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ADVISORY BOARD.
H. C, Roprnson, ’538. J. R, SHEFFIELD, ’87.
W. W. Sxippy, ’65S. J. A. HARTWELL, ’8958.
C. P. LinpsLey,’i5S. L.S. WELcg, ’89.
W. Camp, ’80. E. VAN INGEN, 91S.
W.G. DaaaxTtT, ’80. P. Jay, 92.
EDITOR.
Lewis 8. WELOH, ’89.
ASSOCIATE EDITOR.
WALTER Camp, ’80,
ASSISTANT EDITOR,
E. J. THOMPSON, Sp.
NEWS EDITOR,
FRED. M. DAVIEs, ’99.
PRESTON KuMuER, 1900, Athletic Department.
Davip D. TENNEY, 1900, Special.
Entered as second class matter at New Haven P. O.
NEw HAVEN, CONN., FEB. 10, 1898.
DON’T WATT.
The report of the meeting on Feb-
ruary I, of the directors of the Alumni
University Fund, ought to be a re-
minder to those, who, by pure oversight,
are not making the use of this fund
which they might. The best of it is
that it offers an opportunity of helping
Yale directly and practically, however
limited one’s means may be, No sub-
scription is too small to be received.
The Fund is wisely administered.
Everybody admits that. It is a good
thing to send your check or your
money-order now, while you think of
it, to your Class Agent or to Mr. W. W.
Farnam, Treasurer, Yale University.
The contribution has the two-fold ad-
vantage of actually aiding Yale and of
keeping one’s interest in the University
more real and substantial. We are all
stockholders in Yale, and have drawn
out big dividends without paying much
on the stock.
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THE CORNELL LETTER.
Elsewhere is printed a communica-
tion concerning Cornell’s position on
the boating question. It is from an
old Yale man, and one who is at Cor-
nell, and it is, on its face, therefore,
entitled to more than usual considera-
tion. We are glad, anyway, to print
it, for if one wants to talk about these
things, it is better to talk right out and
not contribute to the chorus of grum-
bles, of those who avoid headquarters
and make things unpleasant in an in-
direct way.
In regard to this letter, it seems
hardly necessary to say that any re-
flection, direct or implied, on the ath-
letic government of any other univer-
sity, is the last thing desired or likely
to be attempted by any Yale manage-
ment of the present day. It will un-
doubtedly come as a surprise to Yale
boating authorities here that anybody
could have considered their action as
a means of ignoring or making any
kind of criticism of Cornell’s Athletic
Council. There certainly could be no
harm in having the captains get to-
gether. -The purpose of the conference,
as we understood it, was simply to get
a good understanding of each other’s
position, and it was to be assumed that
the captains were perfectly competent
to give that. This is a practical, com-
mon-sense way of looking at it. It
was supposed that this end had been
““death-trap” instead of ‘‘hell.’’)
reached after the conference had fin-
ished its session. We hope it is not
necessary to say that in this we are not
speaking in any sense Officially, but
merely expressing a natural Yale way
of looking at the thing. From this
standpoint, such a construction as our
correspondent’s letter put on the situa-
tion seems a very technical one, and in-
dicates a hypersensitive situation.
As to the other point, to wit, Cor-
nell’s contention as to equality, that has
all been discussed frankly and fully. It
is unquestionably Cornell’s right and
privilege to make no arrangement with
Yale which she does not consider con-
ducive to the best interests of her ath-
letics. It is certainly impossible for
Yale to make any arrangement with
Cornell, either for the present or the
future, which does not seem to further
the principal objects of Yale’s intercol-
legiate contests. In following out these
principles, any position which either
college takes is certainly no reflection on
the other, but may consist with the best
of feeling for the other. We feel very
sure of our position in saying that the
two universities‘are certainly not going
to be arrayed against each other in a
hostile spirit because of some technical
detail in the arrangements for talking
things over. That ought not to stand
in the way of racing even, but a race is
a comparatively small thing.
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A SETBACK.
A press dispatch from Cincinnati an- -
nounces that one, W. F. Ferguson, de-
scribed as editor of the Voice, which isa
clean, wholesome, truth-loving home
journal, presented a certain resolution
at the conference of leaders of the Pro-
hibition party held in that city recently.
The resolution expressed in formal
terms the moral situation at this Uni-
versity, hitherto described with uncon-
ventional terseness by Mrs. Poteat and
emphasized by the Richmond County
Prohibition Club, (which is more con-
servative than Mrs. Poteat, and says,
The
resolution pledged the delegates to dis-
courage the sending of young men to
all such morally hopeless institutions as
Yale.
The dispatch up to this point bore
all the ear marks of veracity. The.clos-
ing sentence, to speak plainly, para-
lyzed us. “Meeting vigorous opposi-
tion,” says the dispatch, “he withdrew
the resolution.” At first blush, and look-
ing at it from that standpoint from
which Yale men nowadays regard most
public agitators when they tackle the
University, this sentence would seem
like a common, ordinary lie. But there
isn’t any use in insulting anybody. It
may be true. There are lots of Prohi-
bitionists who know things, and some
of them may have, in the course of their
reading of the calm and careful Voice,
fallen on some such article as came to
our notice the other day. |
We always read the Voice very care-
fully, as we want to know what is going
on.in the University. A copy of a week
or so ago contained an account of some
orgy which would have shamed the most
advanced sinners of imperial Rome.
