VALE ALUMNI
W eh KLY
LINCOLN DAY AT HARVARD.
University Club—Graduate Suffrage—
Gift to Harvard.
[Correspondence of YALE ALUMNI WEEKLY.)
Cambridge, Feb. 16.—Lincoln’s birth-
day was commemorated by appropriate
exercises in Appleton Chapel at the
regular morning service yesterday. It
is the first time that the day has been
recognized here, and it is now proposed
to hold similar exercises in future years.
At the service yesterday, Dr. Harris of
Andover, who has just completed his
term as University preacher, officiated,
and President Eliot spoke on the value
of Lincoln’s part in the events of his
time.
The University Club project con-
tinues to occupy attention. A week
ago the undergraduate committee re-
cently appointed to further the move-
ment met the Boston members of the
graduate committee to discuss ways and
means of advancing the plan for a club-
house. President Eliot was present and
took part in the discussion. On Tues-
day last, Mr. Charles Francis Adams of
the graduate committee issued a letter
to the undergraduate committee endors-
ing, on behalf of the graduates, the ac-
tion taken by the student body. <A
suitable club, which would form a nu-
cleus of university, rather than under-
graduate, life, would in the opinion of
the graduate committee, require an out-
lay of from $200,000 to $250,000 at the
- outset, and an annual expenditure for
maintenance of from $25,000 to $50,000.
So large a sum, the committee be-
lieves, could hardly be raised at this
time by general subscription, but an ac-
tive campaign of education is advocated
in the hope that some alumnus will be
found ready to step into the breach and
contribute as generously for this pur-
pose at Harvard as did the Houston
family at the University of Pennsyl-
vania. In concluding, the committee
suggests as a preliminary step that the
matter be brought to the notice of the
Corporation of the University at the
earliest practical moment with a request
that it be given serious consideration,
and if, in the judgment of its members,
it seems expedient, that a suitable site
for the building of the proposed club
may be assigned—within the limits of
the college yard, if possible—in case the
necessary funds for its erection shall be
forthcoming within a reasonable time.
EXTENSION OF SUFFRAGE RECONSIDERED.
At a special meeting of the Board of
Overseers held on Wednesday, the ex-
tension of the right to vote for mem-
bers of the Board to all graduates of the
University of five years’ standing was
again brought up for discussion, and
occupied most of the time of the meet-
ing. A petition was before the Board,
signed by 150 alumni of Boston, ask-
ing that definite action on the question
be postponed for at least a year. The
ground of objection to the previous ac-
tion of the Board is the fact that their
vote was taken before the results of the
postal vote of the alumni due on Feb-
ruary 2Ist, had been fully ascertained.
The action was taken by the Overseers
without waiting for the expiration of
the time set for receiving answers from
graduates, because of the lack of inter-
est as indicated by the small number of
votes which had been received. Owing
to the protest, the Board voted to in-
struct the committee, appointed by them
at the January meeting to procure from
the legislature the necessary modifica-
tion of the article of 1865, in relation to
the election of Overseers, that they
should take no further steps until after
the next meeting of the Board on
March 2d. The legislative committee
has postponed until after that date the
hearing on the petition of the Board.
A committee was appointed to have
printed and distributed among the
alumni entitled to vote at the next
election of Overseers, the reports to
and votes of the Board upon the exten-
sion of the right to vote for Overseers.
NEW GIFT TO HARVARD.
Announcement is made of a gift of
$20,000 by Mrs. William Belden Noble
of Washington, to endow a lectureship
in memory of her husband, who grad-
uated in the Class of Eighty-Five.
After graduation he studied for the
ministry and was a clergyman of the
Episcopal Church. The lectures are in-
tended to perpetuated the influence of
religion as exemplified in Phillips
Brooks’s life and teachings and the se-
lection of the lecturers is committed to
seven trustees. The first course of
lectures will be delivered in Appleton
Chapel on Sunday evenings during
March and April, on the general sub-
ject: “The Message of Christ to Man-
The opening lecture will be
by Professor A. : Allen, on
“Christ’s Mission to the Individual
Man.” In subsequent years, the course
will be given in the Brooks House.
The lectures are to be published.
A strong sentiment is developing in
favor of courses in physical training to
be included among the required work
of the Freshman year. Dr. Sargent,
the head of the Department of Physi-
cal Culture, has long advocated adding
such courses to the curriculum. Mr.
Copeland announces a new course of
lectures on English novelists during
March and April. Recent deaths
among the alumni include John A.
Loring and F. V. Balch, both promi-
nent members of the Boston Bar.
Captain Goodrich will call out can-
didates for the class crews this week.
The number of aspirants for baseball
honors in the Freshman class continues
deplorably small. The second call for
candidates brought out only nine men,
making the total of those who have
thus far handed in their names only
forty-seven. There are some _ good
men in the number, but Captain Rand
of the University nine is making a dili-
gent search for more recruits. Since
the victory of the relay team over Yale,
in the B. A. A. games a week ago, the
track team has competed in no im-
portant contests. A number of men
will enter the handicap cross-country
run of the Boston Athletic Association
on Washington’s Birthday.
