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W. W. Sxrppy, 65S. J. A. HARTWELL, ’89 8.
C. P. LINDSLEY, ’%5S. L.S. WELCH, ’89.
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EDITOR.
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ASSOCIATE EDITOR.
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ASSISTANT EDITOR.
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NEWS EDITOR.
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PRESTON KuMLER, 1900, Athletic Department.
Davip D. Tenney, 1900, Special.
Entered as second class matter at New Haven P. O.
NEW HAVEN, CONN., JAN. 20, 1898.
PROFESSOR MARSH’S GIFT AND
YALE’S OPPORTUNITY.
It is not necessary here to emphasize
the very great importance to Yale and
to Science of the gift of Professor
Marsh to the University. The facts are
before the graduates and the friends of
Yale, and it is quite superfluous to say
that feelings towards him of the deepest
gratitude are felt by all the family of
Yale. <A giit like that, gathered at
such lavish outlay-of energy and funds,
for upward of thirty years, is unique in
the history of benefactions to the Uni-
versity. It is an act by a son of Yale
which should bring its own peculiar
inspiration to every other son of Yale
and to all her hosts of friends. Besides
all this, it has its own peculiar signifi-
cance at this, the beginning of the
season of preparation for Yale’s great
anniversary. To appreciate this, it is
in order to recall a few facts of impor-
tance.
Professor Marsh is a Yale graduate
of the Class of 1860. As some of our
readers know, he is a nephew of the
late George Peabody, and thus he se-
cured the donation that gave Yale the
present Peabody Museum, as well as a
reserve building fund that then seemed
adequate for future additions. After
obtaining this great gift for Yale, Pro-
fessor Marsh served his alma mater
faithfully, without salary, for thirty
years, as professor of paleontology,
refusing all offers to go elsewhere.
This was the first professorship of
paleontology ever established, and Yale
was thus in the lead of all other insti-
tutions of learning. Besides bringing
together with untiring zeal these vast
scientific collections now presented to
the University, Professor Marsh has
found time to describe many of the
important specimens new to science, '
and make them known to the world in
more than two hundred and fifty pub-
lications.
These priceless collections, now the
property of Yale, are only in small
part open to the public or available for
study, owing to the limited space in
the present museum building, and must
long remain so if dependence is placed
alone upon the .small reserve building
fund left by Mr. Peabody. This should
not be. A sum equal to one-half the
value of the present gift added to the
fund now on hand would put up the
main museum building, for which the
site is waiting and the plans are already
studies after leaving Yale.
drawn. The collections now given by
Professor Marsh would fill this build-
ing, and all could be ready for the Yale
bi-centennial in 1901. Will not some
friend of Yale crown the work so well
begun by Peabody and Marsh, and
make this museum worthy of the Uni-
versity and of Science?
TAE BOATING SITUATION.
The story of what has gone on be-
tween Cornell and Yale in regard to
a return race at New London this year
is told in another column. Those who
understand Yale’s principle in guiding
her athletic course can hardly have
any difficulty in following the steps
taken in this instance, and we think
they will approve the straightforward
course of her representatives. They
will certainly be glad to know that
there is no disposition here to forsake
the New London course—the distinctly
university racing ground, with all its
natural advantages and its associations
of keen and glorious times in the past.
They will also be glad that Yale is not
to be tempted into the pursuit of gen-
eral championships. and has not grown
sensitive to the comparative prowess of
other institutions.
