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YALHE ALUMNI
WEEKLY
YALE ALUMNI WEEKLY
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the Yale Alumni Weekly.
ll correspondence should be addressed,—
itis Pyal le Alumni Weekly, New Haven, Conn.
The office is at Room 6, White Hall.
ADVISORY BOARD.
H. C. Roprnson, 53. J.R. SHEFFIELD, ’87.
W.W.SxKrppy,’65S. J. A.HarTwELt, ’89 5S.
C. P. Linpstey,’%5 8. L.S. WELCH, ’89.
W. Camp, ’80. E. Van INGEN, ’91 §.
W.G. DaaGetTt, 80. P. Jay, 792.
EDITOR.
Lewis S. WELOH, ’89.
ASSOCIATE EDITOR.
WALTER Camp, ’80.
ASSISTANT EDITOR.
E. J. Tmompson, Sp.
NEWS EDITOR.
Frep. M. Daviss, ’99.
ASSISTANT.
PRESTON KuUMLER, 1900.
BUSINESS DEPARTMENT ASSISTANTS.
O. M. CLARK, 798. BURNETT GoopwIN, 99S.
Entered as second class matter at New Haven P. O.
New HAveEN, Conn., Oct. 6, 1898.
YALE MEMORIALS.
One or two questions have been asked
about memorials for the Yale men who
died from wounds or sickness in the late
war. If we may be pardoned the
suggestion, we think it a little prema-
ture to consider that now. Action
should be taken before long, but the
record of the sacrifices of Yale cannot
yet be made up, and it would be unwise
to attempt, as (it. seems to. us, any
memorials at present. Of course we do
not wish to stand in the way of any
work of this sort among special friends
for some individual, but it would seem
wise to have this work carried out in
harmony, and, if any general memorial
is to be erected, that all should join in
that. This is only a suggestion. We
should be pleased to receive any com-
munication on the subject.
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GRASS ON THE CAMPUS.
During the Summer some further ex-
periments in grass raising have been
made by the Campus management with
considerable success. Two or three ad-
ditional plots, guarded by a simple and
severe wire fencing, are now in a state
of cultivation at the southern end of the
Campus. As yet the plow has not
turned the sacred sands in front of
Durfee, and no venturesome seed has
sought to obstruct the path of the
Senior base runner, or to fill the de-
pressions which mark the battle fields
of nigger baby.
Will the attempt ever be made to
make a nice pleasant lawn on that part
of the Campus? There is certainly a
plan to accomplish this by the removal
of the simple sports, which are allowed
after four in the afternoon, to some
special enclosure near the Campus—a
sort of playground. If it were not too
pathetic, it would be worth the while,
just for the fun of it, to see a company
of Seniors told to walk off two or three
blocks, and on a certain piece of dirt
perpetrate the absurdities of Senior
baseball or the skillful sport of nigger
baby, being especially assured, as to the
latter, that a good board fence was just
as serviceable as the stones of Alumni
Hall, for the final scene of the drama.
It is hard to understand just how any-
body conceived it possible to take up
these native plants and to put them in
strange soil. These curious customs,
harmless sports, glorious good times,
social levelers, are the results of the
natural gatherings of a hundred or more
students. These students do not come
together to play these games. They are
gathered on the Campus, where they
live, and they must do something. Of
course they do something unusual.
Shall we tell them to go to the Yale
College playground at certain hours of
the day and “do stunts’? That is what
it means to look at the Campus as
merely a subject for artistic treatment. .
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THE **‘NEWS’? CHANGES.
Any improvement in a Yale institu-
tion is to be welcomed. But it is with
more than the usual enthusiasm for such
improvements that we commend the
Yale News for its latest step forward,
or rather its steps forward. The hour
of publication has been pushed ahead
a whole half day and the News is now
ready to tell the story of the day pre-
ceding before that story is an old one.
This move has increased its utility
many fold. It has placed itself in a
position to be relied upon for the first
full report of the twenty-four hours in
the college world. It is perfectly able to
fill the position, and the increased sense
of usefulness and responsibility as a
news gatherer will react, strongly
stimulating its own efforts. Half its
good was thrown away when it first
appeared at noon.
The change meant an entire reorgani-
zation in the publication plans and a
considerable increase of expense. We
like to see such willingness to go ahead
and trust the College to do its part.
Tn order to fill this position of a Col-
lege newspaper, to be relied upon for
actual news, a change has been made
in the plan of work in the office, which
introduces a continuous system and
direct responsibility, where both were
much needed. It took energy and per-
severance and confidence to put these
changes through. We congratulate Mr.
Day, the Chairman, who has worked
for the reforms so long and so hard;
Mr. Conner, the Business Manager,
who has not hesitated to assume the
greater financial burdens of the new
order, and the entire Board of Editors,
who have endorsed and made possible
the reforms. . |
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DOCTOR WHITE’S GIFTS.
