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C. P. Linpsiey,’7%5 8. L.S. WELCH, ’89.
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W.G. Daaaetr, 80. P. Jay, ’9.
EDITOR.
Lewis S. WELCH, °89.
ASSOCIATE EDITOR.
WALTER CAMP, ’89.
ASSISTANT EDITOR.
E. J. THompson, Sp.
NEWS EDITOR.
Frep. M. DAVIES, ’99.
ASSISTANT.
PRESTON KUMLER, 1900.
BUSINESS DEPARTMENT ASSISTANTS.
O. M. CLARE, "98. BURNETT GOODWIN, ’995.
Entered as second class matter at New Haven P. O.
NEw HAVEN, Conn., OcT. 27, 1898.
THE ONLY MEANS.
Yale athletics are not in the most en-
couraging condition. In at least three
branches things are at sixes and sevens.
But the football situation can be re-
deemed. The right kind of coaching
and enough of it the next ten days will
do it.
WHY NOT MORE SEATS?
The rush for seats for the big foot-
ball games is already under way. . As
closely and carefully and conscien-
tiously as the distribution of seats is
now guarded, the fact remains that
many people who ought to have the
tickets do not have them or else have
those which are not very desirable.
As long as it is possible to increase the
number of good seats, we do not quite
see why it is not done. The seats cer-
tainly would sell and the point has not
been reached yet where it is necessary
to call a halt to the crowds on account
of their size or character. So with
good people to sell them to, it simply
means having more money, and that
means less of a burden on the alumni
and the undergraduates for the proper
support of athletics.
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THE CHAMBER CONCERTS.
The evenings are generally filled up
in a University town like New Haven.
But the number of entertainments of
the very first class are never too num-
erous and New Haven has certainly
never been surfeited with good music.
It would be a very serious mistake for
people to lose sight, amid all the other
engagments of the winter, of the dates
of such choice entertainments as the
Chamber concerts. They are, in a way,
a part of the education of the students
who are here, but it is the good fortune
of others who live in New Haven that
they can share in them.
If the graduates in town appreciated
the situation, they would hardly need
to be talked to about it. The concerts
have not lacked of support; but the
price is put so low in order to open
the door to as many as possible, that
the appreciation must be general and
generous, in order to justify the step.
People can go to these concerts and
pay only a little more than half as much
as they are required to for similar enter-
tainments in such a city as Hartford,
and less than half the price that is
asked for such an entertainment in New
York.
Those who have mislaid their notices,
YALE ALUMNI WHEEEXKLY
or wish for any information as to secur-
ing tickets, may write to the WEEKLY.
We will be very glad to send a prompt
answer to any inquiries.
THE INTEREST IN DEBATE.
At Yale we look to students in any
matter in which students are particu-
lack of interest in debate. The point
was made that the college need only
to be taught to appreciate platform
work, and that they would then, with-
out doubt, show their appreciation of
platform workers.
At Yale we look to students in those
matters in which students are particu-
larly interested, leaving the responsibil-
ity on them for its development and its
good handling. More and more de-
bate has been placed alongside of ath-
letics as an intercollegiate struggle;
so more and more do critics look to
the students to take care of it, just as
they look to them to care for athletics.
Is this reasonable? Is it not easy
to go too far in this direction? Ath-
letics are self-stimulating. It is natural
for youth to love them, and the only dif-
ficulty that has been found in connec-
tion with them has been that of restrain-
ing the interest within reasonable
bounds. It is not so with debate.
Without the stimulating and inspiriting
presence of great debaters the general
atmosphere becomes one of indifference
towards the subject; and since this
country has lacked such great debaters,
and since those who have taken the
platform have been, in a large majority
of cases, verbose declaimers, there has
been indifference and sometimes dis-
gust with the whole subject. The feel-
ing has grown that the orator was a
man of words. ‘It is better to do
things than to be windy,” is the popu-
lar philosophy. We all know the im-
portance of the talent of oratory in the
public service and that the power of the
orator has not been taken away from
him by the power of the printed page.
The fact was stated by Dr. Depew, in
an address at New Haven, at one of the
intercollegiate debates, that you can
count on the fingers of one hand the
men in New York to-day who can
always be relied upon for effective plat-
form service. And everybody knows
that those men are overworked.
The need is for special effort to keep
in the mind of students the high import-
ance of this art. Is Yale doing every-
thing that she can in this line? Is
oratory set before the general body of
students as it should be? It is impos-
sible that this is so. Look at our Ten
Eyck and Townsend men. They have
excellent training for a very brief sea-
son, but the result is often pathetic, and
we wonder less at the lack of interest
in the efforts of Ten Eyck and Town-
send speakers, when we see how they
speak. It cannot be otherwise without
plenty of training orators are-made.
The great majority of men go
through Yale without ever realizing how
much they lack in their inability to
think on their feet, and to express their
thoughts in language which is not only
clear, but pleasant and attractive and
forcible. ool |
Ought this thing so to be, and must
not this end of the problem be tackled
before we can satisfactorily revive de-
bate?
