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tember 16, 30; October 7, 14, 21, 28; November 4,
Wi , 25; December 2, 9, 16, 28; January 6, 13, 20, 27;
February 3, 10, 17, 24: March 3, 10, 17, 24, 31; April 7,
14, 21, 28; May’S, 12, 19, 26; June 2, 9, 16, 23 and Com-
ment issue.
ADVISORY BOARD.
H. C. Ropsrnson, °53. J. R. SHEFFIELD, ’87.
W. W. Skippy, ’65S. J. A. HARTWELL, ’89 5.
C. P. LinpsLeEY, 5S. L.S. WELCH, ’89.
W. Camp, '80. E. VAN INGEN, 791 S.
W.G. DaGGETT, ’80. P. Jay, ’92.
EDITOR.
Lewis S. WELCH, ’89.
ASSOCIATE EDITOR.
WALTER Camp, ’80.
TREASURER.
E. J. THOMPSON, Sp.
(Norr.—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. 30, 1897.
TO 1901 AND 1900 8,
Yale knows very little about you yet;
you know probably less about Yale.
The way in which you shall make each
others’ acquaintance in the next few
years is of some importance to Yale
and of something like a life-and-death
importance to you.
Tt is not the purpose of the WEEKLY
to attempt to give you much informa-
tion on this line. Most of it you have
got to work out yourself if it is to be
of any service to you. Nor is it our
purpose to preach much of a sermon.
You are being talked to a good deal
now. You will be supplied with a
great many “don’ts’’ and a great many
“dos” and some of these rules it will be
well for you to pay a great deal of at-.
tention to. As far as they relate to
details in the way of customs, it is just
as well to accept them, unless you see
some very clear reason why you should
not, for it is better to be in agreement
with your environment when you can.
But we do urge you to make your
real acquaintance with Yale in other
ways than by second-hand informa-
tion or by personal advice. In the
opinion of most Yale men who have
taken their Yale life in the right way,
there is no place on this footstool which
so encourages a man to work out the
best that is in him as this same Univer-
sity. Some men work out their worst _
here, but they would, in almost every
case, be sure to do it somewhere else
if they hadn’t come here. Some of
these same men afterwards show that
they have better things in them. There
are not a few cases of late development
and of reform, but these are exceptions
only to the general rule, and confirm it.
We do not hesitate to lay it down as a
general statement that. the man who
isn’t able to show good points while at
Yale isn’t liable to show many of them
any time or anywhere.
If a man thinks about that he will
not need many rules of action. He will
work along the line of every self-re-
specting man who has any chance of
making in life what may properly be
calleda success. He will lay it down, as
the fundamental rule, to be himself; that
is, to be his best self. He will be, first
of all, and in spite of all, true to the
best impulses that he has and to his
best ambitions. Just as soon as he be-
gins to work on this line, unless some
of us, who havé watched this place
called Yale for a number of years, are
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mistaken, he will find the strongest in-
fluences working with him, making his
efforts many times more effective than
it seemed to him at first they might be.
We ask all of you, from our interest
in your success as Yale men and Yale’s
success through ‘you, to think of this
single, simple, principle seriously. Do
not call it “talking generalities,’ for
it isn’t. If you do not know how to
follow it, we humbly believe there is
something wrong with you. It will do
you good to find out. You do not
need to be told that thefe will be some
obstacles in the way, but you can be
told that there will be less than any-
where else in life, and a better chance
to get the right start on the right lines.
After you have once closed in on
this as the guiding rule of action, this
new world of college and university,
bewilderingly full of opportunity, will
begin to lay itself out before you, in
orderly form. Things will fall into
place. You will not find yourself lying
awake of nights wondering whether
you can attain to this or that particular
college honor, which some men have
called the criterion of a successful life
at Yale. You will not spend your time
trying to pick out who are or will be
the possible “big men” of your class,
or try to find out how some man in the
class before you managed to attain as
much success as he did, and to follow
in his footsteps. You are not like him
and you never can be. You are your-
self and all Yale is constructed to make
the best of that self.. It was never in-
tended to make you like anybody else.
We will venture to give a single rule,
which applies to your new life as Yale
men, in a way in which you can
now hardly appreciate. It is, at the
same time, a general and a very high
rule of life-action. That makes us all
the more glad to call it the first rule
of life-action at Yale.
Give the best you have to Yale, if
you wish to get Yale’s best for your-
self.
Those who have made the most of
«this place are those who have given the
most to it. That statement is incon-
trovertible. When you have thought
about that, and found out what it
means, and tried it, for the first time
you will begin to know what this thing
called Yale life is.
GE Ag GSD SGC EIT IS
AS TO GRASS.
A very commendable effort has been
made the past vacation in the way of
encouraging the timorous grass to dis-
pute the possession of the sand of Yale
with the aggressive dockweed. Not
only have various uncanny spots of
the old campus been thus given a soft
hue and pleasing effect, but the hole
made by the demolition of South Mid-
dle has been coated with a well devel-
oped beard of ‘Timothy, or some
equally sturdy variety. A simple but
sufficient wire fence has kept the cam-
pus policemen off this plot, and it
looks now as if Hotchkiss Green would
not be a-.misnomer. No _ inalienable
rights like Senior baseball have been
interfered with, and so the students are
disposed to co-operate with the Admin-
istration in this latest reform.
+ & —_
The New York Herald speaks of
“generous, wealthy, grateful” Yale.
