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H, C, RoBinson, 53. J. R. SHEFFIELD, ’87.
W. W. Skippy, 65S. J. A. HARTWELL, ’89 8.
C. P. LINDSLEY, 75S. L.S. WELCH, ’89.
W. Camp, ’80. E. VAN INGEN, 7918.
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EDITOR.
Lewis S. WELCH, ’89,
ASSOCIATE EDITOR.
WALTER Camp, ’80.
ASSISTANT EDITOR.
EK. J. THoMpPson, Sp.
NEWS EDITOR.
FRED. M. Daviss, 99,
PRESTON KUMLER, 1900, Athletic Department.
Davin D. Tenney, 1900, Special.
Entered as second class matter at New Haven P. 0.
NEw HAVEN, Conn., May 26, 1898.
FRIDAY NIGHT’S MEETING.
Last Friday night’s meeting at Col-
lege Street Hall was dead-in-earnest.
It was full of the strongest spirit—
throbbed as with the heart-beats of the
patriots of all Yale. But the enthu-
siasm was of the kind that is strength-
ened by a clear and sobering sense of
the realities. That meeting acted just
as Yale men have acted here and all
over the country,—followed head and
heart. Nothing for many years, as far
as our observation goes, has so strongly
affirmed how close Yale is to the every-
day life,—that is, to the people, and that
is, to the heart of the nation.
May it ever be thus. As long as
Yale can have such a meeting her
strong American democratic self is un-
impaired. Let nothing that is done by
those who hold in trust the offices of
Yale ever threaten by unfavorable en-
vironment the spirit which made the
meeting of Friday night, and the occa-
sion for that meeting, possible. Rather
may it be the first thought always to
hold that spirit unharmed and to give
it even freer play.
tn. by di
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DISGRACEFUL, INDEED!
Some lies are more interesting than
other lies. The more interesting ones
naturally have the wider circulation.
The usual run of libel against the Uni-
versity is never worth the ink for its
contradiction. It isn’t even interesting
enough to be printed without comment.
Now and then the talent displayed in
the “temperance” campaign attaches
itself to some piece of almost criminally
careless reporting on the part of a local
paper, and rests on that as on the bed
rock of an eternal verity. If the inci-
dent quoted is unusual, people give
some credence to the original article
and circulate it. There has appeared in
public print in the last month the story
that Yale students deliberately can-
vassed all the Yale dormitories for
copies of a New York prohibition
paper; that they then went to the news-
stands and bought up all they had, and,
having gathered this fit fuel, held a big
bonfire on the Campus and danced
around it.
It rather relieves the tension of things
to see a paper of the intelligence and
usual carefulness of the Washington
Post reprint this story, comment upon it
editorially, and seriously inform Yale
men that it was a very bad thing to do.
There is nothing very much to say
about this, except that with which we
began—that a lie travels more if it is
interesting. The Voice, of course,
thinks the incident a great and magni-
ficent piece of martyrdom which it has
suffered, and is already painting the
blushes on the more civilized Yale of
the future, as it reads the story of this
insulting humiliation of a great moral
agency.
The more civilized future is very un-
likely to read or believe anything about
Yale University which is recorded in the
columns of our New York contem-
porary. We doubt if posterity can be
made to believe that it was a fact, that
a few weeks ago, on the occasion of a
big bonfire in New Haven on the
Campus, a few students, perhaps five or
six or not as many, gathered up ten or
fifteen copies of the Voice which lay
about their rooms (where it is regularly
sent through the enterprise of the Cir-
culation Department) and placed them
on this enormous fire, which was in
celebration of something quite worth
while. It will be very difficult, we say,
to make posterity believe that there was
as much of a fact as this, far off in the
dim background of this fiction. Many
of those who circled around the bon-
fire that night denied that any such in-
cident happened. It was _ noticeable
only by accident or close observation;
but a few did see that there were a few
Voices burned in that bonfire.
YALE AND SECTIONALISM.
In re a certain letter in a recent issue,
and letters in reply thereto in this issue,
the ALUMNI WEEKLY begs leave to re-
affirm the cardinal principle that this
paper is in no way responsible for the
sentiments of its correspondents. To
say, as some men still do say, that be-
cause a letter appears in the columns
of the WEEKLY, this paper in any
measure endorses its sentiments, is to
declare a principle abhorrent to the in-
stincts of decent journalism.
In the second place, if any one desires
any light on the sentiments of this paper,
we beg to say that we never think of
Yale as belonging to any one part of
the country. We think of her as of
and for the whole country. We believe
that there is, in her thought and act,
no room for prejudice or feeling of one
part against another. Most fervently
do we pray that these times through
which we are passing, that this common
American cause, to which the people
are answering with one voice in the
North and the South and the East and
West, may remove forever any stum-
bling-block in the path of absolute
national unity at Yale.
As to the sentiment of Yale to-day,
we ticéed@ to:.say 2 hbthing... it is. tin-
questioned and unquestionable. Con-
sider the records of the last month.
Hospital Places for Yale Men.
The following men from the Senior
class of the Medical School have re-
ceived apointments to different hospi-
tals. NS eo?
H. G. Watson; of Centerville, N. Visto
St. Mark’s Hospital, New York.
