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YALE ALUMNI WEEKLY
A YALE FRENCH CLUB,
Formed for the Popularizing of the
French Language.
About fifty undergraduates and most
of the members of the French Faculty
of the University met last Friday even-
ing in 33 Vanderbilt and organized a
French Club, which it is hoped may in
time be to Yale what the Cercle Fran-
¢cais is to Harvard, namely, to popu-
larize and aid the study of French in
the University. The Club has the
hearty co-operation of the French
Faculty, the members of which have
been made honorary members of the
Club. Professor Luquiens and Messrs.
Taylor and Holbrook have assisted
very materially in the formation of the
Club. The Faculty have given the
Club a room in the basement of Berke-
ley, to which all members will have
access and where the meetings, which
will come on alternate Monday even-
ings, will be held. The members of
the Club have been assessed to form
the nucleus of a French library, which
will consist mainly of modern French:
literature. Several French monthlies
and weeklies, and perhaps a daily, will
be kept on file. As yet the Club is
composed entirely of Academic men,
but it is hoped that Sheff men will
join, as it is open to the whole Uni-
versity. The Club will be addressed
from time to time by such prominent
professors of French in the United
States as it can secure.
The possibilities of such a club are
very great, as shown by the Cercle
Francais at Harvard. Perhaps some
time in the future the Club will be able
to produce a French play or offer a
course of French lectures.
The names of the officers of the Club
follow: President, John R. Livermore,
98; Vice-President, Alfred G. Vander-
bilt, ’99; Secretary and Treasurer,
James _W. Barney, 1900; Executive
Committee, the President ex-officio,
and the following members, Richard B.
Glaezner, ’98; H. Roger Winthrop, ’o8;
MMred G. Vanderbilt, .’99;
B. Moore, ’99; Percy A. Rockefeller,
1900, and James W. Barney,. 1900.
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The German Challenge.
Captain Whitney of the Yale Navy
received, last week, a letter from the
Allgemeiner Allster Club of Hamburg,
Germany, inviting the Yale crew to
take part in the international regatta,
to be held in Germany July 16th and
17th.
follows:
To the President of the crew of the
American University Yale, New
Haven, Connecticut:
Dear Sir—In this letter allow me to
send you a copy of last year’s regatta
program of July 17th and 18th, saying
that at this year’s regatta, July 16th and
17th, races will be arranged as last year,
and I believe that a number of suitable
races can be found for your crews, if
the invitation of visiting the Hamburg
regatta finds favor with you. I there-
fore take the liberty to-day to beg that
you will consider whether you could
not decide to attend the Hamburg
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regatta this year. Your announcement
and your coming would afford great
pleasure not only to all Hamburg peo-
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I can assure you that your crews will
be most pleasantly received. Please
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Club,” Hamburg, Germany.
On account of the arrangements
which have already been made for the
crew, the invitation cannot be accepted.
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Dual Spring Games.
A meeting of the Yale and Harvard
track managements was held at the
Massasoit House, Springfield, Mass.,
to make the necessary arrangements
for the dual meet this Spring. The
Yale representatives were Capt. E. C.
Perkins, ‘968: 1. N- Switt; 00; J. Me
Magee, ’99, and C. Gillette, ’97, the
Secretary and Treasurer of the Dual
Association. Harvard was represented
by Capt. F. H. Bigelow, ’98, and B. H.
Hayes, 98. It was decided to hold the
games on Holmes Field, Cambridge,
on the afternoon of May 14th. The
two mile bicycle race will be held on
the Charles River Park Track on the
morning of the games. H. S. Brooks,
86, and G. B. Morrison of Harvard
were appointed a committee to make
arrangements and select officials for the
games, subject to the approval of the
Captain. . ii; Brooks, ’86, was
elected President and B. H. Hayes,
Harvard ’98, Secretary and Treasurer
of the Association for the coming year.
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Snow Hinders Baseball.
After just a week’s practice at the
Field the University baseball squad
was forced by the snow storm to return
to the cage last Friday. They were
able, however, to practice at the Field
again on Monday. On the 2d of March
the first reduction of candidates was
made, the squad being reduced from
forty-five to thirty-five men, exclusive
of batteries. Four Freshmen, P. C.
Kiefer, G. M. Clark, L. W.. Robson
and G. L. Cadwalader, have been taken
on the squad. In the practice at the
Field no particular order has been fol-
lowed, but different men have been
tried in the various positions. No
graduate coachers have been here the
last week, but W. F. Carter, ’95, is
expected up from New York for a day
or two before the Easter trip.
The Freshman squad was reduced on
Saturday from seventy-five candidates
to about sixty, and hereafter regular
weekly reductions will be made. No
Freshman diamond has yet been laid
out at the Field, to take the place of the
old one covered up by the new football
stands, and this, together with the size
of the squad, has kept them in the cage.
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Change in English Department,
It has been announced that Dr. Her- —
bert A. Smith, instructor in the English
Department, will leave his present posi-
tion at the end of this year. Dr. Smith
has been connected with the University
since 1890. He entered College in —
1885, graduating with the Class of
Eighty-Nine. He was the Foote
Scholar in 1889-1890, but resigned to
become a private tutor. He was Doug-
las Fellow from 1890 to 1892 and was
an Assistant in English in the Sheffield
Scientific School during the year 18o1-
1892. He spent he Summer of 18092 in.
Germany studying, and on his return
was appointed Instructor of English in
the Scientific School until 18094. In
that year he was transferred to the Aca-
demic Department, where he has since
remained. He received the degree of
Ph.D. im 13687.
Dr. Smith’s successor has not yet
been appointed.
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Princeton Game First.
The University Football Manage-
ment has already arranged the dates
for the Harvard and Princeton games
next Fall. Contrary to the custom of
past years, the Princeton game will be
played before the Harvard game, com-
ing on November 12th at Princeton.
while the Harvard game will be played
in New Haven on November roth.
The Outlook for 1898.
All over the country, Yale men are now
following with interest the reports of the
development of the teams which are this |
year to represent Yale in athletic contests.
- The decision that assures us of another
triangular race adds a greater interest than
ever to the work of the crew. The present
promise of a strong Mott Haven team, and
the growing hope of ultimate success on the
diamond, keep the alumni of Yale in closer
touch with their Alma Mater. In all of these
directions the outlook is decidedly encourag-
ing, and if the material in the hands of our
trainers will develop itself as well as it will
be developed, Yale will close the season with
flying colors.
The foregoing sentence may sound absurd
to some and platitudinous to others, but it
none the less is so true that too much atten-
tion cannot be paid to it. Success means
more than able teaching, more than good
personal training; it means constant and
conscientious care on the part of our repre-
sentatives themselves. That, with such
advice and instruction as no Yale team has
ever yet lacked, can only bring results credit-
able to all concerned.
This habit of self-training is in itself of
such very real value that to acquire it to
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