At A 0 Mea
WEEKLY’
YALE IN FOREIGN MISSIONS.
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acquaintance with its methods and with
the conditions of the world. A. more
serious danger we must face is the
apathy in the colleges and churches
due to lack of knowledge of the world
itself and the Gospel. “God is going
to stamp Yale University with the .mis-
sion seal and is going to bring out a
glorious band which are in sympathy
with missions because acquainted with
them.” This intelligent sympathy lies
behind the volunteer movement which
is making students familiar with the
history of missions—a mighty litera-
ture which has been unread by many,—
the biography of men and women who
have given their lives for the sake of
missions, and the real conditions which
prevail in all lands.
Most college men cannot go to the
foreign field, but they must become the
laymen at home in all parts of the land.
They must be the teachers at home,
where the Christian pulpits are filled
with men who are ionorant of this
movement. This enthusiasm for mis-
sions has taken hold of the colleges
as never before—not only here but in
the oldest universities abroad. Into
whatever occupation the college man
goes, he can be an educator along these
mission lines and a center of this
knowledge.
There ought to be in the curriculum
of every college of the land some pro-
vision for the study of missions—the
most fascinating and broadest of sub-
jects connected with the history, litera-
ture and sociology of the nations.
Such study will keep any man from
leading a provincial, localized life,
while its neglect has killed many min-
isters. To be all-round men, we must
read, learn and digest this great sub-
ject. Dr. Hall then repeated his pro-
phecy that God would stamp the Uni-
versity with the seal of missions, and
closed his remarks with the question,
“Who in this assembly will follow in
Christ’s world-wide mission?”
“YALE’S MISSIONS.
For many years Yale has been well
represented in foreign lands by such
men as Henry Blodget, ’48 (China); R.
A. Hume, ’68 (India); E. S. Hume,
’790 (India); W. B. Boomer, ’80 (Chili) ;
J. 1 Dewitt, 64. (Japan) + -ds..P. Peet, “85
(Chana) oC... Gb. 80... (China ys),
ie rientington, o2g.1 China), ana Ay.
H. Sallmon, ’94 (Australasia). Other
names could be given.
Splendid opportunity for missionary
study is given at Yale, and the under-
graduates are availing themselves of
the privilege. At the Divinity School
Dr. Day has collected some 5,000 mis-
sionary books and pamphlets, pub-
lished not only in the United States
but in Great Britain, France, Germany,
Switzerland, Holland,; Sweden, Den-
mark, Norway, China and Japan. Yale
can now claim the only library of this
kind in the country. In fact there is
only one other in the world—that in
Denmark. With seventeen men in the
University planning to go into foreign
mission work, and with a class of thirty
men meeting each week to study mis-
sion questions,.we may expect to find
more and more Yale graduates going
to the corners of the earth with the
great purpose of the evangelization of
the world. |
T: F, Archbald.
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Gymnastic Exhibitions.
The annual exhibition of the Yale
Gymnasium Association was held in
the Yale Gymnasium last night. The
Association was assisted by Mr. John
Bissenger and Mr. Otto Steffen, both
of the New York Turn Verein. Dur-
ing the intermission the Apollo Banjo
Club played several selections. —
The annual joint exhibition by the
_ Yale and Princeton Gymnastic teams
will be held on the coming Saturday
at Princeton. The usual program will
be rendered. The mén who will make
up the Yale team are: F. A. Lehlbach,
98, Captain; B. C. Chamberlin, P. G.:
W. K. Shepard, P.G.; S. Peterson,
debt RR. ae ClppE OO Sie ke 7,
Anderson, ’98S.; W. L. Otis, 1900; E.
L. Eliason, toor; G. H. Whipple, 1900;
A. H. Terry, ’08.
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On Friday, March 25, at the Fifth
Avenue Hotel in New York, represen-
tatives from Yale, Harvard, Princeton,
Cornell, University of Pennsylvania
and Columbia, will meet to form plans
for an intercollegiate gun club shoot.
YALE’S FACULTY,
A Criticism for the Infrequent Pro-
ductions.
In a letter to the New York Times,
a man who signs himself “A University
Professor,’ comments unfavorably on
the fact of the comparatively slight
contributions to scientific knowledge
which are made by the Faculty of Yale.
The complaint is not only as to the —
actual instruction given, but as to the
failure to contribute to human knowl-
edge by publication, as compared with
the possibilities which would ordinarily
be attributed to an institution of the
name and resources of Yale.
It is interesting in this connection to
recall an interesting address made at
the last Commencement dinner by
Prof. George F. Moore of Andover.
After sketching the work and the de-
velopment of Yale, and indicating the
burden which it had placed on the
shoulders of the Faculty, he said:
“This great development has_ been
accomplished by the devotion and self-
sacrifice of the men who, during this
quarter of a century, have filled the
chairs of instruction here. The change,
made in the way in which it was, im-
posed upon them a double burden of
teaching. Many prescribed courses
were to be continued, and classes in-
creasing in number from year to year
. with unprecedented rapidity to be in-
structed in them, while at the same
time ‘a great variety for undergraduates,
and others of more advanced character
in the graduate school, now no longer
a minor adjunct of the College, but
one of the most important departments
of the University.
