YALE ALUMNI WHEERLY
THE COLLEGE PAPERS.
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garding Yale were started from ignor-
ance rather than malice. Therefore the
correspondents, if correctly informed
about College happenings, would
through their papers help the Univer-
sity rather than harm it. A meeting
of these men, who are mostly under-
graduates, was held and the name and
paper of each published in the News,
in order that the College might know
whom to make responsible for misstate-
ments. It was also arranged to have
news given to correspondents directly
from the News office. This scheme has
resulted in much good, especially in
news regarding athletic questions and
events.
If these two prominent changes made
by the Ninety-Eight board are carried
out, they should amount to more than
they have amounted to at this writing,
as it is the conviction of the entire
board that they are both matters of
great importance to the News and the
College.
The board which will take charge of
the paper is composed of the following
nine men: D. H. Day, Chairman; C-.
H. Conner, Jr., Business Manager; .M.
T.. Adams, . W. Chambers,  F.
Davies, R. E. Forrest, A. C. Goodyear,
A. S. Hamlin and -L. E. Stoddard.
There are four elections for places on
the board, held at the middle and end
of Freshman and Sophomore years.
D. H. Day and: A. S: Hamlin were
chosen at the first election; C. H. Con-
ner, Jr.,. and. C..H..Chambers at the
second; R. E. Forrest, A. C. Good-
year and L. E. Stoddard at the third;
and M. T. Adams and F. M. Davies at
the last election.
Mr. Day, the chairman, prepared at
Andover, where he identified himself
with literary work, being chairman of
the Phillippian during his last year
there.
YALE LITERARY MAGAZINE.
A year ago the Class of Ninety-Eight
elected the following men to take
charge of the Yale Literary Magazine
for the then ensuing year: Arthur D.
Baldwin, David DeF. Burrell, Franklin
A. Lord, Edward C. Streeter and Gou-
verneur Morris. There had been a
rather sharp competition for the board .
and an.election was extremely gratify-
ing. The different contributors had
worked on widely diverging lines, fol-
lowing thus not only a natural bent but
a well-defined désire to make readable
and.variegated the pages of the Lit. A
quickened interest in the class seemed
to be the result of this, and the reading
of the Lit.. became general. Perhaps
this was due to the writings of Gouver-
neur Morris more than of any other
contributor. A kind of work possible
to few undergraduates he developed to
the great pleasure and satisfaction of
the class. He caught the spirit of the
times to a nicety, and though an under-
study of more mature writers, he wrote
with a dash and skill that is seldom
manifest in college papers. In marked
contrast to the subjects chosen by Mr.
Morris were those which appealed to
Mr. Burrell. Character, setting and
peculiarities of dialect were admirably
mingled in his work and in such a way
as to win the close sympathy of many
of his readers. Mr. Streeter and Mr.
Baldwin, though less pronounced in
their choice of material, had, each for
himself, a field of his own. Mr. Street-
er brought to the board of which he
became a member the keenest interest
in letters, and was of more service and
effect in his opinions of. contributed
articles, perhaps, than in his own work
presented by the types. Mr. Baldwin
introduced the scenes and incidents of
Hawaiian life in such a way as to pro-
voke discussion among his friends as
to whether his name will be associated
with those of story-tellers or eminent
geographers. ot
So much then for ante facto achieve-
ments of the board. The supply of
material from Ninety-Nine which. was
evident in April of last year, was
discouragingly scanty, and the ques-
tion of how low a standard would
be used by the Senior board drove
from mind the perplexities of selection
which it had hoped to encounter. As
time wore on, however, the conscien-
tious work of the Junior contributors
bore fruit, and'it became apparent to
all familiar with the situation that two
good men would have to forego the
pleasures and mysticisms of Chi Delta
Theta. Of the prominent contributors
in Ninety-Nine, there are seven who
deserve especial mention. Easily fore-
most in ease and versatility of writing
is Hugh A. Callahan. While some of
his accepted work has been mediocre
in conception, he has always maintain-
ed an excellent standard of writing,
seldom, if ever, presenting a piece that
was not of the nicest execution. At his
best, both in choice and execution, his
work has been a credit to himself and
the College. His story “Mr. Hook and
Mrs. Crook’ provoked wide-spread
comment among the exchanges and is
quite the college story of the year.
Richard Hooker has been the Maga-
zine’s most faithful contributor and
leads in amount of accepted work. His
work is too close a resemblance to the
story of the day to demand or warrant
specific criticism, but is a good and a
consistent exhibition of faithful inci-
dents well told.
Benjamin B. Moore had a number of
incoherent vagaries which he was tardy
in discarding, otherwise his literary
prominence would have been earlier
assured him. He brings a greater fund
of literary lore to the new board than
do his associates, and judged from his
writings is a rarely well read man.
