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. ADVISORY BOARD.
. C, Roprnson, 53. J. R. SHEFFIELD, ’87.
. W. Skippy, 65S. J. A. HARTWELL, 898.
. P. LINDsLEY, 75S. L.S. WELCH, ’89,
- CAMP, ’80, E. VAN INGEN, 791 8.
.G. Daaaett, 80. P. Jay, 792.
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EDITOR.
Lewis 8S. WELOH, ’89.
ASSOCIATE EDITOR,
WALTER Camp, ’80.
ASSISTANT EDITOR,
E. J. THompPson, Sp.
NEWS EDITOR.
FRED. M. Davriss, '99,
PRESTON KUMLER, 1900, Athletic Department.
Davip D. TENNEY, 1900, Special.
Entered as second class matter at New Haven P.O.
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NEW HAVEN, CONN., APRIL 21, 1898.
ATHLETICS.
According to a custom inaugurated
last year, the WEEKLY gives up a large
part of its space in this issue to the
athletic situation. It is a time when
the quietest and most academic of Yale
men are looking forward with ques-
tioning hopefulness and are not averse
to taking a look at the men in whose
hands the reputation of the Univer-
sity on field and river will rest. They
are goodly young men, quite alive to
their responsibilities and full of a spirit
of work. They are all helped out by
graduates, whose help is freely. given
and gratefully received. No new meas-
ures have yet been taken to assure the
University of this graduate service from
just the right sources and at just the
right times. Simple measures would
effect this with no change in the prin-
ciple of the Yale athletic system.
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THE’ HARVARD” AND THE “YALE.”
The presence of graduates of Yale and.
Harvard quite numerously in the pres-
ent Administration may account for the
very graceful act of the Navy Depart-
ment in using the names of these two
Universities on the American Line
steamers to be converted into auxiliary
cruisers. It is a tribute to the position
of these two Universities in the life of
the nation which is, or otght to be, very
thoroughly appreciated by them.
There is no severer criticism passed on
Congressional acts and government
policy than that which emanates from
men connected with one or the other of
‘these two Universities, and this severely
critical spirit is sometimes taken as in-
dicating a lack of sympathy with the
ideas and traditions and ambitions of the
people of this country. It is not neces-
sary to develop the argument that, on
the contrary, such a criticism merely
indicates the intenseness of interest in
the welfare of the Republic on the part
of men who have given their life work
to the study of the conditions which
have surrounded the nation from its
start, and who have more ground for
intelligent deductions as to the safe and
consistent policy for future action than
99 out of 100 men who will thought-
lessly and harshly condemn them for
their courageous criticism.
Those who know best these Univer-
sity men who are oftenest heard in
comment on national. policies, know
from what depth of patriotic feeling
their protests and prayers ascend. It is
because they feel so keenly the possi-
bilities of the Américan nation, of its
development along safe and high lines,
' that they speak with such fervor from
time to time against acts which seem to
them painfully inconsistent with the
ideals of the fathers and which handicap
the nation in its own best work. One
needs only to run. over the history of
the graduates of these institutions, as
told in the pages of the nation’s wars,
if he-is in doubt as to the quality of the
patriotism which has been instilled into
young minds at Cambridge and at New
Haven.
This close association of the two Uni-
versities with the struggle which may
be imminent, and, at least, with a na-
tional crisis of gravest character, em-
phasizes once more an old, old lesson.
It is true, that the people look to these
Universities for the training of men in
all the best ideals of American charac-
ter. It is certainly true that they have
come to look upon Yale as a place
where workers are to be turned out;
men who will be a part of the life of
their community or of the nation; men
who will fight, whether it be on the
field, if the occassion demands, or at the
ballot box, or the ward primary, or the
senatorial caucus. It is greatly to be
desired that such a place as this shall
produce world masters in letters and
learning, but it seems to be even more
greatly desired and, at least, more im-
peratively demanded, that the Univer-
sity of Yale shall produce men who
shall work and achieve in the public
service; men executive. What a tre-
mendous responsibility it places and
_what magnificent opportunity it erects!
