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ADVISORY BOARD.
H. C, Rosrnson, ’53. J. R. SHEFFIELD, ’87.
W. W.Sxrppy, ’658. J. A. HARTWELL, 895.
C. P. LINDSLEY, ’75 8. L.S. WELCH, ’89.
W. Camp, ’80. E. VAN INGEN, ’91 8.
W. G. DaGeert, ’80. P. Jay, 92.
EDITOR,
Lewis 8. WELo#, ’89.
ASSOCIATE EDITOR.
WALTER Camp, ’80,
ASSISTANT EDITOR.
EK. J. THOMPSON, Sp.
NEWS EDITOR.
FRED. M. DAVIES, ’99.
PRESTON KUMLER, 1900, Athletic Department.
Davip D. TENNEY, 1900, Special.
Entered as sccond class matter at New Haven P. O.
NEw HAVEN, Conn., Nov. 4, 1897.
THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE SHEF-
FIELD ANNIVERSARY,
Those who listened to President Gil-
man’s address last Thursday, may have
been surprised that he should have de-
voted a large fraction of his time to a
sketch of the progress of science dur-
ing the past half-century. In giving
this masterly epitome as an introduc-
tion to his main subject, he showed that
he fully appreciated what is probably
the salient fact in the history of the
School, and what gives its main signi-
ficance to the semi-centennial anniver-
sary. Ths feature of the School is
briefly explained in a paragraph of the
catalogue which has been repeated so
often that it has probably ceased to at-
tract any attention, while very few of
the students themselves realize that it
is there, or know what it means.
School, according to this statement, ‘‘is
devotion to instruction and researches in
the mathematical, physical and natural
sciences with reference to the promotion
and diffusion of science and also to the
preparation of young men for such pur-
suits as require special proficiency in
these departments of learning.”
The two words which we have ital-
icized, research and diffusion, sum up
the distinguishing features of the
School which differentiate it, on the
one hand from other departments of
the University and, on the other, from
most of the technological schools of the
country. There is not another depart-
ment of Yale which states that its ob-
ject is either research or the diffusion
of knowledge. Where any object is
stated, that object is usually to train
young men in certain lines, and this is
also true of most technological schools.
The latter try primarily to give young
men the elements of a profession. Re-
search and diffusion of knowledge,
though often pursued, both in these
schools and in other departments of
Yale, especially in the Graduate School,
are treated as incidental and secondary.
The precise statement of these ob-
jects in the catalogue dates from 1871,
but their existence dates from the be-
ginning of the School. The purposes
of the School were described at length
in the report of the Governing Board
for 1868-69, and any one who wishes to
learn just what is meant by research and
diffusion of science cannot do better
than to turn to that report. But its
actions have been more significant than
its statements of policy. From the very
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beginning it has endeavored, first, to
promote science, and then to popular-
ize it. This it has done by holding con-
ferences of farmers, by establishing a
course of popular lectures to mechanics,
and above all by stimulating the estab-
lishment of agricultural experiment sta-
tions, and furnishing for many years
free quarters to the Connecticut station,
the pioneer of them all. For many
years the reports which it made to the
legislature contained, besides the bald
statement of courses of instruction and
requirements for examination with
which most college catalogues content
themselves, a learned treatise on some
department of science. Thus in the re-
port for 1874-75 may be found a valua-
ble essay by Prof. Johnson on agricul-
tural experiment stations and their con-
tributions to the science of agriculture.
This point*should be strongly empha-
sized, because there is great danger that
it will be forgotten by the younger gen-
eration. If the legislature of the State
had fully grasped the idea they would
have realized how pointless it was to
withdraw from the School the appro-
priation intended for it by the Con-
gressional Act of 1890, on the ground
that its standard of scholarship was too
high to be of practical use to the far-
mer. If no farmer had ever graduated
from the School, its importance would
still be vast for’every farmer in the
State who is sufficiently alert to try to
improve his stock or the productiveness
of his: farm: Lis tact was .browehe
home to the writer this Summer in con-
versation with a farmer in Massachu-
setts. This man works with his own
hands in the field for his living and not
for his health, but he spoke quite fami-
liarly of the chemical ingredients which
the different kinds of fodder should
have in order to furnish a proper ration
for his cows. We can be sure that with-
out the experiment station, and without
the researches which such schools as
the Scientific School have made, he
would not only have been ignorant of
the proportions in which different ele-
ments enter into the structure of cattle,
but he would probably not even have
known their names.
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UNITED YALE.
The time is near when Yale will
again go into action on fields where
she has fought out many a hard battle
to a splendid victory. Those who are
not at New Haven have not the means
to make independent judgment from
their own observations, and at this
time,. with their thoughts so anxiously
turned toward their College, are a little
more susceptible to a kind of literature
in particular circulation at present, to
which they ordinarily turn a deaf ear.
To these, and to any others asking
questions about the situation here, it
is well to say that Yale goes into the
contest of the Fall of 1897 with a whole
heart, and with an eleven inspired with
the loyal enthusiasm of the entire Uni-
versity. Such questions as are asked
and any surprise that is expressed, at
one move or another, are at most only
an indication of the intensity of the
interest in the year’s hard struggle.
Of the work of the eleven and the
coaches and the Captain, the WEEKLY’S
news columns have treated so fully in
this and in other issues as to make it
quite unnecessary to go further into
detail. No more enthusiastic or loyal
devotion, no more splendid spirit of
work, has ever been shown on a Yale
football field. Whatever the mistakes
of the past, the magnificent work of
the present is as clearly in evidence as
any fact in Yale’s history, and is thor-
oughly and enthusiastically recognized
by the University. Whatever their par-
ticular style of play, and however dis-
couraging have been some incidents of
New York City.
the the University and the
eleven will enter the struggle of the
13th with a determination to win, over
all obstacles.
season,
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THE FOOTBALL COACHES.
The unity of work in football coach-
ing at Yale has always been a fine
example of the way things ought to be
done. This year has only strengthened
the excellent traditions of the past.
The assistants have uniformly supported
Mr. Butterworth, and between them
and the Captain has been a clear un-
derstanding, and cordial cooperation.
It is with reluctance that any reference
is made here to the fool stories con-
cerning Mr. Camp’s attitude towards
the season’s work, but it is as well to
' make sure that not even a single Yale
man is misled. Mr. Camp told Captain
Rodgers at the beginning of the season
that business would absolutely prevent
his attendance at practice and active
participation in the development of the
eleven, but that such assistance as he
could give in consultation would always
be gladly given. Coach and captain
have not: infrequently acted upon his
offer and they and Mr. Camp _ thor-
oughly understand each other. The
football workers know that no one more
warmly endorses the work of the last
six weeks than he.
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The College Pulpit.
The college pulpit will be occupied
during the rest of this term by the fol-
lowing preachers:
November 7—Rev. Prof. G. T. Ladd,
New Haven.
November 14—Reyv. Reuen Thomas,
D.D., Brookline.
November 21—Rev. F. R. Shipman,
Andover.
November DePeu,
Bridgeport.
December 5—Rev. Prof. G. B. Ste-
vens, New Haven.
December 12—Rev. E. B.
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’O7 N. Y. Alumni Meeting.
There will be a meeting of the New
York members of the Class of Ninety-
Seven at the Yale Club, 17 East 26th
st., on Friday evening, November sth,
at 8.30 o’clock, to take suitable action
on the death of Theodore Moore
Barnes, Jr. It is earnestly requested
that all members of Ninety-Seven who
are in New York on this evening make
every effort to be present. .
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A Forecast of the Season, by WALTER CAMP,
For November, is too good to be missed by college
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