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Vou. VIO Nae
NEW HAVEN, CONN., THURSDAY, MARCH 3, 1898.
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PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT.
Dr. Seaver’s Statistics Show a Marked
Improvement at Yale.
The compulsory gymnastic work,
which was instituted this year for mem-
bers of the Freshman class, makes it
possible to obtain the physical measure-
ments of the entire class. The figures
thus obtained furnish many interesting
comparisons and fu.nish proof on many
of the questions of anthropometry.
They will also give some idea of the
salutary effects of the physical training
which students in all the preparatory
schools are now receiving.
The average age of the class at the
time of measurement was found to be
19 years % month. The oldest man in
the class was 33 years and the youngest
15 yearsQ months. The average height
was 5 feet 7.5 inches, the tallest mem-
ber of the Class being 6 feet 3%4 inches
and the shortest 5 feet three-tenths of
an inch.
The average weight was found to be
134.2 pounds, the heaviest man being
215 pounds and the lightest 101%
pounds.
The other average measurements were
as follows: girth of chest, normal, 34.4
inches; girth of chest, inflated, 35.8
inches; girth of biceps, 11.5 inches;
girth of neck, 13.8 inches; girth of
head, 22.4 inches; girth of waist, 28.1
inches; girth of thigh, 19.9 inches, and
girth of calf, 13.7 inches. Capacity of
lungs, 4 cubic liters, or 240 cubic inches.
TWELVE YEARS AGO.
For the sake of comparison, is given
below the average measurements of the
present Freshman class, those of the
Class of Eighty-Seven taken in their
Freshman year and also some of the
average measurements of the present
Freshman class at Brown University,
where the same system of measure-
ments is in use:
Class Class Class
AVERAGE. of of of
Yale 1gor. Yale ’87. Brown igor.
BSC ii agin pines 19y.%4m. I9y.1mM 19y. 6m.
Weight [0 _ Sorc... 134.2 4 129.3
Heights fos 3e. 5107.5 5:07.8 5:06.8
Girth of chest (mor.) 34.4 33-4 28.0
fe ee aes 35:3 aire
Biceps: 2: ¥1.5 12. aoe
A SO an. 13.8 13.7 Pe
eae Sees 22.4 22.5 22.2
ce. oe WOM So 28.1 28.4 mee
Sra MS LS 19.9 19.8 b hte
"Se ORME ee hae 13.7 13.6 ee
Capacity of lungs.. —240. 225 231
A STRONGER MAN.
In comparing the average man on
entering college to-day with the Fresh-
man of fifteen years ago, we find that
he is now better physically developed
although slightly shorter. The increas-
ed capacity of the lungs is especially
remarkable and is undoubtedly attribut-
able to outdoor training which the
majority of men receive before entering
College. It is estimated that there are
now ten men in training in preparatory
schools where there was one fifteen
years ago. The Freshmen at Brown
are considerably shorter and not nearly
as well developed in every way, al-
though nearly six months older. This
may be explained by the difference in
the class of students of the two Univer-
sities. Brown does not draw from the
large preparatory schools as Yale does.
Many of her students have prepared
themselves. They are more mature in
years, but physically much inferior to.
the students of Yale.
There are but 97 men or 38 per cent.
of the Freshman class who have normal
eyes. Seventeen others have one nor-
mal eye, the other eye being abnormal
to the extent of at least twenty-thirti-
eths. Thirty-eight men, or about thir-
teen per cent., used glasses before enter-
ing College. No figures are obtainable
for discovering whether there are fewer
men with normal eyes now than ten
years ago, but it is believed that this
is the case.
AVERAGE STRENGTH.
The strength tests of the entire Class
were not taken, but a call was issued
for those wishing to take the test. One
hundred and sixty-six men responded,
this number not including the football
candidates.
The results of these tests were as
follows:
Average weight, — 152 pounds.
s times pushed up, 5.3
& “ pulled up, 9.7
“ total strength 1,641.9 “
Jay W. SEAvER, M.D.,
Associate Director of the Yale Gymnasium.
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The News Banquet.
The annual banquet of the Yale News ©
was held at the New Haven House last
evening. About seventy-five were pres-
ent, including a quartet from the Glee
Club.
R. H. Gay, ’98, acted as toastmaster.
The toasts responded to were as fol-
lows:
“The Retiring Board,’ J.S. Mason, ’98.
“Now for good Lucke, cast an old
shoe after us.”
—Heywood.
