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EDITOR.
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ASSOCIATE EDITOR.
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ASSISTANT EDITOR.
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NEWS EDITOR.
FRED. M, Davrigs, '99.
PRESTON KUMLER, 1900, Athletic Department.
Dayip D. TENNEY, 1900, Special.
Entered as second class matter at New Haven P. O.
NEW HAVEN, CONN., JUNE 9, 1898.
POOR CONDUCT OF ATHLETICS.
It is not necessary to try to say more
about the exhibition of Yale baseball
last Saturday than the facts themselves
show. There is plenty of individual
talent on the Yale Nine, and no one
acquainted with him has the slightest
doubt of the superior character and
ability of its Captain. We also believe
that the recuperative power of Yale will
be shown before the season is over, and
that the University may yet come out
of the tests thaf are ahead of her with
much more credit than the record thus
far would seem to indicate. —
But the fact is; Yale tried to play
baseball last Saturday and miserably
failed. Within recent years Yale has
also tried to perform upon the track
and the field, to play football and to
row, and has often miserably failed.
At all of these times her forces were
under the leadership of men of superior
character, and her teams included men
with plenty of “stuff in them,” as the
phrase goes. These points made the
record all the more disagreeable. Yale
is not as a whole conducting her athlet-
ics well to-day. She is not making use
of her resources and she is hurting
herself. Yet Yale knows how to con-
duct athletics.
SIDE LINE COACHING.
In writing to the WEEKLY recently,
in regard to coaching at baseball, Pro-
fessor Clapp wrote somewhat as though
the WEEKLY had endorsed its abuses.
In describing the incident at Richmond
at the Easter trip, which was quite ex-
tensively advertised as a part of gen-
erally offensive action on the part of
Yale, we stated the fact that the coach-
ing referred to did not differ in sub-
stance from the general run of coaching;
that the reference to the umpire was
made in what would be described as a
“jollying”’ way. and not as a piece of
personal abuse. We said that the um-
pire simply seemed to suggest something
to the coach to talk about, and that
the coach is always desirous of some-
thing new to talk about.
We did not mean to imply that that
department of baseball was attractive
to us or that we thought it added any-
thing to the value of the game or to
the reputation of the institution whose
nine indulged in it. It was simply our
purpose to make clear that the partic-
ular individual had done just what
nearly every other side line coach does.
We did not believe in criticising him
for the fault of the system, and we do
not understand that Professor Clapp
desires to emphasize any particular in-
cident. If he merely wishes to say that
the ordinary side line coaching had bet-
ter be dispensed with for the good of
the game and the good of any institu-
tion which is playing it, then we must
express our hearty sympathy with him.
Most of this kind of coaching is cheap
and undignified, and it is in danger of
being very nasty. The man who con-
ducts it does not stop to think what he
is really doing. We heartily sympa-
thize with Professor Clapp in the de-
sire that Yale should take the lead in
stopping this practice altogether. —
A letter from Mr. Allen, printed
elsewhere, was received in time for the
last issue, but crowded out by the un-
usual press of news matter. Since Mr.
Allen felt that he had been misinter-
preted, it was due him, after such ani-
‘madversions as, the letters from Louisi-
ana contained, to give him a chance
to state his position, and it is to be re-
gretted that this could not have been
afforded him in the issue of the paper
immediately following that containing
these letters. We trust that last week
we made it sufficiently clear what our
attitude is towards communications, and
what our feeling is on this whole sub-
ject. We can only add that we trust
that all will feel that both sides to this
discussion have now been set forth with
sufficient clearness and fulness.
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The WEEKLY is making its regular
June plans for covering the events of.
Commencement Week. It is necessary
to remind Yale men who will take part
in these events, whether they are officers
of classes or not, that we expect from
them codperation in supplying us with
facts. The field is a very large one to
cover, and there is a very short time in
which to cover it, and we have a very
strong desire to make the record ab-
solutely complete. : |
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SES.
The Yale News is right when it says
the Nine can play baseball yet.
But there must be a quick response
by players and coaches to the call to
quarters. There must be a response
too from the whole University—a_ re-
sponse of confidence and encourage-
ment.
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STUDY OF PHILOSOPHY.
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the greatest of European psychologists
and philosophers having expressed this
either in their published writings, or
more directly in a private way. In
India his works have been widely circu-
lated, while in Japan one of his books
has been translated and another is at
present in process of translation. The
character and scope of Professor Ladd’s
writings can be spoken of in this place
only in a most general. way. His
Physiological Psychology, published in
1887, was the first work on that subject
in the English: language; indeed,
according to Wundt, it was at that
time the only work on that subject,
besides his own, in any language. To
say nothing of his Theological works,
the treatises on Psychology and Phil-
osophy show a mastery of a field much
wider in scope than is ordinarily found
in any one writer. His latest publica-
tion has merited from an eminent
Scotch critic the judgment that it is
“the most complete and satisfactory
work on epistemology in the language.”
