VY ATIZE > ALU WONT WEEKLY YALE ALUMNI WEEKLY SUBSCRIPTION, - $2.50 PER YEAR. Foreign Postage, 49 cents per year. PAYABLE IN ADVANCE, Checks, drafts and orders should be made payable to the Yale Alumni Weekly. All correspondence should be addressed,— Yale Alumni Weekly, New Haven, Conn. The office is at Room 6, White Hall. ADVISORY BOARD. — H. C, Roprnson, ’53. J. R. SHEFFIELD, 87. W. W. Sxrppy, 65S. J. A. HARTWELL, ’8958. C. P. Linpsiry,’i5 S. L.S. WELCH, ’89. W. Camp, ’80, E. VAN InGEN, ’91 8. W. G. Daaeett, ’80. P. Jay, °92. EDITOR. Lewis S. WELCH, ’89. ASSOCIATE EDITOR. WALTER Camp, ’80, ASSISTANT EDITOR. E. J. THomMpPson, Sp. NEWS EDITOR, FRED. M. Davrss, "99. PRESTON KUMLER, 1900, Athletic Department. Davip D. Tenney, 1900, Special. Entered as second class matter at New Haven P. O. NEW HAVEN, CONN., APRIL 14, 1898. Please sign with your full name all your communications. THE WEEKLY can pay no attention to articles which do not bear the author's full name and post office address. > —_ a ee, AS TO STANDARD LATIN. For some time it has been possible to treat with that contumelious silence, which the case deserved, the hyper- critical sensitiveness and unseemly virulence that has been shown towards the WEEKLY’s use of the Latin lan- guage. Besides, the exigencies of the time required space for more important matters than the enlightenment of the ignorance of some of our readers. Serious disturbances in and about one department of the University, and the noise of a hot blank cartridge fire from a foe without, have combined, with the formation of the Yale War Club and the haberdashery plans of Troop A, Yale University Volunteers, to render discus- sions of this journal’s Latinity out of place. The irresponsible jibe of the New York Tribune, after studying the car- toon of the last number of the Fall term, was hardly to be noticed; and when one of the former instructors of the WEEKLY’s artist wrote pitifully of the backsliding of his pupil, crying in des- pair that he thought the very air of his recitation room breathed better Latin than “Exit omnes,” and that he would now not be surprised to hear the Presi- dent of the University cry, “Those are it,” we were still little disturbed. But when a company of Yale graduates in New York, who subscribe for the WEEKLY, and generally pay for it, ap- point one of their number a special commissioner, who communicates with us in formal terms and asks for light, we are obliged to give it. It might seem enough to say that the WEEKLY said it. daz Aeyoueva exist in almost every standard literature. But University journalism is of a modest tone. We will not rest on this claim, which supports Homer in the use of his tongue, and Shakespeare, and as some commentators would have it, Yale professors, in the use of our own mother tongue. But it.seems so utterly superfluous to adduce evidence in sup- port of our sentence, when it is hardly credible that the average Yale alumnus does not at once supply it to his own mind. We are all familiar with some of the more popular works of St. Gregory of Tours (Sanctus Gregorius Turonensis) and if we could get away from our war news for a few brief moments, long enough to refresh our- selves on some of the weightier passages of the seventy-first volume of the Patrologia Latina, we would at once come across stich expressions as, “FEnarra nobis quae tibi contigit,” whose literal translation is, of course, “Tell us what things has happened to you”; or such a phrase as, “Dum haec ageretur’—(“While these things was being done,’”’) and so on and so on al- most ad infinitum. If the holy saint could employ such phrases as these, why may not a lay weekly use the like and still be wortHily representative of this ancient seat of learning? The construction is a familiar one. It is called the ‘‘constructio ad sen- tentiam’’ (according to the logic, not grammar). One of the best examples is found in the works of Quintus Claudius Quadrigarius, a Roman an- nalist, who writes: “Ibe occiditur mille hominum,” which, of course would be translated, ‘““There is killed a thousand men.” It is possible that some of our readers, if living in these ancient times, would have flung bold and thoughtless criticism against these authorities of all time, had the latter been editorial para- graphers on the more conservative jour- nals of their day, instead of men who compiled complacently what they chose and how they chose, and expected their readers to explain, not to criticise; who constructed their sentences “ad sen- tentiam” if they liked, and feared no man. : It is translucently clear what the thought of the AtumMNri WEEKLY'S artist was as he used the same con- struction in the sentence on the now famous cartoon, “Exit omnes.’ The whole establishment gets out. All Yale is loose. ‘‘Omnes”’ merely em- phasizes the multitudinous forms of Yale activity, which came to a sudden end at New Haven and broke into sudden glories in a thousand different places in the country, when the last touchdown had been made in Alumni Hall, and Yale went out to occupy the land. > wa <= => ‘‘ MENTION THIS PAPER.”? Most WEEKLY readers would, we. assume, take any opportunity to strengthen the paper. There is no call for financial aid, for. those who have their faith in it are ready to see it through. But there is a chance to emphasize that it is a well read paper, and that it is a profitable medium. for the advertisement of high class goods. It stands to reason that it should be, reaching, as it does, more than half of the Yale family, and built in a compact form and with its advertisements so conspicuous. There is no doubt in our mind or in the minds of our advertisers who understand our class of readers that the business announcements con- tained in the paper are profitable for them whether they are directly heard from or not. It helps a great deal, however, in demonstrating the value of the paper, if advertisers do hear directly from advertisements. the value of the business anonuncement by the number of direct replies received. In so far. as this evidence is useful, we wish to secure it. So may we ask all readers of the WEEKLY to remember that a word in regard to our advertise- ments is of much value to the paper? If you see an insurance policy announced, or a bicycle advertised, or a good tailor’s card, or attention called to a - banker or a broker, or a goldsmith, or a silversmith, or a jeweler, or a haber- dasher, or a hat manufacturer, of a re- minder given of the value of a particu- lar kind of athletic goods, or announce- ments of lines of. travel, or the card of a good hotel, or a half-tone engraver, © Some judge entirely can you not drop a line, if interested, to the advertiser, and when you inquire for details or give an order, mention that your attention was attracted by his announcement in the WEEKLY? A con- stantly growing class of the patrons of the WEEKLY are those who control the large private schools. Their announce- ments are of particular interest to WEEKLY readers. When going over them and inquiring for more informa- tion, mention how you happened to be reminded of them. We have no desire to create fictitious value in advertising. We appreciate thoroughly the habit of reading of the average graduate. “The impression is left on his mind, but he is not apt to indicate how. But as it means so little trouble and is of such material advan- tage to the paper, demonstrating its value as a medium, we make bold to make this request for a slight change of habit. We feel justified in doing this because of the care we exercise in the choice of ALUMNI WEEKLY adver- tisers. ithe Dips Including the present issue of t he WEEKLY, four more papers have been put out this year than at the corres- ponding time last year. This addition has been made to the number hitherto published because it seemed better to care in this way promptly for current news. We hope the paper in this way gives increased. satisfaction to its readers and is justified in its additional outlay.

>, oe Changes in the Crews. An important change was made in the make-up of the University Crew las: Tuesday. Captain Payne Whitney took the place of W. B. Williams, 1900, a+ bow and H. P. Wickes, 1900, has been put in at No. 2. Several changes haywe been made in the Freshman Crew, but the order is so unsettled that it j. practically impossible to publish. an accurate list. The Freshmen have been over the mile in five minutes, twenty seconds, which is fast time over the harbor course so early in the year.