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COACHING IN BASEBALL,
A Call on Yale to Correct Its Abuses.
To the Editor of YALE ALUMNI WEEKLY:
Sir: Some of the Yale men in these
parts have been for several years inter-
esting themselves in the development
of baseball in the two California uni-
yersities. One of the chief evils which
we have had to combat has been that
form of muckerism which is known as
“coaching.”
Our university nines here have been
too much inclined to follow the exam-
ple of the semi-professional players,
who pride themselves on keeping up,
throughout the game, a running fire of
low wit, cheap personalities, and noisy
talk of all sorts, directed at their oppo-
nents. In trying to abate this nuisance
some of us have run the risk of un-
popularity by telling our players that
the practice is ungentlemanly, and dia-
metrically opposed to the custom of
the best university baseball men in-the
East. We have even gone so far as to
cite the superb discipline of Willie Mur-
phy’s Nine in 1892, who used to play
an ideally perfect game without violat-
ing the letter or the spirit of the law,
which provides that coaching shall be
confined to the “necessary directions to
the base-runner.”’
Imagine our mortification when we
read, in a. récent -nuimber of the
WEEKLY, an account of the incident at
Richmond, with editorial comments
which seemed to sanction the very evil
which we had been attacking. Can it
be that baseball at the East has been
running down? If so, Yale men will
look to Yale players, and the gentle-
manly instincts of Yale undergraduate
sentiment, to lead the way to reform.
EDWARD B. CLAPP.
Department of Greek, University of
California.
Berkeley, May 12, 1808.
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The Attack on the Colleges.
The recently adopted report of the
Committee on Temperance of the Pres-
bytery of New York, of which Rev.
Stuart Dodge, Yale ’57, is Chairman,
contains the following:
“In the discharge of its duty your
Committee again urges the desirability
of appointing a special Committee
from the Session to care for the inter-
ests of temperance in each church. We
would also emphasize once more the
need of persistent instruction of the
young in the fundamental principles of
temperance. In no other way can a
generation be raised up with intelli-
gent and dominant convictions as to
the evils of existing social drinking cus-
toms, and the duty of opposing the
saloon wherever its baneful influence
extends; and here we desire to ex-
press our belief that among our own
churches and elsewhere harm has been
done by misrepresentations of students
in some of the leading colleges and
universities.
“While every one deplores the exist-
ence of drinking resorts in the vicinity
of these seats of learning, it is a well-
attested fact that the moral and relig-
ious tone of all higher institutions was
never more healthy, positive and ele-
vating than at the present time.
“Saloons will have little attraction
for men fortified by Christian principle;
and indiscriminate charges. of prevail-
ing drunkenness among students wan-
tonly defame the high character of
those upon whom the future of the
Church and the community must
largely depend; create unwarranted
fears in many homes; diminish confi-
dence in the professed friends of tem-
perance, and weaken the hold of this
great reform upon the entire com-
munity.”
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An Eighty-Nine Reunion.
At the Yale Club on Saturday night
the Class of Eighty-Nine held the first
of its informal reunions. Twenty-eight’
men sat down to the supper and spent a
very enjoyable evening. After the din-
ner adjournment was taken to another
room, where the ring was formed and
informal speeches given and-a good
deal of singing indulged in, which was
not of a subdued kind. In short, the
proceedings were of the form sanc-
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the class, and they proceeded with great
life all through the evening.
Dr. Donald McLean Barstow con-
ducted these proceedings in a _ thor-
oughly characteristic, which is to say
an eminently satisfactory manner. The
general opinion of those who have not
for some time sat under him was that
he had been able fairly well to develop
the English language in proportion to
the increasing demand of his own vo-
cabulary. Mr. King spoke briefly, but
effectively, to the toast “On the Banks
of the Wabash.” He dwelt on the
favorable impression which had been
made on the middle west by the action
of Yale since the war begun. Mr. Pin-
chot suggested that these reunions
should be more frequently held in the
future, perhaps once or twice each vear,
and it was unanimously agreed that
there should be another next Fall. In
response to a persistent expression of
curiosity as to the fate of the surplus
of the Cruiser Fund Committee, Mr.
Welch spoke briefly on the possibilities
of the situation. Mr. Gavegan declined
an emphatic request for a cornet solo,
but renewed with success the acquaint-
ance of the class with ‘“Mahoney’s
Brindle Cat.”
Those present were: Ames, Arm-
strong, Barstow, Bradner, Brewster,
Coggill, Donnelley, Ensign, Fisher,
Francke, Freeman, Gavegan, Hinckley,
King, Moore, Mosle, Peck, Pike, Pin-
chot, Rockwell, F. Scott, Skilton,
Smith, Stokes, Tuttle, Vernon, Welch,
Whittlesey.
It was unanimously agreed that the
success of Dr. Stokes in arranging for
this reunion gave the class the privilege
of commanding him to take the next
one in charge.
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New Colleges at Corneil.
Cornell University was enlarged on
Thursday, April 4, by the establishment
of two additional colleges—The Cornell
University College of Medicine, and the
New York State College of Forestry.
The former will be located in New
York City and the erection of new
buildings will begin-at once. Among
those already appointed to professor-
ships are Dr. Lewis A. Stimson, 63, and
Dr. George Woolsey, ’81. The College
of Forestry is the first of the kind estab-
lished in America. It will be situated
at Ithaca, N. Y., and the forest tract
will consist of thirty thousand acres to
be purchased in the Adirondacks.
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is “the first college in the country to
send a company to war.” But that is
too much a matter-of-course to be re-
markable, is it not?
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