YALE ALUMNI WEEKLY
- Te
SUBSCRIPTION, - $2.50 PER YEAR,
Foreign Postage, 40 cents per year.
PAYABLE IN ADVANCE,
Checks, drafts and orders should be made payable to
the Yale Alumni Weekly.
» ndence should be addressed,— ‘
ah Corry ale Alumni Weekly, New Haven, Conn.
The office is at Room 6, White Hall.
The dates of publication for the year 1897-8 (Vol.
VII) are as follows: . ;
september 16, 30; October 7, 14, 21, 28; November 4,
11 1b, 25 : December 2, 9, 16, 28; January 6, 13, 20, 27;
February 8, 10, 17, 24: March 3, 10, 17, 24, 31; April 7,
14, 21, 28; May 5, 12, 19, 26; June 2, 9, 16, 23 and Com-
ment issue.
ADVISORY BOARD.
H. GC. Roprnson, °53. J. R. SHEFFIELD, ’87.
W. W. Skippy, ’658. J. As HARTWELL, ’89 S.
C. P. LInpDsLeEY, ’75 8. L.S. WELCH, ’89.
W. Camp, ’80. E. VAN INGEN, ’91 S.
W. G. DaGaettT, ’80. P. Jay, 92.
EDITOR.
Lewis 8. WELOH, ’89.
ASSOCIATE EDITOR.
WALTER CAMP, ’80.
TREASURER.
E,. J. THOMPSON, Sp.
(NorE.—The assistants from the staff of the Yale
News for the current year have not yet been ap-
pointed.)
Entered as sccond class matter at New Haven P. O.
New HAVEN, Conn., SEPT. 16, 1897.
THE NEXT ISSUE.
The next issue of the YALE ALUMNI
WEEKLY will be on September 3oth,
two weeks from to-day.. The current
issue is a deviation from the former
rule of publishing the paper only dur-
ing the college term. It is felt that
considerable news is ready at this time,
and that our readers should be supplied
with it. This and other additional is-
sues will raise the total number for this
year to forty. This increase is made
because there seems to be a necessity
for it, in order to allow the paper to do
its work properly. There will not
however, be any increase in the sub-
scription price of the paper, at least
for this year. After September 30th
the paper will appear weekly until the
Commencement issue, 1898, with the
single exception of one week in the
holidays. )
sisi gap ee ee
THE LOAN FUND EXHAUSTED.
With a certain amount of better
times at hand and a good deal more in
that line promised in the future, the
outlook for colleges in general and for
Yale in particular is of course propor-
tionately improved. But for all this,
men will come to college this year
from many homes where the wear and
strain of the last three years of depres-
sion have reduced the revenues below
the point where a collegiate education
can be immediately provided for. In
other words, there will be an unusual
number of men this fall who will need
financial help to go through college,
without working so hard as to interfere
with their studies or to endanger their
health.
There has been a loan fund at Yale
and it has been used very discreetly
and effectively in helping men to tide
over such times as will face very many
who come into the class of Igo!.
But there is no loan fund now. It
has loaned itself out of existence tem-
porarily, and there is no reasonable
hope that it will be revived to any con-
siderable extent by those who have
recently borrowed from it. The latter
years have not given an opportunity
to return loans of this kind.
Of course a great deal of money in
times past has-been furnished from this
fund to those who have been tempo-
rarily in need and who have not yet
taken up the notes which they gave at
that time. Some of those loans, even
though of long standing, cannot at
present be made good, but perhaps
others can. Such an obligation does
TALE ALUMNI
not always seem an immediately press-
ing one,and is always laid aside during
the early years of the building up of
one’s fortune. It is afterward very
easily pushed ahead on the calendar,
from one “inconvenient” time to
another. It is possible that those who
have benefited by such aid as this, and
who have not yet found it convenient
to return the amounts forwarded, may
see in the present situation an especial
opportunity, justifying considerable ef-
fort on their part to make possible
for others, who now need it, the aid
which they in their time so much
enjoyed and so much appreciated and
which proved in their case to have
been very wisely given.
Besides the money that has been
actually loaned from this fund, an
equivalent has been given in a great
many cases in the form of abatement
6f tuition. Those who have received
this abatement of tuition have never
signed a promise to repay, although
many have expressed their intention of
so doing. It is also possible that such
persons as these, when the present sit-
uation is brought to their knowledge,
may feel it an especial opportunity for
them to express just now in substantial
form appreciation of the aid which was
given them.
It will certainly be disappointing,
and quite out of key with the general
way of doing things at Yale, if it shall
be necessary to refuse, and perhaps to
drive away, very worthy men, who, at
this peculiar time, need temporary
assistance to properly use their college
course.
THE WORK ON THE FIELD.
Those who have never had the pleas-
ant experience of providing for the
handling of a lively crowd of 15,000
or more, in a city of the size of New
Haven, in a locality not arranged at all
for such an event, may not appreciate
the services which the Field Corpora-
tion is giving to the University, in its
conscientious, thorough and effective
solving of the problem of the foot ball
game on home grounds. An article
elsewhere gives the main things done
and the plans made. AII this, however,
does not indicate at all what time and
thought have been placed on the mat-
ter. Nor is it easy to take into account
the very quiet, effective handling of the
official side of this question. The
Corporation has to do with the town
of Orange in the handling of the field
property itself. It has to do with the
town of New Haven in any efforts
made towards improving the ap-
proaches to the Field, to better the
bridge and roadway. Again, it de-
pends, in a meastire, on the street rail-
way corporation for better service in
the transportation of the crowd. But
the Corporation has met all the trouble-
some questions which this situation has
brought up in a firm, business-like way,
and has slowly worked out what will
undoubtedly be a _ very satisfactory
solution. If everything has not been
done this year to make the handling of
a great crowd perfect, it will not be
due to any failure on their part to im-
prove the opportunity.
