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NEW HAVEN, CONN., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1898.
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MEETING OF THE T. A. A,
Several Amendments Proposed—
Final Action to be Taken.
The regular annual meeting of the
Intercollegiate Association of Track
Athletes of America will be held on
Saturday, February 26th, at 2.30
o'clock at the Fifth Avenue Hotel in
New York City. This meeting will be
a very important one, as a number of
radical changes in the constitution are
to be considered. The proposed
changes will be submitted by the Exec-
utive Committee, which met recently
and drew up a report. This committee
consists of Henry W. Howe of Har-
vard, Oliver Shiras of Cornell, G. T.
Kirby of Columbia, and S. K. Gerard,
‘97, of Yale. Yale will be represented
at the meeting on the 26th by Capt. E.
C. Perkins, 798, and Manager I. N.
Swiit, 798.
An amendment to the section of the
constitution relating to the awarding
of the championship cup will be pro-
posed as follows: “In all field and track
events, points shall be counted as fol-
lows: A first place shall. count five
points; a second place shall count three
points; a third place shall count two
points; a fourth place shall count one
point.” There will, however, be no
fourth prize. The present way of scor-
ing is five points for first place, two
points for second place, and one point
for third place. |
One of the most important of the
proposed changes is the substitution of
the three-mile run in place of the mile-
walk, beginning with the meet in 1899.
This move has been advocated for
some time. Other proposed changes
provide that there shall be no pace-
makers in any of the bicycle events,
and that the mile run be held before
_ the quarter-mile event instead of after.
Another amendment provides that
every athlete pay the same amount for
board at the training table as he was
paying before he was taken to it. This,
however, has no bearing on Yale, as
that system has been followed here for
years. The question of building a
third-of-a-mile bicycle track outside the
regular track at Berkeley Oval will be
brought up.
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Work on the Harbor.
The University and Freshman crew
candidates rowed on the harbor last
Saturday for the first time this year, a
day earlier than the date of the first
barge work last season. The harbor
work has continued this week and the
tank will hereafter be used only in event
of another cold spell. The length of
the slides in the University barge has
been reduced by about one-half.
The first University crew rowed on
Saturday, in the following order:
Stroke, &. PR. Pant ap: Se Se,
Greenleaf, ’99 S.; 6, F. W. Allen, 1900;
5, R. A. MeGee, ‘oo S.; 4, J. H. -Nie-
decken,. 190053, J.-F. “Brock: rHee--2,
J . C. Greenway, 1900; bow, P. Whitney,
During the course of last week, W.
E. S. Griswold, ’99, was tried at 7, J.
_ W. Cross, 1900, at 5, and D. F. Rogers,
’98, at bow. With these exceptions the
order of the crew throughout the week
was the same as that on Saturday. W.
B. Williams, 1900, returned to work on
Monday, after a week’s absence, neces-
sitated by illness. ,
The Brown Conference.
Brown University has, by calling a
conference of five or six colleges, taken
the initiative in her discussion of eligi-
bility standards at the various univer-
sities. Professor Munro of Brown
wrote to President Dwight, inviting as
representatives of Yale one member of
the Faculty, one graduate, and one
undergraduate. The President sug-
gested to Prof. Munro that he write
- Mr. Camp. This he did, and at a meet-
ing of the four Presidents, Mr. Sim-
mons of the Baseball Association was
asked to confer with Prof. Munro.
The machinery of Yale’s athletics does
not provide for any such general con-
ference, each president and captain be-
ing absolute in his own province, but in
no way interfering with the others.
The Atheletic Committee, or Council,
or Faculty Committee, of other univer-
sities has no parallel here, and such
a provision would probably entail a
University meeting, and, unless the con-
sent of each captain and president were
secured, the overriding of their estab-
lished prerogatives. Mr. Simmons was
asked to explain this to Prof. Munro
and at the same time to assure him of
Yale’s hearty sympathy with any move-
ment of this nature and her willingness
to give proper consideration to any
proposed revision of existing eligibility
rules that would tend toward elimina-
tion of objectionable features.
