YALE ALUMNI WHEHEKLY
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Hale. It is high time that Hale was
called back from his damaging dalli-
ance with Art and re-established in his
certain place in history. For years the
simple country folk of Connecticut, on
visiting the capitol city, have known
Hale chiefly as a ponderous man of
brass standing in the state house with
his hand ever extended and the pocket
of his golf trousers never distended, the
only man of his metal in the lobby who
never gets anything but left. Mr. Clark
asked pardon for likening himself to
Hale in one particular. He also was
suspended. Hale met his fate after
graduating, at the hands of the British,
and it gave him eternal fame. Mr.
Clark met his fate in Sophomore year
at the hands of the Yale Faculty and
never got any credit for it at all. He
did not cite the facts as a measure of
the relative influence of General Howe
and the Yale Faculty, but as a con-
tribution to the vagaries. of history.
Hale at the time of his arrest was
engaged in what is now called report-
ing. They do not have reporters like
Hale nowadays, and they don’t hang
those they do have. Perhaps it would
be well if they did occasionally. Jour-
nalism has made great strides since that
day. But it was already an old art
then, much older than some of the
thoughtless suppose. The study of the
classics,—may it ever flourish at Yale!
proves that fact. Who does not re-
member the story of that splendid, old-
time journalist, Leonidas the Spartan!
No one knows what paper he was con-
nected with. . It and its very name have
perished in oblivion. But he is known
by deeds, not words. We all recall
how he stood there at Thermopyle and
what it was that made him great. He
held a pass! That was the mark of his
distinction, as it is the mark of many of
the journalists of to-day. He will
travel through history on that pass. It
is not transferable and is good for all
time. Mr. Clark closed with the inti-
mation that the Yale of the past was a
sufficiently high aim for the Yale of the
future.
JOHN H. BUCK.
The last speaker of the evening was
John H. Buck. He said in part:
“To my mind, the great lesson which
Yale teaches us is not so much how
to win victories as how to bear defeats
like gentlemen. We have not had very
much practice in the matter of bearing
defeats, but what little we have had has
shown good fruit, and as I look back
over the last seven or eight years of
Yale athletics, the thing which makes
me most proud of being a Yale man is
the thought of that noble stand which
Billy Rhodes and his team made
against the invincible Harvard team at
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Springfield in ’90, when they almost
wrested a victory from a team flushed
with their first conquest in many years.
It was at that field and at Jarvis Field,
in Cambridge, last Fall, that the foun-
dations were laid for that game in New
Haven which resulted in a victory over
Princeton.
“T think most of the Yale graduates
will say that the brightest memories of
Yale life do not consist in their recol-
lections of the football games, however,
or the races on the Thames, or Prom.
week. These are the fireworks, the
pyrotechnics of Yale, but the glowing
embers, the beds of warm coals for
many of us will be those long Winter
evenings that we have passed in the old
Brick Row.”
After the speeches the younger grad-
uates gathered about the piano and
sang college songs until a late hour.
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Yale Club Preliminary.
[Correspondence of YALM ALUMNI WEEKLY. ]
The Yale Club preliminary annual
has just made its appearence and a
perusal of it reveals some very interest-
ing facts in regard to the membership
of the Club. The regular annual will
appear some time in March. The book,
which is complete to February Ist,
places the total membership at 733,
there being 585 resident and 148 non-
resident members. -
No less than fifty classes are repre-
sented on the Club rolls, the earliest
being that of 1842, while from 1860 on
there is not a break in the list. Over
one-half of the total number of mem-
bers (368) are from classes graduated
in the last eight years, and about one-
fifth of the membership is made up of
Sheff. men. The book shows also that
the largest membership of any one
class is that of Ninety-Five, which has
74, followed by Ninety-Six with 66, and
Ninety-Four with 57.
NON-RESIDENT MEMBERSHIP.
Perhaps the most interesting figures, -
‘however, come from an examination of
the addresses of the 148 non-resident
members. It is found that they have
been obtained in 19 states and from 68
cities. Connecticut leads in the list of
state membership with 63 names, New
York contributing 33, and New Jersey
15. In the city list New Haven has 26
men and Hartford 15, these being by
far the most largely represented. There
are however twenty-one other cities,
from as far east as Boston to as far
west as Colorado Springs, with two or
more meneach. Butte, Montana, is the
most distant city mentioned.
CLUB NOTES.
The only event in the future to an-
-nounce is the second Winter “smoker”
of Ninety-Seven at the Yale Club on
Saturday evening next, February 26, at
eight o’clock, for which a special effort
is being made to reach all Ninety-
Seven men living in and around New
York. It is hoped to make this one of
the largest of the Class meetings held at
the Club this year. The project of a
Winter pool tournament which was
talked of some time since has been
allowed to drop for the present.
TAKING CHANCES.
Is there any such thing as luck? How far
is the success of oneand the failure of another
due to mere chance and circumstance? It is
a broad question, and like that famous one of
Sir Roger’s, “much may be said on both
sides.’’? As long as there are men to debate,
some will hold that each makes his own bed
and must lie in it, and some as stoutly main-
tain that “ it all depends on what turns up.”
But through it all one thing seems to be pretty
well settled. That is that there are “ chances’
in this life, and that the difference between
success and failure is often due wholly to the.
ability of one to take to himself what another
never so much as sees until too late. Nor
should sueh mental lethargy be always laid up
against such an unfortunate as a fault of his.
That slow wit or infirm resolution may well
be as much a part of the man himself as the
shape of his head or the color of his eyes.
The world holds more of these than the
successful ones are apt to realize. But the
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philosophers. This “chance in life,’ the
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More than that, it is the chance which above
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Looking back across the years, it is easy to
see that if this or that had been different the
whole current of life would have flowed along
some other channel than that which it has
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of such opportunities that it did not lie
within his power to grasp them. He was
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and to those whom he must leave behind.
He who has allowed this opportunity to slip
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“« Have I made the most of this great chance?’”’
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