“The Incoming Board,’ D.H.Day, ’o9.
“It is good news, worthy of all
acceptation; and yet not too
good to be true.”
—Matihew Henry.
“The Alumni Weekly,’ L. S.Welch, ’89.
“A ra bound to us by common
trade.” |
“Tate Outside”... G. E.. Eliot, Jr, 86.
“Let us consider the reason of the
case.”
—Powell.
“Faculty Doings,” C. W. Wells, ’96.
“Please call during office hours.”
—Carm. Yalen.
“Vale Journalism in the Past,”
Prof. W. L. Phelps.
“IT love everything that’s old; old
friends, old times, old manners,
old books, old wine.”
—Goldsmith.
The invited guests were: J. O. Rod-
gers, 98; D.C. Twichell, 98; G. Park-
er, 65; F. EH. Simmons. 96; Es G
Perkins,.;'06c.. bc. IN, . OWHE, “08: | fF.
Wickes, 08; T. S. McLane, ’o8; D.
DeF. Burrell, ’98; F. A. Lord, ’908; A.
Pi Fitchs:}r., “6S; 2..W, Bedttie-[t.,
"98. Lio.5. 2. W.. Hamil, “08: G2 &.
Schreiber, 98; J. W. Wadsworth, Jr.,
98; H. E. Butler, ’98; J. C. McLauch-
lant; 68: fi. Os ‘Lockman, ‘98; Li S:
Weich, ’89; E. J. Thompson, special;
Go eaaliet: jyr.,:60:. K.: Bo Harkness,
'OOsEch ss Oe INESOCOX, (07° oo,
Hay, 98; M. Delano, ’98; R. T. Garri-
son OG} Ce: Merrill; Je, "983k.
Martin, 98 S.; B. C. Chamberlin, P.G.;
R. H. Crowell, ’98; H. Bingham, ’98;
EB. Sawyer, 0S:. HB. Wrigtt, 08; -&.
W. Sheehan, 798; W. K. Chisholm, ’98;
C. W. Wells, ’96; R. J. Turnbull, ’98;
L.: Hitchcock, ’98; C. D. Cheney, ‘08;
N- -Hs Cowdrey;:05; He His Gurran;
798; W. S. Ray, ’98; L. M. Williams,
‘Os, <hc H: Seranton, 08; A.: D. Bald-
win, 98; H. D. Gallaudet, ’98; Prof.
Wiese Pheips, »)’87:
Walter Camp, ’80, was to have been
present, but was prevented by business:
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Professor Hoffman, 80, now a pro-
fessor in Union College, lectured in
Marquand Chapel on Saturday, Feb-
ruary 18th. His subject was “Germany
as it is To-day.”
BSSRX COUNTY YALE MEN.
More of Them Together Than Ever—
Professor Phelps on the State of
Things—Englishwise and —
Otherwise—Other
Speeches,
The fifteenth annual dinner, errone-
ously called the fourteenth on the
menu, of the Yale Alumni Association
of Essex County, N. J., was held at
Upper Music Hall, Orange, N.-J., on
Friday evening, February 25th, at
seven o'clock. The room was taste-
fully decorated with palms and flags.
On one side was the large Yale flag
belonging to the Association and which
has floated in many scenes of Yale’s
athletic prowess. At one end was the
long pennant bearing the name of the
Association and underneath was a fine
tiger skin with the inscription ‘6-o0.”’
The tables were arranged in the form
of a horseshoe and were beautifully
adorned with flowers. About sixty-five
members and guests sat down to din-
ner, the largest number that has ever
attended one of these banquets. A
quartet from the Yale Glee Club, con-
sisting of Messrs. G. G. Schreiber, F.
W. Sheehan, J. C. McLaughlin and H.
€. Butler, sang the stirring songs of
Yale and led in the rousing choruses.
In this they were assisted by Noah
Swayne, 2d, ’93, whose solos were
heartily enjoyed, especially during the
informal session that followed the more
formal proceedings.
EMIL SCHULTZE, PRESIDENT.
