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appetite and with no distorted powers.
The cohesive habits of the college
period continue to exert their force,
and to prevent that isolation in indi-
vidual achievement which the smaller
groups, the multiplying intellectual
interests, and the larger freedom of
the lecture and the examination, 1n-
stead of the lesson and the recitation,
would naturally bring. “Class spirit
continues, much to our surprise, and
mass movements are apparently as
popular, but tempered now with grow-
ing dignity. There is increased oppor-
tunity for idleness and shirking, but
increased susceptibility to nobler stimu-
lus. The sense of increased freedom
brings with it an increased sense of
responsibility, more surely than if the
freedom had not been, as it were,
struggled for, and won. |
THE GREAT QUESTION OF THE FUTURE.
vale is such a unique combination
of college and university. It is an evo-
lution, and, until now, a_ necessity.
Whether the university freedom of the
two upper years shall be extended into
the two earlier years is the greatest
question of the future. Much would
undoubtedly be gained. Many of the
exuberant follies that now characterize
our undergraduate life might disappear.
There would be less and less survival
of the old time feeling of resistance to
the imparting of knowledge. The baf-
fled look of the student, whom some
unexpected Socratic device of the
teacher has decoyed into learning some-
thing, would be less be common. But
more might be lost than gained. The
secret of the much-heralded “Yale
democracy” lies in this combination.
That power of adjustment to the needs
of the community in which he nuts
himself, which now so pre-eminently
characterizes the Yale. man, might
slowly disappear. The higher disci-
plines even might pall on minds less
hardened and exercised by required
work performed in widest competition
within the University itself. The pres-
ent administration I understand to be
committed to the combination.
YALE’S CONTRIBUTION TO AMERICAN
EDUCATION.
It is certainly one of the administra-
tion’s chief claims upon our gratitude
and loyalty, that the old College sys-
tem, with its hereditary feeling of hos-
tility to the Faculty, has been made to
exercise upon the life of the institution
its peculiarly salutary and most desir-
able influences, but has been stripped of
so many of its undesirable influences.
The more generous spirit of the Uni-
versity years has been judiciously
brought to bear upon the College
years. Thus both systems are now
mutually corrective and helpful. This
I regard as Yale’s unique contribution
to the cause of American education.
And now, lastly, what problems of
government present themselves in such
a community, such a combination of
College and University! This com-
bination you will remember is set in a
small city which votes license. The
student community forms one fortieth
of the entire population of the city. It
is put in the very heart, the “congested
part’ of that city. Of course then
every ebullition of our folly thrills out
from center to circumference, and
_ things which would not be noticed in a
larger city, and could not happen in a
small town, are speedily noised abroad.
PRESERVE THE FREEDOM.
But now, considering the unusual
degree of restriction and requirement
which accompanies Yale life, we must
plead fervently for the preservation of
the freedom that still remains. Such
a community cannot be governed by
direct legislation and punitive enact-
ments. It is impossible. It is too
large a community in the first place.
It is too representative a community.
All shades of thought, all manners of
living, all ranks and callings are here
represented. It would be folly to try
to fit over this community any system
of law in matters where other commu-
nities exercise Christian liberty. Such
a community can be governed only
from within, by appeals to the best in-
stincts and sentiments of the com-
munity itself, which is, after all, an
educated community. The community
must be educated into governing itself.
This has been achieved in high de-
gree by the present Dean of the Col-
lege, and it is his distinct contribution
to the growth of the University as
such. Whatever mistakes in govern-
ment are made,—and it seems to
many that the punitive element is often
robbed of its due efficiency, and that
the sentiment of the community often
demands greater severity towards pat-
ent transgression—these mistakes are
in the application of a noble principle,
not in the principle itself. There must,
after all, be a large element of freedom
in any healthy University life. Who
can be trusted with freedom if not
American youth? Of this healthy Uni-
versity freedom we may be very jea-
lous, especially when it is under mali-
cious and mendacious attack. It must
be one of the priceless privileges of the
place. Of it we may even speak with
something of the ardor with which
Lowell apostrophizes the larger ideal
of civil liberty:
Her, our delight, our desire,
Our soul’s inextinguishable star,
Our faith, our remembrance, our hope,
Our present, our past, our to be,
Who shall mingle her life with our dust,
And make us deserve to be free.