J. Weston ALLEN.
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Mr. Tracy’s New Book.
To the beginner in Mechanical Draw-
ing or to those undertaking the primary
instruction of students in this subject,
the selection of a suitable outline to
pursue as an introductory course has
generally been attended with more or .
less difficulty. There have appeared
from time to time books in which the
endeavor has been to instruct the stu-
dent in the elements of Mechanical
Drawing and, by prescribing a course
of exercise, to prepare him for a more
advanced specializing of the subject.
Some of these are too cumbersome,
giving, in what is intended as an intro-
ductory course, many special applica-
tions to machine designing and thereby
burdening the = student who desires
merely a general preparation. Others,
although perhaps not to be criticised
for this fault, may be said to offer a
course of instruction which is not made
clear enough, either owing to the ab-
sence of sufficient illustrations or by
prescribing a course that is not above
criticism in respect to its arrangement.
Such books may do well as an adjunct
to a course under an able instructor,
but to the student desiring to master the
subject unaided they are inadequate.
This Introductory Course in Mechan-
ical. Drawing by Gi: Ge dracy; G.E:;,
Sheffield Scientific School, (New York:
Harper Bros. Publishers), appears to
have successfully avoided the faults just
mentioned and will certainly supply a
long felt want. The book, as its name
implies, is intended as introductory.
Mr. Tracy has had very successful ex-
perience in the preparation of the stu-
dents of the Sheffield Scientific School
in Mechanical Drawing and he has
used this experience as a valuable aid
in the preparation of this book. The
author has omitted entirely the more
advanced applications of Mechanical
Drawing, thereby presenting a course
which will be suitable as an introduc-
tion to any kind of instrumental draw-
ing. ! |
One noteworthy feature of the book
is its large number of illustrations,
which are principally photographs of
models. This excellent method of illus-
trating calls to mind the work of Pro-
fessors Phillips and Fisher on Geome-
try which appeared a few years ago.
In this book the illustrations were
photographs of models and they added
very materially to the marked success
of the book.
By the liberal use of these photo-
graphs throughout the chapters on
Orthographic Projection and its ap-
plications, Mr. Tracy has not only fur-
nished a material aid to instructors in |
elementary Mechanical Drawing, but —
an invaluable aid to the student who |
desires to master this somewhat diffi-
cult part of the subject without the aid
of a teacher. The chapter on Perspec-
tive, contributed by Mr. E. H. Lock-
than can be found elsewhere.
_ In the selection of problems illustrat-_
ing the various stib-divisions of the |
subject, the author has exercised great |
intended to |
apply to some definite principle and the |
care. Each problem is
whole collection, arranged by plates,
forms a progressive series of exercises.
The entire make-up of the book re-
flects great credit upon its publishers
as well as upon its author and it will
undoubtedly meet with the success
which it certainly deserves.
L. R. Hopton.
Yale-U. of P. Exhibition.
The Yale Gymnastic Team gave its
first joint exhibition this year with the
University of Pennsylvania on Satur-
day evening at Philadelphia, before an
audience which completely filled the
Academy of Music.
The teams alternated in exhibitions
on the horizontal bars, trapeze, ladders,
flying rings, and parallel bars, in fenc-
ing, tumbling, boxing, and club swing-
ing, through a program of fifteen events.
Yale’s representatives were: F. A.
Lehlbach, ’98, Captain; W. K. Shepard,
Ro Gs Ge L,.. Bast 2. BL, Ander-
SO, Os or. Wi LY Ousaede%s Ri: G.
lapp; 00 5:3 5. Peterson, P(e; BC.
Chamberlin, P. GoM. -U, oBiy: fos:
Manager. The team of the University
of Pennsylvania consisted of J. S. Wil-
liams, 1900 L., Captain; F. P. Gengen-
bach, ’99 M.; F. M. Paul, 1900 M.; W.
P.Taylor, 4901 700.3. 2. Gardiner:
1901 M.; O. T. Cruikshank, 1900 M.;
Bi. A. Staab, i900, .M.; J... Noble, '09
D3. A. By Grane, 0040. Gis Mice
Cowen, ’99 i341..." Lane; 06. Mi; P.
E. Gires, ’98 D.; W. E. Greenwood,
(00:1. C.-L. Laapp, 100t sWe Pe pay
lor, Manager, J. H. Noble, Stage Mana-
ger.
After the exhibition the Yale men
were entertained at a smoker given by
the Mask and Wig Club at the club
house, and a luncheon was given for
both teams the following day at the
University Club, 1316 Walnut street.
The Gymnastic team will give an ex-
hibition at Bridgeport to-morrow even-
ing under the auspices of the Bridge-
pore ys MiaoCrA.
Dr. William G. Anderson, Instructor
in Gymnastics and Associate Director
of the Gymnasium, is the author of a
book entitled, ‘Physical Education,”
published by A. D. Dana. )
BS
wood, M.E., puts this part of the sub- |
ject in a clearer and more concise form |
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