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WA Lip «AL UDNT WW Eme Ls COLLECTING THE MONEY. Work in Men Who Took Up the Different Towns. That Friday night’s meeting might not be too long, several interesting points about the work of collection were omitted. The coincidence of efforts in various quarters by Yale men to do something which was worthy of the University, is interesting. At New Haven and New York, among the undergraduates and graduates, the idea seemed to come at once into the minds of all that substantial recognition should be given to the honor done the University. The proffer of a stand of colors by various New York Alumni, acting through Mr. Ernest Carter, ’79, was the first defi- nite step, although that was not known outside of their own number until after the movement in New Haven had originated. Here, Mr. Yandell Hen- derson, ’95, acting on behalf of the committee of a little club of graduate students and recent instructors, came to the News and suggested that some formal action be taken. The first object suggested for purchase was a large banner. Following this sugges- tion, and a conference with undergradu- ates and’ graduates, Mr. Day, chairman of the News, appointed representatives from each of the classes and from each department, in order to start the work of subscription at once. This com- mittee met the following day, and very soon had added a number of graduates to their list, and had instituted the work with which the readers of the WEEKLY are already familiar. The fact should be borne in mind that when this matter was suggested to the News, its Chairman, Mr. Day, and others, were already on their way to Dean Wright, to consider the advis- ability of a University meeting to present resolutions of thanks. The AtuMNI WEEKLY had also in the meanwhile called for suggestions for some suitable action. The figures of the Treasurer’s report show quite well what was done in different parts of the country. It may be of interest to know how this work was carried out. In New York City, where the Alumni Association has gone through so many changes recently, the work of collection was taken charge of by a special committee, whose names have already been given in the WEEKLY, Mr. Carter, ’79, was Chairman of that committee. Before Mr. Carter and the other members of the committee began, Mr. Curtiss, ’79, had gathered over a thousand dollars. New Haven collections were princi- pally in charge of Yandell Henderson, ’95; Prof. Farnam also collected quite a large sum of money. ‘ The check from the Long Island Association, including Brooklyn, was received from Mr. Wyllys Terry, ’85. Mr. Tuttle, ’87, the Secretary, had laid the matter ‘before the Spring meeting. In Hartford, Conn., nearly all the work of collection was performed by R. W. Huntington, Jr., ’8o. In Chicago, which came next in the amount of its subscription, the officers of the Alumni Association authorized Mr. R. T. Crane, ’95, to send a circular in their name to all the members, requesting them to send their contribu- tions direct to the office of the ALUMNI WEEKLY. This step was taken rather late, and the money was coming in very fast when the announcement went out that the fund was complete. At San Francisco, the machinery of collection from the Alumni of Cali- fornia was set .in motion by Mr. Edward L. Brayton, Secretary of the Association, and Mr. N. W. Bell of Los Angeles supplemented this work by canvassing among the alumni of Southern California. The San Fran- cisco Alumni were asked for $75.00, and the Alumni of Southern California were asked for a like amount. Mr. Gordon Blanding guaranteed by wire, at once, the amount of money asked for from the Alumni of San Francisco, and the subscriptions to date, of California, come to $220, in place of $150 asked for. At Boston, Mass., Mr. Philip B. Stewart, ’86, the Secretary, managed the entire work of collection. From Pittsburg, Pa., Mr. S. W. B. Moorhead, ’o1, handled the regular canvass. From Cincinnati, O., a check came through Geo. H. Warrington, ’95, the Secretary. Mr. Edw. Brooks, Jr., ’90, of Phila- delphia, Pa., took care of that field. Scranton, Pa., was covered through the efforts of Mr. J. Benjamin Dim- mick, ’81, President of the Association. Mr. A. S. Chisholm, ’93, covered the Cleveland field for the Cruiser Fund committee. A check from the Essex County Association of New Jersey, came from Mr. Sanford E. Cobb, ’87, Treasurer. The Colorado Alumni sent their pledge, and money more than covering the pledge, through Mr. Isbell, ’88, President of the Association. In Waterbury, Conn., two members of the committee, Mr. Chas. F. Chapin,. ‘77, and Arthur Reed Kimball, ’77, did the work, which was unusually effec- tive. From the little bunch of Yale graduates up there came down $93. Sixteen alumni of Harrisburg, Pa. sent in $76, the check being received from Donald C. Haldeman, Treasurer of the Association. Mr. Howard ~ Fi:: Knapp, ‘82; “of Bridgeport, and James