The atmosphere of the Yale life is
“light and truth,’ from of old. It
must also be an atmosphere of freedom.
Many Oarsmen Training.
There bids fair to become greater
activity in boating at Yale this Spring
than for many years previous. This
has been caused by the formation of a
number of so-called ‘“‘scrub crews,”
representing the different dormitories,
eating joints, etc. These scrub crews
have been of gradual growth, the idea
originating with the formation of the
Gentlemen’s Eight and the Coystrel
Crew in the Spring of 1896. Last year
several more crews were formed
through the efforts of the Navy and
their races at the Spring regatta were
most successful. These crews were for
the most part composed of Seniors and
Juniors, but this year there are several
crews being formed in each of the
classes.
Several Seniors, who have consider-
able knowledge of rowing, have vol-
unteered to assist the crews by their
coaching, if it is desired. The races
will be held in heats after the manner
of the English regattas, and the course
will be the regular mile and seven-
eighths course at Lake Whitney. It is
hoped that colors will be adopted by
each crew which, with the names, will
be handed down by the graduating
crews to the incoming classes, and the
different crews thus perpetuated. The
members of the winning crew will each
receive a banner and the name of the
crew will be engraved on a challenge
cup which the Navy will offer.
It is the desire of the Navy Manage-
ment that in this way the Spring re-
gatta will hereafter come to be one of
the prominent features of the Univer-
sity Athletic Calendar and that boating |
at Yale may become more as it is at
the English universities.
The greatest good of these crews will
lie in the number of men it will bring
into training, which, though necessarily
light, will be very beneficial. There
are a great many men in the University
who would like to row for pleasure
and exercise, but who have not time’
to give to it or who are not good
enough oarsmen to be kept on the Uni-
versity and class squads. By the for-
mation of these crews an excellent
opportunity is given to such men.
The avy. management has also
offered to give the members of the
class crews their numerals, if the candi-
dates will begin work in the tanks as
soon as the call is issued by the cap-
tains and will go into active training
as soon as it is possible to row on Lake
Whitney or the harbor.
From the following list of the candi-
dates for the scrub crews it will be
seen that about one hundred men are
brought into training.
The Coystrel Crew, of Seniors: H.
C. Curran, N. A. Cowdrey, E. H.
Betts, D. D. Burrell, T. A. McGraw,
Grr. Hine FF. BR: Williamson, E. B.
Smith, E. Whittemore, W. Scranton,
R. W. Archbald, E. J. Th
L. Hitchcock. yet HOTELS,
The Harlequin Crew, of Juniors: T.:
H. Spence (temp. captain), E. A. ones,
A. J. Brown, R. M. Coit, G. W. Field
- Saturday, when ex-Captain H. M.
Waals Carter, -95.<
A. S. Mann, G. H. Mitchell, E. T.
Noble, E. Yaggy, D. M. Boyd, Ee
Gilson, J. H. Kitchen, J. Cameron, F.
L. King, C. J. Herrick, C. R. Swift, S.-
P. Knight, W. A. Barstow, J. B. Sey-
mour and S$. F. Shattuck, ’99 S.
The Hutchinson Crew:
bell, 1900 (temp. captain); C. Capen,
1900; P. Dann, ’o99S.; P. Rockefeller,
1900; E. McCullough, ’o99 S.; B. Pad-
dock, 1900; H. Zellhoeffer, 1900; O.
H. Lindenberg, ’99S.; CC. Draper,
1900; D. Chappell, 1900; J. P. Lom-
bard, 1900; Lyon, 1900; F.
Havemeyer, 1900; W. E. Minor, 1900;
R. Stevenson, 1900; W. Clarke, 1900;
FE. S. Bronson, 1900; B. Henry, 1900.
The Pierson Hall Sophomore Crew:
S. B. Dean (captain), Preston Kum-
ler, M.
bour, W. P. Thorpe, W. L. Chittenden,
Hobart Moore, H. W. Babcock, H. R.
Jenney, R. L. Tweedy, F. H. Winters,
W. S. Page, J. D. Dana, C. S. Brooks,
Bo, Pate, “ES Bi Backler) Ff).
Adams, J. H. Buck, H. P. Wood, J.
W. Miller, Bascom Johnson, Irving
Knox, E. B. Greene.
The Farnam Hall, Sophomore Crew:
R. L. Anthony (temp. captain), F. H.
Russell, K. Bruce, M. S. Cressy, G.
