YALE AL
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NEWS AT HARVARD.
Compulsory Athletics—The Vote on
Graduate Suffrage—The Teams.
[Correspondence of YALE ALUMNI WEEKLY.]
Cambridge, March 1.—The meeting
held last Wednesday evening to endorse
the movement to secure a course or
courses in physical training at Harvard
was largely attended. President Hyde
of Bowdoin College discussed the suc-
cess of the plan of compulsory physical
exercise at Bowdoin and the benefit to
be gained by such a course. At Bow-
doin, the required work of Freshman
year extends from November to March
and counts as a one-hour course toward
the degree.
President Hyde was followed by Mr.
Augustus Hemenway, Chairman of the
Committee on Physical Training and
Athletic Sports. He stated that -he
would see that the necessary funds were
provided for the establishment of a
course at Harvard, if the students were
desirous of such a course. Other
speakers were Dr. H. P. Bowditch, of
the Faculty of the Medical School, Pro-
fessor William James, and Dr. Dudley
A. Sargent. Dr.. Bowditch advocated,
in addition to a prescribed course of
physical exercise, a series of lectures
on the care of the body, to be given
each year to the Freshman class. A
vote of thanks was extended to Mr.
Hemenway, and a motion was carried
that the Faculty be requested to appoint
a committee to consider the plans pro-
posed and report their decision.
TO EXTEND SUFFRAGE.
The report of the outcome of the
ballot by Harvard alumni on the ques-
tion of extending the suffrage for the
election of Overseers to graduates of
the professional schools was made pub-
lic last week.
Blank ballots were sent out to all
eraduates of the College, of one year’s
standing, and to holders of honorary
degrees. The total number of ballots
so distributed was 6,912. Of this num-
ber 2,954 were returned, of which 1,675
were marked “yes” and 1,279 “no.”
Ballots were also sent to members of
the last graduating class and 154 ballots
were returned, of which 74 were marked
“ves” and 80 were marked “no.” It
will be seen that while the vote has
resulted in favor of the change, there
is a large minority opposed toit. It has
been thought by many that the gradu-
ates of recent years would be strongly
opposed to any extension of the right
to vote. The result, however, shows
such not to be the case. The only
classes that voted against the change
were those of Forty, Forty-One, Forty-
Nine, Fifty-One, Fifty-Three, Fifty-
Eight, Sixty-Six, Seventy-One, Seven-
ty-Five, Eighty-Eight and Ninety-
Seven. The votes of the classes of
Forty-Three, Fifty, Fifty-Two and Six-
ty-Four showed no choice. The Board
of Overseers are expected to take fur-
ther action upon the question at their
meeting this week.
PHI BETA KAPPA CHARTER.
The original charter of the Harvard
chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa Society,
which was lost several years ago and
recovered at a sale of antiquities last
year, has been presented by William
and Mary College to the Harvard
Library. This charter was granted in
1779 by “the members of the meeting
Alpha of William and Mary College,
Virginia,” to their brother, Elisha Par-
meli, of the University at Cambridge,
Massachusetts. Parmeli received the
charter in person from the meeting
Alpha in Virginia. He was allowed to
stop at New Haven on his homeward
journey, that he might organize a chap-
ter there. In this way it came about
that the Yale fraternity antedates that
of Harvard.
ATHLETIC NEWS. —
Members of the track athletic team
have participated in two indoor meet-
ings during the week. In the Roxbury
Latin School games, Harvard secured
first and second places if the 30-yards
dash and 35-yards hurdle, and second
in the high jump. In the Newton
High School meeting, Harvard men
were first and second in the high jump
and the 30-yard dash, and second in the
300-yards and 600-yards runs. The
only exceptional performance was that
of W. G. Morse in the high jump, who
cleared the bar at 6 feet, 4% inch. W.
F. Garcelon has begun his work as
coach of the candidates for the hurdle’
events.
The Harvard Athletic Committee has
given pewter cups to all members of the
Freshman football team of last season,
which defeated both the Yale and Uni-
versity of Pennsylvania Freshmen.
The candidates for the class crews
will begin out-of-door work this week.
The members of the Sophomore crew
have already been on the river in pair
oars.
be late in getting out of the cage, owing
to the moist soil of Soldiers’ Field.
The battery candidates of both the Uni-
versity and Freshman nines are work-.
- ing under the direction of pitcher Lewis
of the Boston league team. G. W.
Thompson has succeeded E. N. Sears
as coach of the Freshman nine candi-
dates. Rex Fincke, formerly Yale In-
terscholastic Tennis champion, has
been appointed temporary captain.
