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ADVISORY BOARD.
H. C. Rosprnson, °53. J..R. SHEFFIELD, ’87.
W. W. Sxippy, 658. J. A. HARTWELL, ’89 8.
C. P. LinpDsLeEY, 75 8. L.S. WELCH, 89.
W. Camp, ’80. E. Van InGEN,’91 58.
W.G. DaaaertT, ’80. P. Jay, 92.
EDITOR.
Lewis S. WELOB, ’89.
ASSOCIATE EDITOR.
WALTER Camp, ’80,
ASSISTANT EDITOR.
E. J. THOMPSON, Sp.
NEWS EDITOR.
FRED. M, DAVIES, '99.
PRESTON KuMLER, 1900, Athletic Department.
Davip D. TENNEY, 1900, Special.
Entered as second class matter at New Haven P. O.
NEW HAVEN, CONN., JAN. 18, 1898.
FOR CLASS SECRETARIES.
The secretaries of classes are very
_ important officers to their own classes.
They do not yet seem to realize how
valuable they may be to the rest of the
alumni of Yale. If they did, they
would make more frequent and com-
plete report to this paper of what the
members of their class are doing.
These facts are of interest to many
others than those in their own class,
and the more of them we can publish
the better we can keep the Yale family
acquainted with itself, and so together.
We ask again the secretaries to send us
fully and promptly all the information
they get about their class. We would
be very glad to supply those who are
without with postals, return envelopes,
and other necessities for correspond-
ence. We especially ask all to commu-
nicate directly with this office in all
these matters, as the sending of news
through a third party is very apt to
mean its loss or damage.
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INTERCOLLEGIATE DIFFICULTIES.
As this page is prepared, the chances
are favorable for an early agreement
between Cornell and Yale with regard
to next June’s boat race. From what
has been given to people most inter-
ested in the way of information, that is,
from what little we know, there is no
ground for criticising anybody for the
way in which things have gone this
time. As far as it appears, the men
who have acted for Yale have offered
to do all that they could, consistent
with what they believed to be the chief
and permanent interests of Yale’s boat-
ing, in carrying out the desire very
strongly felt by Yale men, that the
eight from New Haven this year should
meet the eight from Ithaca. In the
same way it may be said, from what
we know about Cornell’s attitude in the
‘matter, that she has met the situation
with a proper regard for her own per-
manent interests. We are certainly
very far from any disposition to criti-
cise either side, or any individuals on
either side, in this particular case.
This allows us to say a few things in
general about such matters, while pub-
lic interest is directed to them.
Intercollegiate negotiations, gener-
ally speaking, with here and there a
cheerful and encouraging exception,
are unlovely things. Instead of repre-
senting the spirit of gentlemen who
-the goodly name of Yale.
wish to arrange stimulating athletic
carnivals for the greatest satisfaction to
those most directly and properly inter-
ested, and the physical and mental and
moral good of the young men directly
and indirectly concerned, they look to
a ‘disappointed world like shady money
changers’ instruments of exchange,
shredded and perforated with sharks’
teeth. Their effect on the college
world is rather worse relatively than
the temporary effects on the country at
large of a hot presidential campaign.
From what is said or inferred, whether
by those who had any right to say any-
thing, or by the most irresponsible par-
ties, the picked youth of the land, seek-
ing academic culture under the charge
of one institution devoted to learning
and the general cultivation of the habit
of high living and noble thinking,
are induced to believe that another set
of the picked youth of the land, simi-
larly gathered together and employed,
at another institution with the same
objects and purposes, are to a large
extent purblind rascals, to whose mind
logic is an unknown science and in
whom the instincts of the gentleman
never were or were long since extin-
guished. Men conducting these nego-
tiations often appear (no matter how
incorrectly) as actuated with a no less
royal instinct of appropriation and con-
sumed with no less a desire to fool
people, than a Russian minister settling
the Eastern question. A wearied world
becomes hopelessly cynical as to the
general atmosphere of academic shades,
and turns for a comparatively pure air
of sport to the adjustment of difficul-.
ties in professional baseball leagues.
They are reallv rather hideous, these
intercollegiate rows, and we don't
count it being over-optimistic to expect
their disappearance soon. It ought to
be a cardinal consideration with any
college in arranging its athletics, to
steer far clear of the possibility of such
things. We would very heartily favor
almost any arrangement of Yale’s ath-
letics which would tend to diminish
this evil. In our not unprejudiced
view, Yale is very nearly right on the
main points of the management of ath-
letics. She is so very near it that it
is a pity she cannot perfect herself.
The story of a trip of Yale’s musical
representatives, which seems almost
perfect in its success, is told elsewhere
by one who took active part in this
trip and several others before it. The
account itself is enough to say of the
facts of the trip. One thing which will
bear emphasizing seems to be the ex-
cellent impression made by Yale men,
who went so far and wide in the name
of the University. They seem to be
the right kind of men to travel under
We are par-
ticularly glad this fact was so evident.