After the material part of the dinner,
which was admirably cooked and serv-
ed had been disposed of, the President,
Emil Schultze, ’85, called the assem-
blage to order and spoke in part as fol-
lows:
“Gentlemen:—We trust that you all
may have carefully fortified yourselves
during the repast which has just been
set before you by our dinner commit-
tee, to successfully cope with the pro-
gram of toasts mapped out for you by
our Committee on speakers. We can
congratulate the former committee on
having scored a success, and need feel
no doubt about the outcome of the
endeavors of the latter. The average
Yale man, notwithstanding his deep-
rooted loyalty to all that is Yale, nowa-
days scans his toast list with more
dread than the list of opponents on a
Princeton or Harvard eleven. Not
only because the toast list is usually
longer than the list of the eleven—or
if not actually so in print is made so
by the running in of substitutes—but
aiso because he realizes that he cannot
get in any interference and that the
speakers will not be so readily downed.
But I can give the assurance here to-
night, which I feel will be equally
agreeable to both hearers and speakers,
viz: that our list will be carried out as
printed, and not otherwise. You gen-
tlemen who have toasts, will be called
upon in the order given, and you gen-
tlemen who have no toasts, will be
‘called upon to give your attention, in
this formal part of our dinner, to only
‘those which you see on your score
card. We believe in restricting the
speakers to the size of our College
debating team, and have no intention
of increasing it to the numbers con-
tained in a track athletic team. So you
all know what is coming, or, at least,
how much is coming.
“Our Association is certainly to be
congratulated on the numbers present
to-night, continuing as it does an in-
crease of interest in the Association
dinners, which can readily be turned
into an active interest in all that we
want the Association to stand for as
one of the many twigs of Yale. It is
particularly gratifying to mark, as we
have been able to do since the begin-
ning of these annual gatherings, an
increased attendance, on account of the
fact that we live and thrive and work in
territory that ordinarily might be fairly
considered as set aside for and belong-
ing to the lair of the “Tiger,” our sister
University, Princeton. Imagine a Har-
vard or Princeton dinner of sixty in
Hartford! I doubt if there be such a
one in all New England, excepting, of
course, Boston, where sometimes two
or three Harvard men gather together
informally. If ]l am mistaken, the rep-
resentatives of these slighted institu-
tions will set me right when their
turns come; and yet we have not only
our own, but very flourishing ones in
Plainfield and Newark.
“It is not my purpose, nor do I con-
sider it fitting in my position, to tres-
pass on the field of Dr. Phelps, who is
to speak for the University and tell you
about the present condition of our
beloved Alma Mater. We all know
that Pres. Pierson is no longer among
the living, and that the Old Brick Row
is not complete; that the Fence is gone
and that Murray the hackman hacks
no longer; “Mory’s’ has been changed
to ‘“Traeger’s,’ and so the ancient
rivalry between these venerable institu-
tions has been extinguished, and they
are now one. With the progress in
building and attendance of students and
increase in teaching staff of the Univer-
sity, the University side issues,—I might
call them side doors—have kept pace.
Where little more than a decade ago
the student body had the aforesaid
“Mory’s’ and “Traeger’s,” two drink-
ing places, making an average of one
to about six hundred students, we are
now assured, on the best of authority
and in no uncertain Voice that every
student supports, on an average, six
hundred drinking places, and all located
within a radius of two blocks of the
President’s home.
“Nor has the Yale spirit changed, but
it remains the same. In war or peace,
in the professions and business, it is as
heretofore. “Do all that is in you with
all your power.” Each one of you can
call up many examples of it in his own
time and day. More recently, however,
we have had it exemplified by one of
the graduates of a year or two ago. It
shows how, no matter what it may be
that we are called upon to do, we Yale
men start right in and do it with all
our power, and usually make it a howl-
ing success. Harry Whitney, a gradu-
ate of a year or two ago, was appointed
under the Tammany Mayor, Van Wyck,
on the Board of Statistics of the new
city. He had himself sworn in, and
within a month purchased a $13,000
picture at the Stewart art sale. The
remarkable fact about it all is that there
is no salary attached to the office. It
was just a case of Yale sand, or per-
haps, better still—rocks.
“The present critical times seem to me
to call upon us more strongly than any in
the memory of most of us here, to keep
strong in our minds the glorious verse
of the last stanza of the best of our Yale
songs, “For God, for Country and for
Yale,” and while I am sure that but
few of us ever omit our daily prayer
to our Creator, and none of us permit
our loyalty to Yale to flag, I do fear
that there are times when we forget
the country we are living in, the Union
of the North American States, than
which the history of the world records
no greater or more glorious; and so
just because this is a Yale night, I feel
that we may fittingly make it an occa-
sion also to rejoice at the calmness an
dignity and high statesmanship dis-
played by those of our countrymen
whom our ballots have elevated to the