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NEWELL MEMORIAL SERVICE.
Harvard's New Librarian—Extension
of Graduates’ Suffrage—Lecture
Courses.”
(Correspondence of YALE ALUMNI WEEKLY.]
Cambridge, Mass., Jan. 15.—The ser-
vice in memory of Marshall Newell,
who was killed at Springfield last
Christmas eve, was held in Appleton
Chapel on Sunday. It was an unusual
tribute, and the fact that the University
thus honored the memory of so recent
a graduate, was evidence of the high
opinion in which he was held. That
the service was arranged at the request
of Harvard men and was largely at-
tended, shows the hold that Marshall
Newell had upon the hearts of his Col-
lege associates. Simplicity character-
ized the exercises. Dr, Francis G.
Peabody spoke of the value of Marshall
Newell’s life to the University and the
College choir sang appropriate selec-
tions. ‘
To Yale men, as to the general pub-
lic, Newell was known chiefly as a
prominent athlete, being a good oars-
man and an exceptional football player.
A great part of his.time, during the
four years he spent at Cambridge, was
occupied with athletic training. But,
to account for the place he made for
himself here, one must look beyond his
athletic successes. His peculiar hold
on Harvard men was difficult to under-
stand. He himself seemed not to
understand it. The qualities for which
he stood were not those peculiar to
Harvard, nor to any one university.
He was, rather, a type of American col-
‘lege manhood. Reared on a farm in
the Berkshire Hills, he learned to love
nature and to respect truth. Bringing
to Harvard his simple habits, his home-
ly manners and his old-fashioned ways,
he won his place in the complex life.
of the University and rose side by side
with those who had been bred in an
atmosphere of wealth and refinement
and to whom all avenues of social dis-
tinction stood open. Honors which
others spent their College course in
striving for came to him unsought.
The recognition which he gained was
an honor to Harvard, and the memorial ©
service of last Sunday bespoke the fact
that the best traits of New England
character in the past have not outlived
their popularity in the midst of the
luxury and complexity of modern Uni-
versity life.
NEW LECTURE COURSES.
A course of six lectures on “Civic
Duties and Reforms” by prominent
Harvard graduates promises to prove
of more than ordinary interest. The
first lecture was given by Hon. Charles
J. Bonaparte of Baltimore, last Wed-
nesday evening, on “Bosses and Rings.”
This will be followed on April 6th by
an address on “Municipal Expenditure”
by ex-Mayor Nathan Matthews of Bos-
ton, and a week later Hon. Theodore
Roosevelt will speak on “The Police
Force as an Object-Lesson in Applied
Civics.” Other lecturers in the course
thus far announced are ex-Secretary
Richard Olney, and Mr. James C. Car-
ter of New York City. The expenses
of the course are contributed by Mr.
O. G. Millard of the New York
Evening Post.
Mr. Edward Robinson, Curator of
Classical Antiquities in the Boston
Museum of Fine Arts, is conducting a
course of six lectures on the Principles
of Greek Art. On Thursday evening,
Mr. C. B. Parker spoke before the
Classical Club, on the Reign of Nero,
of which period he has made a special
study. He characterized “Quo Vadis”
as misleading in many ways, but more
particularly in the picture it gives of
the condition of society during the last
years of Nero.
By the generosity of Mr. J. H. Hyde
of the Senior class, a permanent lecture
fund has been established for the Cercle
Francais. He has contributed $30,000,
the income of which is to be expended
to bring to Harvard each‘year a dis-
tinguished French man of letters to
lecture on French art, history or litera-
ture. The first lecturer will be M.
Réné Doumic, the literary critic of the
Revue des Deux Mondes, who will give
a series of eight lectures during the
month of March on the different lit-
erary aspects of French Romanticism. ,
The annual play of the Cercle Frangais
will be given the week after Easter.
The comedy chosen is “Le Médecin
Malgré Lui,’ by Moliére, and the
music will be that of Gounod.
HARVARD'S NEW LIBRARIAN.
At the regular meeting of the Board
of Overseers last Wednesday it was
voted to concur with the President and
Fellows in their choice of Mr. William
Coolidge Lane to succeed the late Jus-
tin Winsor as Librarian of the Univer-
‘sity. Mr. Lane graduated from Har-
vard in ’8r and served as assistant
librarian in the University Library until —
he was called to the Boston Athenaeum
in 1892, where he has served as Libra-
tian up. to. the present. time. At a
recent meeting of the Faculty of Arts
and Sciences a minute was entered
upon the records recognizing the ser-
vices of Justin Winsor to the Univer-
sity.
