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ADVISORY BOARD.
H. C. Roptnson, 53.  J.R. SHEFFIELD, ’87.
W. W. Skippy, ’658S. J. A. HarRTWELL, °89 8.
C. P. Linpsuey, 75S. L. 8. WELCH, ’89.
W. Camp, ’89. E. VAN INGEN, ’91 8.
W.G. Daaaetr, 80. P. Jay, ‘92.
EDITOR.
Lewis S,. WELCH, ’89.
ASSOCIATE EDITOR.
WALTER Camp, ’80.
ASSISTANT EDITOR.
E. J. THOMPSON, Sp.
NEWS EDITOR.
FRED. M. DaviEs, ’99.
ASSISTANT.
PRESTON KUMLER, 1900.
BUSINESS DEPARTMENT ASSISTANTS.
O. M. CLARE, ’98. BURNETT GOODWIN, ’99 S.
Entered as second class matter at New Haven P. O.
NEw HAVEN, Conn., Nov. 17, 1898.
THE ALLOTMENT OF SEATS.
The allotment of seats has been made
for the Harvard game and, as usual, a
great many people have not secured
what they hoped for. Among them
are a number of WEEKLY subscribers.
While we were very,careful to say that
we could make absolutely no promise
as to location, we have not left a stone
unturned to secure the most favorable
consideration possible for WEEKLY
subscribers. In this we have been
favored by the pronounced good-will
of the Association, which took up the
paper’s applications at as early a date
as seemed possible. There were then
some good seats left and many others
not so good. The good ones were
distributed as far as they lasted. No
managements have attacked the pro-
blems of seat distribution more con-
scientiously than those of this year and
last, but the difficulties seem to increase
with each year. To our mind these
difficulties are more or less inherent in
the system, and the subject may be a
profitable one for discussion at a later
date. On account of these difficulties,
the WEEKLY hesitated to take up the
matter at all this year. It seemed,
however, ungracious, at least, not to do
what was possible. So the task was
again undertaken with no promises and
more time and energy were given to
the matter than ever.
A good many applicants did not fol-
low the notice, printed in the WEEKLY
of October 20, and a number of late ap-
plications have as usual been received,
and with the usual result. We regret
exceedingly any disappointment from
any source whatever.
THE PRINCETON GAME,
Princeton may always be relied upon
to take every chance in football. The
game is bred in the bone of Nassau
and it is not one of the instincts of the
gametoletachance goby. Atstraight
fighting those Princeton men are al-
ways good. At unexpected opportuni-
ties they are excellent. We would re-
call in some detail the game of the
Fall of 1885, if it were not a painful
subject of reminiscence at such a time
as this.
even last Saturday, for then tle game
had really been won, and there were
less than four minutes of play, and the
Lamar touchdown was made possible
That was harder to bear than ~
because a Princeton man made a bad
mistake. But the touchdown was also
possible, because another Princeton
man knew how to take advantage of
that mistake, and turn a flub-dub into
a glorious achievement that will always
live in football history.
Let us wander no more under the
willows where we then hung our harps.
Here is a fresh row of them in 1898.
We will get out of this unpleasant
place also, after we have said that in
grieving over the opportunity that came
to Mr. Poe, we must not forget how
bravely he took advantage of it. If that
unexpected sprint made good many
Princeton weaknesses and naught of
many Yale virtues, so much the better
for the sprint. That was a nice piece
of football. We most warmly con-
gratulate Princeton for having Mr. Poe
on hand at the right time, and also for
preventing eleven enraged Yale fighters,
of fine force, from making up for that
little incident. That is a point not to
be forgotten.
The Yale players have the Yale spirit.
They showed that Saturday. They are
learning more football this week and
they are considerably worked up. We
may be happy yet.
THE YALE MISSIONARY BAND.
A Novel Form of Christian Work by
Five Recent Graduates.
Early in the Spring of 1898 the Senior
members of the Yale Band of Student
Volunteers, in studying the different
fields of church work, were impressed
with the opportunity which presented
itself for a vigorous campaign on be-
half of Foreign Missions among the
Young People’s Societies and Epworth
Leagues of the Eastern and Middle-
western States. The missionary inter-
est in many churches of the larger cities
was low, and there were no agencies
directly reaching the young people.
After consultation with Mr. Robert E.
Speer, Secretary of the Presbyterian
Board, they decided to form from their
number a band of five young men who
should spend the Winter and Spring of
1898-99 in going from city to city visit-
ing the church societies and awakening
missionary interest.
The undertaking at once received the
hearty endorsement of four of the
Missionary Boards—the Presbyterian,
Methodist, Baptist and Congregational.