Huntington Mason has the unique
distinction of being an ex-member of
Chi Delta Theta, having resigned it to
prosecute his labors as a Junior con-
tributor. He has an unquestioned gen-
ius for rhyming, and is usually refresh-
ino'l virile. In crediting him with a
rhyming genius, we use rhyme as ap-
plied to the old English rhymsters, who
recognized rhyming, regardless of sen-
timent as a difficult and admirable art.
Isham Henderson has written six
essays for the Lit., all of them good, all
of them scholarly, and some of them
well written. Five were printed as
ordinary articles, and one as the winner
of the Lit. Medal. To have all of his
work accepted falls but seldom to the
lot of a contributor.
Henry M. Young has lacked wofully
in writing skill, as has Charles E. Hay
to a lesser-extent. Both have done well
in contriving incidents, and Mr. Hay
has been especially happy in his imag-
inative attempts, but a general lack of
things pertinent to the trade of writing,
to say nothing of its art, has been a
fatal handicap to both.
The Junior class met last night and
elected H. A. Callahan, of Chicago;
Richard Hooker, of New Haven;
Isham Henderson, of Louisville; Hunt-
ington Mason, of Chicago, and Benja-
min B. Moore, of New York City, to
constitute the Lil. board for the ensuing
year.
THE RECORD.
The present editorial board of the
Record will not hand over the manage-
ment of the paper until some time in
the early part of April, as the Record
has never conformed with the Lit. and
the News in having the new board of
editors take charge in the middle of
Junior year. On this account, little can
be said definitely of the financial suc-
cess of the paper, but from the present
indications there is good reason to be-
lieve that this year has been as pros-
perous as any of the previous years of
its existence.
The Ninety-Six board of editors, who
were eleven in number, decide that to
reduce the number of editors would
make the competition for places on the
board keener, and in this way would
add to the excellence of the paper.
Accordingly the Ninety-Seven board
was reduced to ten men, the present
board to nine and the full board which
will take charge this Spring will be
composed of eight editors. _
The present board of editors has
taken the initiative in systematizing the
work of making up the paper. Now
the Senior and Associate editors are
divided into four sections, each of which
has charge of one of the four branches:
editorials, “windies,’ jokes and poems;
and an editor is appointed from each
of the four sections who shall see to it
that there is enough copy in his branch
for that particular issue. In this way
the standard of the paper has been
raised, for much more of the matter
comes directly from the office and not
from contributors. Each week the
paper, when made up, is submitted to
the Chairman before going to press.
He also has the supervision of all illus-
trations. —
In choosing editors to the board the
quantity a candidate hands in is not
taken so much into consideration as the
merit of the work and the fact of a
man’s being especially well suited for
retiring board of editors.
stands in most need at the time.
The present board of editors consists
of R. M. Crosby, Chairman; P. W.
Hamill, Business Manager; E. W. |
Burlingame, M. Delano, F. G. Hins- |
dale, E. T. Howes (S.), S. W. Jackson, |
G. B. Rhodes and J. H. Scranton.
The Ninety-Nine board is at present |
made up as follows: H. C. Cheney, C. |
E. Hay, Jr., E. F. Hinkle, H. Mason, |
M. Scudder, H. H. Tompkins, Jr., H.
B. B. Yergason.
the kind of work of which the board |
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THE COURANT.
Among the innovations which. the
retiring board of editors of the Courant
have effected since the management of
the paper devolved upon them, the
most important is the manner of select-
ing the editors for the ensuing year.
This year the custom of taking men
on the board from time to time, accord-
ing to the merit of their work, has been
broken away from and the whole board
is chosen together from the Junior
class, differing from the manner of
selecting the Lit. board only in that the
choice rests not with the Junior class,
but with the retiring board of editors,
who are guided by the quality of the
work and not by the amount handed in.
Another departure in making up the
board of editors was the selection of a
man for the position of business man-
ager who has never in any way been
identified with the literary side of the
paper. This step was due to the
growth of the business department of
the paper and the large demand it
makes on a man’s time.
Last Spring the Courant announced
in its columns that the editors had
decided to offer an annual prize medal
for the best story handed in by a mem-
ber of the Academic or Scientific de-
partments by the first week in January.
This medal is intended to hold the same
place in the short story line that the
“Tit. Medal’ holds. in -essays. The
medal was recently awarded to Ray
Morris, Igor.
The Courant has also in the past year
established the precedent of giving
“Minervas” to four members of the
Senior class who have shown interest
in the work of the paper.
In the history of the Courant there
has never before been a year more suc-
cessfully passed than the one under the
The success
has not only been a literary one but a
financial one as well.
The Ninety-Eight board, F. Wickes,
Chairman; T. S..McLane, Business
Manager; A. D. Baldwin, S. R. Ken-
nedy, C. E. Merrill, Jr., and G. Morris,
will be succeeded by H. B. B. Yerga-
son, Chairman; F. M. Davies, Business
Manager: C. E. Hay, Jr., R. Hooker,
and H. C. Robbins.
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