No one ought to act for Yale, in any
organization whatever, who is not him-
self a worthy representative of it.
There are those, not many in number
but very conspicuous in word and deed,
who always pass for representatives of
this institution, and: who thereby add
greatly to the ammunition of the slan-
derers of Yale. The more necessary is
it to choose well, in point of charac-
ter, when men are to be officially sent
forth. ee ,
The character of Harvard’s athletic
organization has always been so for-
eign to the spirit of Yale’s athletic
management that it has very frequently
been misunderstood by Yale men. It
is certainly true that most Yale men
cannot appreciate the good points of
it. But the subject of athletic man-
agement is far from being a closed one,
and the move now being made at Cam-
bridge for the further modification of
the system there, is quite worth the
consideration of those who consider
the sports of the college as having a
bearing upon the character of the
place and the men who are in it. The
situation at Harvard is very thoroughly
covered in this week’s letter.
TO SUPPORT ATHLETICS,
Cireular Letter Sent Out To Harvard
Graduates.
[Comment on this letter by our Harvard correspond-
ent will be found in another column.]
Boston, Mass., January 4th, 1898.—
On Saturday, December 11, 1897, some
sixty representative Harvard graduates
from New York, Boston and vicinity
met to consider how the past members
of the University could best serve its
athletic interests. In the course of a
very frank discussion of the subject,.
a-letter signed by James J. Storrow,
’85; Charles F. Adams, 2d, ’88; Thomas
N. Perkins, ’91; Louis A. Frothingham,
’93, and Bertram G. Waters, ’94, was
read, in which an association of all
Harvard graduates interested in athlet-
ics was proposed. We quote from this
letter:
“We think that such an association
would have a strong influence in crys-
tallizing the opinions of the graduates
on matters of athletic interest;
“That the executive committee of the
association would be a well-informed
body, to whom all graduates could
apply for information, and that in this
way, ill-considered criticism, ‘with its
discouraging effect on teams and
coaches, would be much lessened;
“That such an association would be
an efficient body for the raising of
money for such matters as improve-
ments on Soldiers Field;
“And that such an association, by in-
fluencing the undergraduates, and in
turn being influenced by the undergrad-
uates, would tend to create a unity of
opinion and action which at present is
lacking.”
The suggestion met with unanimous
approval, and the undersigned were ap-
pointed a committee upon organization.
We have considered the project with
care, and are satisfied that the associa-
tion is needed and can be made effective.
We are assured of the hearty sympathy
of all graduates whom we have been
able to consult. We ask for your co-
operation.
A meeting for organization will be
held at Sanders Theatre, Cambridge, on
Wednesday, the 26th day of January, at
8 o’clock p. m. All persons who have
been connected as students with any
department of the University are in-
vited. We hope that you will be able
to testify by your presence to your in-
terest in Harvard athletics. As it will
be impossible for us to notify every one,
we ask you to extend this invitation to
others.
By the constitution, which we shall
submit for consideration at this meet-
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ing, the management of the association
is vested in an executive committee of
twenty-four members, to be chosen im-
mediately by ballot. Provision is made
for balloting by mail at subsequent elec-
tions. It is not proposed that this
executive committee ‘shall interfere
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interested in Harvard athletics. It
will, however, seek to establish intimate
relations with all,in full confidence that
they are ready and eager to secure such
support and counsel as a strong, repre-
sentative graduate-committee can give.
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permanent policy upon their own part.
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will be in touch with graduates and
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and its familiarity with past experience
and present necessities will make it an
effective agency in bringing about the
unity of effort now lacking.
There is special cause for hope at
present. The attitude of the University
authorities has become less dishearten-
ing, and we believe that the co-opera-
tion of our association will be wel-
comed. The proposed plan will pro-
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tunity for such grade of activity as he
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self with a yearly subscription and a
vote.
The support of a large number of
graduates is essential to success. To
this end'we have planned to make the
yearly dues small—two dollars—and to
omit the usual initiation fee. We urge
you to signify your willingness to join
- the proposed Association by signing the
card enclosed and mailing it at once to
Edgar N. Wrightington, 1900 Tremont
Building, Boston.
Very truly yours,
Amory G. Hodges, 774,
AL Co Lower,: 77,
Frederick W. Thayer, ’78,
Frederick W. Smith, ’7o,
Edward D. Brandegee, ’8r,
Roland W. Boyden, ’8s,
Augustus P. Gardner, ’86,
Charles F. Adams, 2d, ’88,
Edward C. Storrow, ’8o,
Edgar N. Wrightington, ’o7.
Committee upon organization.
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It is reported that Edward WHanlan
Ten Eyck, the winner of the Diamond
Sculls at Henley last year, will enter
the University of Pennsylvania as a stu-
dent in the Dental Department.