The new system of question and
answer, which has been adopted by the
Library authorities at Yale, if it is
availed of by the students as exten-
sively as at the Harvard Library, will
prove of much assistance to those wish-
ing information on subjects which they
are investigating. The bulletin board
in Gore Hall is generally well covered
with queries and answers. Not infre-
quently here at Harvard the College
wag sees in some question an oppor-
tunity for a bit of repartee, and the
bulletin board is sometimes quite amus-
ing. In one instance which I recall, a
student had posted the question:
“Which of the three bridges over the
Charles is the one referred to by Long-
fellow in his poem?” to which some
one had tersely answered: “The one he
stood on at midnight.”
EXTENSION OF GRADUATE SUFFRAGE.
The expediency of extending the
privilege of voting for members of the
Board of Overseers has been a much-
mooted question among graduates for
some time. President Eliot has cham-
pioned the extension of the suffrage to
all graduates of the University. The
argument in its favor has been that it
would serve to broaden the interest in
the University and unite the depart-
ments. The step has been vigorously
opposed on the ground that the privi-
lege would be cheapened by extending
it to graduates of the dental and veter-
inary schools and to graduates of the
professional schools having no colle-
giate degree. The proposal has twice
been voted down in previous years, but,
at the meeting of the Overseers last
Wednesday, it was carried by a vote of
13 to 10, most of the members of that
Board who live at a distance from the
University voting with President Eliot
in favor of the change. The resolu-
tion adopted was substantially that
voted by the alumni in response to a
circular letter sent out to them last
Commencement. Under it, graduates
who receive degrees from the Uni-
versity can vote at the election held at
Cambridge on Commencement Day,
but nobody thus included can vote be-
fore the fifth annual election after re-
ceiving the degree. By the new reso-
lution, a considerable number of Yale
alumni holding Harvard degrees be-
come eligible to vote for members of
the Board.
It was also voted at the meeting to
concur with the Corporation in estab-
lishing the degree of Master of Science,
to be obtained after one year of study
by any candidate who holds the B.S.
degree. For the present, however, the
new degree will be awarded only in the
Departments of Geology, Biology and
Engineering.
Mass meetings, which fell into dis-
favor here after the hasty action taken
in 1889 in. withdrawing from the Inter-
collegiate Football Association, are
again coming into use as a means of
obtaining the opinion of the student
body. Last. year a meeting was held
to receive Mr. .ehmann and two are
announced to be held during the next
two weeks. The first, on Tuesday
next, will consider the proposed Uni-
versity Club, and the second, on the
26th of the month, to launch the new
Graduate Athletic Organization. Over
375 alumni have already responded in
favor of the proposed organization.
J. Weston ALLEN.
‘Mory’s”’ Changes Hands.
Edwrad G. Oakley, who has owned
‘and managed the place known as
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“Mory’s’ at the corner of Center and
Temple streets since the death of Mrs.
Moriarty, has deposed of the property
to Mrs. Traeger, the wife of A. C.
Traeger, who for years managed the
hotel on Chapel street which bore his
name.
Mr. Oakley’s connection with the
place as assistant to Mrs. Moriarty and
as proprietor, covers a period of
twenty-one years.
No change will be made in any parti-
cular by the new owner, as the desire is
to have the original and unique charac-
teristics of the building preserved.
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Hackman Murray Dead.
Patrick Murray, the hackman, who
is known to. students of Yale for the
last forty years, died of paralysis at his
home in New Haven last Wednesday
night, January 12.
Mr. Murray was born in Ireland
about fifty-five years ago. He came to
New Haven and began driving for the
stable of James Keenan. Since then he
has driven for many employers, pre-
ferring that to owning an establishment
himself. His team of white horses
was a familiar sight on College street
opposite Osborn Hall, and was patron-
_ ized largely by Yale men.
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Yale-Harvard Relay Race.
The annual indoor open handicap
meeting of the Boston Athletic Asso-
ciation will take place Saturday, Feb-
ruary 5th, at Mechanics Hall, Boston,
At this meet a mile relay race thas been
arranged between Yale and Harvard,
each team to consist of four men who
will each run a quarter of a mile. The
candidates for the Yale team who are
in active training are: Bascom John-
son, -§900; H.-S. Johnson, ‘oo: A. H.
Richardson, 1901; I. Richards, 1900 S.;
F. D. Cheney, 1900;
605.5 A. H; Atha, 90;
tgo1, and N. Beecher, ’o8.
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