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ADVISORY BOARD.
H. C, Roprnson, ’53. J. R. SHEFFIELD, ’87.
W. W. Skippy, ’65S. J. A. HARTWELL, ’895.
C. P. LInDsLey, 758. L.S. WELCH, ’89.
W. Camp, ’80. E. VAN INGEN, 791 S.
W.G. DaaaettT, ’80. P. Jay, 92.
EDITOR.
Lewis 8. WELOH, ’89.
ASSOCIATE EDITOR.
WALTER Camp, ’80.
ASSISTANT EDITOR.
EK. J. THOMPSON, Sp.
NEWS EDITOR.
FRED. M. DAVIES, '99.
PRESTON KuMLER, 1900, Athletic Department.
Dayip D, Tenney, 1900, Special.
Entered as second class matter at New Haven P. O.
NEw HAVEN, CONN., Marcu 381, 1898.
THE ALEXANDER HALL INCIDENT
It is hard to add anything to the re-
cord of the facts of Yale’s latest victory,
which are given very fully and clearly
elsewhere by one who especially fol-
lowed the debate as well as the pre-
paration for it. The happy feature of
it all is the advancing Yale standard,
which, not content with finding some
means which are fairly sure for suc-
cessful contest, seems to make its
representatives the best that college de-
baters can be made. To advance from
strength in facts and argument to the
strength of grace and fluency and en-
thusiasm is to take a long step for-
ward. To find the ability not only to
defend, but to take the initiative, to set
up a position and hold to it, shows a
desire to make as much as possible out
of intercollegiate contests.
In this, as in other contests, Yale’s
gratitude is deeply felt for those who
did the coaching—for Prof. Hadley
and Mr. Raynolds again, and this year
for Mr. Fox and Mr. Macfarland. And
to all the debaters most cordial con-
gratulations are offered. It is quite in
order to say that particular honor is
accorded Yale’s Colorado advocate,
who, after most thorough preparation
of himself, has so happily combined the
forces of platform fire and judicial
clearness.
THESE ACHING TIMES.
Friends of the Yale English Depart-
ment—we are told that there are some
left—may have felt that there was a
certain vigor in the discussion of its
possibilities and impossibilities, which
was not always necessary and was sel-
dom pleasant. Let them possess their
souls in peace. Our English instruc-
tors do not yet know how it seems to
be taken seriously to task for the patent
error of their ways.
The man who teaches economics is he
who should know what war means. Pro-
fessor William Graham Sumner, who
is sometimes thought to be an “orna-
ment” to the Yale Faculty, has now
and again tasted the real joy of battle,
_and felt the exhilaration of excited un-
certainty as to what new foe would
from day to day challenge his right to
further pilgrimage through this vale of
tears. Only a short time ago a man
out in Bozeman sent him a letter
_ whose store of explosive interrogatory
made it a complete infernal machine.
In older times the protection press
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asked daily for his decapitation, and
there was no approved weapon of in-
vective which was not called into use
against him.
It has now been months since there
has been open fighting, but it is on
again. The Silver Knight Watchman of
Washington has been reading one of
the books which the Pelatiah Perit
Professor of Political Economy was
careless enough to write. The Silver
Knight Watchman has. been. stirred
through all its extended sensoria, and
it has said things, under the title of
“The Decay of the Human Intellect,”
which has made the English language
tremble, wherever Brother Jonathan
or Mr. Bull does business. By con-
trast the reflections on the critics of
the English teaching at Yale and their
reflections on those who teach English
seem like the politest diplomatic as-
surances of good will.
Here are some of the Silver Knight
Watchman’s armor-piercing projectiles:
‘Paralysis’: of * the’ brain,” = “utter
ignorance of political and social sci-
ence,’ “bad manners,” “insanity,”
“imbecility,” “egotism,” “‘ravings,” “‘in-
tellectual blindness,” “absolute ignor-
ance of international trade,” ‘‘Shylock’s
contraction thumb-screws,” “Yale’s un-—
ornamental professor,’ ‘dementia.’
The Voice is still issued regularly,
showing how the “surging tides
beat against Yale;” the Gull Island
fortifications will not be finished for
months, and the campus is a nice side
target for the Spanish man-of-war,
which shall slide up to New Haven one
of these fine: days, to bombard the
Winchester armories; the Silver Knight
Watchman will, we presume, come out
again; not until May, at the earliest,
cari any substantial improvement be
made in the personnel of the Faculty.
Mr. Ward, or somebody else, used to
say at such aching times, that it was
dangerous to be alive.
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NOTICES FOR CLASSES OR ASSO-
CIATIONS.
The Secretaries of classes and com-
mittees, having arrangements in charge
for special Yale affairs, have probably
noticed the column of special notices
which has been instituted on the alumni
note page. It is intended to make this
a permanent feature of the paper, that
the WEEKLY may become more use-
ful to all as a guide to Yale events in
the future. We ask Secretaries and
Committees to send us at the earliest
date possible all arrangements for
class reunions or association meetings
or celebrations of any kind. Please do
not wait until everything is prepared
and the anniversary is at hand. An-
nounce everything as fast as it is ready,
through our columns. This we trust
will be a convenience to you as well as
to the members of your class and asso-
ciation whom you wish to reach. It is
not necessary to withhold particulars
until all the details are arranged and
the circular is ready. It is best to be-
gin an advertisement of the event at
the earliest date possible and keep those
people who are interested continually
reminded in one new form and another
about it. : :
PROGRAM ADVERTISING.
