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YALE ALUMNI
W HEKLY
in quantity, address the office.
should be paid for in advance.
YALE ALUMNI WEEKLY
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-opies, t ts each. For rates for papers
Single copies, ten cents e a cenaunne toners
Checks, drafts and orders should be made payable to
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All correspondence should be addressed,—
Pyale Alumni Weekly, New Haven, Conn.
? The office is at Room 6, White Hall.
ADVISORY BOARD.
H. C. Roprnson, 58. J. R. SHEFFIELD, ’87.
W. W. Skippy, ’65S. J. A. HARTWELL, °89 S.
C. P. LINDSLEY, 75S. L.S. WELCH, ’89.
W. Camp, ’80. E. VAN INGEN, ’91 S.
W.G. Daaaetrt,’80. P. Jay, ’92.
EDITOR.
Lewis S. WELOH, ’89.
ASSOCIATE EDITOR.
WALTER Camp, ’80.
ASSISTANT EDITOR.
E. J. THOMPSON, Sp.
NEWS EDITOR.
FRED. M. DAvVIEs, 799.
ASSISTANT.
PRESTON KUMLER, 1900.
BUSINESS DEPARTMENT ASSISTANTS.
O. M. CLARE, ’98. BURNETT GOODWIN, ’99 S.
Entered as second class matter at New Haven P. 0.
New HAVEN, Conn., Nov. 8, 1898.
THE PRICE OF THE WEEKLY.
The price of the WEEKLY is now
three dollars per annum. The new
price applies to all subscriptions begin-
ning with the current volume or later.
It has not of course applied to those
subscriptions from the graduating
classes taken last year, and definitely
contracted for at the old price.
The explanation of the change has
been given in letters sent to all sub-
scribers whose acconuts have become
due, and all others whose subscriptions
begin at later dates in the year will re-
ceive a similar statement of the case
when the bills are rendered.
It is not therefore necessary to make
any statement of the case, except on the
one point which may be of interest
to the general public. The increase is
not because of a smaller list of Yale
subscribers than was expected. On the
contrary, that list is constantly and
generously growing and is now of more
than twice the length of the list
when the WEEKLY began to seriously
adapt itself to the peculiar demands of
graduates. There is room for a great
many more on the list, but there is
no reason to complain of graduate sup-
port.
The price must go up, because Yale
men ask so much of the paper. They
don’t get as much as they want or as
much as those in charge of the paper
would like to give them, but that which -
is now supplied requires a system, a
force, a correspondence, in short an
outlay, which would probably have dis-
couraged the attempt had all been fore-
seen. And it will mean more and more
of all this as the paper grows.
The Advisory: Board is not responsi-
ble for the financial condition of the
paper, but the facts in this case were
submitted to its members. Their em-
phatic reply was that it was plain that
the kind of a paper Yale wanted meant
three dollars from each subscriber; that
if the paper was not worth that, it was
hardly worth while publishing, and that
there was little doubt that the step
would be endorsed. The conclusion on
the last point was certainly sound. The
very slight losses for the list have been
offset a hundred times over by the
number and quality of the letters which
have come from those who do not
question the! wisdom of the change,
but give it their unqualified endorse-
ment and say some other things. We
trust we will be pardoned even this
reference to communications of this
sort. Their cordiality demands some
public acknowledgment from us.
A few have left the list purely from
financial reasons. It is sincerely re-
gretted that anyone who is interested
in the paper should not be able to
have it. But this can’t be avoided.
LIGHT BAITERY A.
The mustering out of Light Battery
A, Connecticut Volunteers, closes a
chapter in which Yale’s eager loyalty
is written, if not in letters of blood,
yet most plainly and eloquently. There
was the quick offering of service in chan-
nels dictated by authority, when other
and pleasanter ways had been closed.
There was the close attention to work,
the persistent training, under condi-
tions far from ideal, when not abso-
lutely discouraging to all effort; and-
there were the results of the Yale way
of keeping at it—a platoon, indeed a
battery, which a veteran fighter called
equal to any artillery company ever en-
listed in the country.
