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YALE ALUMNI WEEKLY
YALE ALUMNI WEEKLY
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ADVISORY BOARD.
H. C. Roptrnson, 53. %J.I. SHEFFIELD, ’87.
W.W.Sxkrippy,’65S. J. A. HARTWELL, ‘89 8.
C. P. LINDSLEY, ’75S. L.S. WELCH, ’89.
W. Camp, ’89. E. VAN INGEN, 791 8.
W.G. DaaGetTrT, ’80. P. Jay, 92.
EDITOR.
Lewis S. WELOH, ’89.
ASSOCIATE EDITOR.
WALTER Camp, ’80.
ASSISTANT EDITOR.
E. J. THOMPSON, Sp.
NEWS EDITOR.
Freep. M. Daviss, ’99.
ASSISTANT.
PRESTON KUMLER, 1900.
BUSINESS DEPARTMENT ASSISTANTS.
O. M. CLaRK, ’98. BURNETT GOODWIN, ’99 S.
Entered as second class matter at New Haven P. 0.
NEW HAVEN, Conn., DEc. 1, 1898.
A YALE ENTERPRISE.
The kind of information to which this
number of the WEEKLY is especially
given, is the kind which a good many
people insist on ignoring when they
treat of Yale University and the ways
of its student population. The manner
in which the men of character and con-
viction employ themselves while they
are a part of this Yale community are
not the ways whose description helps
to sell papers, which depend on sensa-
tional fiction for their circulation.
These prefer the vagaries of the few,
to the serious work of the many. It
is not worth while to speak of these
liars, except that there are many peo-
ple who really desire to know the truth
and have a sincere anxiety for the wel-
fare of such a place as Yale, who allow
themselves to be led around by the
nose by these devils of the daily press
and by the money changers who try to
place their tables in the temple of good
works.
Now and then the work and the
purposes and the spirit of the Yale com-
munity find a substantial expression
in the result of years of well sustained
effort on good lines. The completion
of the new Yale Mission building is one
of the best instances of this. The event
makes it interesting to go back over the
years since it was established, to see
what enthusiasm and good sense have
been put into its development. The
story is well worth one’s attention
whether he is particularly interested in
this kind of student activity or not, for
it is in such efforts as these that a
large part of the men who make and
control the Yale of to-day are occupied.
It will not be necessary to call the
matter particularly to the attention of
those who have a direct interest in such
things. We sincerely hope that the
Committee which has done so well will
now receive the final endorsement of
their efforts, and that when the work
in the new building begins it will be
free from the incumbrance of even a
small debt.
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DRIVE THEM OUT.
For reasons that have already been
given, and in view of the already evi-
dent desire to improve the conditions
another year, the WerrEKLy has re-
frained from a discussion of the prob-
lem of the distribution of the football
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tickets. The conditions under which
the undertaking is now carried on are
impossible. If Yale perpetuates them,
the difficulties of future management
will probably grow greater rather than
less. But until something is known
about the policy of the future, we think
it better not to go into the matter.
One aspect of the matter is, how-
ever, worth some emphasis. The dis-
grace of speculation has never been
keenly enough realized. When a man
secures the privileges of a student at
Yale he becom® responsible to the or-
ganization of Yale—to the society of
Yale, if you will call it that. When
he sells those privileges for money, no
pains ought to be spared to make him
understand that he no longer belongs
to Yale. Figuratively speaking, he
ought to be drummed out of camp.
His name may still remain on the rolls,
if the Faculty see fit to keep such a
creature on the lists of the institution;
but neither the Faculty nor students
should have any excuse for not knowing
who such a fellow is. There are ab-
solutely no extenuating circumstances
that occur to us in the case of a man
who sells his tickets for gain, having
secured them on the strength of his
character as a Yale man.
But, despite all that has been known
about this, down to names and prices,
there have never yet been steps taken
to inflict the penalty... Within fifty
feet of the Association’s headquarters,
race track sharks shake in the faces
of alumni bunches of the best tickets
on the ground. Merchants who de-
pend on Yale University for most of
their business go into collusion with
those who are willing to be Yale men
for revenue only and quietly display
seats, in the middle section of the Yale
side, at $10.00 per seat, to graduates
of the College, who have given to Yale
of their time and their money unstint-
ingly, and who have been located on the
upper tier of the end stand. These
tickets are all marked and the record
shows to whom they went. :
As we have said, the managements
do not seem to have appreciated
the meanness of this business or the
deep indignation of Yale’s friends, who
see it tolerated at their expense. But
there will be no excuse for not appre-
ciating it in the future. Hundreds of
the best people of Yale, from the
Freshman to the oldest graduate, have
felt and suffered and condemned this
thing. Those who have, hereafter, the
responsibility for the distribution of the
tickets for the great athletic events, will
make a very serious mistake if they
hesitate at any outlay of money neces-
sary to secure the conviction of every
Yale Hessian; or if they allow fear
or a mistaken idea of mercy to prevent
the publication of all the details of the
crime.
