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garding the effects of the first month’s
efforts:
“MISSIONS REPLACE SALOONS.”
“The usual autumnal invasion for
purposes of reformation has been made
by Yale student missionaries in the
‘down-town section, and the headquar-
ters of their work have been taken in
an unoccupied store. at the corner of
Grand avenue and Franklin street. The
work of the student mission this year
has seemed so far to be remarkably
successful. Captain Tripp has been at
a loss for two or three weeks past to
know why it was that his Sunday de-
tail has not rounded up more of the old
regulars who have been persistent vio-
lators of the Sunday liquor laws.
“The explanation was discovered last
Sunday and since then has caused no
end of comment among those who have
heard the remarkable story. It is
nothing else than that the ‘wet-goods
men and their ‘bar-keeps’ have been
lured into attendance at the Yale Mis-
sion and have deserted their old stands
for the gospel meetings. Officers who
were on duty in the vicinity are will-
ing to take their oath that they counted
no less than sixteen saloon-keepers in
attendance at the meeting of the Mis-
sion last Sunday night, and many of
them it is added, were also on hand
the week before. They are said to have
taken part in the singing and evidenced
a real interest in the meeting. If the
reformation progresses, the list of
heroes living and dead will be ex-
hausted in providing new names for the
down-town streets.”
THE FINANCES.
It is expected that the building will
be ready for occupancy about the mid-
dle of December. To clear it of all
debt $3,000 must be raised before that
time. The building committee feels
that the time has now come when a
general appeal should be made to the
students and alumni for that multitude
of smaller gifts which will render such
action possible and will give any one
interested in Yale’s religious and al-
truistic efforts a chance to have a share
in the enterprise. :
The great value of the Yale Mis-
sion, from an educational as well as
religious standpoint, lies in the fact
that it offers the only opportunity at
Yale at present for the student body
to come in contact with the so-called
laboring classes. No one can spend
a night a week in such a work without
getting a better knowledge of the
problems and grievances of the great
masses of our population, and without
feeling broader sympathies for their
condition. The opportunity of listen-
‘ing to and conversing with College
men is eagerly sought by even the
elderly among the audiences. Any op-
position which might have been aroused
by ignorance of motives ten years ago
has now entirely disappeared. The
work is practical and not theoretical,
and, since it is non-sectarian, enlists
the services of many College men
whose interest cannot be secured in
other forms of altruistic effort. The
value of such work in its effect upon
the student workers and upon those
for whom it is undertaken cannot be
estimated from facts or figures. It re-
mains for the alumni and undergrad-
uates to say whether all hindrances to
its being developed to the full extent
of its usefulness shall be removed by a
prompt reply to the request which has
this week been sent for small contribu-
tions to make up the balance of $3,000
needed, by the following committee,
of which S. H. Fisher, ’89, is Treasurer;
R. C. Morse, ’62; J. B. Reynolds, ’84;
Seay Fisher, 8027 ae PD Srokes,
92 S.; William ‘Sloane, ’95; W. F.
Cochran, Jr., 98 S.; Henry B. Wright,
98, and O. S. Coffin, 1900.
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Yale-Princeton Debate.
The fifth annual debate between Yale
and Princeton will take place in New
Haven on Tuesday evening, December
6th, on the question: Resolved, That
the United States should annex Cuba. '
The teams which will represent the two
Universities have, as yet, not been
chosen, but Yale will doubtless be
represented by the following men: C.
P. Kitchell, 1900 L.S.; J. K. Clark, ’99,
and A. D. Leavitt, 1900.
The following men have been selected
to act as judges at the debate: Professor
John B. Clark, of Columbia University;
Mr. Charles B. Hubbell, President of
the New York Board of Education, and
Mr. George L. Rives, of New York
City.
refi the four debates which have been
held annually between Yale and Prince-
to each College has won two.