The most advanced graduate courses
are, very naturally, in charge of Prof.
Ladd, and these are for the most part
conducted on the seminar plan, the
object being not to teach the tenets of
any special school, but to inculcate a
desire for the simple truth and to guide
and stimulate to scientific methods of
research. These courses sometimes
take the form of a careful and critical
reading of some great philosophical
masterpiece, sometimes the investiga-
tion of some_ special problem or
problems by the various members of
the class. Next year Hegel’s Phenom-
enologie will be read, and a seminar
course given in the Philosophy of
Religion. ;
Prof. George M. Duncan, after
spending several years under the most
able teachers in Germany and France,
including such men as Wundt, Heinze,
Zeller, Paulsen, Ribot and Janet, re-
turned to Yale to devote most of his
efforts to the work of instruction.
His translation of selected portions of
the writings of Leibnitz has proved to
be very valuable, as have also some
contributions to foreign magazines in
the form of English bibliographies.
His occasional magazine articles and
reviews give promise and produce the
hope of more elaborate works in the
field of publication. Besides regular
undergraduate instruction Prof. Dun-
can offers several graduate courses in
Advanced Psychology, History of Phil-
osophy, and special problems and dis-
cussions in Philosophy. Prof. Duncan
never fails to impress his pupils as an
earnest and conscientious student, a
faithful and helpful teacher.
Prof. E. Hershey Sneath, formerly
the personal assistant of President
Porter and sometime Instructor in
Philosophy at Wesleyan University,
has devoted much of his time, aside
from the work of teaching, to pro-
viding text-books suitable for making
the average undergraduate acquainted
with some of the chief philosophical
masterpieces. To this end he _ has
organized and edited the Series of
Modern Philosophers (8 vols.) and also
the Ethical Series (6 vols.) In this
series from his own pen have come the
“Philosophy of Reid” and the “Ethics.
of Hobbes.” Besides offering certain
courses in general introduction to
Philosophy, Dr. Sneath also offers
graduate courses, conducted after the
combined seminar and lecture method,
in Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy
and Literature, and Advanced Ethics.
The reputation of Dr. Sneath, due to
his native pedagogical gifts, is that he
1§ /2a:; clear, .: practical “and: attractive
teacher. )
The psychological laboratory is in
charge of Dr. E. W. Scripture, who
after an exceptional training in this
branch of work under Wundt and
others, came to Yale in ’92, and it is
to his unremitting labors that the
work of the laboratory has been so suc-
cessful. Besides editing the ‘“Studies,”
Dr. Scripture has published two books,
one for the Chatauqua Society entitled
“Thinking, Feeling and Doing’ and
one for the Contemporary Science
Series entitled “The New Psychology.”
The laboratory, as we have already said,
is excellently equipped for all sorts of
experimental work from the most
elementary to the most advanced.
The student who wishes to specialize
in Ancient Philosophy, or the classical
student who wishes to read the phil-
osophers with special regard to their
teachings as compared with modern
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views, will find opportunity in the
courses offered by Dr. Stearns, recently
returned from study with Zeller,
Erdman and others; while the student
who wishes to devote himself to the
study of Psychology and Philosophy as
applied to education will find oppor-
tunity in a course offered by Dr. Green.
A special advantage for the study
of Philosophy at Yale is the close
cooperation of some of the other de-
partments. The student of Evolution
may study that theory not only in its
psychological and _ philosophical as-
pects, but also as a part of the same
course, in its biological aspect under
Prof. Williams of the Department of
Physical Science. The course in Hegel
to be given next year will be read in
the original German under the instruc-
tion of Prof. Palmer of the Modern
Language Department, as a preparation
for the philosophical study of the author
under Prof. Ladd.
The Philosophical Club, meeting bi-
weekly during the greater part of the
year, provides a common meeting place
for students and professors, where
papers are read and freely discussed,
and where lectures are given by eminent
scholars and writers from other univer-
sities. Many of the essays of these
men, which have created wide-spread
interest and discussion, were first pre-
sented before the Yale Philosophical
Club, witness James’ “Will to Believe”
and several of Prof. Royce’s essays.
The value of philosophical study
at Yale, moreover, is not a little en-
hanced by the variety of students which
it gathers from all parts, and the con-
sequent various points of view brought
out in discussion.
From all this it is evident what
progress Yale has made in this line of
work in a very few years, and what
advantages she offers for the most
advanced work in this Department.
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