Yale loses a most Itberal benefactor
in the death of Dr. Andrew Judson
White. The large dormitory which
bears his name was planned and com-
pleted on a very generous plan. The
total of Dr. White’s gifts for this build-
ing finally far exceeded the sum orig-
inally considered necessary for the
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PROFESSOR E. H. SNEATH.
erection of a dormitory of the first class.
The result has been a building which
is in many ways the most satisfactory
dormitory Yale or any other college
ever erected. It has been frequently
examined by officers of other institu-
tions and many of its features have been
incorporated in the plans for similar
buildings elsewhere.
Dr. White’s benefaction was particu-
larly appreciated by the students. He
made it a part of his plans to give their
papers permanent offices in White Hall,
and these offices he outfitted most gen-
erously and effectively. The result has
been, naturally, most beneficial to the
papers.
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IMPROVEMENT SLOW.
Eleven Needs Heavy Material Badly—
Center Still Unfilled.
The work of the candidates for the
University Football Team during the
past week failed to show the expected
advance. Saturday’s game with Wes-
leyan was far from satisfactory in many
respects, and the improvement which is
looked for in a Yale Eleven after a poor
showing in an early-season game was
not apparent in the work of Monday
and Tuesday. The disappointing work
may be attributed in part, however, to
the hot weather.
As the season advances tthe need of
heavy material to fill the vacant posi-
tions at center, left-guard and _left-
tackle becomes more apparent. The
call for Freshmen candidates failed to
bring anything out. No center has
been found whose work approaches the
Yale standard. Magee has been given
a trial at the position for the last few
days, but his playing is little or none
better than that of the other candidates.
The play of the ends has shown some
improvement. :
FLT: Murphy, “97: |. OQ) Rodeets,
98; Harmon Graves; G. F. Sanford,
"07 a a eS. Butterworth, O53 VEE 3
Bull, 88 S__ and Walter Camp, ’80, as-
sisted Captain Chamberlin in directing
the play last week.
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Princeton Opens.’
Princeton University began its 152d
year on Wednesday, the 21st of Sept.
President Patton invoked the blessing
at the opening exercises in the Chapel,
and he addressed the students briefly.
President Patton, on behalf of the
College, welcomed Walter A. Wyckoff,
who will conduct entirely the courses
in Political Economy in the School of
Science. Mr. Wyckoff’s personal sacri-
fices in his chosen science received
commendation.
All of the courses in the School of
Science have been improved, the course
in Civil Engineering receiving especial
attention. President Patton alluded to
his theory of wide range in the choice of
electives, and hinted that the largest lib-
erty would be allowed.
It cannot be accurately stated how
large the attendance at the university
will be this year, but the lowest authori-
tative estimates place the enrollment at
1200, an increase of 200 over that of last
year. The first classes were held on
Thursday, a week before Yale opened.
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most privileges and on the most favor-
able terms, of any Company. Under
its new system of classifying and com-
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FACULTY CHANGES.
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DR. E. W. SCRIPTURE.
Dr. Edward W. Scripture, Ph.D., re-
ceived the title of Director of the
Laboratory of the Department of
Philosophy, in the College. Dr. Scrip-
ture’s appointment as Instructor in Ex-
perimental Psychology dates from 1892.
MR. EDWARD M. WEYER.
Dr. Edward M. Weyer, who receives
an appointment as Assistant in the
Laboratory of the Department of
Philosophy, joined the Class of Yale
’95 in Junior year from the University
ASST, PROFESSOR C. S. BALDWIN.
of Wisconsin. Soon after graduation he
went to Leipzig to continue his studies
in Experimental and Physiological
Psychology under Wundt, and received
there the degree of Ph. D.
HERBERT E. GREGORY.
Mr. H. E. Gregory, who was ap-
pointed Instructor in Physical Geogra-
phy for the coming year, was graduated
from Yale in 1806. Since graduation
Mr. Gregory has been in the Graduate
Department and has been Laboratory
Assistant in Biology; and spends his
Summer in the employ of the United
States Government Survey in the north-
trn part of Maine.
GEORGE GRANT MACURDY.
Mr. George Grant MaCurdy, M.A.,
who was made Instructor in Pre-His-
toric Anthropology in the Graduate
School, was graduated from Harvard in
1893. Since his graduation he has been
studying abroad.
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New Princeton Grand Stands.
The building of the new grand stands
on Brokaw’s Field at Princeton, in pre-
paration for the Yale-Princeton game
this Fall, is now well under way. I's
large area give abundant room for the
accommodation of a large crowd, and
the contract entered into provides for
grand stands seating I2,000 persons.
The Field is so situated that ‘the rail-
road can land its passengers within a
few feet of the entrance, thus greatly
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Enroliment Unfinished.
Registration figures for all the De-
partments of the University will appear
in the next issue. At the time of going
to press none of the Departments had
completed its enrollment.
Yale Law School.
For circulars and other information apply to
Prof. FRANCIS WAYLAND,
Dean.
JOHN CORNELIUS GRIGGS, ’89,
Late Director Metropolitan College of Music.
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