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VALE ALUMNI WEEKLY
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ADVISORY BOARD.
For College Year, 96-7:
H. C. Rosryson, °53. J. R. SHEFFIELD, 87,
W. W. Skippy, ‘65S.
C. P. Linps.ey, 758.
W. Camp, °80.
W. G. DAGGETT, °80.
L. 8S. WELCH, ’89.
E. VAN INGEN, 91 S.
P. JAY, °92.
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EDITOR,
Lewis 8S. WELCH, ’89.
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WALTER CAMP, °80.
NEWS EDITOR,
GRAHAM SUMNER, ’97.
ASSISTANTS,
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R. W. CHANDLER, 1900.
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NEw HAVEN, Conn., JUNE 22, 1897,
THE OFFICERS OF YALE.
Elsewhere are given the portraits,
already familiar to Yale men, of the
executive officers in the educational
departments of this institution. On the
shoulders of these men primarily rests
the burden of the development of Yale
University. It is just the period when
this burden is greater than ever be-
fore, and when the possibilities of the
future, along the line of a liberal con-
duct of American collegiate education
seem richer than ever. The President
knows, and those who are working
with him, that, to a remarkable degree,
Yale’s officers have behind them the
loyal support of the great army of Yale
men the country over. This is mani-
fested in many a way and in substan-
tial form, yet it has always seemed to
us, and we have sometimes expressed
the feeling, that this great capital of
enthusiasm, and energy, too, may be
yet more effectively used in the ser-
vice of Yale—in the creation of Yale
sentiment, in the spread of Yale ideas,
in the discussion of those matters in
which Yale needs the assistance of
generous friends in order that she may
develop her resources and carry on
her work. In all these points there is
yet more to be done than there ever
has been done, and there is an honest
belief that there will be more work on
this line, the more the family of Yale
are kept close together and are all
taken into the confidence of those who
conduct the University’s affairs. The
free discussion of University prob-
lems, and the fullest information about
the University affairs of the present
and of the future will help a great
deal, and will add to, and make more
effective, all this enthusiasm of Yale
alumni the country over. Every Yale
alumnus feels that he has an interest,
as if he were a stockholder, and it is
not only a natural feeling but it is a
feeling that it is wise for a University
to encourage and to satisfy. It is the
hope of the Weekly at this Commence-
ment season that Yale will enter on
her next year with still greater confi-
dence on the part of her sons in the
future, which shall be born of stil!
fuller and franker intercourse between
the University itself and all the
branches of the family of Yale.
J. A. HARTWELL, °89S.
YALE ALUMNI WHEEKLY
THE BOAT RACE.
No American college boat race, within
the memory of moderns,has been await-
ed with quite such interest as the three- —
shell contest at Poughkeepsie on the
25th of this month, between Yale, Har-
vard and Cornell. The two best-known
American coaches, and one of the best,
at least, of English coaches, are here
matching against each other their re-
spective systems in rowing. It goes
without saying that American college
rowing has already gone through al-
most a revolution, even before the. is-
sue of this race is known. Yale brought
back with her from Henley points
whereby her rowing could be improved.
Mr. Lehmann has broughi the genuine
English method of rowing to Harvard,
and instilled it in the minds of eight
very likely pupils.
There is, beside, the special interest
of another meeting between the old ri-
vals—Yale and Harvard. This is, in it-
self, enough to make it notable. A not
less interesting fact is that Cornell once
more will compete with Yale. We must
confess that we are glad it has turned
out this way, whether Yale wins or
loses from this worthy rival. To be
sure, the two Universities have not met
for twenty years, and they separated
for reasons which seemed to lie at the
foundation of rational athletic contests.
In other words, the races with many
crews no longer seemed feasible and
the only satisfactory race outside of
this seemed to be a contest between
two colleges most closely related and
most likely to match one another in
their boating skill. But an unexpected
circumstance this year indicated this
race as the best possible one, and for
the accident of it, if we may so ex-
press it, there is no doubt that many
Yale men are sincerely glad.
The more colleges Yale can meet and .
still keep within the bounds of rational
athletics, the better satisfied are a large
number of Yale men and Yale sympa-
thizers, who like to see her at one with
all other educational institutions in the
country. They realize that athletic con-
tests bring these institutions together
in a way in which nothing else does.
They know that the failure to arrange
these contests, separate and antago-
nize those which ought to be in perfect
harmony. They regret this latter con-
dition and it may be expressed as the
one wish, of what we believe to be a
large majority of loyal Yale men, that
in all athletic contests in the future,
this principle shall be clearly evident,
that there is nothing but good will and
respect for all, and that any separation
from any institution that desires to
meet Yale, is justified on the ground,
and only on the ground, that institu-
tions, like individuals, must be, first
of all, true to themselves. The con-
tests of each must be regulated by the
consideration of what is best for the life
of each University, and for its best edu-
cational work upon its own students.
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THE ART SCHOOL’S ACQUISITION.