S. Jenkins, ’94, of Stamford, collected for County. As the contribution of Buffalo, N. Y., a check-came from S,.M. Clement, — 82, the retiring President of the Asso- ciation. The work of collection at Washing- ton, D. C., was supervised bv James H. Hayden, ’875S., Secretary of the Asso- ciation, The work at Dayton, O., was done by R. R. Dickey, ’88 S:, Secrétary. At Louisville, Ky., collections were made by Mr. Wm. Jarvis, ’85. At Meriden, Conn., the work of collection: was done by Mr. F. E. Sands, ’85, a member of the Com- mittee. The Northwestern Association’s con- tribution was sent from Minneapolis, by Mr. C. S. Jelley, ’71, Secretary. At Cambridge, Mass., Mr. Anson Phelps Stokes, Jr.,-’96, a member of the committee, and several other Yale Alumni in that locality, succeeded in getting a large number of small con- tributions. Mr. Frank M. Barber, ’90, a member of the Committee, took care of Walling- ford, Conn., and sent in an average of five dollars each from the graduates in that small town. At: - Rochester; N: -Y.;° Mr. We S. Roby, ’90S., supervised the work of collection. | At Portland, Oregon, the work was done by Mr. R. L. Glisan, ’90; for the Wyoming Valley Association, by Mr. N. G. Pringle; ‘Judge E.: B.. Gager, a member of the Committee, took super- F. G. BEACH, ’83. Captain of Battery C, First Connecti- cut Heavy Artillery. vision over Yale graduates in Derby; and D. L. Vail operated in West Winsted, Conn.; Judge J. G. Tod of Houston, Texas, did work in that sec- tion; Dr. F. A. Meacham, of Salt Lake City, collected from the Alumni there. The Baltimore report came in too late for announcement at Friday night’s meeting. The regular officers of the Association were unable to give the time necessary for collection, and Mr. Norman James, ’90, passed the paper there. He received generous response, but was checked before he had com- pleted his work, by the report from New Haven that the fund was full and overflowing. Orland => Edward Brinley, ~ Shiras Fairfield - CALCIUM LIGHT NIGHT, The Junior Fraternities March—Men Who Were Elected, Last Tuesday night was Calcium Light Night. <A few minutes after nine, Psi Upsilon, Delta: Kappa Epsilon, and Alpha Delta Phi appeared on the Campus. After congratulating the Sophomores who received elections they returned to their respective halls. The ceremonies followed the custom of recent years. ‘ The following men from i900 re- ceived elections: Psi Upsilon—Lucius Barnes Barbour, Hartford, Conn.; Howard Boocock, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Morgan Bulkeley Brainard, Hartford, Conn.; Charles Philadelphia, Pa.; Campbell, Elizabeth, N. ; Franklin Carter, Jr., Williamstown, Mass.; Walter Lyon Chittenden, Bing- hamton, N. Y.; Thomas Benedict Clarke, Jr.. New York City; Frank Taylor Crawford, Mansfield, O.; John Walter Cross, New York City; Jesse Dwight Dana, Lewiston, Me.; Malcolm Douglas, Albany, N..Y.; John Sherlock Ferguson, Stockholm, Sweden; Alan- son Gibbs Fox, New York City; James Cowan Greenway, Hot Springs, Ark.; Burns Henry, Detroit, Mich.; Thomas Andrews Howell, Jr., New York City; Matthew Mills, Chicago, Ill.; Roswell Miller Patterson, New York City; Wil- loney, Jr., Poughkeepsie, N. Y.: Wil- Lewis Tiffany, 2d, New York City; Raymond Lathrop Tweedy, Binghamp- ton, N. Y.; Henry Parmelee Wickes, New York City; Charles Stetson, Bangor, Maine; John-Cleveland Phil- Hips; Putnam, Conn, = Delta Kappa Epsilon — Frederick Winthrop Allen, Walpole, Mass.; Alan- son Judson Baker, Gloversville, N. Y.; James Whitney Barney, New York City; George Noyes Boyd, W. New Brighton, S. I, N. Y.; Frank Dexter Cheney, S. Manchester, Conn.; William Sloane Coffin, New York City; Joseph Edward Davis, Davis, W. Va.; Harry Augustus Dow, Pittsfield, Ill.; Thomas Emlen Franklin, Lancaster, Pa.; Fred- erick Charles Havemeyer, New York City; Howard Covode Heinz, Pitts- burg, Pa.; George Armstrong Lyon, Jr., Erie, Pa.; William Raymond Ma- loney, Jr., Poughkeepsie, N. Y.; Wil- liam Ernst Minor, Covington, Ky.; Charles Monson, Jr., New Haven, Conn.; William Marsh McCutchen, Plainfield, N. J.; Charles Wylie Mc- Kelvey, Bridgeport, Conn.; James Henry Niedecken, Milwaukee, Wis.; Brace Whitman Paddock, Pittsfield, Mass.; Charles Randolph Page, San Francisco, Cal.; George Welch Sim- mons, St. Louis, Mo.; Robert Steven- son, Jr., Chicago, Ill.; Corliss Esmonde Sullivan, Cleveland, O.; Hulbert Taft, Cincinnati, O.; Keyes Winter, Indiana- polis, Ind. Alpha Delta Phi—Frederick Baldwin Adams, Toledo, O.; Ezekiel Stoddard Bronson, New Haven, Conn.; John Penn . Brock... .Lebanon,:,-?Pa.;., Charles Stephen Brooks, Cleveland, O.; Stuart Brown Camp, West Winsted, Conn.; Clare Hill Draper, Hopedale, Mass.; Henry Edwards Ellsworth, Simsbury, Conn.; David Rowland Francis, Jr., St. Louis, Mo.; John Morgan Hopkins, Decherd, Tenn.; George Wolcott Hub- bell, Jr., Greenwich, Conn.; Bascom Johnson, Washington, D. C.; Preston Kumler, Evansville, Ind.; Malcolm Lee McBride, Cleveland, O.; Joseph