Vou. VIL -: No: 6:
YALE’S CHRISTIAN WORK.
The Secretary of the Vale VY. M.C.A.
Shows its Progress.
The strategic point in the Christian
work among College men lies in the
fact that a young stranger in a strange
land is easily influenced. It is always
an open question what that influ-
ence shall be, when a boy enters the
new world of college experiences, and
just here Christian work must begin.
When the campus is all confusion and
the new men are at sea in their new
surroundings, the Young Men’s Chris-
tian Association makes every effort to
get a strong grip on the classes which
will soon become the directors of Col-
lege thought and feeling. If the Asso-
ciation can hold a student during these
susceptible days, it will very likely have
his influence for four years, and more.
‘In order to become acquainted with
the entering classes, undergraduates are
sent to the preparatory schools in the
Spring of each year. Because of this
work, through correspondence and
many inquiries during the Summer
months and through the acquaintances
formed in helping men to find rooms
and boarding places, the Association
can pick, with a fair degree of accu-
racy, the nucleus of Christian men for
the. Freshman religious committee.
This year the Association has been able
to select an energetic committee from
the new men. This is especially true
of the Sheffield School Department.
Hitherto it has been hard to keep in
touch with the Sheff. Freshmen, but
with the new house at 138 College st.
this trouble has been overcome. From
1900 S. is confidently expected a deeper
interest in the Christian work of the
Scientific School than any class of the
School has previously manifested.
The so-called employment bureau
has played its usual part in the opening
days of the University year. The see-
retary at Dwight Hall has had an un-
usually long list of applicants for em-
ployment, and during the last two
weeks about thirty have been placed at
some remunerative work. <A_ hearty
welcome is given to such earnest stu-
dents. The Freshman reception on the
first Friday evening of the term was
crowded even more than in other years.
All this work is simply preliminary to
the first meetings of the new class for
prayer and Bible study. This care for
the temporal needs of the men leads to
a more sympathetic touch in spiritual
things.
ADVANCE IN SHEFF. WORK.
The advance in the work for the Sci-
entific School this Fall is worthy of
special notice. Previous to this time
the Sheff. rooms of the Association
have been inadequate for its purposes.
After a few years of gradual growth,
the Association is now able to occupy
attractive quarters at 138 College st.
Mrs. Cochran’s generosity has made
possible just what was needed for the
Christian work at Sheff. and, we be-
lieve too, for the social life. During
the Summer, Sheff. graduates contrib-
uted freely for the improvements to the
building, and as a result the undergrad-
uates have comfortable reading and
lounging rooms. Every comfort, so
much enjoyed by the College man, has
beeen furnished. The College periodi-
cals, the weekly and monthly maga-
zines and the New York dailies are on
file and can be read in what visitors
have called “luxury.” This luxury,
however, 1s nothing more than pretty
rooms fitted with easy chairs, a win-
dow-seat, settees and grates for open
fires. The general secretary has an
office on the second floor, where he may
be found at a certain hour of every day.
This is an innovation and already has
proven of advantage in keeping the
leaders of the work closely united.
Graduates have feared that a Sheff. De-
partment distinct from the Academic
work would make a wide breach in
Christian activity. The constant touch
of the secretary with the Sheff. interests
has already shown that this new move-
ment need in no way be detrimental to
either Sheff. or the Academic Depart-
ment. By the new plan, the secretary
has an opportunity to meet more often
the Sheff. men and to keep in more
vital relation with the Scientific School
than was ever possible under the old
arrangement. Because of these broad-
ening plans, we shall find that Sheff.
men will be more and more attracted
to Dwight Hall, the meeting-place of
all University men. The same method
of work so successfully followed in
Dwight Hall, ever since its dedication
eleven years ago, is being pursued at
“1328 College Street’ College parlance
has thus interpreted the longer sign,
“Sheff. Dept. Yale Y. M. C. A.,” placed
above the portico of the building.
FORMAL HOUSE OPENING.
