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GOOD SPEECHES,
There have been some excellent re-
ports made about Yale University at
recent alumni banquets. Facts have
been cited and pleasant comparisons
made withthe past: In general, these
banquets have been useful in spreading
knowledge of Yale. Not only Presi-
dent Dwight, but different members of
the Faculty, have done excellent ser-
vice in this respect. Now and then
criticism has developed, but the general
result is only to excite more interest in
the institution and bring out more of
its good points.
While we are speakino of University
reports, it may be in order to commend
the very frank address of Professor
Phelps at the Orange dinner, which
was printed in full in last week’s issue.
The WerrEKLy makes special effort to
secure for publication these more im-
portant addresses. It seems to us the
paper’s particular field to furnish Yale
men reading of this sort which is not
given elsewhere (at least until it is used
here) and which was hitherto in large
measure inaccessible. This particular
speech probably did not escape any
careful reader of the paper. It told
things that were of interest, and so
most certainly did Professor Hadley’s
at New York. That address was a
most commendable one from every
standpoint. Its wide circulation has
done Yale a large amount of good.
Far and wide throughout Yaledom
there has been the keenest response to
the sentiment that the interest of the
officers of Yale is centered very little
in the figures of registration, but rather
in the quality of the life here.
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MR. BROWN AND THE I. A. A.
The Daily Californian comments on
the alleged threat of the Intercollegiate
Athletic Association to expel the Uni-
versity of California, unless Mr. Brown,
the Football Manager of that Univer-
sity, proves his charges against the
purity of Eastern college athletics.
The Californian takes the ground that
the Association should welcome the
criticism if it is true, or show Brown
_ indictment.
how he is mistaken if he has been mis-
led. The Californian doubts the cor-
rectness of the report, refusing to be-
lieve that the Association has gone on
record as demanding that those who
make charges against its members, or,
as this paper expresses it, “its favor-
ites,” shall show that these charges are
true, or shall be expelled. It, how-
ever, declares that the University is not
a party to the controversy and that it
is a matter between Mr. Brown and the
Association.
It is only due to truth to say that no-
body here has lost sleep over Mr.
Brown’s comments. We are free to
confess also our doubts as to the pro-
priety of making the entire University —
suffer for false and unjust criticism on
the part of one of its members. It
seems to us, however, the Association
can do nothing less than to inquire of
the University authorities whether they
are responsible for Mr. Brown’s state-
ments, and whether they are willing to
cooperate in an attempt to find out
the truth about them. If they wash
their hands of the matter, then Mr.
Brown appears as simply an individual
critic. As the mattter now _ stands,
his criticism is given importance sim-
ply on account of his position. It
would otherwise hardly be noticed.
Between the Association and Mr.
Brown, it is evident that it is eminently
unfit that the latter should in any way
enjoy the privileges of membership in
the Association, unless he is willing to
make to the proper authorities of the
Association and in proper form, the
charges which he has thrown out so
freely in the public prints; and unless
he can show, in following up these
charges, at least that he was acting in
good faith and had some reasonable
ground for preferring his sweeping
When a college man_sus-
pects his fellows, it is not only the part
of dignity, but of common sense for
them to decline to enter into any asso-
ciation with him. :
INFORMATION FROM ITHACA.
This is a year of unexpected athletic
events. The last football season was
full of them. _When we were promised
a Winter of diplomatic discontent from
apparently insuperable obstacles in the
way of certain contests on the water
and a disposition on the part of many
uninformed people to make use of
words on the subject, the whole scene
shifted in a minute and a peaceful solu-
tion pleasant to everybody was pro-
duced. Now that we are getting ready
for an event thus provided for, even
more startling things seem to be in
store. We learn from our very much
esteemed contemporary, the Cornell
Daily Sun, that a policy for training |
Yale crew candidates has been adopted
which makes every plan formerly used
seem like child’s play. “Yale’s Uni-
versity candidates,” says the Sun of
March Ist, “have already been rowing |
a week in a cedar barge used last year
and will have a certain advantage over
her two rivals, in practicing on the
Thames from now until the race in
June.”