Yet most Yale men were glad when
they heard that a challenge had gone
to Ithaca. The general course of
Yale’s boating policy had been broken
into last year, when she went to Pough-
keepsie to resume her traditional con-
tests. with Harvard. There she met
Cornell, and what might be called a
return engagement was naturally to be
expected. Cornell had courteously re-
ceived Yale into what might be called
her own race on her own waters. She
had gloriously beaten her and she had
carried herself aiter that notable tri-
umph in such a manner as reflected
most creditably upon her spirit. It was
felt most fitting that Cornell should
therefore be invited into what might be
called Yale’s waters and perhaps into
Yale’s own race. Nor did it make
their pleasure any the less to learn that
Cornell had been offered the choice of ©
courses. There was a cordial support
of this reciprocal act, but the feeling
was firm that the incident, as pleasant
as it was, should not become a prece-
dent or involve obligations for the
future. Sufficient permanent obliga-
tions were already in sight, and each
year must be left open to be guided
by its special circumstances and oppor-
tunities, the contest with Yale’s natural
rival in all sports remaining always the
particular feature which no other ar-
rangement could be allowed to threaten.
Yale’s friends in general, therefore,
re-echoed the sentiment of Mr. Whit- .
ney’s dispatch. The desire was strong
for a race and the regret was keen that
Cornell had proposed a condition that
Yale could not accept, in justice to
herself. There has been no disposition
to criticize Cornell, but a sense of dis-
appointment that she had not appreci-
ated the strength of Yale’s conviction
on .this cardinal . point..°-ft is, ‘er-
tainly a relief to know that Mr. Whit-
ney did his best to make this position
plain. The history. of the coénference
is a necessary supplement to the official
record as shown in the communica-
tions which have passed between the
two Universities.
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Mr. Woodruff on “ Yale Luck.”
Among the many good speeches at
the Wilkes-Barre banquet was one by
Mr. G. W. Woodruff, ’890, one of the
most successful Yale athletes of his day,
who has made an unusual reputation as
a football coach at the University of
Pennsylvania, where he continued his
Mr. Wood-
ruff spoke somewhat as follows. to the
toast “Yale Luck” :—
“Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of Yale:
“Bearing in mind the old adage,
‘Fools for luck,’ we, as Yale men,
might very properly wax indignant that
the barbarian world attributes much of
Yale’s startling success to that unwor-
thy cause. But there is consolation
in the thought that, although luck is
ridiculed when found as the transient
tutelary divinity of foolish and upstart
mediocrity, it is applauded as the dis-
ciplined slave of talent and fairly wor-
shipped when, as the brilliant-winged
Ariel of genius, it traverses space at his
unconscious bidding and returns, in a
twinkling, laden with tinbelievable
treasures of knowledge. We may well
say that systematic and continuous luck
is skill and ability. Such luck fools
never know, and the adage is a natural
result of those instances of lucky
chance which are remarkable for their
very infrequency—even as an ordinary
hill seems a mountain in a prairie
country.
I am glad to believe that Yale luck
belongs to the admirable class of dili-
gent talent. This is shown by the uni-
versal applause—sometimes unwilling
—which follows Yale’s systematic suc-
cesses. Her infrequent failures are but
evidences that the Yale family has
talent father than genius, and that her
robust, sandy sons are obliged, some-
times against grave odds, to work out
their salvation with fear and trembling.
This is only another instance of Yale
luck, for, though talent, with its neces-
sary accompaniment of vigor, pluck,
perseverance and broad- mindedness, is
a matter of heredity, genius burns up
the fibre of a family in one generation
and leaves naught but ashes for the
inheritance of direct posterity.
“Cornelia, like mother Yale, was a
lucky woman. But what mother can
hope for the luck of being crowned
with the jewels of admirable children?
We all believe in breeding. We know
that, barring accident, a vigorous, high-
strung, noble mother will be properly
proud of her off-spring.
“I-am a firm’ believer that, barring
genius, all men can-be replaced. We
find that when any son goes out from
under the roof-tree of Yale after years
of unusual success, the world cries:
“Who can take his place? Yale can
never again have the luck to get such
a son as he!’ But we, who have worn
the kilts beneath the elms, and have
seen our next older brothers fight and
win for our common Mother, and have
felt the heartache of seeing them proud-
ly walk out from the elm-shadows with
Yale’s mother kiss burning on their
brows, and have diffidently girded our
loins and stepped into the broken
ranks, determined to partially fill the
seemingly hopeless breach, fearful of
our unworthiness, proudly hopeful of
our Mother’s smile, come modest vic-
tory or worthy defeat; thrilling to feel
that our idolized predecessors’ have
halted in their life-march and are wav-
ing back to us confidence and encour-
agement—we know that Yale never
grows old, that through all time she
will bring forth in proper season more
and more: vigorous children and that
her greatest and proudest luck is that
Nature has rigidly decreed the produc-
tion of like from like.” —_-
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Scranton Alumni Dinner.