It was to be inter-denominational and
without expense to the churches visited
except for entertainment during the
stay of the band in the city. Permanent
results were to be aimed at rather than
momentary enthusiasm and a special
plea was to be made for a more intelli-
gent study of missions. These plans
involved much self-sacrifice on the part
of their originators, for in many in-
stances personal arrangements for the
next year had to be entirely renounced,
and the necessary support for traveling
expenses had to be sought. The five
young men who entered upon this work
were: A. B. Williams, Jr., Brownell
Gage, D. B. Eddy and Lawrence
Thurston of the Class of Ninety-Eight,
and C. V. Vickrey, P. G. During their
college course they were all actively
engaged in Christian work. Williams
was a Class Deacon and Vice-President
of. the Yale - ¥. oMicGr -A::..He was
leader of the college Volunteer Band
in 1897 and led the Senior Bible Class
in 1898. Eddy had charge of the Yale
City Mission during his Senior year
and it was in large measure due to his
efforts that the new building now in
process of erection on Franklin street
was started. Thurston was leader of
the Volunteer Band last year. Gage
and Vickrey have both had a wide ex-
perience in missionary speaking, the
latter having been College State Secre-
tary of Nebraska Y. M. C. A.
The purpose of the movement, as now
definitely decided upon, is two-fold.
(1) To assist Young People’s Socie-
ties in awakening and maintaining an
intelligent interest in missions, thereby
ultimately reaching the churches them-
selves.
(2) To give wider circulation to the
fact that large numbers of college men
uae papas Be cay as missionaries,
ut are unable to be sent on ac
the lack of funds. Sopot
The Band commenced its work on
Oct. Ist at Scranton, Pa. The itinerary
since has been as follows:
_ Oct. 8-13, Washington, D. C.: Oct.
15-22, Baltimore, Md.; Oct. 23-28, Har-
risburg, Pa.; Oct. 28 to Nov 5, Phila-
delphia, Pa.
This plan will be continued in the
cities of the Eastern and Middle States
until Spring, when the season’s work
will be finished by a series of visits to
the principal colleges.
The undertaking has met with a cor-
dial welcome everywhere and access has
been obtained to nearly all the churches
in each city visited. The press com-
ments are very favorable and Rey.
Francis E. Clark, the originator of the
Ye C. E., commends it in the
highest terms.
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DR. THEODORE T. MUNGER, ’5I.
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dore T. Munger, Yale ’51. The charac-
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to readers, may be indicated by the fol-
lowing list of books and authors.
“The Improvisatore,’ Hans Chris-
tian Anderson; “The Last of the Mohi-
cans,” James Fenimore Cooper; “Two
Years Before the Mast,” Richard Henry
Dana, Jr.; “Biographical and Historical
Essays,” Thomas DeQuincey; ‘“‘Essays,”’
Ralph Waldo Emerson; “Representa-
tive Men,’ Ralph Waldo Emerson;
“Dr. Grimshawe’s Secret,’ Nathaniel
Hawthorne; ‘The Professor at the
Breakfast Table,” Oliver Wendell
Holmes; ‘“Guenn,’ Blanche Willis
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Takes It As Lesson.
[Editorial in Yale Daily News.]
We would not be loyal Yale men
not to feel very much disappointed over
the outcome of Saturday’s game. The
way in which it was lost was entirely
unexpected and so the result brings
with it more than ordinary regret. It
would not be profitable here to go into
the detail of Yale’s playing; suffice it to
say that the defects were due partly to
the imperfect physical condition of at
least three of the players and partly to
what may be called, for the lack of a
better word, carelessness; but this even
may be referred for its ultimate cause
to injuries received during the season,
which have kept men off the field and
prevented regular practice with the
squad. The defects are minor ones, at
the most, costly when they appear, but
easily remedied. Yale is proud of the
game the team played as a team and
feels that it is worthy of much better
things. Saturday’s defeat is not the in-
evitable outcome of the all-round su-
periority of our opponents. But this
ought not to detract from their victory;
football is football and there is no such
thing as a “fluke” unless an unfair de-
cision be called one. This, we believe,
is the only thing to which the term may
properly be applied. Therefore we are
resigned to the defeat, taking it as a
lesson for the future, at the same time
offering the good word to the friends
at Princeton as coming from fair-
minded rivals.
A Superb Contest.
In the course of an editorial on the
football last Saturday, the Princetonian
says:
Saturday’s game was a superb con-
test in every way and was as fine an
exhibition of football as has ever been
witnessed. To come out of such a
struggle victorious was indeed an
honor, for seldom have two teams been
more evenly matched or sticcess more
dearly earned. To Captain Hillebrand,
to the team, the coaches, the scrub, and
- to all who have done aught for the sake
of Princeton we can only express, in
the name of Princeton’s sons, our sin-
cere appreciation of the services which
they have rendered, and the warmest
congratulation for the victory they have
won.
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