A FINE BROOKLYN MEETING.
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The Yale Alumni Association of Long
Island held its regular spring meeting on
Friday evening at the house of the Brook-
lyn Club in Brooklyn, and in attendance
and interest the evening eclipsed any of
its predecessors.
The meeting was opened by an address
of welcome from Joseph A. Burr, ’71, the
newly-elected President of the Associa-
tion. He introduced Captain Zalinski, the
inventor of the pneumatic gun for throw-
ing charges of high explosives, now
adopted by the government for harbor
defence and with which the Vesuvius is
armed. He gave an interesting and timely
explanation of the various uses of high
explosives in modern warfare, by mines,
torpedoes and other devices. Not the least
interesting feature of his address was a
short but convincing explanation of the
impossibility of the destruction of the
“Maine” by anything but an external cause
in the control of some outside authority.
The lecturer spoke in an easy manner
and showed a mastery of his subject. All
were impressed with the terrible destruc-
tive power of the gun, which an English
naval expert recently called “ the latest
hellish product of Yankee ingenuity.”
Capt. Zalinski demonstrated the formid-
ability of the gun as a weapon of offense
or defense. :
At the close of the lecture, Mr. Burr,
who showed at this meeting his peculiar
aptitude for the duties of the position, out-
lined the work already accomplished in
presenting the Cruiser Yale with the
Maxim guns and made a strong appeal for
funds. The Alumni immediately responded
with $250.
This has since been made up to four
hundred dollars. During the ensuing
supper the meeting was entertained by -
college songs led by a double quartette
from the University Glee Club of New
York, Afterwards, General George W.
Wingate spoke of the lessons taught the
American people by the present Situation,
of the necessity of being prepared by
training for a contest, contrasting the
careless spirit with which this war: had
been approached, with the systematic
care with which Yale paved the path to
her intercollegiate victories. This led
the way to tales of reminiscence by the
older graduates of the days when the
lines of the present activities of College
emulation were but beginning. Mr. How-
ard Mansfield, 71, speaking of the clos-
ing days of the old inter-Society debating
system, which ended in the successful
maintenance of the proposition, that ‘‘ the
Government should support Literature,”
by a team of three debaters before an
audience of three by the unanimous de-
cision of three judges from the faculty,
and which the winners followed up by
a practical exposition of the sincerity of
their argumentative position in drawing
their three cash prizes from the College
Treasury.
Dr. Eugene A. Lewis, ’70, spoke of the
magnificent scope for healthy out-door
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exercise furnished to the old-time ball
nines, of which he was an ornament, in
the games with Harvard, where the scores
were phenomenal in size and Harvard did
all the scoring. Dr. Frederic W. Colton,
60, spoke of theYale crew of’59, in which
he:pulled an oar, and rehearsed the story
of Yale’s famous initial victory over Har-
vard at Springfield. He alluded, too, to
the compliment implied in the choice by
the Government between its two fastest
cruisers, of the one with the record to be
known as the Yale.
The meeting was brought back from its
Symposium of athletics to a consideration
of the scholarly side of Yale progress by
a carefully prepared address from Mr. F.
Joseph Vernon, ’86, a graduate member
of the Yale Semitic Club, who illustrated
his subject by several well-selected gems
of Eastern thought and philosophy, ren-
dering them in the original vernacular.
Mr. Vernon’s success in making so attrac-
tive the results. of his studies in this
always interesting field of research, was
attested by the appreciative applause of
his audience,
Before closing the association adopted
a resolution expressing its sorrow and re-
gret at the recent death of Hon. John
Oakey, ’49, a veteran member of the asso-
ciation, who had been most active in
making it a success throughout the years
of its organization.
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Yale Grand Stand Burned.
The baseball grand stand at Yale
Field was totally. destroyed by fire at
one o'clock Tuesday morning. As the
Field is outside the city limits, no aid
could be secured from the New Haven
Fire Department, and the only check to
the flames was through hose attached
to the grand stand and from two
neighboring houses. The fire was the
work of an incendiary.
The stand, which was built from the
money given by William H. Crocker,
82 S., was covered by insurance up to
the amount of $5,000. The four-faced
clock, valued at $800, the gift of Mrs.
Farnam, was destroyed.
A meeting of the Field Corporation
will be held after the matter of insur-
ance has been adjusted, at which the
advisability of immediately starting
work on a new stand will be considered.
It is probable, however, that a portion
of the football bleachers will be used
for the rest of the season. The building
of a new stand would interfere with the
minor games of the team and the work
would probably not be completed in
time to accommodate the crowds ex-
pected at the Princeton and Harvard
games.
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