The report which has been more or
less in circulation for a number of
months that, in January next, Professor
George J. Brush’s term as Director of
the Sheffield Scientific School would
expire and that he was unwilling to
make any new arrangements to con-
tinue longer in the service, has found
its way into the newspapers. Professor
Brush declines to make any statement
in the miatter whatever. The report
is not a great surprise to the friends
of the School, for they have been ex-
pecting such a decision for a long
while. They now generally admit with
regret that it is probably true. How-
ever, the matter will not be considered
definitely settled until some official
announcement is made. There will be
time enough when that comes, if it
does come, to review the story of Pro-
fessor Brush’s conspicuously success-
ful administration. Professor Brush
has been a professor in the Scientific
School for forty-three years and has
been its executive head since 1872.
ALUMNI NOTES.
[Continued from 47th page.]
’97 T.S.—Rev. Austin Rice has re-
signed the pastorate of the Congrega-
tional Church of Forest Grove, Ore.,
and returned to his home in Danvers,
Mass.
’97 T.S.—Rev. C. S. Macfarland is
the author of an article im a recent
issue of The Open Church on ‘The
Christian and Philanthropic Work of
Yale Students in New Haven.”
*98—D. L. Eddy is at the Johns
Hopkins Medical School.
’98—B. C. Benner is teaching in the
High School at Wellesley.
*98—Gustavus E. Warren is teaching
school at Malakoff, Texas.
*98—Walter L. Vaughan has entered
the Louisville Law School.
798 S.—J. L. McLaren is reporter
on the Chicago Times-Herald.
°98 S.—Norman C. Spencer is in the
office of the City Surveyor, Hartford,
Conn.
*98—Abner P. Hayes has recently be-
come engaged to Miss Fish of New
London, Conn.
798 S—Irvin W. Sanford is making
a map of the roads of the township of
Salisbury, Conn.
*98—H. D. Reeve has accepted a posi-
tion in the Mutual Life Insurance Com-
pany of New York.
°98—H. E. Butler is in the office of
C. D. Barnev & Company, Bankers,
of Philadelphia, Pa.
*98—H. B. Woolston is studying in
the Graduate Divinity School of the
University of Chicago.
’*98—Frank J. Born, who has been
ill with typhoid fever at the New Haven
Hospital, is recovering.
*98—R. C. Neal, Jr., has accepted a
position in the Harrisburg Rolling
Mill at Harrisburg, Pa.
’98—Walter Meigs is with the Davis
and Lawrence Company, dealers in
‘drugs, Montreal, Canada.
*98—Thadeous H. Claypool has been
recently married to Miss Claudia Rob-
bins of Oak Grove, Texas.
*98—A. C. Harrison has entered the
office of Harvey, Fisk & Son, bankers,
29 Nassau street, New York.
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98 T.S.—Quincy Blakely has ac-
cepted a call to the Congregational
Church of South Glastonbury, Conn.
’*98 S—Walter L. Worrall has received
his discharge from the Yale Battery A,
and has entered the Harvard Law
School.
98 T.S—J. P. Deane, who 1s
Dwight Fellow for this year, is study-
ing in the graduate class of the Theo-
logical School.
°98—Darius E. Peck, in addition to
studying law in his father’s office, will
teach Greek and Latin in the Hudson
Public High School after Nov. I.
’98—W.. N. Vaile is sick with typhoid
fever in Cambridge, Mass. He was in
Battery A, Connecticut Volunteers, but
is now in the Harvard Law School.
’*98—Dallas C. Byers has returned
from Europe, where he has _ been
spending the Summer, and will go into
the iron business with his father, A. M.
Byers, of Pittsburg, Pa.
Alumnz Notes.
794 Ph.D.—Miss Laura J.. Wylie is
Professor of English at Vassar College.
’94 Ph.D.—Miss E. D. Hanscom is
Instructor in English Literature at
Smith College.
’°96 Ph.D.— Kate H. Claghorn has
been appointed Secretary and Treasurer
of the Association of Collegiate Alum-
nae. Her address is Richmond Hill,
*96 Ph.D.—Miss Anna A. Cutler is
Instructor in Ethics at Smith College.
’94 Ph.D.—Miss Mary A. Scott is
teaching at Smith College.
Yale Law School.
For circulars and other information apply to
Prof. FRANCIS WAYLAND,
Dean.
JOHN CORNELIUS GRIGGS, ’89,
Late Director Metropolitan College of Music.
SONG RECITALS and
VOCAL INSTRUCTION.
Carnegie Hall, New York City.
WALTER CAMP
SL ON
FOOTBALL
The Forecast of the Season,
Outing ~
Seventeen pages of this issue have
been devoted to Football; here will
be found comment on the New Rules,
Gale at Practice (illustrated from
snap-shots), Tabulated Results of
Games played, and Calendar of No-
vember Games, in the handiest form
for reference; besides Mr. Camp’s
‘“‘ Forecast of the Season.”’
Other articles in this issue are:
Types of Horses in the Show-Ring,
by A. H. Godfrey
The Golf Championship, by H. L. FitzPatrick
The Yarn of the Yampa, by E. L. H. McGinnis
The Year’s Lawn Tennis, by J. Parmley Paret
Up Vesuvius, by Emma T. Wilkinson
A Thanksgiving Deer Hunt, by B. W. Mitchel!
The Chicago Athletic Club,
by John W. Hipwel
A Tragic Moose-Call, by Arthur A. Shute
To Spread Her Conquests Further,
by Helen M. Stafford
Trapping with Steel Traps, by Ed. W. Sandys
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