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ADVISORY BOARD.
H, C, RosBinson, ’53. J. R. SHEFFIELD, ’87.
W. W. Skippy, ’65S. J. A. HARTWELL, ’89 58.
C. P. LINDSLEY,’75S. L.S. WELCH, ’89.
W. Camp, ’80, E. VAN INGEN, 791 S.
W.G. Daaaert,’80. P. Jay, 92.
EDITOR.
Lewis 8. WELCH, ’89.
ASSOCIATE EDITOR.
WALTER Camp, ’80,
ASSISTANT EDITOR,
E. J. TuHompson, Sp.
NEWS EDITOR,
FRED. M, Davtss, '99.
PRESTON KuMLER, 1900, Athletic Department.
Davip D. Tenney, 1900, Special.
Entered as second class matter @t New Haven P. O.
NEW HAVEN, Conn., JUNE 25, 1898.
AS TO ROWING.
Cornell can certainly row. No one
has seriously doubted this for a space
of years, but the statement could not of
yore be made with quite the conviction
of these latter days. She has done
magnificent work at both Poughkeepsie
and New London. Lift hats
plucky champion!
The entry of the Ithacans into the
races of the last two years has been
a good thing for rowing at both Yale
and Harvard. Had Yale been given
only the task of defeating Harvard,
in 1897 and 1808, there would have
been easy work for her. Now she
has something more serious to contem-
plate than the heading of her old rival.
These afflictions will be sanctified to
her, ;
In all sincerity we are sorry to see
another such lamentable failure by Har-
vard. What in the world is the matter? .
th die,
Fin Min tl
THE YALE CREWS.
Yale is proud of both of them. You
could not ask for a better set of young
men than sat in the University shell.
You could not demand more industry
or enthusiasm than they showed all the
season. You could not wish for more
effective codperation that there has
been from the start between the Cap-
tain and the Coach. That is why Yale
stands by Mr. Whitney and Mr. Cook
and every individual oarsman to-day.
We are very happy about 1901. Mr.
Rodgers and his boys are pretty good.
A REMARKABLE PIECE OF DISCI-
PLINE.
It is very much the desire of the
WEEKLY to say things as plainly as it
can, and to be understood as meaning
what it says. When the statement is
made that individuals are all right, but
that the general conduct of athletics at
Yale is not satisfactory, the proposition
is intended for literal construction. If
the WEEKLY believed that the interests
of Yale which were consigned to them
were not being properly taken care of
by any particular set of athletes,
it would not hestitate to say so, and
would say so as directly as possible.
When the incident of a bad defeat in
baseball called attention again to the
weakness of the general system, word
was sent to us that we were giving
pretty severe criticism to the ball nine.
to a
It seems as if anybody with half an eye
would have avoided that mistake.
Since our recent references to the lack
of certain elements in the general man-
agement of athletics from year to year,
Yale has proved her title to some of the
virtues which her admirers have claimed
for her, by a remarkable stand at the
eleventh hour in the contest for cham-
pionship on the diamond. We cannot
express too strongly our admiration for
the men who made this brace possible,
the Captain and his team, and the
graduates who helped them. They all
showed the right spirit and_ great
ability. It is particularly pleasant to
see an athlete of the character and rec-
ord of the present Captain of the Nine,
who has been a member of that organi-
zation through so many unfortunate
periods, lead his team at last to a sub-
stantial and most encouraging victory.
These facts, in which we take such
pride, do not affect the general situa-
tion which we have been discussing.
There is the same lack of continuity in.
the way of developing teams and of
directing them, in their relations to the
public and to the Faculty and to the
graduates. As to the relations to the
Faculty, a very strong case is in point.
The members of the Freshman Crew
were very seriously handicapped by a
rule requiring them to return to New
Haven for examinations after they had
been allowed to go to New London for
practice. No one unfamiliar with the
circumstances of training can appreciate
how serious this restriction was. A
trip to New Haven and back again,
conducted in the simplest, most con-
scientious way, will off-set days of
coaching, and it takes much time for a
crew to recover from the interruption.
This is particularly true of the later
days of the season, when everything is
devoted to the rounding off of the finer
points and the blending of individuals
into an harmonious whole. To say
that the Freshmen must come back to
New Haven two days before their race
was to say to them that they would be
at the outset heavily handicapped in
that race.
And what was it all for? For the sins
of: their predeeéssors. ‘-Dhat- was, at
least, the only reason vouchsafed. Last
year certain members of the Freshman
Crew were most unresponsive to the
trust placed in them. They cribbed at
New London, at a time when they were
especially on their honor; at a time
when all their instincts of College
loyalty, combined with their instincts
of ethics, ought to have prevented it.
No language can be too strong for this
act under such circumstances. It is
bad enough under any circumstances.
But what shall we say of the idea of
justice inculcated in the undergraduate
mind, when a set of innocent men,
striving hard for the glory of their Class
and their College, are burdened with un-
reasonable and unnecessary restrictions
because somebody else was thus dis-
honorable? It is very questionable
how far the sins of the individual ought
to be visited upon the community.
There does not seem to be any question
as to the right to visit the sins of one
community upon another.