EUG ENR, inet FP PT
YALE FOOT BALL,
The foot ball season at Yale has
never opened in recent years under
quite such interesting circumstances.
The record of the past twelve months
is very bad. Basing predictions on
ordinary grounds, the outlook for this
year is as bad as it could be. Only
four veteran players are in college and
one of these is a captain who has had
typhoid fever in the summer. Yet this
year Yale has to face not only her old
antagonist Princeton, with her invinci-
ble line of last year almost unbroken,
the paper a great deal.
Wee BRLY
but must renew her foot ball struggles
with Harvard, who is also well supplied
with veteran material. Yale’s reputa-
tion suffered badly last year, principally
from her inability to defend, although
Yale defence had become before that
synonymous with strength. The re-
building of a new system of defence is
a long piece of work.
There is one pleasant aspect to the
situation. It shows a state of affairs so
inconsistent with Yale’s traditions, so
repugnant to Yale’s pride, so contra-
dictory to everything that should be
expected, that it may rouse Yale spirit
to a manifestation that will be health-
ful and helpful. It may show Yale
that something more than the methods
of ten years ago are necessary for the
proper conduct of athletics in 1897,
with an undergraduate body twice the
size it then was and much less closely
united than in the older day. It may
put into practice a system that will
draw into the healthful exercise of foot
ball (and into all other healthful exer-
cise) several times as many of the stu-
dent body as have hitherto enjoyed it.
If it does these things, there will be
more silver lining than cloud in our
sky.
In the meantime it is probably un-
necessary to remind every man who
knows aught of foot ball, that his coun-
sel and help is absolutely necessary at
New Haven this fall, and that he is
expected to give up from business and
pleasure just as much time as he can
find, in order to help Mr. Rodgers and
Mr. Benjamin through the most diffi-
cult situation that has faced foot ball
leaders for very many years.
a
The WEEKLY must be again allowed
to urge Yale men who have news to
let us have it. Our regular corre-
spondents are appreciating the oppor-
tunities which they have to serve us
more and more, and are thereby mak-
ing this a better newspaper.
those who are not regularly in the
position of correspondents would re-
member to drop us a line whenever an
event of interest to Yale or to any num-
ber of Yale men occurs, it would help
If those who
feel inclined to give us occasional as-
sistance in this way will let us know,
we will be pleased to furnish cards and
return envelopes in order to facilitate
their work.
ma he
A Student's Successful Burglar
Hunt,
Early in the morning of July 28,
David C. Twichell, Yale ’98, President
of the Yale Football Associatton, held
up at the point of his rifle, and later
delivered to ‘the police, a young man
named Charles King, who was attempt-
ing burglary at the Twichell house
on Woodland street, Hartford. Mr.
Twichell was alone in the house, the
rest of the family being in Keene Val-
ley. Twichell, who had run his man
down in the veranda, discovered from
him the name of his associate, who had
left the house just in time to get away
from the possible. operation of the
rifle, and was able to direct the police
so as to effect his capture shortly after.
The second burglar was named Win-
ters. He came from a good family in
Hartford and went to the same district
school with Twichell.
’ Lockwood Scholarship
Founded, :
By the will of Miss Julia A. Lock-
wood of Norwalk, Conn., which was
offered for probate in that city_on Aug.
24, Yale University is bequeathed
$5,000 for the establishment. of a schol-
arship to be known as-the “Lockwood
Scholarship.” F. St. John Lockwood,
"49, is named as executor.
But if -
To 1901.
You have now turned a new leaf in your
book. We do not mean this in the half-
slang sense in which it generally is spoken,
but that in becoming members of a great
university you have opened on a new period
in your lives. In that sense the new leaf
lies before you. Virgin to your hand it
waits for the writing you must place there.
What you are to do and be here at Yale,
what you are to accomplish for the pleasur-
ing of those at home, what you are to make
of your intellectual and moral self, all this will
make up the record that that page will bear.
This sounds like a sermon, possibly. If
SO, we venture to say it is because sermons
have a way of dealing with some such evident
allegory as this, and of drawing through it
and from it good advice. In so far as that,
this is a sermon,—but notice that it is a very
short one, and know that it is meant for
your own good.
This is our advice. Sieze hold of every-
thing that can in any honorable way help
you to leave a good record here, and to carry
with you as much as possible of the help
Old Yale can give. Nor can any one thing
be of greater assistance to you, acting at
“once as a balance-wheel and incentive in
almost all you do, than Life Insurance in a
reliable company.
Grant that this is a business proposition,
it is yet a proposition whose sound wisdom
has been incontrovertibly proven by the
careers of the most successful men that our
country has produced. Slight investigation
on your part cannot but convince that Life
Insurance in a company with unimpeachable
past and a present honorable in usefulness,
is all and more that is claimed for it.
You are cordially invited to become a
member of such a company by
THE MUTUAL LIFE OF NEW YORK.
JOHN W. NICHOLS, -
General Agent for Connecticut.
New Haven,
Pres. Woolsey’s Opinion.
It was referred to in one of the June
issues of the YALE ALUMNI WEEKLY.
‘A good hotel,” the President once
said, ‘is a necessity to the College.”
It was the result of this opinion em-
phatically expressed and forcibly
applied to the situation that put
Mr. Moseley in charge of the New
Haven House thirty years ago.
Since that time this house has been
not only the city’s best known
hotel, but in a very real sense
an institution of Yale. Like the
latter it has developed to meet the
needs of the times, and its equip-
ment is thoroughly up to date and
of the first class.
Yale Law School.
For circulars and other information
APPLY TO
Prof. FRANCIS WAYLAND,
Dean.