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EDITOR.
Lewis 8S. WELOH, ’89,
ASSOCIATE EDITOR.
WALTER CAMP, ’80,
ASSISTANT EDITOR,
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NEWS EDITOR.
FRED. M. DAvriEs, '99,
PRESTON KuMLER, 1900, Athletic Department.
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Entered as second class matter at New Haven P. 0.
NEW HAVEN, CONN., Marcu 17, 1898. .
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BLACKMAIL IN THE NAME OF
COLLEGE ADVERTISING.
With the opening of another ath-
letic season may be expected pub-
lications in the name of this or that
athletic organization of the University.
These publications are issued simply
for the purpose of securing as much
money from advertisers as can be
drawn out of them by almost any
means. The publications rest for reve-
nue largely on blackmail. The man
who has business with the students of
a college is told indirectly or directly
that he is liable to boycott and loss of
trade if he does not appropriate gener-
ously for advertising space. The threat
is not always brutally frank, but more
often implied. Whether the University
organization has sold its interest in a
particular publication for an exorbitant
sum or has simply appointed an agent
to do its work for it, the effect is the
same. The man works and levies in
the name of Yale, and the average
advertiser good-naturedly or in fear
yields, to a greater or less extent.
The original score card or program
was more or less of a convenience and
necessity, and there was small space
on it available for a fairly profitable
advertising announcement. Somebody
saw the opportunities for infinite de-
velopment and increased the conve-
nience into a complete nuisance, added
infinitely to the advertising space, de-
‘stroying its value entirely, and in the
name of the particular organization
controlling the particular branch of
sport, secured the monopoly of sale on
the grounds and forced the monstrosity
upon the spectators of a game or a
race for a sum far in excess of any
value.
The souvenir program nuisance ought
to be abated. By continuing it, the
athletic organizations are playing fast
and loose with the dignity and even the
honor of the University. Yale athletes
have gotten a reputation for extreme
commercialism, to say nothing of ex-
tortion, among a large number of busi-
ness men whose good will is worth
retaining. Aside from that, those who
have legitimate business operations
with the College are unjustly treated
and are forced to consider some means
of reprisal by which all members of the
University suffer. Worse yet, the
financial morals of the Campus suffer
badly. To not only permit this black-
mail to go on but to sanction and en-
courage it, is to encourage false and
mean ideas of business among College
students.
We trust very much that the offi-
cers of organizations will take the
initiative in this matter and wash their
hands of it. It would be better for
them to do this than to be forced to
the abandonment of this custom by the
business men themselves, with whom
these dealings have been had and who
have come to the point where they will
not stand very much more imposition.
A good deal of interesting matter can
be printed on the subject, if there is
ever occasion for thoroughly whipping
it out in the public prints.
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THE ELECTIVE PAMPHLET.
People have sometimes asked us to
tell “more of what is going on at Yale
in the way of strictly educational work.
It is a pleasure to print matter on this
line, but the opportunity of describing
change or interesting incident is not
as common in connection with other
departments of College life. In other
words, the great main business of edu-
cating goes on along established prin-
ciples.
But there is a constant development;
that is the interesting thing about Yale
to-day, and one to fasten the attention.
This development has not only been -
uninterrupted now for thirteen years or
more, but it has been remarkably. fast
—how fast very few people appreciate.
The appearance of the elective pamph-
let this year has given us the opportu-
nity to show some of the phases of this:
development. One of the tables pre-
pared has never before been made up.
The analysis is made by one who has
followed the elective system here for
many years. We commend it to the
attention of those who have any doubts
that Yale is considerably alive and
growing.
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Inasmuch as the records of indivi-
dual undergraduates are not always
well known to alumni, it is in order to
say that Mr. Merrill and Mr. Baldwin,
letters from whom appear elsewhere,
are men who are prominently identified
with the literary life of the College.
Mr. Merrill is a member of an unusu-
ally able Courant board, and Mr. Bald-
win is on the Board of Editors of the
Yale Literary Magazine.
March “ Outing.’
March Outing has for its opening
article a very readable paper on “The
Fox Terrier,” by E. W. Sandys. It is,
as usual, very fully and well illustrated.
Two sports not accessible to the
average man, ‘Hunting the Fur Seal”
and “Pig-Sticking in Northern India,”
make the usual contribution of this
journal to the very widest fields of
sport and pastime. “One Bear Story”
by John K. Johnson, “A Naturalist in
Nicaragua” by J. B. Crawford, the con-
clusion of “A Week With the Singha-
lese” and the conclusion of the story
“Doris” are some of the other features
of the magazine, which still do not
exhaust it, yachting and wheeling
being given careful consideration in
special articles. Of course, all the
fields of sport are well covered by a
monthly review.