On Friday evening, Oct. 8th, from
seven until nine o’clock, the building
was formally opened to the Freshmen
and the house-warming was eminently
successful, with President Dwight and
a quartet from the Glee Club to add*
greater interest to the occasion. The
following Sunday noon, from 12.30 to
one o'clock, the first prayer meeting
was held, and by vote of a number of
men these services are to be continued
through the year. The Bible class
meets for thirty-five minutes on Wed-
nesday evening and will study, during
the Winter, the life of Christ. Last
week a graduate remarked that these
studies would have been impossible in
his day and he wished to know how
they had been finally introduced. He
was reminded that organized Christian
work by students for their associates
had been begun scarcely twenty years
ago and that Dwight Hall itself was
only a child in years. The work in
Sheff. is in the same process of evolu-
tion, with the probability of more rapid
development than that which has taken
place on the campus. Mr. John R.
Mott, who has recently been around
the world organizing the Christian
work among students, said in an ad-
dress in New Haven a few days since
that scientific men searching the Bible
with their scientific method were more
ready to accept it as the revelation of
God than any other class of men.
Upon. past experience and present
facts it seems certain that the Christian
life of the Scientific School has entered
upon a new period of its history. The
entering class is accepting the oppor-
tunity offered to it, and with devoted
leaders in all their classes we may be
confident of the success which their
enthusiasm will bring to the Associa-
tion. Because of these broader plans
for the University the inscription over
the entrance to Dwight Hall will as-
sume a deeper significance—‘‘One is
your Master, even the Christ.”
MR. MOTT’S VISIT.
Within the last two weeks we have
been led to look beyond our own walls
by a visit of Mr. Mott, the secretary of
the World’s Student Christian Federa-
tion. It is an inspiration to know that
what the undergraduates are doing at
Yale other students are doing in every
quarter of the globe. Yale graduates
have taken a leading part in Christian
work for students in foreign lands and
it makes us proud to think that our
College has trained men who are fit to
lead these Christian movements. Yale’s
influence is world-wide in many ways
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NEW HAVEN, CONN., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1897.
Prick Ten Cents.
YALE CLUB NOTES.
Some Membership Figures—The Club
House—Proposed Entertainments,
Atthoneh the management of the
Yale Club has as yet given out no offi-
cial figures to show the membership
secured from each class, the WEEKLY
has made an effort to compile as cor-
rect tables as possible from the list of
members placed in the reading-room
some time since. This list contains the
names of some 480 graduates, and does
not therefore represent the complete
membership of the organization. The
tables have been prepared, however,
in the belief that they will show the
proportion of old and young “alumni
in the Club with sufficient accuracy,
until some official figures are given out.
As is to be expected,the younger gradu-
ates easily outnumber the older men,
both from the fact that they doubtless
feel the need of such a club more than
the latter as well as for the reason that
graduating classes are so much larger
now than formerly. No account is
taken in these tables of the classes be-
fore 1850, on account of the compara-
tively few names on the list of men
graduating before that date, nor of
graduates of the Law or Medical_ De-
partments.
The tables follow:
Classes. Academic. Scientific. Total.
r8s0-59 inclusive:.. 137° ts?
1860-69 seutdO 5 51
1870-79 “2 pee os z 92
1880-89 - eee 4 18 104
1890-97 o 2. 7E50 56 206
380 86 466
The largest .membership recorded
from any single Academic class is 31
from ’95, which is followed by ’94 with
25.92. With. 22, a8e O03. With 2h, Ot
the Scientific classes, ’95 again leads
with 18, ’92 is second with 12, and ’94
third with 9. The largest membership
in the ’80’s is ’81 with 12, and in Sheff.,
89 with four, while in the ’70’s, ’75
and ’77 tie with 11 each, the representa-
tion from the Scientific Department be-
very small in all these years. The Class
of Sixty-Six leads the ’60’s with seven
msn and ’54 is first in its division with
our.
THE HOUSE ITSELF.
The Club House is situated midway
between Fifth and Madison avenues,
with a pleasant outlook over. Madison
Square. Aside from the advantage of
facing on the park, the situation is most
desirable on account of its central loca-
tion.
The building, which consists of four
stories and a basement, has readily lent
itself to the purposes of a club. In the
front basement is the billiard room,
and above this, on the first: floor, are
a large reading-room, smoking-room
and a dining-room. On the second
floor are some smaller writing-rooms.