A. H. Hine of. New Haven, Conn.
first appointment to the hospital at
Paterson, N. J.
F. T. Billings of Washington, D. C.,
second appointment to the hospital at
Paterson, N. J.
. W. Hulsberg of London, Eng-
land, to the colored hospital in New
York City.
JeclZ Perkins of Concord, N. He-to
Elizabeth Hospital, Elizabeth,
tg W. Nolan of Springfield, Mass.
to the City Hospital of New York City.
COACH LEHMANN’S PUPILS,
Dobyns at Stroke—Personnel of the
Crew About Settled.
[Correspondence of YaLE ALUMNI WEEELY.]
Cambridge, Mass., May 24.—Coach
Lehmann of the Harvard Crew last week
abandoned his plan of taking two full
University Eights to New London next
month for the purpose of having a prac-
tice crew to match against the regular
Eight. There is some chance that
more than the two substitutes usually
taken will accompany the Eight this
year.
The University squad was reduced on
Friday, from 16 to 12 men. The first
Fight is now rowing in the following
order: Stroke, Dobyns; 7, Biddle; 6, J.
Hi. Perkins; 5; ‘Heath: 4, Higginson; 3,
Wadsworth; 2, Blake; bow, Hardin.
The substitutes are: J. F. Perkins, Mar-
vin, Adams and: Kernan. Among the
four men dropped from the squad was
Lawrence, the big Freshman oarsman,
who has been with the Crew since early
in the year. His return to the Fresh-
man crew, where he is rowing at No. 7,
materially strengthens that Eight.
HARVARD’S NEW STROKE.
Some changes in the University boat
are expected before the big race, but
the places are settled upon for the most
part. There is little doubt that Dobyns
will hold his place as stroke. His
career aS an oarsman has been of a
sensational character. He is an athlete
of only average proportions and does
not look like a powerful man. He
entered College from Oberlin and first
won recognition for good scholarship
and as an intercollegiate debater. Last
year, after losing in the intercollegiate
debate with Yale, he sought to bury
his disappointment in athletic pursuits
and began rowing on one of the Weld
crews. He was considered a good oar,
but not rated as University material.
This year he again rowed on the Weld
class crew and after the races this
Spring was one of the oarsmen retained
in the University squad when the crews
disbanded. This was thought to be the
limit of his athletic career. Higginson
was considered as practically certain of
the honor of stroking Harvard’s Crew
against Yale. But after the second
crew, paced by Dobyns, succeeded in
defeating the regulars in trial heats,
Dobyns was given a trial on the first
crew and has held his place, Higgin-
son moving forward to No. 4. Dobyns
has a long, sweeping stroke, with a
good drive and pulls his oar through
better than any other man in the boat.
-Of the othér men on the crew, Biddle,
who carries the stroke to the starboard
side, is a smooth oar, but his good
watermanship is his best point. His
stroke is not sustained throughout with
the dash which marks it at the begin-
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Prof. FRANCIS WAYLAND,
Dean.
ning. Captain Perkins, at No. 6, shows
a tendency to shorten his stroke, and
this is the main fault of the Crew as a
whole. The long body swing of the
English stroke will again be given the
test in the race with Yale—and Cornell,
if the date can be adjusted and the
merit of the long low swing of the Har-
vard oarsmen will be decided.
Mr. Henry Willis, the veteran Eng-
lish oarsman, has been following the
work of the crews closely with Mr.
Lehmann, and the reputation of the
English method will be at stake. -
Two of the substitutes are likely to
find places in the boat in the near
future. Marvin is believed to have a
better chance at bow than Hardin, the
present incumbent, and “Kip” Perkins,
the brother of the Captain, is fairly cer-
tain of displacing one of the other men.
Young Perkins is a heavy and power-
ful oarsman, and his removal from the
boat is considered to have been with the
single purpose of stimulating him to a
stronger effort. His rowing since he
lost his place has shown decided im-
provement. 3
For the remainder of the year Mr.
Lehmann will be deprived of the ser-
vices of his English associate, as Mr.
Willis has left for England to train for
the Henley regatta. He will row at
No. 7 in the Leander crew.
ERRATIC BASEBALL.
The work of Captain Rand’s Nine
has been so erratic that the College is
becoming discouraged. After receiving
a crushing defeat in the first champion-
ship game with Princeton, the players
so far recovered that in the three follow-
ing games they shut out their opponents
without scoring. On Saturday, how-
ever, in the opening game with the
University of Pennsylvania, they were
again defeated, although ten innings
were required to decide the winner.
During the week, both the Harvard
and Yale Nines will face the strong
Newton Athletic Club team, and the
scores will be interesting in view of the
approaching meeting of the Blue and
the Crimson. Extensive preparations
are being made by the Newton Club
to give the Yale players a warm re-
ception. When the Football Eleven
played in Newtown last Fall a dinner
was given in their honor at the club-
house in the evening, and now a similar
dinner to Yale’s Baseball tossers is be-
ing arranged. Prominent Yale grad-
uates and members of former Yale
teams living in this vicinity will be
invited and a pleasant evening is an-
ticipated.
J. WESTON ALLEN.
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