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ADVISORY BOARD.
H, C, Roprnson, ’53. J. R. SHEFFIELD, ’87%.
W. W. Skippy, 65S. J. A. HARTWELL, ’895.
C. P. LINDsSLEY,’%5 S. L.S. WELCH, ’89.
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EDITOR.
Lewis S. WELOoH, ’89.
ASSOCIATE EDITOR.
WALTER Camp, ’80.
ASSISTANT EDITOR.
E. J. THoMPsoN, Sp.
NEWS EDITOR.
FRED. M. Davriss, ’99.
PRESTON KuUMLER, 1900, Athletic Department.
Davip D. Tenney, 1900, Special.
Entered as second class matter at New Haven P. O.
NEW HAVEN, CONN., JUNE 16, 1898.
TO THE NINE.
It is a very great pleasure to be able
to congratulate the Nine on the re-
covery from the disaster which came
in the first five innings of the first
Princeton game in New Haven. The
rally is according to the best traditions
of this place. The University and
alumni now expect it to be maintained
and count confidently on a good exhibi-
tion of baseball in New York on Satur-
day. We beg to offer our compliments
to Captain Greenway and his coadjy-
tors and we wish especially to assure
Mr. Carter and Mr. Beall of the grate-
ful appreciation of Yale.
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THE YALE CREW.
The almost impossible must happen
to prevent a good record of Yale row-
ing at New London. next week. Will
the Blue win? We know absolutely
nothing about it. We are not talking
about that. That is not the absolutely
essential point. But Yale must row
well. And her Crew certainly should
row well. They are men of good
material, both as to their muscle and
as to the qualities of head and heart.
They have worked hard and been in
good discipline and training, according
to the habit of any good Yale athletic
organization. Their Captain has han-
dled them well and codperate with Mr.
Cook excellently. The work has been
along a single system with one man
in control. That is the only way any
branch of athletics can be well con-
ducted.
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WHAT YALE IS DOING.
The article on the Philosophical
Department published in last week’s
issue has already been considerably
quoted as a summary of the principal
accomplishments hitherto and a state-
ment of what is just now being done
in the way of teaching Philosophy at
Yale. This is the kind of information
about Yale, as we have said before, that
we want especially to give and a very
large number of our graduates want to
receive. It is the kind of information
which requires special effort to present
in a complete and accurate form, and
the paper has congratulated itself on
being able to secure from the best
sources this series of articles, of which
two have now been published giving
a quite thorough resume of each de-
partment. It is possible that another
will be published in the present volume.
At any rate, the series will be con-
tinued next year. We desire to develop
more and more on this line. Progress
towards covering this side of the Uni-
versity news was necessarily slow. It
has been rather a pleasant surprise, that
it has gone along as fast as it has. The
current Campus events are more easily
gathered in. The more serious side of
University work is more difficult of
presentation. The WEEKLY will not be
satisfied until it presents each week a.
very complete record of everything
which is being done in the name of
education in any direction in this great
University.
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YALE ATHLETICS.
In the Yale athletic adverses of recent
times, which have been rather the rule
than the exception, some writers are
finding a decline of the “athletic craze,”
as they call it. The observation is late
and inaccurate. Five or six years ago
there was noticed a decreased intensity
of feeling in this branch of college life.
The most active athletes used to say, as
long ago as Ninety-Four and Ninety-
Five, that the era of the extreme in
athleticism had gone by. That was
well.
But since then Yale has gone into
athletics with the utmost zeal and en-
thusiasm, and there has been, on the
part of those most intelligently and
actively interested in the life of the Col-
lege, no let-up in the desire and the
hope that Yale should accomplish her
athletic work with thoroughness and
system and intelligence. The more
philosophic and more truly sportsman-
like attitude as to the final score,—that
is, the feeling that it was not absolutely
necessary, under all conditions, that the
points should at the end be in favor of
this University,—has not lessened the
feeling -that it is absolutely necessary
that, under all conditions, and in every
branch of sport, Yale University should
do her work well; should show that as
an organization she is systematic, dis-
ciplined, intelligent, far-seeing, zealous,
full of enthusiasm. If she does not
show these things in any branch of
sport she enters, she would better with-
draw altogether from it.
But the fact of this calmer and soberer
view of athletics has nothing to do with
the present conduct of athletics at
Yale or the results of it. The feeling
came long before last Fall, but there
never has been a more intense applica-
tion of the entire University to the end
of developing a good football team,
than in the consulate of Rodgers. And
no one ever appreciated more keenly
than during last season that it was un-
reasonable and discreditable for Yale
to continue to play football as badly as
she had been playing it.
was given to one man, which is ever
the way in successful athletics, but the
University was made to feel and the
alumni were made to feel that the suc-
cess of that football team was a part
of the interest of everybody. It did no
harm to Yale to have that feeling go
through the institution. It did a great
deal of good in every way to the place.