Medill McCormick, Chicago, Ill.; Robert Hall McCormick, Jr., Chicago, Ill.; Albert Cordoza Newcombe, New York City; Crispin Oglebay, Kansas City, Mo.; Percy Avery Rockefeller, New York City; Robert Russell, Canton, N. Y.; Richard Jewett Schweppe, St. Louis, Mo.; William Edward Seymour, New York City; David Stanley Smith, To- ledo, O.; Reuben Carter Twichell, Plantsville, Conn.; William Biddle Williams, Haverford, Pa; Edward Belden Greene, Cleveland, O. Zeta Psi—Harold Sears Arnold, New Haven, Ct.; Norman Williams Bartlett, Evanston, Ill.; Donald Chappell, New London, Conn.; Rede Leonard Delano, New Bedford, Conn.; Guilford Duncan, St. Louis, Mo.; Frank Farwell Ferry, Lake Forest, Ill.; Henry Martyn Field, Boston, Mass.; Thomas William Hef- feran, Grand Rapids, Mich.; George Sterling McCartin, Watertown, N. Y.; Warner Moody, Deadwood, S. Dakota; Hobart Moore, Chicago, Ill.; Clarence Eugene Ordway, Winchester, Mass.; Reuben Buck Robertson, Cincinnati, Ohio; Herbert Gilman Williams, Roch- ester, N. Y.; Carlisle Bronson Tuttle, Naugatuck, Conn. No Break in the Line. [N. G. Osborn, ’80, in New Haven Register.] It was a different scene from that enacted in this town and beneath the elms of Yale thirty-five odd years ago, when the call for troops divided the students into hostile and warring camps. The old New Haven railroad station on Chapel Street was then filled with splendid young fellows, who were hurrying home to take their places in the confederate ranks and to defend one section of the country against another. There were men present at the meeting last evening, who must have recalled that other picture with tears welling to the heart, and with emotions which were too sacred to parade upon such an occasion. There was no break in the line last evening. Young men from the North and the South, the East and the West, stood shoulder to shoulder and sang, with a new meaning and a deeper sense of national. obliga- tion, “My Country, ’Tis. of Thee,” the “Star Spangled Banner,’ and “For God, for Country, and for Yale.” It was a heart of stone that did not feel the inspiration of the spectacle; a man of iron who did not return to his study and his home with a warmer love for the flag of a united people. It was after all the Yale way of doing things. There was something to be done, and Yale, without hesitation as to the result, did it. This means that there resides in the organization and life of Yale a spirit which leaps beyond the barrier of the study and the class-room, and meets the spirit of our free institutions. It is indeed a pre- cious gift from the Gods, and it be- comes the highest and most. sacred duty of the President and Fellows of Yale to preserve it in its purity and strength. Let Yale develop to the utmost, but without sacrifice of its democratic spirit of enthusiastic com- radeship and national affiliation. - ws i Ge aa The Yale Volunteers, [Journal and Courier.] The real “Yale spirit” struck right out yesterday morning when the Yale volunteers for the light battery an- swered the roll-call in the armory and left the city to go into camp at Niantic. There are those in the colleges and out who are thinking and saying that fine young men who are being educated can “do better” than to go to war, and they cheerfully imply that it is well enough to let other young men who are not so fine and not so educated do the hard work of fighting for the country. The Yale volunteers do not agree with such thinkers and sayers. ‘Their pa- triotic impulse has swept away all sel- fish thought of their. “bright prospects” and their ‘opportunities.’ They have forgotten that if they should stay at home and attend to business they might, by proper maneuvering, become con- gressmen, senators, bishops, professors, judges and other big things. They have thrown trimming prudence to the winds and have declared by their action their overwhelming love for their coun- try and their willingness to freely give all they have and all they are for it. Foolish boys, say some of the calm thinkers who are coolly and cautiously trying to balance themselves and things in these unusual and exciting times. Noble boys, say those who are still ca- pable of being thrilled by unselfish pa- triotism and who do not value matter above spirit. God’s blessing on the Yale volunteers. They are fine young men indeed, and they are right in line with the highest spirit and the grandest record of their nourishing mother. i ce es About Baseball Seats, In the notice to WEEKLY subscribers in the last issue, about obtaining seats for the baseball game with Princeton at the Field on June 4th, no mention was made of any reserved section. As a ~matter of fact, the football stands which are to be used are all numbered, and tickets are issued accordingly. Thus the entire seating is reserved. th din. a «i It has been announced that the Sara- toga Lake course has been decided upon for the race on July I, between Cornell, Columbia and Pennsylvania.
