itis less unpleasant to consider some ways in which we might be still more comfortable, even when home runs do not come so opportunely There is too much cheering at our athletic contests. Nobody wants to dis- courage enthusiasm; no one has, right- ly, any regard for-throats. A college or university that doesn’t back up its teams does not deserve to win. But there is plenty of opportunity for cheer- ing which simply nerves the side for which the support is given, and which not only does not seek to rattle the op- ponents, but avoids the danger of doing” so. Cheering a baseball game offers the most ideal illustration. The more of it the better while the teams come on the field and while they are practicing for the game. As much of it as you please, aS a correspondent says else- where, while the sides are changing petween the innings. The more that comes out spontaneously in apprecia- tion of an earned score by your team or a good play, the better. But cheering while the play is in progress is out of order. You cannot draw the line and say it is simply meant to support your team. If the numbers in support of one team predominate, as they always do, in favor of the home team, the fact is, and it can’t be avoided, that the support of the team is always an attack upon the opposing team, an at- tack upon their nerve and spirit just at a time when everything depends upon the condition of the player’s nerve. In the case of a game on neutral ground, when things are about equal, the cheering of one offsets the other. This is almost always the case in large football games. But that is very differ~ The work is so fast and the men are so absorbed and taken up in their struggle that the opposing roarings count for little. And it is true that, at a contest in baseball, for in- stance, on neutral grounds, the sup- porters on each side are apt to be in equal numbers and one does about as well as the other in noise. But then the result is that the lungs of one offset the lungs of the other, and no advantage comes to either side, while the fine points of the game are undoubtedly in- terfered with. Of coursé, it is a great thing for a player to pass through such fiery fur- naces as those into which he is nowa- days cast. If his nervous system is not singed and he keeps a fairly intelligent idea of his own whereabouts, he proves himself of rare metal. But the contest is a severe enough one under any cir- cumstances, and a point not to be for- gotten.is that you want the conditions of the game just as fair as possible, to the end that you may get the most WHE KLY skillful and plucky work on both sides and that the best team may win. There has been a vast improvement in the way cheering is done, but it still tends to the idea of rattling rather than purely encouraging, and, in so far, is bad. It is especially to be desired that the Supporters of the home team should do everything in their power to give the visiting team the best opportunities to show what they can do. It is a great deal better to err on the side of a hos- pitable repression of one’s feeling than to take an unfair advantage. We do not think the spirit of the cheering on Saturday was in any sense unfair, but the practical effect of all that continu- ous work (which is carried on as much by the supporters of one as by the other) is in the wrong direction, and on a wrong principle. The singing of a certain class of bat- tle songs by the supporters of the home team is not exactly in the line of the highest spirit of intercollegiate chival- ry. It is a very questionable view of collegiate courtesy. Bingo and the pae- an which indicates the purpose of twisting the tiger’s tail, are both very pleasant means of letting off one’s feel- ings on some occasions, but they are not appropriate at an intercollegiate match where Yale is the host. —____-+4—___— Cambridge University, in its recent lively times on the occasion of voting on the question of woman’s degrees had a taste of the pleasure of seeing it- self figure in the newspaper fiction of the day. Theré are just those creatures in England, evidently, there are in this country—those who live by writing and printing large lies. Yale enjoys their attention occasionally. The Cam- bridge Review is very meek about it. thus: | “It is doubtless owing to the misfor- tune of being pent up within the nar- row bounds of academic life that we suffer from an obsolete prejudice in fa- vor of preserving some relation between a narrative and the facts on which it is presumably based. The correspondents of the London papers, who honored us on Friday last, are to be congratulated on broader views of the nature of evi- dence. Yet even in the search for pic- turesque detail.and yet more laudable aim of suggesting evil of one’s oppon- ents, it should be possible to write an account of things that happened with- out conveying quite erroneous impres- sions. The short narrative in the Times was admirable, and the Standard showed that it is possible to describe the victory of one’s adversaries without misstatements or misleading insinua- tions. But the Standard, though it was on the side of the angels, had, like our- selves, some taint of the truth-lover. Other accounts were more spirited.” —_+—___—_ The undergraduates of Yale are more than even in favor of making a four- year course for “Sheff.” Think of that home run in the tenth if you doubt it. Think of a few other men who do things on the diamond and the water and the football field. 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