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Freshman Crew.
The Freshman crew rowed as fol-
lows on Saturday: Stroke, A. Cameron,
}t., 200; 7, 1. Kelly, 1000; S:2.6, Fa G.
- Brown,. Jr., 1908;-5,/ Wa Hit Dowd, Jz,
-1900 S.; 4, G. S. Stillman, 1901; 3, R. H.
Gillett, 1900 S.;. 2,. T.. S: Montague,
1900 S.; bow, J. A. Keppelman, 1901.
The Freshman crew will continue the
use of fixed seats in the barge. The
squad was reduced again last week, and
now numbers about twenty-five.
Fifteen men have signified their in-
tention of trying for the position of
coxswain.
Bicycle Team News.
The candidates for the bicycle team
under Captain L. Tweedy, ’99, are
working daily in the gymnasium and
taking short outdoor runs. “The team
will not commence riding so early as
last year, but will wait until the roads
are in good shape, which will probably
not be until well into March. The
work will then consist of daily runs on
the road varying from five to ten miles.
The track at the Field will be in con-
dition about Easter time, and the team
will train here until about a month be-
fore the Harvard games, when they will
use the cement track at Bridgeport.
Besides the Harvard and Intercollegiate
games the team will be entered in
several other games to gain experience
in racing. The bicycle races in the
Harvard games will be held on the
Charles River track the morning of
the games. There is some talk of
building a bicycle track outside the
regular track at Berkeley Oval for the
Intercollegiate races.
The material this year is excellent.
and the prospects for a winning team
are bright. Three, of last year’s team,
Capt. Hill, Butler, and French, have
graduated, but there are four left. The
Freshman material is also good.
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In the account of the Glee Club’s
Christmas trip the dance at Minnea-
- polis, stated by mistake to have been
held at Germania Hall, was given at
the residence of Mrs. L. K. Hull.
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A GREAT. BANQUET.
Four Hundred Alumni at the N. Y.
Association Annual Dinner—The
Speeches—Chronological
List of Graduates.
The annual dinner of the Yale
Alumni Association of New York, at
Sherry’s on Monday night,. was not only
the largest ever held by that Associa-
tion, but the largest ever held in this
country by the graduates of any col-
lege. Over four hundred alumni,
guests of honor, and friends of the
University took their seats at 7.30, fill-
ing the great ball room and annex a
little more than comfortably. The
decorations of the rooms wefe simple,
banks of palms and wreathed smilax.
An orchestra of eight pieces in the
narrow gallery played college and popu-
lar tunes throughout the ‘banquet.
This gave the diners an opportunity of
expressing some of the enthusiasm they
felt and of assisting the musicians with
deep-toned, resonant choruses, sung
with a dash, power and sweep that only
college men seem to acquire. A double
quartette from the Glee Club, consisting
of Messrs. Schreiber, Butler, Wads-
worth, McGee, Stalter, Greenway,
Brooks, and Parker added much to the
pleasure of the evening with a number
of songs. Grenville Parker sang
Not the least of the
pleasant features of the evening was
the gathering of forty of fifty of the ©
more recent graduates around the table
where the Glee Club quartette sat,
after Mr. Adee had adjourned the meet-
ing. Led by Noah H. Swayne, 2d, an
hour was spent in informal melody.
The presiding officer of the evening
was George A. Adee, and on either
side of him sat the guests of honor,
most of whom spoke. They were: Pro-
fessor A. T. Hadley, Hon. Henry C.
Robinson of Hartford, Dr. E. V. Ray-—
nolds, Rev. Joseph H. Twichell of
Hartford, Professor E. L. Richards,
Professor O. C. Marsh, Walter Camp,
Isaac H. Bromley, and Norris G.
Osborn. Besides these and_ seated
prominently were the successful de-
baters over Harvard, Messrs. Fisher,
Jump, Clark, and Bingham; and the
football team of Ninety-Seven and
a number of the loyal band of coachers
who helped Yale to win over such odds,
among whom were noticed Frank S.