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PROF. BEERS'S WORK.
Two Yale Seniors’? Modest Testimony
of Its Value.
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To the Editor of YALE ALUMNI WEEKLY:
Sir: If I may assume that the pres-
ent controversy in regard to the study
of English in Yale College was opened
by Mr. Chamberlain in the interests of
present and future undergraduate stu-
dents of English, some expression of
undergraduate feeling on the subject,
and especially in regard to his attack
on Professor Beers, may not, perhaps,
be out of place here.
Mr. Chamberlain says that he has
attended and induced three others to
attend two recitations in Professor
Beers’s class room, and apparently on
the evidence of this testimony alone
(for he offers no other) brings in a
verdict: “namely, that in all our expe-
rience we had never seen so great
failure, so little hold on the attention
of the students, so little attempt to hold
their attention, so little said worth
attention.”
This “first-hand information on the
subject of English at Yale during the
last twenty years, and particularly dur-
ing the last five years,” I cannot claim,
yet perhaps the privilege of having had,
throughout Senior year, four hours a
week of class room work under Pro-
fessor Beers may furnish fair grounds
for an opinion as to the value of his
instruction. I have the full assurance
-of those who, with me, enjoy this privi-
lege that I am speaking for them as
well as for myself, when I say that in
few recitations have we seen so great
success, so much said worth attention,
so little said that is not of permanent
value. | :
Furthermore, I know of no instruc-
tor in Yale College more eager to
recognize the
interest on the part of a student or
more unfailingly generous of help and
sympathy in his work, and this I am
sure has been the experience of every
man who has taken Professor Beers’s
courses.
Yours truly,
CHARLES E. MERRILL, Jr.
New Haven, March 12, 1808.
FROM MR. BALDWIN. ©
To the Editor of YALE ALUMNI WEEKLY:
Sir: I presume it may be taken for
granted that the average undergraduate
is qualified to judge whether or not he
is well taught. At any rate it seems to
me well to set up against the views of
Mr. Chamberlain in regard to the
teaching of Professor Beers the very
different views held by us, who for
a year or more have been Professor
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Beers’s pupils. I think that we, having
had so long an acquaintance with his
teaching, in contrast to Mr. Chamber-
lain’s attendance at two recitations, are
competent to dispute the statement that
he neither holds our attention, nor says
what is worthy of it. There is perfect
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The Only Yale Monopoly.
The Yale Alumni Association of
Washington, D. C., held its annual
banquet at Rauscher’s in Washington
on the night of March ist. W. C.
Whittemore, President of the Associa-
tion, acted as toastmaster, although
there were only informal speeches.
Among the more prominent guests
present at the dinner were Justice D.
J. Brewer, of the United States Su-
preme Court; Senator J. R. Hawley;
Senator W. M. Stewart; Hon. John
Dalzell; Mr. Cochrane, of New York;
Mr. Chung Mun-Yew, of the Chinese
Legation, a graduate of Yale; Mr. F.
D. Head; Philip G. Rupelt; James H.
Hayden; Morgan H. Beach; James F.
Rice; T. Edwards Clarke; Rev. Isaac
Clark; Walter Wilcox; H. K. Wil-
lard; Dr. W. T. Harris; A. P. Sawyer;
Ralph Petwelt; Messrs. Poole, Brut-
ley, and others.
Justice Brewer was introduced as the
first speaker. He said that for many
days past he had sat on the bench at
the Capitol and listened to the evils of
trusts and monopolies. “We people
from the West,” said Justice Brewer, *
“don’t believe in trusts or in the
oppression of any of the people. There-
fore it seems rather strange, indeed,
that I should stand here to-night in the
defense of a great monopoly—the mono-
poly of old Yale, which is a monopoly
of brains and success. Old Yale has a
magnificent record that appeals to the
bravest young men of our country to
enter her classic walls and there pre-
pare themselves for their honorable
career in life. From her gates go hun-
dreds of well-trained, disciplined, and
cultured young men who become
famous in their vocations in life. This
is the monopoly of old Yale. It is a
monopoly that no law can put down,
and that is the only monopoly which
she has.
“Yale has a record that is not sur-
passed by any college in this country.
In spite of some vicious attacks that
have been made upon her by unreason-
able people,-I believe with the man who
said that Old Yale will go ahead and
prosper, and continue to draw unto her
the bravest and-best young men of the
country, despite the fact that every old
maid declares that she will not send her
sons to such a school. The old Bap-
tist lady who said she would rather
send her boy to hell than to Yale prob-
ably knew which place was better suited
the family.”