The first forensic contest took place
on May 8th, 1895, in the Hyperion
Theatre, New Haven, and the subject
for debate was, “Resolved, That the In-
come Tax Law of 1804 was, under the
circumstances, a justifiable one.” In this
debate Yale supported the negative with
the following speakers: H. E.: Buttrick,
H. Frank Rall and Clarence E. Clough.
The representatives of Princeton, who
spoke on the affirmative were: W. F.
Burns, R. McN. McElroy and B. L.
Hirshfield. The judges, who were Rev.
Dr. Lyman Abbott, Mr. Lawrence
Hutton and Prof. Edward Cummings,
gave their decision in favor of Prince-
ton by a vote of two to one.
In December of the next year, Yale’s
debaters met those of Princeton in
Alexander Hall at Princeton. As
Princeton chose the question Yale had
the choice of sides and took the nega-
tive. The subject in this second annual
debate was: “Resolved, That it would
be wise to establish, in respect to all
State legislation of a general character,
a system of referendum similar to that
established in Switzerland.” The speak-
ers who brought about Yale’s first in-
tercollegiate debating victory, as Yale
up to this time had not been victorious
over Harvard in debate, were C. U.
Clark, ’97; Austin Rice, T.S. ’07, and
BE. McVey, 4S. 66:
PRINCETON’S SECOND VICTORY.
Princeton scored her second victory
over Yale in debate on May 7th, 1807,
in College Street Hall, New Haven.
The subject chosen by Yale for the third
debate was: “Resolved, That the power
of the Speakers of the United States
House of Representatives is detrimental
to the public interest.” Hon. E. J.
Phelps, ex-Minister to England, pre-
sided. The speakers for Princeton were
superior to those of Yale in form of
arguments and style of speaking. In
this contest Yale was represented by E.
H. Hume, ’97; H. W. Fisher, ’08, and
BE. L. Smith, ’o7. .The speakers for
Princeton were: H. H. Yocum, ’o8: W.
S. Reeves, ’99, and R. F. Sterling, ’97.
By the victory of Yale over Princeton
on March a2sth, last year, Yale suc-
ceeded in tying her opponent. A be-
lief had been growing among students
at Yale that as long as Yale had to
argue on the affirmative side of the
question, she would not be able to win,
and disappointment was felt when the
affirmative side was to be upheld in this
debate, as it was thought that Princeton
would choose that side. The subject
chosen was: “Resolved, That National
party lines should be disregarded in
the choice of councils and administra-
tive officials in American cities.’ The
speakers for Yale were: N. A. Smyth,
Pe AG} J. 7 Ka Glark;: og. saga 4. HT.
Studinski, P.G. The decision was
given to Yale.
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How Harvard Feels.
[The Harvard Crimson.]
Harvard’s Ninety-Eight Eleven has
defeated Yale, has done it on the New
Haven Field, and by the score of 17 to
0. Captain Dibblee and his team out-
played Yale at her own game, in every
department, man to man. They carried
her off her feet in the very first plays;
they drove her back until they crossed
her goal line once, again, and a third
time. They won from an Eleven that
no one has called weak. Some of the
men on it were players of the first order
and individually and as a team fought
up hill to the finish and spurted with
splendid courage. What this victory
implies—the long striving, the hope of-
ten disappointed but ever renewed,
finally the game of seasons—is more
than can be expressed in short space,
and needs no setting forth to Harvard
men. If it did the tiers of spectators
hurling everything movable into the
air, and cheering themselves from New
Haven into Boston, would have done
it as nothing else could.
THE NEW COMET.
How Dr. Chase of the Yale Observ=
atory Found It,
The discovery of a new comet of very
interesting possibilities is the latest
achievement of the Yale Observatory.
Dr. F. L. Chase was the discoverer.
The fact is all the more noticeable and
creditable, because the discovery came
as an incident of other work, to which
the Yale Observatory particularly de-
votes itself. The excellence of this
work made the discovery possible.
