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YALE ALUMNI WEEKLY
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ADVISORY BOARD.
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W. W. Sxippy, ’65S. J. A. HARTWELL, ’89 8.
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W. Camp, ’80. E. Van INGEN, ’9158.
W. G. DaaGeTT, ’80. P. Jay, 92.
EDITOR.
Lewis S. WELOH, ’89.
ASSOCIATE EDITOR.
Water Camp, ’80.
ASSISTANT EDITOR.
E. J. THompson, Sp.
NEWS EDITOR.
FRED. M. DAVIES, '99.
PRESTON KuMLER, 1900, Athletic Department.
Davip D. TENNEY, 1900, Special.
Entered as second class matier at New Haven P. 0.
New HAVEN, CONN., JULY 12, 1898.
Every Yale man who has informa-
tion about other Yale men who have
joined the Army or Navy, or may
hereafter enlist, are urged to send it
to us as promptly as possible, even
during the next few weeks when
the paper will not be issued. The
“Weekly” is especially anxious to
make its record of Yale men in the
Army and Navy complete at the
earliest possible moment and will
attempt to cover the field quite thor-
oughly in the opening issue of the
next year, for which it is none too
early to provide. This office is the
only place where these records are
being gathered, and as the record is
of great interest to all Yale men and
of great credit to all Yale, we very
strongly urge your co-operation in
this task. Please do not hesitate to
send anything about yourself as well
as about others.
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THE NEXT WEEKLY.
With this Commencement issue, Vol-
ume VII of the YALE ALUMNI WEEKLY
is brought to a close. The first paper
of Volume VIII will be issued on or be-
fore September 15th, acording to our
custom, instituted last year. We intend
another year to print again forty issues
and it may be necessary to even in-
crease this number. It is the hope of
the WEEKLY that such efforts as have
been made this year, to cover the news
of Yale and Yale men, have met with
the approval of its constituency, and that
Yale men will continue in increasing
measure to co-operate with the editors
in developing the paper more and more
rapidly towards the ideal of a publica-
tion, published and edited by Yale men
in the interests of the University and of
all its sons and friends.
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THIS YEAR’S COMMENCEMENT.
Commencement Day is described in
general and in detail in other columns.
If our reports have succeeded in giving
an at all accurate picture of the day,
the impression of it will be that of a
~ day of peculiar interest and dignity and
importance. In all the varied formali-
ties as well as in the expressions of per-
sonal opinion in speeches, there was the
grand theme of country. It is a lesson
in the possibilities of Commencement. It
shows what the season may be and may
mean, if its thought centers on some
great theme. It is not enough that it
shall be merely a time of congratula-
tions and of merrymaking. We hope
that there may always be plenty of ma-
terial, as there has been in all Com-
mencements of late, for congratulations,
and we hope that Yale may never fail
to supply her returning sons with the
elixir of youth, even to the point of
spiritual intoxication. But an institu-
tion like Yale comes out before her
own sons and before the world in her
best light and truest form when she
rises to a subject higher than herself or
her own interests.
This year she offered to her country
her meed of praise and her full measure
of devotion, and as a University hailed
the Republic as that which rightly de-
manded her all and to which she would
only too gladly give her all; and so
Yale appeared in her best light as a
pillar in the structure of the state and
as an inexhaustible arsenal of
nation’s best forces.
We shall not always be under such
stress of national feeling. This war
will cease. But there is always present
some great issue in the fields of Univer-
sity service. Some great intellectual
triumph, which has been accomplished
for the benefit of all mankind, may be
that to which Yale may attune all the
exercises of her birthday celebration.
It is an inexpressibly valuable thing to
the young men who are sent out from
here, that in the light of a great cause,
to which she is unselfishly devoted,
they should truly see the strength and
the spirit of their nourishing mother.
THE PROPOSED NEW MUSEUM
BUILDING FOR YALE.
We present to our readers in the
present number a portrait of Professor
Marsh and, on another page, a view
of the completed Peabody Museum
with which his name will always be
associated. Our issue of January 2oth,
1898, contained the official announce-
ment’ of Professor Marsh’s important
gift to Yale, which was received with
great satisfaction by every friend of the
University. The priceless scientific col-
lections which he presented to his Alma
Mater on the first day of the year were
the most valuable single gift for science
ever made to the University, and taken
in connection with the fund previously
secured by him from his uncle, Mr.
George Peabody, placed this depart-
ment of the University on a_ sure
foundation, but still left the work to
be crowned by some other friend of
Yale. }
One object Professor Marsh had in
view in giving the results of his life
work to Yale at that time was evident
when the gift was made, and thus af-
forded an opportunity which should not
be neglected. The vast collections
which then became the property of
Yale are only in small part open to the
public or available for study, owing to
the limited space in the present museum
building, and must long remain so if
dependence is placed alone upon the
small reserve building fund left by Mr.
