Yale alumni magazine. ([New Haven]) 1937-1976, September 30, 1897, Page 8, Image 8

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    CAN YALE DEFEND ?_
Kids “AL Ce aL
WHE KLY
Football is typical of more than one side of life. Mr. Stephen Crane, hls
friends Say, took his idea of a battle which is worked out with such almest
horribly realistic effects in the “Red Badge of Courage,” from an Amer-
ican University football match.
And for this and other elements of the game, to-day the interest of sport-loviag
America is centered on the training of the elevens of the great colleges.
When men turn this year to Yale, so long the easy leader, they ask this
SIMPLE, SEARCHING QUESTION:
Can she learn again a safe game ? ! de
Had she been too zealous in developing the fast, brilliant
altogether.
attack and advance,—the so-called ‘scoring’? game ?
Last year her defense broke down
Or had it been
merely the absence of men of great bone and muscle to stem the tide ?
No matter about the diagnosis. The result is too well known.
From a Yale standpoint, everything went to the
The goal was crossed.
bow-Wwows.
Natural enough, that any one,should have occasional reverses.
And sometimes, you conclude that, in the great football match
ball.
The line broke.
Yes, in foot-
of business, every one’s goal line, sooner or later, must be crossed.
But you make some exceptions, even in the moments of your bluest philoso-
phy.
the defensive, her line must prove absolutely impregnable.
You know, for instance, that if The Prudential is ever placed on
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JOHN F. DRYDEN, President.
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their nature and operation. His ex-
planation of the mystery of the geome-
trical construction of the hexagonal
cell, which had baffled the savants for
centuries, was published in a series of
articles in the Scientific American in
1860, and subsequently in the Bee
Keepers’ Journal. Applying his know-
ledge of the geometrical properties of
the hexagon to a close observation of
the bee-cell and the habits of. the
worker, he had discovered as early as
1852 an intimate relation between the
length of’the antennz and the size of
the cell, which is the same respectively
for the two kinds of cells in all hives.
His investigations. led him to the
assured conviction that the hexagonal
form is due to this relation; that every
adult worker is supplied with a uniform
rule and compass, each side of the cell
for the embryo worker being equal to
the length of the forearm of ‘the an-
tenna and each side of the cell for the
embryo drone being equal to the length
of the whole antenna. The mandibles,
hard, horny organs, are the mechanical
instruments, the antenneze being applied
as delicate, sensitive calipers to the
walls of the cells until the wax is drawn
out to the utmost tenuity compatible
with strength.
He never sought public office, but
accepted such as suited his convenience.
In 1847 he was elected the Brookhaven
Superintendent of Common Schools,
an office which involved the examina-
tion of teachers and the visitation of
about forty schools. Six years after-
wards, he was elected a trustee of the
school district, when the opportunity
occurred of securing a site of an acre
in the central part of the village for a
much needed school house, and he
obtained the decision of the majority
of the voters for its purchase and the
erection of a suitable building against
NEWARK, N. J.
the opposition of some of the tax-
payers. The sides of the school room
are embellished with busts of national
characters which he _ presented.
His physical activity had _ scarcely
suffered wane. Always fond of athlet-
ics, he organized while in college the
Pioneer Boat Club, which was the
foundation of the Yale “navy, and
continued through life to indulge in
various sports. Only last winter he
renewed his youth, by issuing an “ex-
traordinary challenge’ to any person
of seventy years or upwards to engage
in a skating contest of from 50 to 500
miles, and a challenge to any person,
regardless of age, to compete in de-
lineating the Ten Commandments on
ice. It has been asserted by some
English writers on “figure skating”
that it is impossible to describe letters
on ice. He demonstrated that skate-
writing is possible, and possible on a
large scale. He was skilled inthe use of
amechanics’ tools, and had a workshsp
supplied with a great variety of imple-:
ments. From his earliest childhood he
had corifined himself to cold water as
a beverage, to the entire exclusion of
all spirituous liquors, as well as tea and
coffee; nor had he ever used tobacco
in any form. To this abstemiousness
and to his out-door employments he
ascribed his long, unimpaired robust
health. In 1893 he made two visits to
the World’s Fair at Chicago.
With all his occupations he found
time for regular reading and _ study.
He delighted in the enjoyment of the
young and was commissioned by Santa
Claus, on his last anniversarv. to distri-
bute his gifts to the children of St.
Andrew’s Church, Yaphank, and to
deliver an address, with a history of the
patron saint from the days when he
journeyed alone in a reindeer sleigh to
the present age, when he employs an
army of many thousands and transports
his treasures on the wings of ‘steam
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~and he has eight grandchildren.
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across seas and continents. In this
church he had occasionally officiated
as a lay reader, having been appointed
as such by the Bishop of the Diocese at
a time when the church was without a
settled clergyman. The death of his
first child, a daughter, in 1850, was the
moving cattse of the erection of the
building by the grandparents. It was
opened in 1854 and donated to the Dio-
cese of Long Island in 1872.
His wife, Mary, daughter of Archi-
bald Croswell, a manufacturer and the
founder of the village of Gilboa, N. Y.,
and the niece of Rev. Dr. Croswell,
former pastor’ of Trinity: (PR!) EB)
Church, New Haven, to whom he was
married, January 1, 1848, died in 1883.
He had six sons and six daughters,
of whom three sons and five daughters
are living. Six. of his children; two
sons and four daughters, are Sie Se
is
oldest son, T. Maxwell Weeks, was
graduated at Cornell University ia 1872.
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Death of Henry W. Sage.
Henry W. Sage died, at Ithaca, Sept.
18. Mr. Sage endowed the Lyman
Beecher Lectureship in the Yale Divin-
ity School, in 1871, by a gift of $10,000.
In 1873 he. gave a college hall for
women to Cornell University. He suc-
ceeded Ezra Cornell as president of the
board of trustees of Cornell University.
Among his other benefactions he pre-
sented West Bay City with a public
library and has endowed and built sev-
eral churches and schools.
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833 CHAPEL ST YALE Co-op. MUSIC STORE.
We again gladly welcome to our city the returning students of Yale. For
thirty years our store has been the rendezvous of music-loving college men,
and our aim shall be to make our dealings with them so pleasant that they will
continue to make it their headquarters for thirty years to come.
Our stock of musical merchandise will be varied and complete. For
guitars we shall still recommend such celebrated makes as the Martin, Bruno,
Howe-Orme, Vega, and Thompson & Odell Artist; and for banjos, the
Lansing, Morrison, Luscomb, Stewart, and Artist. _
The popularity of the mandolin is still on the increase, and to meet the
' growing demand for these instruments we have secured the sole agency for
such renowned makes as the Ricca, Tipaldi, Maurer, Vega, and Howe-Orme. |
In our sheet music department will be found an extensive assortment of
the latest classical and popular issues, both vocal and instrumental, together
with a full line of standard and light operas in complete form.
PIANOS TO RENT. Our stock is large, and of various makes and
styles of cases, at prices lower than any house in the city. |
Our repairing department is in charge of an expert mechanic, who makes
a specialty of putting in banjo heads, and mends the worst fractures with skill
and expedition.
iM . LOOMIS’ SONS.