The second annual banquet of the
Yale Alumni Association of Scranton,
Pa., was held in the Board of Trade
rooms, Monday evening, January 3d.
The Association was very largely rep-
resented. There were also present
some members of the Wilkes-Barre
Association. The guests of honor were
Rev. Joseph H. Twichell, ’50, of Hart-
ford, and Mr. Eugene A. Smith, ’59,
of New York.
The Board of Trade rooms were very
handsomely decorated for the occasion,
and the banquet table was arranged in
the form of a “T”’ with those to respond
to toasts at the head.
The president, Colonel H. M. Boies,
59, acted as toastmaster, and the toasts
and speakers were as follows:
“Yale Dns sie: :
Rev. J. H. Twichell, *59.
“Embryonic Yale,”
W. H. Buell, .
“Undergraduate Yale,”
W. J. Torrey, ’99.
“Yale in the Eighties,”
James W. Oakford, ’84.
“Yale Alumni,”
Eugene A. Smith, ’59.
“University of Pennsylvania,”
John L. Wentz, M.D.
“Cornell University,”
George G. Brooks.
“Foreign Universities’ (with special
reference to such as are. located in
the state of New Jersey),
Rev. James McLeod, D.D., Prince-
ton, ’60.
THE GRADUATES PRESENT.
Besides the speeches on the program
there were several in addition. The
following persons were also present at
the banquet: Judge E. N. Willard, ’67;
Henry Belin, Jr., 63; Everett Warren,
84; W. W. Scranton, ’65; Judge R.
W. Archbald, “917 “Dr: Ni Y. Leet, ’56;
J:*B-Neale,)065-.S. Be -Fhorne, .*96;
Ax 7 bate Gost £.../1.. Bliss, -03 S.;
George Woodruff, 289; Dr. P. F. Guns-
ter, °72 5.5 1 WwW. Botts, 88; i.
Connell, 05; To, Connell, ~oaz.; D.
E. Peck, 96: * VV... Curran, ‘go. A.
D. Baldwin, ’08; Worthington Scran-
ton. On. R. W. mrchoara, Jt. Os:
GC, fiir, bowe.. o7;,- G. <>. Jennings,
"Og: 3.3 Frederic Connell, 84; R.
Stocker, 9771. M. Lynch, 973 Chas.
Lif Long, 82; C. S. Woodruff, ’78; Sel-
den Case, 06 .3. WV. 323: Easton, ‘OSs
Mei flat Mos Si aj Ms Boies, ’o5 S.;
Wir Robison, os 'S.;: 2: Belin,
sO8 ik 1. BIO Wells) <Jr:,77003- “A. Z.
Huntington, 95 S.; C. W. Abbott, ’90;
C. AleBelm: f0030' &. dis Conner, : -Jr.,
HOAs.  orieees, 90 S.s AV: J. Hand,
87; J. B. Woodward, Wilkes-Barre;
to28. rmmicn, oi; 1. “S$.” Hardie,
Wilkes-Barre; A. G. Hunt, ’87.
During the evening the Scranton
Orchestra furnished music. At a meet-
ing held before the banquet the follow-
ing officers were chosen for the year:
J. B. Dimmick, ’81, President; Everett
Warren, ’84, Vice-President; A. G.
Hunt, 787, Secretary and Treasurer:
Executive Committee to consist of. the
foregoing officers and H. A. Boies, ’88,
and Worthington Scranton, 98.