Peabody. A sum equal to one-half the
value of Professor Marsh’s gift would
now secure the main museum building,
for which the site is waiting and the
plans are already dtawn. The collec-
tions given by Professor Marsh would
fill this building, and all could be ready
for the Yale bi-centennial in I901. |
The importance of this new museum
building both to Yale and to science
was clearly stated in the last Report of
the President of the University, and the
following extract may be appropriately
repeated here:
“The events of the past year bring
forward again with greater emphasis
the necessity of having the main build-
the .
ing of the Museum erected without de-
lay. The present wing, completed more
than twenty years ago, has long been
totally inadequate for the requirements
of a modern museum. Not more than
a quarter of the scientific collections
now belonging to the University can
be exhibited in the limited space allotted
to them, while the remainder is neither
open to the public, nor available for
instruction. The work of original in-
vestigation, also, which should here find
its home, is so restricted that little can
be done with the rare and valuable
collections long waiting to have the
new facts they disclose placed on rec-
ord. The instruction which should ac-
company such work, both to under-
graduates, and especially to graduate
students, is likewise so limited, that
the whole University suffers, not from
the embarrassment of riches at hand,
but from mere lack of space to make
the riches available. The scientific
public outside of the University has also
for a long period been deprived of the
privilege of seeing the unique speci-
mens described and here deposited,
which in more fortunate museums
would be given places of honor.
“In a great number of instances,
eminent men, both from this country
and Europe, have come here for the
sole purpose of studying renowned type
specimens, which the Curators of the
Museum could only show them in store
rooms, with much trouble and labor.
Thus many specimens which bring
honor to the University by their pres-
ence receive scant courtesy in the
house of their friends, and both science
and the University suffer therefrom.
This state of things has reached its
limit, and every friend of Yale should
do his part in making the present con-
dition a thing of the past.
“What is imperatively needed is the
main Museum building, detailed plans
of which have long been drawn and
estimates of cost secured. The reserve
building fund left by Mr. Peabody now
amounts to over one hundred thousand
dollars. To make this building fire-
proof, and also large enough to con-
tain the collections now crowded
together in store rooms, and to place
the important specimens on exhibition,
would require about one hundred and
fifty thousand dollars in addition to the
sum just mentioned. If the work could
be commenced soon, the whole could be
ready for the Yale bi-centennial, and
thus the University would have a Mu-
seum worthy of itself and of science.”
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Several suggestions have come in for
the use of the Cruiser Fund surplus.
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For circulars and other information apply to
Prof. FRANCIS WAYLAND,
Dean.
It is hoped that a number more may be
received before the time comes for its
final disposition.
In sending the last check for the
Long Island Alumni Association, Mr.
Sanford E. Cobb, Treasurer, suggested
that it be made the nucleus for the fund
for the new University Hall. He thinks
that such a hall as this ought to be built
by the alumni as a memorial to the Yale
men who have served their country in
the past, and that its existence would
give lasting testimony to the spirit
which has prompted the extremely
generous response to the call for sub-
scriptions for the Cruiser Yale. Mr.
Cobb believes that the alumni could
build such a hall, and that well-organ-
ized work would bring the funds from
them.
As to the guns themselves, Mr. War-
ren G. Waterman, of the Class of
Ninety-Two, suggests that these guns
should be kept in service. He says
that if the Yale goes out of com-
mission, it is probable that some battle
ship of the new navy will be named
for the State of Connecticut, or that
New Haven might receive the honor of
naming a cruiser. In that case, Mr.
Waterman says these guns might very
properly continue in active service, and
represent our alma mater on a war
vessel named after her State or her city.
As for the desirability of having some
trophy here, Mr. Waterman thinks that
the colors would be sufficient for that
purpose.
These suggestions will properly come
up: for action at some future meeting,
when the close or development of the
war will enable the Committee to judge
most wisely as to the proper use of
the money, and as to any action that
may be possible in regard to the gifts
already made. However, one thing
ought to be clear. Yale’s gifts were
made without reservation and no at-
tempt will be made to disturb them in
any use the Government may see fit. to
make. When the time comes, as it
may, when either one of them is no
longer actually serviceable, it will be
proper to take some action in regard
to it.
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DR. McKINLEY OF YALE.
It is entirely superfluous to say any-
thing of the spirit in which Yale wel-
comes President McKinley to the com-
pany of her sons. If you were in Bat-
tell Chapel on the morning of Wednes-
day, June 29, you can not be informed
on the subject. If you were not there
you will get some idea by talking with
one who was there or by reading the
description in another part of the paper.
But after all you probably do not need
to do any of these things. If you are
a Yale man, you know how you feel
yourself. We all feel the same way.
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One collection of Yale athletes has
put Yale under obligation more than
once this last month. The issue at New
York on Saturday gives another very
welcome opportunity to express our ap-
preciation, and, indeed, the apprecia-
tion of all Yale, of the way in whicl
the Nine has conducted itself. It is
very pleasant that players of such talem
led by a captain of such worth, both a
a Yale man and as a Yale athlete
should accomplish so well what is se
-out for them.