H. Knapp, P. T. Stillman, and G. T.
Butterworth, Dr. J. A. Hartwell, Har-
mon S. Graves, G. Foster Sanford,
Howard H. Knapp, P. T. Stillman, and
G. T. Adee. The menu and toast list
was a modest one to look upon, but had
printed on it the names of things good
for the body and for the mind—indeed,
the best obtainable for both.
GOOD PLACE FOR A BOY.
The first toast of the evening was
“The University,” which was responded
to by Prof. A. T. Hadley. After speak-
ing of the cohesive body of students
and alumni which gave victories which
a loosely organized body could not
hope for, Prof. Hadley said:
“When we want to inquire about
Yale, we generally inquire of the New
York Alumni. So I will present but a
plain, straightforward statement of
work and hopes. Yale has an annual
income of $600,000, and Harvard has
$1,200,000, yet we are progressing on the
same plane and are still in the same
class. It has its advantages. Proverty
makes a man work harder. President
Lincoln, when an army officer once
asked him how Garfield was able to
clear Kentucky of Confederates in a -
‘week, and the officer sneeringly said,
‘Because he was not a West Point man,
I suppose you will say,’ replied, ‘Because
he always had to work for a living.’
Our friends at some of the colleges
object because we have not athletic
committee enough to suit them, but
their way is not our way.
“T believe we are developing at Yale
what we have wanted—a literary sense
and literary achievement among the
students, and that we are in a fair way
to have a Yale English style, a Yale
literature and Yale literary’ produc-
tions,”
Prof. Hadley closed his
remarks
something as follows: “An especially
healthful manifestation of the Yale
Spirit is seen in the matter of temper-
ance. I know of no place in the world
where a boy can pass from the pro-
tection of his home life into the large
life of society; with more to support
him and less to drag him down. If
a boy goes to Yale with the intention
and desire of refraining from the abuse
of intoxicants, he will find more help
from the public sentiment of his fel-
lows than in any other college I know,
and much more than if he goes directly
into business life without attending
college at all. Asan under classman ex-
pressed it to me the other day, “Ex-
cessive drinking ‘queers’ a man for the
best societies faster than almost any-
thing else.” If a boy believes that he
can best secure himself* from tempta-
tion by total abstinence, he will find
many others who are doing the same
thing. If he preaches such abstinence
not as a protection to himself, but as a
help to his fellows, he will be respected
and honored for so doing. But if he
demands strict rules to render such ac-
tion compulsory upon others, he will
find himself in a hopeless minority.
The mass of the College world—stu-
dents and Faculty alike—believes that
public sentiment counts for more than
rules, both for securing honesty in
athletics and temperance in drinking.
It believes furthermore that the enforce-
ment of rules and the espionage con-
nected with them so weakens a healthy
public sentiment at to stunt its growth
and deprive it of its powers—in other
words, to carry us away from the very
result which the advocates of such
rules are anxious to promote.
Some people who do not understand
the force of public sentiment, and the |
weakness of laws which try to act out-
side of it, naturally fail to accept this
view; and give too ready credence to
irresponsible statements concerning
drunkenness at Yale, which can be dis-
proved by anyone who takes the trou-
ble to examine the records of the New
Haven police. Whether the indirect
influence of stich charges will tend to
keep some students away from Yale, I
do not know; nor do I think we should
greatly trouble ourselves about the mat-
ter. I like to fall back on the words of
Arnold. of Rugby. “It is not our chief
concern whether this should be a col-
lege of one hundred and fifty boys, or
of three hundred boys; but that it
should be a college of Christian gentle-
men.”
At the close of the address, amid great
enthusiasm, Julian W. Curtiss, °79,
called for the long cheer for Prof.
Hadley, which was given.
THE YALE SPIRIT.
Hon. H. C. Robinson of Hartford,
in speaking to the next toast, “The
Yale Spirit,” said in part:
“When I see the bountiful spread
and the smooth things that you have
given us to eat and drink and smoke—
I fear without considering the tastes
of the New Jersey W. C. T. U.—and the
large number of Yale “boys gathered
here to-night, I feel that you are to be
congratulated. Speaking of the New