The readers of the Weekly will hard-
ly pass over the very happy informa-
tion that is given in this issue in re-
gard to the ‘Art School. The acquisition
of the Alden Carvings is a notable
event in Yale’s art history. Professor
Weir is to be congratulated and the
University is to be congratulated upon
the arrangement which brings this col-
lection into the permanent possession
of Yale. Yale’s treasures in the Art
School are already remarkable, and an
article elsewhere touches on them in a
brief way. It would be well for alumni
who are gathered in New Haven at the
Commencement season to inspect for
themselves this department of the Uni-
vrsity.
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C. W. Wells Instructor in Rhe-
toric.
Among the appointments made at the
meeting of the Corporation held late
in May was that of Mr. Chaun-
cey W. Wells, ’96, to the position of in-
structor in Rhetoric. Mr. Wells has
been an assistant in this department
the past year.
_ Mr. Wells was Chairman of the Ninety-
six Lit. Board.
THE ALDEN CARVINGS.
They Have Finally Come Into Yale’s
Possession. ;
Through a favorable agreement on
the part of Mr. R. Percy Alden, an
alumnus of Yale, with the Corporation,
the University has recently come into
possession of the collection of beautiful
wood-carvings, which for many years
past has been deposited in the Art
School, ,
This fine collection comprising three
elaborately carved confessionals and
the wall-panelling of a suppressed
monastry chapel in Ghent, was brought .
to this country about forty years ago
by Colonel Bradford R. Alden of the
United States Army, and for some time
they formed a principal attraction in
the Metropolitan Museum, before the
removal of that institution to Central
Park. Through the influence of Prof.
Weir these beautiful carvings were
brought to New Haven some years
Since and deposited in the Art School,
filing one of the larger rooms on the
first floor. Competent judges have set
a high value upon these carvings, as
high indeed as fifteen thousand dol-
lars, and on the recent death of Mrs.
Alden they were offered for sale by her
executors. ieee
The panels occupy a space nine feet
high and one hundred and twenty feet
in length. The carvings are of oak, Six-
teenth Century work, about the same
date as the stalls in the cathedral at
Antwerp, which they rival in beauty of
design and workmanship. A Belgium
critic, referring to their removal from
Ghent, termed these beautiful works of
art ‘‘the pearls of Belgium,’ and ex-
pressed great indignation that they
should ever have been allowed to leave
the country.
The University in general, and the
Art School in particular, are now to be
congratulated on their permanent ac-
quisition. When it became known that
they would probably be offered for sale,
several would-be purchasers, includ-
ing a prominent architect of New York,
made an effort to secure them, and it
was feared that they would be lost to
Yale. The close competition between
museums of art makes it now very diffi-
cult to secure original works of a by-
gone time of the excellence. of. these
wood-carvings, and, in connection with
the Jarves collection of early Italian
paintings, they give the collections of
the Yale School of Fine Arts a unique
place and value among the art treasures
of this country. Besides this is the
Trumbull collection of portraits and
historical paintings relating to the
American Revolution, which also is
comprised in the collections of the
school. 3
These beautiful specimens of Belgium
art of the Sixteenth Century, together
with the Jarves Collection, which
dates from the 1ith to the 17th Century,
form a strong link with the art of the
old world, and this is of peculiar inter-
est and value in a great institution of
learning like Yale. It has frequently oc-
casioned surprise, on the part of visi-
tors from abroad, that these treasures
should be met with on this side of the
water, Yale is not napping. The Trus-
tees of the University are watchful to
promote the best interests of every de-
partment of the institution, and this is
the most recent, as it is one of the
most notable, evidences of this wisdom
are foresight.
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Yacht Club Regatta.
he annual regatta of the Yale Corin-
thian Yacht Club was held on Saturday
afternoon, June 12. The course was the
usual fifteen mile one, beginning off the
club house and extending out into the
Scund and return. Cups were give to
the winners in every class as follows: :
First Class—Sloops—Won by the “"Po-
boggan,’”’ owned by S. D. Babcock, ’97.
Second Class—-Cat Boats—Won by the
“Midget,’? owned by H. Eorden, ’98.
Third Class—Half-raters—Won by the
“Tono,’ owned by H. Bingham, ’98; sec-
ond, ‘‘Bredva,’ owned by C. A. Goodwin, |
98: third, ‘‘Yehl,’’ owned by H. R. Win-
throp, 798: fourth, ‘‘Geish a,’’ owned -by
Ve. G. Low, 7%.
This last race was sailed not only for
the regular regatta cups, but for
two cups presented to the class by. Mr.
W. Butler Duncan of New York City,
which were awarded respectively to the
owners of the ‘“‘Lono”’ and ‘‘Brenda.” By
this victory, also, the ‘“‘Lono’’ has secured
a winning lead on the championship cup
offered by the club to the boat winning
the greatest number of points in the
season.
The name of the
engraved on the Harris cup, offered to
the club in 189% by its first commodore.
Tts value is one hundred dollars and it
is made of solid silver. It is to. be raced
for annually and the man winning it for
three years will take it as his property.
It is thus practically a perpetual chal-
lenge cup.
At a ions meeting of the managers of
the American School of Classical Studies
at Rome-Professor Tracy Peck was elect-
ed director for 1898-99. 4
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