J. WESTON ALLEN.
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THE YALE CLUB. .
It May Absorb the New York Alumni
Association—Club Notes.
[Correspondence of YALE ALUMNI WEEKLY.]
New York, March 1, 1898.—Since the |
recent dinner of the Yale Alumni Asso-
ciation of New York, graduates here
have been awaiting with interest the
calling of a business meeting to con-
sider the status and affairs of the Asso-
ciation and to take some definite action
as to the future. Such a meeting, it is
now announced, will be held at Sherry’s
on March 18th, when it is probable that
the old Association will be dissolved
and, in the words of its President at the
dinner, “its mantle allowed to fall upon
the Yale-Club.” In other. words, the
annual dinner and other meetings
formerly held under the auspices of the
The baseball team will probably —
Association will from now on be ar- |
ranged for by the Club, making ‘merely
a change in the management of such
affairs—and in reality scarcely that,
since many of the men who have
managed such things for the Associa-
tion would now continue to do so for
the Club.
NO NEW IDEA.
This action on the part of the Asso-
ciation was foreshadowed last Spring
when the plan of a Yale Club in New
York came up for discussion at a
largely attended meeting. By an over-
whelming vote the plan as proposed
was endorsed and approved, and a com-
mittee from the Association was ap-
pointed to confer with the promoters
of the Club. Encouraged by this ap-
proval the Club committee took out a
lease for the house on Madison Square,
spent several thousand dollars in fur-
nishing and refitting it, and invited
Yale men to codperate with them in
making the new organization the stuc-
cess it deserved to be. At the time it
was felt that there was some risk in-
curred in these operations, but the
growth of the Club was ranid, and now,
with practically 800 members, includ-
ing the waiting list, its financial and
social success is assured. At present
the Alumni Association numbers 240
members, 117 of whom are also mem-
bers of the Club.
ADVANTAGES OF THE CHANGE.
The advantages to be derived from |
the change are many. For those of
the Association who join the Club the
use of the reading rooms, library, res-
taurant and billiard room should more
than compensate for the difference in
the dues to the Club and those of the
Association, which could offer them no
house for a common meeting ground.
To those who do not join, on the other
hand, the Club can give fully as much
as the old Association, the dinners an
meetings being of course open affairs
as heretofore,—and perhaps more, since
with a house of its own the Club would
be in a position to make such large
gatherings of the alumni more frequent
if it seemed best.
For these reasons then it seems pro-
bable, as has been said, that the Asso-
ciation will vote to dissolve at its com-
beaches are the popular diversions.
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ing meeting, resigning its duties to
Yale Club. =
AT THE CLUB.
The most recent class meeting at the
Club was that of Ninety-Seven on
Saturday evening last, when between
twenty-five and thirty men came to-
gether for the second of the informal
smokers given by the New York
Alumni of the class this Winter. One
or two more meetings may be arranged
for between now and June.
Preparations for the March ‘Club
Night” are still under way. .
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Be GRR. _-«!
By Mr. Chariton M. Lewis.
The following, by Charlton M. Lewis,
Yale ’86, of the Yale English Faculty,
entitled ‘The Loss of the Maine,”
appeared in the New Haven Evening
Register of Feb. 23:
To a sunny harbor-mouth
In the garden of the South,
Where the never-ending Summers
breathe and bloom,
Where warm love and light enfold
Palmy wood and tangled wold,
Thither sailed our seamen bold—to
their doom.
There they heard the wild alarm
When the red death-angel’s arm
Shook the thunders of his wrath below
the deep,
And he swept them to their graves,
Where the long, deep-dreaming waves
Wash forever through the caves of sun-
less sleep.
And the tears of sorrow start
From a mighty people’s heart,
For our heroes dead and those they lef
forlorn; : :
But from sea to rocky range,
From the prairie to the grange,
We are mighty to avenge, as to mourn.
In the dark we blindly grope,
Half in fear, though half in hope,
For the way where honor calls lies still
concealed.
On Thy people Thou hast trod;
We have bowed beneath Thy rod;
May Thy purposes, O God, be revealed!
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The Freshmen of Yale won from the
Harvard Freshmen the mile relay race
at the Boston College Athletic Asso-
ciation meet in Boston last Saturday
night, by 15 yards.
19. s. The Yale winners were: C. T.
Dudley, A. H. Richardson, W. O.
Brennnan, J. Richards, Jr.
At a recent meeting of the Freshman
Faculty, it was decided not to allow any
Freshman-Sophomore baseball game
this Spring. This action was taken
solely because of the general disquiet
incident to the game and not on
account of any misbehavior of the
Freshmen, as was the case last year.
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