Two communications are printed
elsewhere on the subject of program
advertising. They are from men who
have been conected with the work and
who are excellent Yale men, and who
plainly believe in it on its merits. We
are not surprised that they do. There
are all kinds of opinions about adver-
tising, and in such a discussion as this
we would be very unwilling to list any
particular kind of advertising as un-
profitable on general principles.
The denial from our correspondents
that there has been blackmail in conec-
tion with the work we are very glad
to record as coming from them, and
showing their confidence in the sound-
ness of the methods pursued in such
work as they have been connected with.
We do not, however, in any way retract
our general statement that, in many
ways and in many instances, boycott
and blackmail have entered the busij-
ness, and that the air of that sort of
thing has hung around much of the
work. —
What is most interesting to us is
the endorsement from our correspon-
dent. of the plans taken for reform. As
we said last week, it is to be most sin-
cerely desired that these plans shail
be effective and successful. It ougnt
to be added, however, that the dan-
gers of the work are not sufficiently
realized even yet; and,-for our part,
it seems too much to expect that the
work will really be on the right busi-
ness basis until a more thoroughgoing
change is effected in the general man-
agement of the business end of Yale
athletics, which will allow unity of
action and permanency of policy.
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ELIZABETHAN DRAMA.
The surprise which was given Prof.
Cook and the other members of the
English Department by the students on
Monday night in presenting the play of
“The Knight of the Burning Pestle” was
a very significant incident. It was quite
an unprecedented attempt, and it was
excellently done. The presentation was
entirely spontaneous on the part of the
students. In this connection it may
be as well to refer to the report that
a Junior Society’s play to be given next
week will be “The Silent Woman,”
given seriously and accurately and well,
according to present prospects, without
any attempt at burlesque. These are
interesting facts, especially at this time.
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As the accuracy of the WEEKLy’s
report of Professor W. L. Phelps’
Orange speech has been lately called
in question, Professor Phelps autho-
rizes us to say that the WEEKLY’s re-
port was correct, although some of the
newspaper extracts from it were not
correct. The speech was wholly ex-
tempore, and was taken down by the
stenographer.
The Corporation Vacancy.
Notification has been sent to the grad-
uates to prepare their ballots for nomi-
nation for a member of the Corporation
to succeed Hon. Henry E. Howland,
whose term expires in June of this year.
LIBERALITY IN
LIFE INSURANCE.
A case in point is the recent an-
nouncement of the New York Life
Insurance Co., concerning the effect
on policies in this company held by
those who might enlist in the army
or navy of the United States, in case
of war. The company has sent out
a notice that all those now holding its
policies and all who may secure its
policies between now and the actual
outbreak of hostilities, if that time
ever comes, would receive the full
benefit therefrom, without the pay-
ment of any other than the regular
rates now in force.
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to the Sole-Leather Hat-Boxes
now offered by them at $5, $7
and $10, Messrs. Brooks &
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the commercial value of an
opportunity wherein an article
of superior quality may be
bought at a comparatively
nominal figure.
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For circulars and other information apply to
Prof. FRANCIS WAYLAND,
Dean.
COLUMBIA’S ATHLETICS.
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Columbia University, treated in an
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It is known that Judge Howland will
stand again for the nomination and for
the election and, from present prospects,
will have no difficulty in being his
own successor. What nominations may
develop remains to be seen, but cer-
tainly there will be very enthusiastic
support of Judge Howland in any case.
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New York Notes.
[Correspondence of YALE ALUMNI WEEKLY.]
New York, March 28.—The new
fiscal year of the Yale Club will com-
mence now in a few days, on April Ist,
and the reports of the Treasurer and
other officials will probably show the
organization to be in a most Satis-
factory condition. These reports, how-
ever, will not be made public until the
regular Club Night, on the third Fri-
day in April. At that time also seven
members of the Council are to be
elected together with seven new men
for the Committee on Admission. A
nominating committee 1s now at work
on the names. :
No reunion has been given at the
house recently with the exception of
one held there this last week by mem-
bers. of the Class of Ninety. At the last
meeting of the Committee on Admis-
sions a large number of names were
passed upon, but since these elections
the waiting list has not apparently
grown much smaller. The new Clu
Year Book is not yet out.
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On the City Dumping Ground,
[Yale Record.]
Huge, upturned peaks of dazzling
white, whirling torrents of muddy
water, lakes of a dark, oozing sub-
stance, and above all a sickening,
heavy, indescribable odor which seemed
to fill the whole air with death. “What!
Can this be some terrible description
of the end of the world or some”
Stop! gentle reader, it is but the New
Haven Green two days after the last
snow storm. .-