YALE ALUMNI WEEKLY
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Yale Alumni Weekly, New Haven, Conn.
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ADVISORY BOARD.
H.C, Roprnson, ’53. J. R. SHEFFIELD, ’87.
W. W. Sxippy, 65S. J. A. HARTWELL, ’89 S.
C. P. LINDSLEY, 75S. L.S. WELCH, ’89.
W. Camp, ’80. E. VAN INGEN, ’91 8.
W.G. DaceztTr,’80. P. Jay, ’92.
EDITOR.
LEwIs S. WELOH, ’89.
ASSOCIATE EDITOR.
WALTER Camp, ’80,
ASSISTANT EDITOR.
E. J. THOMPSON, Sp.
NEWS EDITOR.
FRED. M. DAVIES, '99.
PRESTON KuUMLER, 1900, Athletic Department.
Davip D. TENNEY, 1900, Special.
Entered as second class matter at New Haven P. O.
TUTTLE, MOREHOUSE & TAYLOR, PRINTERS.
NEW HAVEN, Conn., Nov. 11, 1897.
A “PRESS CENSORSHIP.??
It is as well to be cheerful and pleas-
ant, so there is no use in saying dis-
agreeable things over the stories which
have gone out about the formation of
the Yale Press Club. But let us con-
sider the facts. For a long time, it has
been the custom of the editors of the
News to put themselves to considerable
inconvenience to supply newspaper men
with the details of Yale happenings,
which were generally in the office in
the evening and which could thus be
secured by those newspaper men very
much more easily than from the origi-
nal sources. Liberty has been thus
given regarding matter in possession
of the News, which no other newspa-
per would ever think of offering to
others, which has at times amounted to
out and out recklessness.
It is yet to be proved that this ex-
ceeding liberality has resulted in any
further inclination to accuracy in the
treatment of University matters. Some
men seem just as ready to rake up
a sensation from idle talk and to de-
velop this sensation to the highest com-
mercial value, with little or no at-
tempt to find out the truth. When on
such a trail as this, the unscrupulous
correspondent has always carefully
avoided any center of authority or of
definite information, including the News
office, for there he might find some-
thing true, which would at once kill
his choice creation. He has not, how-
ever, hesitated to come in the next
night and have the office turned upside
down to supply him with a set of statis-
tics which he has not the energy or
ability to get from the original sources.
Two things seem possible and seem
good to do. One is to make an even
more earnest attempt to put the facts
of regular College happenings in the
possession of those who are making a
decent endeavor to report Yale matters
honestly and intelligently; the other to
let this community know who the peo-
ple are who are telling the rest of the
world about them. A list of corre-
spondents and the names of their papers
seems to the News as proper a bit of
public property as the names of an
athletic team. It has not yet occurred
to the News or anyone else here that
those who were making an honest at-
tempt to report facts about Yale, and
YALE ALUMNI
tell the truth, could have any objec-
tion to the knowledge, on the part of
their fellows, as to what papers they
were writing for. On the other hand,
that knowledge, it seemed to the News,
was properly demanded by the College.
It was, of course, not dreamed that
Yale could be the only place in which
men could not persistently misrepre-
sent things if they wanted to. If men
want to go on telling all sorts of things
about Yale that aren’t so, they are
expected to do so. But it may, in the
future, become rather a burden to the
flesh of the News editors to continue to
give to men that which they show they
have no use for. If some should prove
themselves constitutionally unreliable,
with or without suggestions of malice,
and they should be told that it was
undesirable to go to the trouble of giv-
ing them information which they made
no use of, it would be leaving them
only where a correspondent naturally
expects himself to be—in a position
where he must gather all his own news.
While such a result is possible, it is
not expected or desired. On the other
hand, it is still expected and desired
that the correspondents shall show ap-
preciation- of the greater facilities for
securing the news of the University
which are thus given them.
This and the desire that the corre-
spondents of the newspapers should be
known just as they are in any other
community sooner or later, are the two
objects of the Yale News, and people
to whose benefit this thing is done, have
already begun to talk about “a censor-
ship of the press.” That kind of talk
is not the resentment of those who can-
not as consistently work in light as
they can in darkness, but it is thrown at
Yale by good men in the press, who
think they know what is going on here
and who have accepted such a stupid
construction of the situation. If those
who are most influential in controlling
the affairs of undergraduate at Yale were
deliberately trying to establish press
censorship, it would be time to bring
them before commissioners in lunacy.
And how anybody of intelligence can
expect that they are trying to do that,
passes comprehension.
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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 14—Rev. Reuen Thomas,
D.D., Brookline. a)
November 21—Rev. F. R. Shipman,
Andover.
28—Rev. J. DePeu,
November
Bridgeport.
December 5—Rev. Prof. G. B. Ste-
vens, New Haven.
December 12—Rev. E. B. Coe, D.D.,
New York City.
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‘¢ Polyhymnia.”
A collection of quartets and choruses
for male voices, compiled and arranged
by John W. Tufts, has just come from
the press of Silver, Burdett & Co. under
the name of Polyhymnia. The book
contains an unusually large number of
the finest representative selections from
the works of famous composers and is
divided into five parts. Part I com-
prises easy works arranged in a some-
what progressive ofder, and consists
chiefly of part songs and choruses;
Part II is miscellaneous in character,
the music being of a wider range and
more difficult nature; Part III is de-
voted to occasional songs; Part IV, to
national and patriotic music of our own
and other lands; and Part V, to sacred
music, including a few of the leading
canticles in chant form.