It is one of the agonies of manage-
ment in ordinary years to secure the
unwilling submission of the Faculty to
the cutting off of half a dozen days on
the end of the Summer term, when
there is nothing to be done here, and
the holding of a few last examinations
at New London. Mr. Cook has had a
very remarkable record in his connec-
tion with Yale athletics, and Mr. Whit-
ney in his short career as Captain has
shown many of the excellent qualities
of Yale leadership. But the most en-
thusiastic partisans of either of these
gentlemen never claimed for them the
ability to bring about practice on the
Thames from March I to June 1. Has
the extraordinary privilege been granted
in view of the poisonous moral atmos-
phere of New Haven, and is it the first
step in the surrender of the Yale govern-
ment to a yellow newspaper? Or does
the Cornell Sun need to discipline its
athletic editor? :
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THE VISIT OF M. DOUMIC.
M. Doumic was a very welcome vis-
itor at Yale, and he will be even more
welcome when he comes this way again.
It is not only as a scholar and critic .
that he left his impression here, but as
a man of genial personality whom it
would ever be a pleasure to meet.
It goes without saying that such a
visit is of great value in offering oppor-
tunity to French students to meet a
man whose works they are destined to
read in the course of their studies.
When in the future those who are
working in the French Department of
Yale meet with the written opinion of
M. Doumic in the Revue des Deux
Mondes, or in his books, what he has
to say to them will be doubly interest-
ing through their acquaintance with
him as a man, a man who in his quiet
inquiries about our own life on the
Campus showed power of acute obser-
vation, sober reflection and ability to
perceive the true bearings of things.
Take the single detail of pronunciation:
the privilege of hearing the accurate
speech. of such a Frenchman as M.
Doumic cannot be overestimated. One
of the interesting features of the French-
man’s visit, which has come under our
notice, has been a certain discussion of
particular sounds in the French lan-
guage on the basis of M. Doumic’s
speech.
The whole Department, instructors
3-AS wie) .as students, and the. University
circle in general, are sure to benefit
from meeting with men like M. Doumic
and M. Brunetiere, who came last year.
The opportunities for’ social contact
are offered at the informal receptions at
the Graduates’ Club. There is more
and more a tendency in graduate work
in the Romance Languages, towards
the opinions that prevail at the Sor-
bonne. Instead of to Germany, the
drift is to French sources themselves,
so the more gratefully are men like M.
Doumic and M. Brunetiere received
here. :
The French Department is very
hopeful that the new French Club may
devote itself, among other things, to
establishing a fund which will make it
possible to have such men here oftener.
It would be hard to perform a better
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From a Pupil of Prof. Beers.
To the Editor of YALE ALUMNI WEEKLY:
Sir: I am interested in the words of
Prof. W.. Phelps concerning English
at Yale and at Harvard. As one whose
education has been derived from the
same institutions, permit me to corro-
borate his testimony concerning the
Harvard methods. I may also quote
the remark of one whose memory is
very dear to me—the late Prof. Child
of Harvard. The concluding section of
his great collection of ballads is’ but.
now completed. Any one who wishes
to understand what intellectual powers
the great collector possessed should bear
in mind that for a great many years (1
think he said fully twenty) a vast
amount of his time was consumed in
correcting compositions. “He never
liked such work,” said to me a person
closely related to him; “he used to say,
‘Well, now, when there are so many
good ideas in the world, what is the
use of sending these poor youngsters
groping in the corners of their brains
for the miserable things they find
there?’”
Now my own studies at Harvard were
principally philological, and I can give
nothing but unstinted praise and thanks
for the benefits received from them.
Nevertheless, among those sources
from which I have received literary
help, I reckon Prof. Beers second to
none, unless, possibly to the essays of
Matthew Arnold and of James Russell
Lowell.
: Henry B. HINCKLEY.
Northampton, Mass., March 4th.
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Prof. Chittenden at Columbia.
Russell H. Chittenden, Ph.D., Pro-
fessor of Physiological Chemistry in
the Scientific School, has been elected
lecturer in the same subject at Colum-
bia University. Columbia is opening
a new department in Physiological
Chemistry, and Prof. Chittenden will
deliver a lecture there every two or
three weeks.
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R. Sheldon, ’98S., has left College
and has entered the Class of Ninety-
Nine in the School of Arts of Columbia
University, New York City. Sheldon
won the shot-put in the intercollegiate
games in 1896 and second place last
year. He also won first place in this
event in the Yale-Princeton dual games
in 1806.