Lovell, W. V. Taylor, C. Weeks, W.
Ht Sherrill, =i. Cs Kineeian. BR:
Smith, W. C. Mackey, H. B. Fuller,
J. RK. Bushong, J. D.. Peters, R. A.
Spaulding, H. W. Lyman, W. F. Gil-
lespie, S. Marty, R. L. Delano, F-.
Nash, O. S. Pulman, Jr., F. Crampton,
H. G. Williams, G. H. Whipple.
The Dauntless, Freshman Crew: H.
B..- Brougham, 3: = Mi’ Watts; A. > Ge
Underwood, J. A. Parker, A. W. Judd,
W. H. D. Westfall, J. L. Crosthwaite,
I AL Vago:
Lawrance Hall, Sophomore Crew: C.
R. Page, 1.’ P. Ellerbe, GW. Hubbell,
C. Oglebay, M. Mills, C. Stetson, G.
N. Boyd, S. M. Wood, G. C. Sheldon, »
Stoskopf, G..
W... B: 2 Seabury, W.. B:
Duncan, coxswains, A. Vanderveer and
W.-L. Otis.
The “Nautilus,” Senior Crew: W. F.
Hartshorn, M. S. Fearey, D. L. Eddy,
D. B. Eddy, F. J. Fassett, W. H. Peck,
POH. Holme: A. To-Gatt; 27. Payne,
and L. G. Billings.
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University Crew Training Table.
There has been no permanent change
in the order of the University boat
since last week. F. W. Allen,- 1900,
was obliged to be out of town for a
few days last week, and J. C. Green-
way, 1900, rowed in his place at six.
W. B. Williams, 1900, is more seriously
ill than was at first thought and has
been. obliged to go..home.. R. A.
McGee is still out of the boat on ac-
count of trouble in his studies, but is
rowing every day in a pair-oar. The
training table was started at Mrs.
Sykes’s, corner of Wall and York
streets, on the 1oth of this month, and
the following men were taken: Captain
Whitney, 798; R. P. Flint, ’09S.; J. C.
Greenleaf, ’99 S.; Allen, 1900;
Te Wi -Reross;. 19000: - JP, Brock, 1900;
J. H. Niedecken, 1900; A. McGee,
799. S., and W. B. Williams, 1900.
The Yale, Harvard and Cornell Crew
managers met at the Fifth Avenue
Hotel, New York, last Saturday to
make general arrangements for the race
at New London. The proposition of the
New London Board of Trade to the
managements was read and discussed,
and the buoying and marking of the
course for a three-cornered race was
considered.
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Cutting Down Candidates,
Another reduction was made in the
University baseball squad late last
week, about thirty men including bat-
teries being retained. The weather has
been fine for practice and the Field has
been in good shape. Captain Green-
way has done all the coaching during
the past week, with the exception of
Kea-
tor, 797, was here.
will be coach next Saturday. The
principal advance of the week has been
in the formation of a regular team
instead of playing different men every
day. The general make-up has been:
C. E. Sullivan, 1900, and P. C. Kiefer,
1901, catchers; M. L. Fearey, ’08, C.
M. Hall, ’90S., F. Hecker, ’99, and G.
L. Cadwalader, 1901, pitchers; J. W.
Wadsworth, Jr., 98, 1st base; C. A. H.
deSaulles, ’99 S., 2d base; S. B. Camp,
1900, shortstop; L. W. Robson, 1901,
3d base; J. J. Hazen, ’o8, left field; J.
W. Wear, ’99, center field, and E. M.
Eddy, ’99S., right field. A number of
Shiras Camp- ~
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games have been played with a team
made up from the other candidates, and
if the present good weather holds, it
is probable that two or three games
will be played with local nines before
the Easter trip.
Football Material.
A meeting of all candidates for next
year’s football team was held at the
Gymnasium last evening. The meet-
ing, which was called in order to
get some idea of the material avail-
able for next Fall, came too late to be
reported in this issue, but a full account
will be printed in the next number
of the WEEKLY.
“Spring Styles Ready.”
That’s a very familiar sentence, and
often a very unsatisfactory one. It
leaves you wondering. There are
styles and styles. But no further
specification is mecessary, when the
reference is to
KNOX HATS.
All the rest is implied and guaran-
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