But we did not start out to discuss
this incident; merely to refer to it. If
Yale athletes were taking advantage of
. the lessons of experience, the most
youthful and thoughtless of them would
never be allowed to go into an examina-
tion with the thought that it was pos-
sible to crib. Secondly, if any one set
of athletes were guilty of some such
great offence, and the Faculty were bent
on inflicting a penalty for it, we believe
it would be possible to suggest some
courses to the government of Yale that —
would be more effective than such a re-
markable plan of vicarious sacrifice.
There must be some way of regulat-
ing the very large athletic interests of
this student body that will dispense
with some of the grotesque blunders on
both sides.
CLASS REUNIONS.
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anniversary of the Class on Tuesday. A
business meeting will be held in the
morning and the Class dinner will occur
at 6 p. mM. D. G. Brinton will speak
for the Class at the Alumni meeting.
SIXTY-THREE.
The thirty-fifth anniversary reunion
of the Class of Sixty-Three will occur
on Tuesday next. It is expected that
a very large proportion of the members
will be present. The business meeting
will be held in E2 Osborn Hall at 12
o'clock noon, and the Class dinner at
the Ansantawae Club, Savin Rock, at
about 7.30 o’clock in the evening.
SIXTY-EIGHT.
The thirtieth anniversary of the Class
of Sixty-Eight will occur on Tuesday.
About thirty are expected to be present.
The business meeting will be held in F 2
Osborn Hall at twelve o’clock, noon.
The Class supper will be served at the
New Haven Lawn Club House at 8
p. M. Although the Class will not
attend the ball game in a body, many
expect to go and sit together.
SEVENTY-THREE.
The plan for Seventy-Three’s 25th
Anniversary has been in progress for
several months, and a large guaranty —
fund insures a very successful reunion
on June 28, 1808. ;
The business meeting of the Class is
to be held at Room F 1, Osborn Hall,
at twelve o’clock noon.
The Class will go in a body to the
baseball game at two o’clock, starting
in special trolley cars from Chapel
stfeet: near: Ptinity Chirkh.
At 7 Pp. M. the Class will assemble
at entrance to Osborn Hall and go in
a body to the Class dinner, which
will’ be held at 7:30. P: ‘M.,; at the
Young Men’s Republican Club, corner
of Crown and Temple Streets. Sixty
men have agreed to be present at the
reunion, with a probability of a few
more. Mr. Hart Lyman, of the New
York Tribune, is to preside at the din-
ner. Hon. Eben Alexander, our. ex-
minister to Greece, will respond to the
toast, - “Our. Country.” * Mr. “Robert
Williams, Vice-President and Genl.
.Manager of the Burlington, Cedar
Rapids. and Northern Railway, will
respond to the toast, “Yale”! -: Hon.
Samuel O. Prentice, Judge of the
Superior Court, of Hartford, Connec-
ticut, will respond to the toast, ‘’
ami. Pron. te iso Larbell,: of the (nse
versity of Chicago, will respond to the
toast, “The University and the World.”
Sherry of New York is to furnish the
dinner.
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SEVENTY-EIGHT.
The twentieth anniversary of the Class
of Seventy-Eight will be held next
Tuesday. The business meeting will
be held at 11.30 A. M. in 175 Lyceum.
At one o'clock there will be lunch at
the New Haven Lawn Club on Whit-
ney avenue, to which the members of
the Class and families are invited.
After lunch the Class will attend the
baseball game in a body. The Class
dinner will take place at 7.30 Pp. M., in
the Anderson Gymnasium on York
street. Members of the Class may se-
cure rooms in West Divinity at the
price of one dollar a day.
EIGHTY-THREE,
The fifteenth anniversary reunion of
the Class of Eighty-Three will be held
on Tuesday, June 28. The business
meeting will be held at twelve o’clock,
noon, in A2 Osborn Hall. In the
afternoon the Class will attend the Yale-
Harvard ball game in a body. The
Class dinner will be held at Veru Hall,
156 Orange street, at about seven
o'clock: There is promise of a large
attendance at the reunion, as about
eighty have signified their intention of
being present.
EIGHTY-THREE SHEFF.
The Supper Committee have -made
every effort to make the reunion of
Eighty-Three Sheff. a grand one. At
least thirty men will be present. There
will be a business meeting at Room 112
Winchester Hall, at five o’clock in the
afternoon on Tuesday, June 28, followed
by the Class supper at Traeger’s at
seven o’clock.
EIGHTY-EIGHT.
At least seventy-five men will be pres-
ent at the Decennial of the Class of
Eighty-Eight. As the Class at grad-
uation numbered only about one hun-
dred and twenty, this is an unusually
large number to. be present. The
business meeting will be held at 11.45
A. M. At two o'clock the Class. wiil
assemble at Osborn Hall and go in a
body to the Yale-Harvard ball game,
attended by the Wheeler and Wilson
band. At six o’clock the Class will
again assemble at Osborn Hall and
march in a body to Arion Hall, where
the Class dinner will be held.
EIGHTY-EIGHT SHEFF.
The Decennial reunion of-the Class
of Eighty-eight S. will be held on
Tuesday. The business meeting will be
held at 1m A. M. in Room 28, North
Sheffield Hall. At 2 Pp. m. the Class
will form at South Sheffeld Hall, and
headed by the Wallingford Band will
go to the ball game. The Class
banquet will be held at 7.30 o’clock at
Stewart’s and not at Heublein’s, as
previously announced. About forty
men are expected to be present.
NINETY-TWO.
The Sexennial reunion of the Class
of Ninety-Two will occur on Tuesday,
June 28. About one hundred men are