Yale loyalty was manifested in a hun-
dred other organizations, but this was
a particularly clear index of the quality
of the blood that flows in the veins of
the youth of Yale. It brought the
University directly before the eyes of a
people eagerly watching every move in
a national crisis. It brought Yale into
direct relations with the State of Con-
necticut and with the United States of
America. Because it was the Yale
Battery, public men, who were not
directly of the Yale graduate group,
took off their coats and worked for it,
seeking guns and horses and uniforms
and _ service.
his back on his Summer cottage, where
he much needed to rest, and traveled
back to the War Department to de-
mand fair treatment for Yale soldiers.
Mr. Sperry, the Congressman from this
district, worked at Washington and
worked at New Haven, keeping wires
hot and mails heavy, not relaxing effort
till the protocol was signed. And to
these men Yale is grateful. Of course,
Mr. Porter, at Washington, was always
eager in their behalf; while at New
Haven and at Niantic it was not an
uncommon thing to see such men as
Mr. Clark, Yale ’71, Editor of the Hart-
ford Courant; Col. Osborn, Yale ’80,
Editor of the Register; Dean Wright of
the Academic Faculty, and younger
graduates, conferring together and or-
ganizing expeditions, not for the pur-
pose of coddling the boys, but of help-
ing them to make the best soldiers of
themselves. The Summer was trying,
but the experience was a good one for
the Volunteers and a good one for all
Yale.
May the young men who a week ago,
at the Second Regiment Armory, at
the scene of their gay Junior Proms,
were mustered out of the service of the
United States, re-enter that service in
nobler campaigns of good citizenship,
and may the time never come when a
country’s call shall fall on deaf ears at
Yale, whether it be a call to camp or to
ship or to the quiet but more strenuous
struggles for light and truth!
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re
Preliminary Trial Debates.
The preliminary trials in the Academ-
ical Department for the Princeton de-
bate were held on October 31, thirty-
four men speaking.
The following eight men were chosen
to represent the Academical Depart-
ment in the final trials, which will be
held on November 8: J. 1 Clarice? 6p;
FEA: Dow, 1900; K. Bruce, 1900; A.
D. Leavitt, 1900; W. Noyes, ’99; E. W.
Ong, 1900; B. C. Smith, ’99, and P. C
Walcott, 1900.
Senator Hawley turned
HARVARD WINS TOURNAMENT
At
Ardsley Golf Links—John Reid
Individual Champion,
The third Intercollegiate Golf Tour--
nament was held at Ardsley-on-the-
Hudson on October 26, 27, 28, and 20.
On Wednesday, October 26, Yale
played Columbia, and Harvard played
Princeton. Yale won by a score of 42
to o, and Harvard won by a score of
26 to o. On Thursday, Yale and Har-
vard played off in the finals.
Eighteen holes were played and the
match resulted in a tie, Yale and Har-
vard each scoring eleven holes. After
some discussion as to how the tie
should be played off, it was agreed to
play eighteen holes more in the after-
noon and at the same time have the
scores count for the qualification round
in the Individual championship. Har-
vard won in the play off, scoring 16
holes to Yale’s 4. J. Reid, Jr., and W.
B. Smith of Yale, scored the only
points for Yale in the play-off, each win-
ning two holes from their opponents.
The score in the morning was:
YALE, HOLES, HARVARD, HOLES.
CO. D. Barnes so s1c5'9 J; tH eChoete: Tr: 0
a Sie 5 2-15 Geb ena oe tne CG, Se Clark ae ee °
i; FE . Hinkle 2.523: ° J. Galtubherd: =: 9
F.C, Havemeyer.... 0 | J. E. Averill......_.. 2
W. 3. SMiths ce I Page Og occa ee ance fe)
T. M. Robertson .... 3 W...B. Cutting: fr... - 6
1 Otel G4 Foal II
In the play-off the result was:
YALE. HOLES, HARVARD, HOLES,
C.D, Barnes 20 O- | da dae GRO ir, 2.5 8
Jie ee ee 2 5 Ge Or 2 see Seas °
HAP Wanker 6:1 =). Gapped ¥
WC, Havemeyer “oJ. Be Averitt. ro)
Wa Te Smiths ose a5; Ours Sort °
T. M. Robertson .... o W. B. Cutting, Jr.... 3
Teal ee 4 Tota aes 16
In the qualifying round for the In-
dividual championship two men from
each of the four colleges entered, quali-
fied. They were Cornelius Fellowes, Jr.