And how for weeks has the lesson been
over and over again impressed, that
nowhere do we more need to develop
men alive to the calls and possibilities
of public service and to their common
duties as citizens than among those
who have the opportunities of a uni-
versity education and such antecedents
and environments as are generally the
lot of men who come to such a place
as Yale.
Yale needs to make more of her
splendid traditions in regard to public
service and her intimate and honorable
connection for two centuries with the
life of the Town and the State and the
Nation. We want memorials of our
heroes. We want observations of na-
tional days. We want a more direct
turn in our teaching towards the duties
and opportunities of citizenship and pub-
lice service. We want in the curri-
culum more consideration for the de-
mands which these duties make. It
is neither the time nor the place to dis-
cuss the wisdom of international poli-
cies already inaugurated and in process
of execution. Men everywhere, and
not the least at such a place as Yale,
are to-day heartily and unitedly loyal.
But much of that which we have gone
through, and of that which may be be-
fore us, will be in vain if it does not
emphasize the demands upon such a
University as Yale for direct practical
influence on the political life of that na-
tion of which it is a part, and which it
is often claimed to represent more
truly than any other educational insti-
tution. .
A false idea of modesty prevents many
from supplying the Yate ALuMNrI
WEEKLY with items of interest con-
cerning themselves. It is the right of a
Yale man to know all about his friends
and acquaintances. It is a part of a
Yale man’s obligation to report on him-
self. It is one of the chief purposes of
the WEEKLY to keep the whole Yale
family acquainted with itself and closely
in touch from week to week. Please
send in everything you know, proper
for record, about yourself or anyone
else,
A GIFT FOR THE “ YALE.’
Yale should not be slow in: showing,
in a substantial and enthusiastic way,
that she appreciates the honor of the
use of her name on one of the coun-
try’s fleet. Let an appropriate gift be
at once decided on and subscribed to
by Yale men here and everywhere.
Something is almost sure to be done
in this line, and it must be the right
thing. If you have suggestions send
them in at once, by wire or mail, to
this office and they will reach the pro-
per hands. The gift must be worthy
of Yale—-a dignified and appropriate ex-
pression of the loyalty of a great Ameri-
can University.
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A New Haven Country Club.
A New Haven Country Club has been
organized with the following officers:
President, Eli Whitney, - Yale, 60:
Vice-President, Gen. E. E. Bradley;
Treasurer, C. K. Billings, Yale, ’82;
Secretary, Phelps Montgomery, ’95.
The foregoing, with the following,
constitute the Board of Governors:
Thomas. -Hooker,..-’60;°° “J, Edward
Heaton, Lewis H. English, and Prof.
a. 5. Woolsey,. 72,
Grounds have been secured on the
east shore of Lake Whitney, about
seventy acres in extent. Plans for an
elaborate club house were presented at
a meeting of the Board of Governors,
held Saturday evening, April 16. Im-
provements to cost about $10,000 are
contemplated for the first year, of which
$2,500 represents the cost of a foot-
‘bridge across the lake at the Whitney-
ville church.
The membership of the Club is over
200, about four-fifths of the total ex-
pected. The entrance fee for active
members is $25, and the annual dues
$25. The entrance fee for women is
$15 and dues $15. For associate mem-
bership a fee of $10 for boys and $5 for
women is required. The Yale under-
graduate membership is not to exceed
fiiteen at any one time.
Work has already been begun on the
links and six holes will probably be
ready for play by the end of this week.
The undergraduates and graduate
membership is as follows: A. A. Alling,
’96; Morgan P. Brooks, ’94 S.; Charles
Ee Curtis; 88S. ; E S:4Gurts, 6 Sew.
Fy Day, 92 8.; D. Cady Eaton, 60; &:
T. Holbrook, ’93; D. R. Hooker, ’99;
Ri: Ives, °64; J. DV. Jickwong eo06. kt:
B. Jepson, °633;C: Kimberly, ’653-D. &.
Manson, ’92; A Osborne, ’82; O. T.
Osborne, 784 _M.S.; W. S. Pordee, ’82;
C. E. Pickett, 265 sicSrajiiik) Pander
ford, ’92/ Sop Avs H. aRobertson, "7257.
iis Russel: 72 Gi at C.. Santerd;:/’9o:
C,H. Smith, 655) Wi Mis Strons.//a43
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.