This was described in language pecu-
liarly adapted to the family circle. The
place was a Westerntown. The offend-
ers were the members of Yale’s musi-
cal organizations. Of course, no one
was surprised to learn that they were
doing these things They were this
year a particularly representative set of
young men from the University. And
Yale students, as you know, come here
handicapped by the limited advantages
which even the best American homes
can give, and while they are at Yale
find only such incentives to decent liv-
ing as come from the examples of the
most influential and most honored men
of the University, and from a social
condition which is so ordered as to
make right living simply the most
natural and easy course for a man.
They are never led in chain gangs along
the straight and narrow way, and may
go directly to perdition, or get a good
start in that direction, if they make a
determined effort.
So, as we say, what the Yale Glee and
Banjo Clubs did in this Western city
wasn’t at all surprising; but we were
interested in noting an apparent change
from the original itinerary. Inquiring
of the Managers of the Clubs as to why
they departed so many stadia from their
route as laid out in advance, we learned
that neither the Clubs nor the indivi-
dual members had visited this town or
come at all near it. We did not investi-
gate any farther the details of what they
did there. And the story served its
purpose just as well. We simply hap-
pened to know about it, and the rest
of the paper didn’t taste quite as well.
So it may have been with some of these
delegates at Cincinnati, for all we
know. Perhaps if the editor of our es-
teemed contemporary will get some
one else to introduce his resolutions,
he will get them along farther. He
ought to be careful. Things are in a
bad way. When the representatives of
the cause for which this paper unself-
ishly exists, are pointed by its editor to
the exact location of the abomination of
abominations, to the open mouth of hell
itself, and are asked to do what they
can to keep the flower of American
youth from falling in, and they actually
contend with him and refuse to follow
him to the work of rescue, then the mis-
sion of a great and good journal is
sadly handicapped. The editor of the
Regisier would say that its destiny is
being monkeyed with; but we don’t
treat these situations lightly.
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CORNELL'S CONTENTION,
A Wale Graduate Gives His Under-=-
standing of It.
To the Editor of YALE ALUMNI WEEKLY:
Sir:—As formerly a student at Yale
and now a teacher at Cornell, I may
perhaps be granted a little space in
which to state my interpretation of Cor-
nell’s position regarding the boat race
with Yale this year. Let me say at the
start that I desire good understanding
and good feeling to prevail between the
students and graduates of the two Uni-
versities far more strongly than I desire
a race. Apparently some misunder-
standings exist and, although I have no
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connection with and no especial inter-
est in rowing matters here, I may pos-
sibly contribute a mite towards remov-
ing these misconceptions.
Cornell’s positions throughout have
been based upon a demand for a recog-
nition in the negotiations of her equality.
She has made no demand for anything
else, but for this claim she has stood
consistently. Yale’s challenge, by de-
ciding upon the time and place of the
race, denied this equality. Cornell, in
her conditional acceptance, reasserted it
by assuming that the rights Yale exer-
cised this year would be granted to
Cornell the year after. - The latter’s
demand for a two-year understanding
was only a means not an end, and pro-
bably would never have been made, had
Yale’s challenge been unconditional.
The same end was kept in view in re-
gard to the conference. Athletic inter-
ests at Cornell are controlled by a
Council in which the alumni and Fa-
culty have a minority of the votes.
That Council asked for a conference.
In reply a message invited the Captain
of the Cornell Crew to meet the Har-
vard and Yale Captains at Albany.
This action of Yale denied the right of
the Athletic Council to name its own
conferee and so, by direct implication,
the equality of Cornell. Hence Cap-
tain Colson was clothed with no au-
thority from the Council, because this
was the obvious way of reaffirming
Cornell’s contention. Hence, too, Cor-
nell holds that the conference asked for
has never been granted or held.
Doubtless Yale objects to the methods
of athletic control which are in force
here, but if the two universities stand
on an equality in such matters, that
feeling should not receive official ex-
pression. In selecting the representa-
tive of Cornell with whom she was will-
ing to confer, Yale not merely denied
Cornell’s fundamental claim of equality;
she also officially ignored Cornell’s
Athletic Council and reflected upon the
manner in which athletic interests at
Cornell are governed. In the official
statement accompanying Cornell’s reply,
therefore, is found a counter reflection
upon the manner in which athletic in-
terests at Yale are goverend. It is well
known to your readers ‘that a similar
difficulty arose recently between Har-
vard and Yale, and that the position of
Harvard then was substantially the same
as that of Cornell now.
I have no desire to argue for or
against the position of the Athletic
Council. But none of the comments
I have seen in print has stated quite
correctly its fundamental character.
Therefore, I have thought it might en-
lighten some of your readers and con-
duce to mutual understanding and re-
spect to have it distinctly set forth.
Yours respectfully,
WALTER F:; WILLCox.
Ithaca, New York, Feb. 2, 1808.
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