and W. H. Dixon of Columbia; John
Stuart and C. H. Murphy of Princeton;
J. H. Choate, Jr. and and W. Bayard
Cutting, Jr., of Harvard; and John
Reid, Jr. and Walter B. Smith of Yale.
On Friday the 28th, Choate beat Dixon;
Cutting beat Murphy; Smith beat Fel-
lowes, and Reid beat Stuart in the first
round. In the second round in the
afternoon Smith beat Cutting 3 up and
I to play; Reid beat Choate 6 up and
' 4 to play.
The finals were played off between
Smith and Reid on Saturday. The
match consisted of 36 holes. It was a
very fine exhibition of golf all the way
through, Reid winning 6 up and 5 to
play. The game of both men was
brilliant and at times phenomenal.
This is the first time that Yale has
won the Individual Chmpionship, Har-
vard and Princeton each having won it
once.
Yale has two legs on the Team Cham-
pionship and Harvard has one. The
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CLASS NOTICES.
[Continued from 55th page. |
duced by the Triennial Committee.
Kindly accept immediately, and send
your $1.00 with it, to Hall P. Mc-
Cullough, 88 Park avenue. Supper
from 9 to 10 o'clock. (Signed), James
A. Hawes, Chairman, George F. Domi-
nick, John Howland, W. F. Murray,
Hall P. McCullough, Committee.
Ninety-Six Smoker.
There will be an informal smoker for
the Class of Ninety-Six, at the Yale
Club, New York, on Thursday evening,
November ioth, to which all members
of Ninety-Six, whether or not members
of the Club, are cordially invited.
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Obituary.
REV. HOWARD §S. CLAPP, ’72.
Rev. Howard S. Clapp, ’72, died in
Hartford, Conn., at the home of his
mother, on Sunday, October 15th, aged
forty-seven.
Mr. Clapp, son of Caleb and Sarah
M. Clapp, was born at Hartford, Conn.,
on April 28th, 1851. He prepared for
College at the Hudson River Institute,
Claverack, N. Y., and entered the Yale
Class of Seventy-Two. After gradua-
‘tion he studied one year at the Hart-
ford Theological Seminary and then. be-
came a member of the Middle Class in
Berkeley Divinity School, Middletown,
Conn. He was ordained on May 26,
1875, and was chosen Rector of Trinity
Church, Wethersfield, Conn. From
1883 to 1889 he was Rector of St. Paul’s
Church, Norwalk, Conn.
After spending a short time in travel .
THE LATE REV. H. S. CLAPP.
he was associated with Rev. John H.
White, Rector of Church of St. John
the Evangelist in St. Paul, Minn. On
Feb. 8, 1892, he was elected Associate
Rector ot “Chast Courch, St. Pant
Minn. Recently he had been living at
Philadelphia and at the time of his
death was visiting his old’ home in
Hartford.
Mr. Clapp married Lucy B. Barnum,
of Lime Rock, Conn., daughter of the
late Hon. William P. Barnum, on Jan.
30th, 1883.
FREDERICK CHARLES MACCLAVE, ’9Q T-S.
Frederick Charles MacClave, ’99 T.S.,
died at the Yale Infirmary Wednesday,
October 19th, from hemorrhage caused
by rupture of the liver.
[Continued on 60th page. |
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Prof. FRANCIS WAYLAND,
Dean.
JOHN CORNELIUS GRIGGS, ’89,
Late Director Metropolitan College of Music.
SONG RECITALS and
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