NEW YORK LIFE
INSURANCE COMPANY.
JOHN ‘A. MCCALL, Pres’t.
BROOKS & CO.
HAT MERCHANTS.
With reference to the ever popular Alpine
Hat it is interesting to note that the so-
called “ Necker’? or soft slouched felt hat
was interdicted by the police in some parts
of Germany early in 1855, as being the em-
blem of revolutionary principles.
Brooks & Company have made unusual
preparations for the Spring Season in )
Alpine Hats
which they now offer in reliable qualities at
uniformly moderate prices. And in fabrics
which are proof positive against the machi-
nations of an early New England Spring.
Chapel, cor. State St.
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Yale Law School.
For circulars and other information apply to
_ Prof. FRANCIS WAYLAND,
Dean.
F. B. Trowbridge, ’87; F. D. Trow-
bridge, 84; H. Q. Trowbridge, 708; W.
J. Trowbridge, ’79; R. G. Van Name,
99; EH. Watrous ,’99; J. H. Webb, ’77
L. S.; Pierce N. Welch, ’62: A. N.
Wheeler, 275 S.2F. W. Williams, ’79;
DA. Y ofk} Jr, “90° CFT: Zimmerman,
P. G.; C. W. L. Johnson; Prof, Henry
R. Lang; John W. Alling, 62; Roger
S. Baldwin, ’95; Francis G. Beach, 783;
John K. Beach, ’77; R. V. Beach, ’87;
W. Beebe, ’73; T. G. Bennett, "7 kes
W. L. Bennett, 69; F. L. Bigelow,
81 S.; C.K. Billings, ’82; J. W. Bristol,
77; Ge Bucklagd, So... 67S: Bi
Chapman, ’66; W. J. Comstock, ’79 S.;
L. M. Daggett, ’84; A. H. Day, ’89S.:
H. G. Day, ’90 S.; H. W. Farnam, ’74;
W. W. Farnam, ’66; W. B. Fenn, ’77 S.:
©. H. Fisher, 7o;"A. 1, Hagley °76-
Ff. H. Hooker, ’74; Thomas Hooker,
69; J. S. Hotchkiss, ’77; F. T, Hunt,
66; Burton Mansfield, *75S.; Phelps
Montgomery, ’95; A. D. Osborne, ’48;
W. L. Phelps, ’87; E. V. Raynolds,
’80S.; H. M. Reynolds, 80; H. B
Sargent, "71 S.; W. K. Townsend, ’71:
Eli Whitney, ’69; T. S. Woolsey, 772:
J. T. Whittlesey, ’89; J. E. Wheeler,
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William Beebe,
Messrs. Thomas
Hooker, and T. S. Woolsey have been
appointed a Green Committee to have
. charge of the golf links.
Messrs. J. K. Beach, J. W. Bristol,
B. R. English, G. D. Seymour, and Eli
Whitney will constitute the Building
Committee, which will have special
charge of the plans and construction of
the bridge and club house.
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The New Cruiser Yale.
When the news reached this city on :
Monday night that the American Liner
Paris, which was recently acquired by
the government to be used as a cruiser,
had been named “Yale” in honor of
the University, there was much delight
expressed by the students and by the
townspeople generally. The announce-
ment was made from the stages of the
various playhouses and bulletined on
the Campus, and in an incredibly short
time spread through almost the entire
College. Wherever a group of students
were to be found patrotic songs were
being sung and cheers. for the new
cruiser given.
A movement will probably be put on
foot to present to the Yale a suitable
gift in recognition of the honor done
the College.
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Spring Football Practice.
The regular Spring practice for can-
didates for next Fall’s University Foot-
ball Team began Tuesday afternoon, in
the Gymnasium lot. Practice wil] be
held four times a week during the next
two or three weeks, and then the annual
punting contest will be held. The
work will consist in practice for the
backs and in punting. H. F, Benjamin
08 S., will have charge of the men in
the absence of Captain Chamberlin,
roe is home suffering from a lame
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