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ADVISORY BOARD.
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EDITOR.
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ASSOCIATE EDITOR.
WALTER Camp, ’80.
ASSISTANT EDITOR.
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NEWS EDITOR.
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ASSISTANT.
PRESTON KUMLER, 1900.
BUSINESS DEPARTMENT ASSISTANTS.
O.M. CLaRK, ’98.
Entered as second class matter at New Haven P. O.
NEW HAVEN, Conn., Nov. 10, 1898.
TO THE TEAM.
On the eve of battle, we beg to
assure Captain Chamberlin and his men
that Yale is with them. They are good
Yale fighters. May their knees be no
longer twisted, and may their ankles
be like the ankles of dray horses; also
like the ankles of the dun deer. Oh,
may they be whole again! Then shall
we see men who worthily wear Yale
uniforms and we shall see a great fight.
We shall see a great fight anyway.
There are more than eleven good men
at Yale.
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FOOTBALL TICKETS.
A number of people are now being
disappointed, because they are asking
for football tickets, through the agency
of the WEEKLY, days after the closing
of the applications. The notice and
instructions about seats for both games
were given in a double-headed “article,
on the first column of the first page of
the WEEKLY, of the last issue of Octo-
ber. The article was leaded all the
way through and was very explicit.
Those who followed it have made good
every chance which the situation offers
for good graduate seats.
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All colleges are cursed with. misrep-
resentation. Yale is supposed to have
had more than her share of that sort
of thing and may be a little callous
now. She can, however, sympathize
with a sister university when it is the
subject of that kind of petty persecution,
and she appreciates the sincerity of
Cornell’s repudiation of recent pub-
lished statements about her athletic
policy. The article in question had to
do with that university’s relation to
Yale. It may be in order to assure
Cornell that Yale will not look for any
messages from Ithaca in anonymous
newspaper correspondence.
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The illustrative art exhibition, now
being given at the Yale Art School, is
one of the many good things which that
department of the University success-
fully undertakes, not only to better
carry out its own work with its own
students, but also for the general good
of the University. The drawings are
- from the leading magazines and week-
lies, and are intended to practically
spondence
BURNETT GOopwWIN, ’99 S.
hundred seats:
demonstrate some of the features of
illustrative art. They were gathered
at considerable cost and form a very
interesting and instructive exhibition.
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When the Yale platoon, on being
mustered out, voted to its hospital stew-
ard a few of its surgical instruments, to
form a part of his personal equipment
as a surgeon, when he should begin his
work, they showed an excellent sense
of the fitness of things. If every volun-
teer organization had been blessed with
an officer of similar sense, force and
unselfishness, the death list of the last
war would have been cut down by
hundreds.
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Yale organization would be made
far more effective if some assured source
of revenue, like a Class Fund, were
behind the officers whose all important
duty it is to keep up the class organiza-
tion after graduation by frequent corre-
and promptly published
records. Ninety-Nine will be wise in
taking up the scheme now and putting
it through on a cash basis.
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The Yale University Club did a good
thing in its recent revision of laws of
government and choice of officers.
Those in control of the Club are en-
titled to the credit which should follow
a long step forward, in the interests of
all the members of the organization
and therefore for the good of the Uni-
versity.
Correction,
By an error in handling Mr. Phelps’
copy on the article for Troop A pub-
lished in the WEEKLY, a few names
which should have been included were
omitted. In addition to the list printed
as among those present at the first roll
call should have appeared Allan Rob-
bins, 93 S., E. O. Holter, ’94 and A. J.
Slade, 92S.
Fall Crew Work.
The University Crew candidates were
called out by Captain Allen on Monday.
Practice on the harbor will begin at
once and continue as long as the
weather permits. The men will be
coached by J. C. Greenleaf, ’99 S., who
will be in charge, as Captain Allen will
be obliged to give his entire attention
to football this Fall. Last year’s Fresh-
man Crew also reported for work, and
will be in charge of J. A. Keppleman,
1901. The University candidates will
work for the most part in pair oar shells,
and the 1901 crew will use an eight-
oared boat. This Fall practice is in-
tended to keep the most promising
candidates in trim for the work next
Spring, although strict training will not
be enforced.
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More Seats at the Field.
The management of the Football
Association has made arrangements to
build out the corners of the stands at
Yale Field, thereby increasing the seat-
ing capacity by a little over twenty-one
Entrance to the stands
will be under the north-east and north-
west corners. The new stands will be
completed in time for the Harvard
game.
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Ninety-Nine Class Fund.