“This work has been done with en-
thusiasm by the Professors and their
younger colleagues. They do not talk
of sacrifice. I do not suppose that in
their love for the University and their
zeal for its interests they have ever
thought .of it» as sacrifice, but as a
teacher I have perhaps a right to say
that the burden which has been so
cheerfully borne by them is greater
than we ought to be willing to see
them bear. ;
“We have even a selfish interest in
relieving them from the strain of over-
much teaching. For the idea of a uni-
versity is not merely a place where
instruction is given in all good learn-
ing; it is a place for scientific re-
search; the advancement of learning
in a no less important function of the
University than the education of youth,
and the no less obligatory .duty of
those who fill its Chairs. The fame
of its members in the world of scholars
is not only the just pride of the Uni-
versity, but, if I may speak commer-
cially, its most valuable capital.
difficult enough, even under favorable
conditions, to combine the work of
the scholar with that of the teacher,
but where as much teaching is re-
quired, and of such a kind, as is now
given by the Faculty of Yale, it must
often be achieved, if at all, at the peril
of continued usefulness.
“Tt is in the interest of the Univer-
sity also that the scientific work of
its Professors, its younger instructors
and its graduate students should be
published by the University. For much
of such work there is no other natural
—sometimes no other possible—chan-
nel of publication. We ought not to
lag behind our sister institutions,
which are in this way both furthering
higher learning and honorably asso-
ciating their names with the merited
fame of their own scholars.
“Yale’s needs are many and great:
no one who has sat in the Chapel this
morning or in Alumni Hall this after-
noon can doubt that she needs a build-
ing adequate to the demands of such
an occasion. These tangible needs
impress us all, and we are glad that
there is a prospect that they may be-
fore long be met. But, after all, the
greatest need of the University is such
a generous increase of its endowment
funds available for instruction and
publication, and such an enlargement
of its Faculty as shall be adequate to
meet the daily needs of its multiply-
ing classes, the ever widening range
of graduate and undergraduate stud-
ies, and the just claims of science upon
this great and ancient seat of learn-
ing.” : |
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The football eame next Fall between
Yale and the Carlisle Indians will be
played in New Haven on October 22.
it is *
Publishing News,
A piece of news in the publishing
world is the removal of R. H. Russell]
to very convenient quarters at Nos. 3,
5, and 7 West 20th st. Mr. Russell’s
attractive season’s list includes the fol-
lowing: |
“Two Prisoners,” by Thomas Nelson
Page, with frontispiece in photogravure,
by E. W. Kemble. ‘
“The Nightingale,” by Hans Chris-
tian Andersen, with illustrations by M.
J. Newill.
“Poems,” by Robert Burns Wilson,
with illustrations from nature by C.
Grant La Farge.
“The Pinero Birthday Book,” with
quotations for each day in the year
from the plays of Arthur Pinero.
“Shapes and Shadows,” a book of
poems by Madison Cawein.
“An Awful Alphabet,” with illustra-
tions by Oliver P. Tunk.
“How the Buffalo Lost His Crown,”
by John H. Beacom, illustrated by
Charles Russell. 3
“Thanksgivings After Communion,”
compiled by a Layman, and especially
designed for an Easter gift.
“Phil May’s Sketch Book,” a new
edition at a popular price.
“Phil Mays Gutter-Snipes,” 50
sketches of London street arabs; a
new edition.
“Venice of To-Day,” a large beauti-
fully illustrated volume by F. Hop-
kinson Smith. ,
“Alabama,” Mr. Augustus Thomas’s
most popular drama.
Many Wale Delegates.
The National Council of the Con-
gregational Church will -be held in
Portland, Oregon, on July 7.
Among the delegates are the follow-
ing Yale men: Rev. James Bird, ’48;
Rev. James Brand, 66; Rev. John M.
Dutton, 76.1.5... Rex,
Goddard, ’93 T.S.; Rev. Prof. George
W. Henderson, ’83 T.S.; Rev. Joel S.
Ives, 74 T.S.; Rev. William G. Lathrop,
'o2 TS; o Rev. Wilham . Moore,
"41: Rev. William J. Mutch, ’85; Rev.
Charles R. Palmer, ’55; Rev. Elmer E.
siniey, 00 -[:S.: “Rev. -Bdward =4:.
Smith, ’86; Rev. Willard B. Thorp
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The third and last lecture, under the
auspices of the Yale Medical Alumni
Association, will be given March 30,
at Osborn Hall, by William H. Thomp-
son, M.D., of New York City, on the
subject of “Systematic Records of Pri-
vate Practice.”
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