The plan of the founders in having bed-
rooms to rent to members, has proved
most successful, and all the apartments
thus set apart are now occupied. They
especially commend themselves to the
younger graduates on account of their
good situation, and reasonable prices. .
ENTERTAINMENTS IN THE WINTER.
When the formal opening was held
on October 15th, there was some talk
of holding some kind of entertainment
on the 15th or 20th of. each succeeding
month. No official announcement of
these has as yet been made, but it is
e
ford High School,
understood that the idea is under con-
sideration. Every evening many men
may be found at the Club, but it is con-
ceded that some sort of. entertainment
each month would bring the men to-
gether in large numbers. Some of the
more recent classes are also talking
over the plan of holding informal re-.
unions at the Club now and then.
RULES FOR ~ GUESTS.
It has. been. decided that members
may extend the privileges of the Club
to persons not residing in New York
or Brooklyn, for two weeks, and these
privileges may also be accorded col-
lege professors and “distinguished
strangers.’ A member may only en-
tertain two guests at a time.
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Phi Beta Kappa Society.
Following is the list of the names
and preparatory schools of the Juniors
who received Philosophical and High
Orations, and who thus become mem-
bers of the Phi Beta Kappa Society:
PHILOSOPHICAL ORATIONS.
S. D. Ames, University Grammar
School, Providence, R. I.; R. B. An-
derson, Duluth High School, Duluth,
Minn.; G. E. Atwood, Robbins School,
Norfolk, Conn.; J. K. Clark, Brooklyn
Polytechnic School, Brooklyn, N. Y.;
C. E. Fisher, University of Minnesota;
A. B. Hall, Middletown High School,
Middletown, Conn., and private tutor;
F. J. Hall, Kiskiminetas School, Salts-
burgh, Pa.; C. M. Hathaway, School of
the: Lackawanna, Scranton, Pa:; A.W.
Lovell, Hillhouse High School, New.
Haven, Conn.; A. S. Mann, Buffalo-
Hieh. School, Butalo, IN. .Y.7 31. fe
Morey, Buffalo High School, Buffalo,
Nov Y. 22). 8.:Norton,,..Hartiord High
School, Hartford, Conn., and Los
Angeles High School, Los Angeles,
Cal.; H. C. Robbins, Hamilton School,
Philadelphia,.. .Pa.; -B...G. .. Smith, ..Bast
Orange High School, East Orange,
NG it Re Gi. Vane Name, jflopkins
Grammar School, New Haven, Conn.
HIGH ORATIONS.
H. T. Bowles, St. Paul’s School, Con- ,
cord, N. H.; N. M. Burrell, Collegiate
School, New York City; G. M. Carle-
ton, Hartford High School, Hartford,
Conh.~ [.. °D,. Carson, . Bishop -Sscom
Academy, Portland, Oregon; W. D.
Cutter, Adelphi Academy, Brooklyn,
N. Y.; J. L. Evans, Havertord Gram-
mar School,” Havyeriord. -Pa.;. Wo &
Everett, Phillips Academy, Andover,
Mass.; C. R. Fowler, Hillhouse High
School,.. New Haven, Conn.;. L. -P.
Fuller, Willimantic High School, Willi-
mantic; Conn:;'' S.°“Gilman, Phithps
Academy, Exeter, N. H.; B.. Mills,
Ball High School, Galveston, Tex.; F.
H. Morely, University School, Cleve-
land, Ohio; W. B. Neergaard, Brook-
lyn Polytechnic School, Brooklyn, N.
Y., and The Gunnery, Washington,
Ct.; H. J. Nichols, Binghamton High
school; ::Binghamton;'2N.7°Y.5 > HOR.
Norman, Norwich Free Academy,
Norwich, Conn.; H. R. Shipman, Hart-
Hartford, Conn.;
C. Spitzer, Phillips Academy, Andover,
-Massi3)°C.. B.° Tinker} East ° Denver
High School, Denver, Col.
PERCE ERENG SY emun anes wee
Athletic Calendar.
Saturday, October 30.—West Point at
West Point.
Saturday, October 30.—Fall Athletic
‘games at Yale Field.
Saturday, November 6.—Chicago A.
A. at New Haven. 7
Saturday, November 13.—Harvard at
Cambridge.
Saturday, November 20.—Princeton
at New Haven.