Extensive preparations were made at
the Observatory for observing the
November meteor shower just passed,
the Leonids of the 13th or 14th.
Record was kept of all the meteors seen
and with two instruments specially de-
signed for the purpose, one at the Ob-
servatory and the other stationed at
Hamden some two miles distant, carry-
ing eight and four cameras respectively,
sixteen meteors were photographed.
The observations began on Nov. 12th,
and were continued until the 16th. On
the 12th, a few Leonids were seen. The
next night was cloudy. On the 14th
the fall was most brilliant and exten-
sive, more than 100 being seen by those
observers in the limited field under ob-
servation, and all but three of the
meteors photographed were secured on
that night. It is expected that the
study of these plates taken from two
separated stations will furnish valuable
information as to the distance and
motion of the meteors.
Dr. F. L. Chase while examining the
plates discovered the presence of a faint
nebulous object on four of them, and in
four different positions among the stars.
The positions showed uniform progres-
sive daily motion, indicating that the
object was a comet. In order however,
that there might be no mistake, on the.
21st, two cameras were again directed
to the point of the sky where the ob-
ject should then be and four more
photographs were taken. These photo-
graphs when developed all showed
the comet and almost exactly where it
was expected to be. The discovery was
then immediately telegraphed to the
Harvard Observatory, where photo-
graphs of the meteor shower had also
been made. An examination of their
plates showed that the comet had also
been recorded on two of them.
In all probability this comet is a
new one. This is the second comet to
be discovered by photography and is
too faint to attract notice in an ordinary
telescope. The comet has since been
twice observed at the Lick Observatory
and an accurate position ascertained.
It has been observed here once.
A preliminary calculation of its orbit
shows it to be about 2% times as far
distant as the sun or 230,000,000 miles
away and that it is coming nearer. It
must be a comet of no mean magnitude
to be visible at so great a distance.
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U. of P. 12—Cornell, 6.
The University of Pennsylvania de-
feated Cornell at Philadelphia on
Thanksgiving day by a score of 12 to 6,
in weather conditions that have prob-
ably never been equalled at a football
game. A twenty-four hours cold rain
was followed by a driving snow storm,
which set in just before the game was
begun. The players suffered greatly
from the cold and in consequence much
fumbling, due to numbed fingers and
limbs, resulted. Twenty thousand peo-
ple saw the game in spite of the ab-
normal weather.
In the first half Cornell had the ad-
vantage of the strong wind and kept
the ball in Pennsylvania’s territory all
the time. A. blocked kick gave Cor-
nell the only score in’ this half,
Starbuck kicking a very difficult goal.
In the second half Pennsylvania, with
the wind in her back, scored two touch-
downs, the first one by a run around
left end by Outland, the second due to
a bad kick by Cornell, which sent the
ball into the arms of Hedges, who had
a clear field for a touchdown. Out-
land kicked both goals. are and
Outland played especially well for
Pennsylvania, while C. Young and
Whiting did the best work for Cornell.
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Basketball.
The candidates for the University
Basketball Team were called out Mon-
day. Training and practice will start
at once, as the season will be short.
The first game will be played on
December 1oth, with the Waterbury
Y. M. C. A., and will be the only game
before the Christmas vacation.
After Christmas a training table will
be started and about two games will
be played a week. The schedule in-
. cludes most of the strongest teams in
the country, both among the Y. M. C.
A. teams and the colleges. One of the
most important games will be with Cor-
nell, which will be played in New
York sometime in March, probably
under the auspices of the Knickerbocker
Athletic Club. There will be more
home games than in past years, as
there seems to be more interest taken
among the undergraduates throughout
the University and their support will be
counted on.
The team promises to be one of the
strongest playing this year, as six of
last year’s team are still in College.
Candidates for the Freshman Basket-
ball Team have also been called out
and they will be in charge of E. T.
Lewis, ’99.
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The Yale flag, which was presented
to the Cruiser Yale, has been hung in
the Chittenden library, together with
the American flag.
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