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Jay C. McLauchlan, ’98, has com-
posed and published a two-step entitled,
the “Blue Banner March.” .
WV FEE
AN “ OLDSTER” IN ATHLETICS,
He’s a Back Number and Thinks He‘°d
Better Die.
(Names are necessarily but regretfully omitted.]
To the Editor of YALE ALUMNI WEEKLY:
Sir—About a year ago I wrote you
that we oldsters would like a little less
athletic information and more news
about alumni.
But I went on to our class reunion
last June. I conclude I was wrong—
half our class are dead, and the rest
ought to be. I was the youngest of the
lot, and I find I’m a back number, and
had better be laid away comfortably in
the grave. This may be funny to you
young fellows, but not to me.
My eldest son,.of recent Yale gradu-
ation, reads only athletic news. The
next three, girls, the same. They all
have Yale beaux, who during vacation
drink my beer and smoke my cigars
and talk athletics. My nineteen-year-
old daughter is invited by a Junior to
come on and see Yale “wipe the earth
with Princeton,’ Nov. 20, which I
greatly fear she won’t. My sixteen
year old son is preparing for Yale and
is an enthusiast on football, etc.
Whenever I go on to Commence-
ment, Prof. drags me to see a
game of baseball, which I don’t under-
stand. Now, I-used to row and play
football; but its all different now. In
football now, I may be useful profes-
sionally, for I served as a surgeon
through the war.
I can understand “Mory’s,” for we had
Lake’s, in Crown st. But we also used
to hear something about the College
curriculum. I never read anything
about the studies now.. There are a lot
talk athletics; so of the other colleges.
of Yale alumni in this city—they all
talk athletics; so of the other colleges.
pte: I’m old-fashioned and had better
ie.
; ; Yours truly,
(A graduate of some years standing.)
Nov. 1, 1897.
P. S.—My letter was sealed, when I
- remembered this below, which was in
last week’s ALUMNI WEEKLY.
“Cadwalader was forced to retire
from Monday’s practice because of an
injury to his shoulder, which later
proved to be more serious than it was
at first supposed. It was found on ex-
amination that his collar bone had been
broken and he will probably be unable
to play before Nov. 13. This accident
will upset all calculations as to the per-
sonnel of Yale’s center, as it is difficult
to say who will take his place.
“Cutten suffered a repetition of the
former accident to his knee, on Mon-
day, which will probably prevent his
playing for several days.
“In Tuesday’s practice Hubbell, of
last year’s Freshman’s eleven, who has
been playing a strong end game on the
College side, broke his nose in a hard
tackle. It is not thought that this will
keep him out of the play long.”
I saw in the New York papers that
Cadwalader’s injury was a fracture of
the sternal end of the clavicle. He
can’t play Nov. 13, or 20, without being
crippled for life. Ask Prof. Richards,
Dr. Seaver or Dr. Carmalt. Disloca-
tions at the sternal or acromial ex-
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tremities of the clavicle result in a false
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cated with dislocation.
And is a broken nose a slight injury?
Will Hubbell go through life looking
like John L. Sullivan?
Does not over-exertion in rowing
and football result in permanent heart
trouble? I’m an old surgeon with ten
years of hospital practice, and do you
suppose I’m going to risk my youngest
son in a place where such things go on?
This is the view of us oldsters. Think
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Yale University Courses for
Teachers.
With the desire of being serviceable
to the teachers of public and private
schools in the State of Connecticut, a
series of courses in various subjects of
study has been arranged to extend
through the Academic year 1897-’08.
These courses are open to teachers
who are either graduates of colleges,
or are qualified by reason of their pre-
vious studies to pursue successfully the
subjects of their choice. Teachers who
take these courses will have their names
enrolled in the University Catalogue
under the heading, “Courses for Teach-
ers,” but will not be regarded as candi-
dates for a degree.
A course will consist of ten exercises
to be given on Saturday—in either the
Fall or the Winter term. In connec-
tion with the several subjects of study,
lines of reading will be marked out to
supplement the class room exercises,
and, whenever it is possible, the sub-
ject will be illustrated by charts or
models, or by laboratory experiments,
while hints and suggestions will be
freely given as to methods of study and
teaching.
There are in all seventeen subjects of
study open to those who will take up
this course. These are: “The Ele-
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with Prof. Ladd; “Educational Theory,”
with Professors Duncan and Sneath;
“Science of Society,’ with Prof. Sum-
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Hadley; “American Histery,” with
Prof. Bourne; “European History,”
with Prof. Wheeler; ‘The English
Romantic Movement,’ with Prof.
Beers; “Chaucer,” with Prof. Cook;
“Theory and Practice of Translation
from English into German,” with Prof.
Gruener; “The Principles and Methods
of Translation at Sight from German
into English,’ with Prof. Corwin;
“Greek Art,” with Prof. Goodell; “A
Biographical Survey of Greek History,”
with Prof. Perrin; “The Old Testament
as Literature,” with Prof. Sanders:
“Physics,” with Professors Wright and
Hastings; “Botany,” with Dr. Evans;
“Biology,” with Prof. Chittenden; “As-
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Tickets covering a single course oi
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courses, one in the Fall and the other
in the Winter term, will cost twelve
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