We wish the New York Herald’s adjec-
tives were as reliable as its news col-
umns generally are. Wealthy Yale!-
This makes one who knows the liabili-
ties as well as the assets of this educa-
tional plant, smile. The holdings of the
University foot up a‘ handsome total.
The demands upon the University foot
up an even more impressive total.
CHANGES IN THE FACULTY,
Something about Recent Promotions,
Resignations and Additions,
At the annual meeting of the Yale
Corporation, June 20th, several changes
were made in the Faculty, a brief rec-
ord of which has already been made in
the WEEKLY.
PROF. WHEELER’S RESIGNATION:
As announced last year, Albert S.
Wheeler, for more than twenty-five
years instructor in German in the
Scientific School, has resigned. Mr.
Wheeler was graduated from Geneva
College, now Hobart College, in 1851.
From ’53-’56 he was a tutor in his alma
mater and at the same time pursued the
study of law. ’57—59 he was Profes-
sor of Rhetoric. In 1860 he became
Professor of Greek and in the same
year finished his law studies and was
admitted to the New York State Bar.
Until 1868 he remained at Hobart as
Professor of Greek and from that time
till 1871 he was Professor of Ancient
Languages at Cornell. In 1872 he
came to New Haven and has since that
time been instructor of German in the
Scientific School.
For about twenty years he has con-
ducted a course in Roman Law in the
Law School.
LOUIS V. PIRSSON.
Prof. Louis V. Pirsson was graduated
from the Sheffield Scientific School in
1882. In the Fall of that year he be-
came an Assistant in Chemistry in the
Scientific School and remained there
until 1888. In the year 1892-3 his
name is found among the instructors in
the Scientific School as instructor in
lithology, and in 1893-4 as instructor in
H. DEWITT CARRINGTON.
geology and lithology. In 1894 he be-
came Assistant Professor in Inorganic
Geology, and last June he was pro-
moted to a professorship in the same
subject.
Prof. Pirsson was at one time an
instructor in the Pratt Institute in
Brooklyn and has pursued his studies
in Germany and France. At the same
time with his work in the Scientific
School, Prof. Pirsson was connected
with the United States Geological Sur-
‘vey, for a number of years, spending
four summers in Montana and the Yel-
lowstone National Park.
PROF. CHARLES E. BEECHER.
Prof. Chas. E. Beecher, formerly
Assistant Professor of Historical Geol-
ogy in the Scientific Schoool, has been
promoted to be University. Professor
of Historical Geology and a member of
the Governing Board of the Sheffield
scientiicg . School. «Prof. > Beecher’s
University work will be instruction
of graduate classes in geology and
care of the collection of invertebrate
fossils in the Peabody Museum. His
work in the Scientiflc School will be
instruction of Seniors in _ historical
geology.
Prof. Beecher was graduated from
the University of Michigan in 1878,
receiving the degree of B.S. From
1878 till 1888 he was connected with
the University of New York, in the
New York State Museum, and in the
New York State Geological Survey.
Prof. Beecher came to New Haven
in 1888 and in 1889 received the degree
of Ph.D., studying geology under
Prof. Dana. In 1891 and 1892, during
Prof. Dana’s illness, Prof. Beecher con-
ducted his classes for him. In 1807 he
was made Assistant Professor of His-
torical Geology in the Scientific Schoo!-
In connection with his other work.
Prof. Beecher has been Curator in the
Museum of the invertebrate fossils,
since 1888.
ROBERT NELSON CORWIN.
Dr. Robert Nelson Corwin, who w2s
promoted to be assistant professor im
German in the Sheffield Scientific
School, was graduated from Yale in
the Class of Eighty-Seven and soon
afterwards went abroad to study Ger-
man. He became instructor of Ger-
man in the William Penn Charter
School, Philadelphia, in the Fall of
1888 and remained there until 1890,
when he again went abroad and for
three years was tutoring and studying
in Germany. Since the Fall of ’92 he
has been instructor of German in the
Scientific School.
WILBUR L. CROSS.
Dr. Wilbur Lucius Cross, instructor
of English in the Sheffield Scientific
School, was promoted to assistant pro-
fessor in the same subject. Dr. Cross
was graduated from Yale in the Class
of Eighty-Five and was the winner of
the DeForest Medal. After graduation
he became principal of the Staples High
School:-at Westport, Conn. From the
Fall of 1886 till June, 1889, he was
again at Yale as a graduate student in
English . literature, receiving at the
end of that time the degree of Ph.D.
From 1889 to 1894 he held the position
of instructor of English in the Shady-
side Academy of Pittsburg, Pa., until,
in June, 1894, he was appointed in-
structor in the same subject in the Sci-
entific School.
J. W. D. INGERSOLL.
De ajc WW: 1). iagétsol, whos was
made Assistant Professor of Latin by
the Corporation last June, was gradu-
ated in the Class: of Ninety-Two, of
which he received the Valedictory.
He was Douglass Fellow from 1892 to
1894, studying Semitic and Romance
languages and _ classical philology.
Yale gave him the degree of Doctor of
Philosophy in 1804. For two years
thereafter he was made tutor of Greek
in the College, and for the year 4r896—7
was tutor in Latin.
CHARLES J. BARTLETT.
Dr. Charles J. Bartlett, who was pro-
moted to an assistant professorship in
pathology and bacteriology in the Yale
Medical School, was graduated from
Yale in the Class of Ninety-Two and
returned in the Fall, taking a course in
biology in the Scientific School, for
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