An application of the principles that
were successful there must be made in
other branches. It adds excitement to
miss a game, even by slovenly playing,
and then recover in a splendid brace,
greatly to the credit of the individuals
accomplishing it. But it does not help
the reputation of Yale. We admire the
spirit of the men who bore the brunt
of the work on the track team this year
and the way they persisted in the face
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of very adverse circumstances and with
the promise of certain defeat. But was
it well for the University that they
should be tremendously beaten? It is
a fine state of college athletics when
there isn’t money enough in the treasury
to feed its athletes, and when there
isn’t a place for them decently to train.
It does not reflect credit upon the fore-
sight of the management of years past
when the loss of two or three men
spoiled all chance for successful con-
LEST.
And as to this special branch, men
say that the willingness of Yale and
Harvard to even consider an exclusive
dual meet in track athletics, shows a-
waning of interest. We must be al-
lowed to say that it does not show this
It shows that some men con-
sider there are serious obstacles to satis-
factory competition in intercollegiate
meets, as they are now managed. Yale
has said nothing about these obstacles,
but has gone in and taken her medicine.
She would better not say anything
about these obstacles. As long as she
is a member of the Intercollegiate
Association, she thereby asserts her be-
lief in the equity of its conditions and
says to the world that it is a good form
of competition in track and field athlet-
ics. Now, if it is true that these ob-
jections exist, Yale should see to it that
they are removed and not allow individ-
uals to talk about them quietly, while
the University’s team formally denies
them and goes down to certain defeat.
Then there is the lack of development
of baseball material in the last five
or six years,—the reliance on stars, the
failure to make pitchers. All these
things show a radical fault. There is
a lack of continuity in policy, a failure
to profit by lessons in experience.
When Yale was winning several years
ago, or rather, we should say, when she
was putting out the best teams, it was
because of the codperation between
those who had the experience and were
willing to apply it and those who had
command of the athletic affairs. Until
that old system, which conserved all
the essentials of Yale’s best athletic
traditions, is restored in some perma-
nent form, Yale will continue to have
her downs along with her ups and the
downs will probably grow more fre-
quent rather than less so. And the
University will suffer in reputation and
the men in the University will not re-
ceive the same benefit from athletics.
Undergraduate Yale is full to overflow-
ing of fine material and fine spirit.
Graduate Yale 1s°as ready as ever to
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cooperate, without interfering or assum-
ing authority which belongs to the
leaders in the field. Why don’t they
work together better?
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SPECIAL NOTICES.
[Class and Association Secretaries are invited to
use this column.]
Sixteen of Forty-Eight Will
Return.
The following are the names and
addresses of the survivors of the Class
of Forty-Eight, so far as known to the
Secretary. The names marked with
a star are of those men who expect to
attend the reunion at Commencement :
Samuel E. Baldwin, Depere, Wis.
*James Bird, Great Barrington, 2725s.
*Henry T. Blake, New Haven, Conn.
*Rev. Henry Blodget, D.D., Bridge-
port, Conn. oS
*Ebenezer Buckingham, 2036 Prairie
ave., Chicago, II].
«Hon. David S. Calhoun, Hartford,
Conn.
Hon. Charles M. Cullen, Georgetown,
Del.
Samuel Emerson, University of Vir-
ginia, Va.
Franklin R. Grist?
*Charles S. Hall, Binghamton, N. Y.
*James C. Hinsdale, Meriden, Conn.
Hon. Henry Hitchcock, LL.D., St.
Louis, Mo.
Daniel Holmes, Brockport, N. Y.
*Rev. John P. Hubbard, 1600 Master
st., Philadelphia, Pa.
*Francis T. Jarman,
Conn.
Caleb Lamson, Lynn, Mass.
*George Langdon, Plymouth, Conn.
*Arthur D. Osborne, New Haven,
Conn.
*Rey... denry MM. Parsons, . D.D.,
Toronto, Canada.
Rev. Thomas R. G. Peck, Port Jeffer-
Son, i. 1.
*Samuel C. Perkins, LL.D., 627 Wal-
nut st., Philadelphia, Pa.
Thomas C. Pinckard, Opelika, Ala.
*Timothy H. Porter, Stamford, Conn.
*John H. Pumpelly, Albany, N. Y.
Rev. Joseph Rowell, San Francisco,
New Haven,
al.
Charles Selden, 705 President st.,
Brooklyn, N. Y. | :
*Hon. Nathaniel Shipman, LL.D.,
Hartford, Conn.
Samuel S. Spencer, Erie, Pa.
Sidney Webster, 245 E. 17th st., New
York City.
Hon. George White, Newton Lower
Falls, Mass.
Prof. G. Buckingham Willcox, D.D.,
512 Washington Boulevard, Chicago,
Til.
Dr. M. Augustus Withers, Potts-
town, Pa.
Ninety-Five Triennial.
The Triennial exercises for the Class
of Ninety-Five, which will take place
on Tuesday, June 28th, will be as fol-
lows: At 9 A. mM. the General Alumni
Meeting in Alumni Hall; at 10.30 ‘a. M.
the Business meeting of the Class in
176 Lyceum, after which a photograph