The Class of Ninety-Nine, at a meet-
ing last Monday night in Osborn Hall,
decided to establish a Class Fund, such
as that established by Ninety-Eight,
and chose the following committee to
canvass the Class for subscriptions:
T. Wright, C. H. Walker, A. F. Way,
mee Daring As: Sactiamling: F,.: D:
Hewett, F. R. Parks, D. R. Hooker,
N. C. Holland. |
A PROGRESSIVE DEPARTMENT.
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professors and instructors on the Eng-
lish staff, a gain of six men in seven
years. Perhaps no other Department
can show a steadier growth in the num-
bers of its teaching force. English has
been introduced in the Freshman curri-
culum and continued throughout
Sophomore year, a Department of
Rhetoric has been established, and the
number of Junior and Senior electives
has risen from eight to fourteen with
an aggregate of twenty-six instead of
fifteen hours. The work has been well
systematized, the various courses ar-
ranged so as to form an harmonious
plan, and the Graduate Department
placed on a firm and substantial basis.
THOMAS R, LOUNSBURY
PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH IN SCIENTIFIC
SCHOOL.
While this brief statement shows the
rapid development of the Department,
the number of courses does not indi-
cate the effectiveness of its work. <A
glance at the personnel of its force will
give a better appreciation of its real
strength.
The senior professor of English is
recognized as one of the most distin-
guished American — scholars. Prot.
Lounsbury, the head of the English De-
partment in the Scientific School, was
apopinted Instructor in 1870. His writ-
ings have won universal recognition for
English studies at Yale, while his stim-
ulating and inspiring teaching is well
remembered by those who have at-
tended his courses.
lish Language,” his “Life of Cooper,”
and above all, by his “Studies in
Chaucer.’ . In: his . article on. rot.
Lounsbury, which appeared in the Cen-
tury Magazine for February, 1898, Prof.
Brander Mathews, speaking of the ap-
pearance of this latter work, says: “By
all, it was accepted as the most im-
portant contribution yet made by an
American scholar to the great unwrit-
ten history of English Literature.” To
quote further: “A professor of English
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As a writer he is .
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is rare who has both philologic train-
ing and aesthetic perception as Prof.
Lounsbury has, and he has also a rarer
quality, the temper of the true
scholar * * * In fact, whether the
subject he is teaching be linguistic Of
literary, whether it be spelling reform
or the English language, whether it be
the prose novels of Cooper, or the
poetic tales of Chaucer, Prof. Louns-
bury handles it with the same firm
grasp, with the same understanding and
sanity, with the same wholesome good
humor. ‘This high praise is not un-
deserved, and in Prof. Lounsbury Yale
has one of the foremost critics this
country has produced. He has taken an
especial interest in the University Lib-
rary, and it is due largely to his efforts
that the English library is such a valu-
able one. The books have been judici-
ously selected and the collection of
dramatic works is especially complete.
Prof. Henry A. Beers began his work
at Yale as Tutor in English in the year
1871. He has taught so many college
generations that comment on his work
is hardly necessary. Perhaps the best
testimony to the quality of his teaching
is the appreciation and gratitude which
his pupils have always shown him. As
an author, his short stories and sketches
have been unusually well received, and
it is to be regretted that he can not de-
vote more of his time to creative work.
For some “years, he has made a
study of English Romanticism, and it is
a pleasure to announce that he is soon
to publish an account of this movement.
The first volume, a “History of Ro-
manticism in the Eighteenth Century”
is already in press, and the second vol-
ume on the “Romanticism of the Nine-
teenth Century” will appear later. This
work is anticipated with great interest,
and will undoubtedly prove to be a
valuable contribution to the history of
English Literature.
As a teacher, Prof. Beers has an
unusually wide knowledge of this sub-
ject and offers a variety of courses,
changing them from year to year.
Those announced for this year are
Shakespeare and the Modern Drama,
Milton and his Contemporaries, Vic-
torian Literature and Theories of Metri-
cal Translation.
Prof. Albert S. Cook was called from
the University of California, and as-
sumed his duties at Yale in the Fall of
1889. He is a most indefatigable
worker and his labors have been partic-
ularly conspicuous in the field of Old
and Middle English. His translation
and adaptation of Siever’s Grammar of
HENRY A. BEERS
PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH LITERATURE.
Old English and his own first book of
Old English are standard works on the
subject. As Prof. Cook is occupied in
the Graduate School, he is not so well
known by the undergraduate body as
are other members of the Department,
[Continued on 65th page.|
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