Some of us feel that Yale officers are
rather slow at times in purging the lists
of those who cannot honorably wear
the Yale colors. Let not those who
are in the ranks make this weak mis-
take.
The necessity for action is equally
urgent whether there are few or many.
It there are few, then let the reproach
be taken away from the many; if there
are many, there is all the more reason
for running them out of camp in droves
and saving the Yale stock from de-
generation.
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FOOTBALL IMPROVEMENT.
The Harvard Crimson, in one of its
comments on the football game of
November 19th, compares the contest:
with that in Springfield in 1894, point-
ing to the improvement in the way in
which the game has been played, in the
direction of lessening violence and
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roughness and bad feeling. The Crim-
son attributes this improvement to
President Eliot and the Athletic Com-
mittee of Harvard, although giving
some credit to the strict rulings of field
officials, like Dashiel.
The Crimson will find a great many
excellent judges, who will freely attrib-
ute great good to the influence of such
an official as Dashiel. As to the in-
fluence exerted on the game of foot-
ball by the course taken by the very
distinguished President of Harvard and
the athletic officials of that University,
the Crimson seems very much in earnest,
and for that reason we don’t venture to
take up the contention in the light in
which it appears to us.
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Why Yale Failed.
[Charles Hopkins Clark, 71, in Hartford Courant. ]
Perhaps it would have been better if
last week the Yale football team had
resigned and Timothy Dwight had not.
That’s the way it looks up here.
There seems just one complete and
unanswerable explanation of why Yale
did not beat Harvard on Saturday and
that is that she could not do it. Never
before was a Yale team more entirely
in the hands of its antagonists than
were those unhappy boys on the Yale
Field, whose soil has hitherto never felt
the feet of Yale men except as victors.
Harvard fell upon them, as the rain
fell on every body, and their name was
mud.
The wearers of the crimson were en-
titled to the success that their pluck and
skill won for them. No doubt, they en-
joyed the unaccustomed sensation of
going home winners. It is agreeable.
Yale has often had the experience and
liked it. But that has been in years
when her team was played against, not
played with, as it has been this year.
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Prom Arrangements.
The arrangements for this year’s Prom
are already being made. The prelimi-
nary dance orders have been placed at
the Coodp., and there are, as usual,
eighteen regular dances, eighteen in-
termissions and five extras. The list
alternates between waltzes and _ two-
step, as in previous years. aid
Books have been placed at the Codp.
in which all men who expect to attend
their class germans may place their
subscriptions. As yet but few men
seem to have decided whether they will
attend or not and but few names have
been signed.
The large number of subscriptions
received in recent years, at an early
date, made it possible for the committee
to allot the members of the Junior class
boxes at a low fixed price, and it is
sincerely hoped that this arrangement
may be followed this year. To do this
however, a certain number of tickets
must be subscribed for before Decem-
ber 10, as both the supper contract and
the method of allotting boxes depends
on the number of subscriptions.
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Ninety-Six to Mrs. Ives.
At a meeting of the members of the
Class of Ninety-Six residing in New
York City and vicinity held at the Yale
Club on Nov. 10, a Committee was
chosen to send a letter to Mrs. Ives,
expressing the feeling of those present
at the death of her son, Gerard Mer-
rick Ives, Yale ’96. F
The Committee which performed this
work was composed of the following
men: Walter P. Paret, Thomas 5S.
Kingman, H. G. Fisher and M. D.
McKee. :
The same Committee purposes in-
vestigating the feelings of the Class
about a suitable memorial for Gerard
Merrick Ives, and will make its report
at the Triennial next June.
Archeological Institute.
The annual meeting of the New
Haven Society of the Archaelogical In-
stitute of America was held in Phelps
Hall on Friday, November 18. The fol-
lowing were elected for the ensuing
year: President, Timothy Dwight, ’49:
Vice-President, Hon. S. E. Baldwin,
61; Secretary and Treasurer, Professor
H. M. Reynolds, ’80 Counselor, Prof.
E. P. Morris, 74. - It was also decided
to have occasional lectures during the
year. After the business meeting Pro-
essor J. H. Wright of Harvard Uni-
versity delivered an illustrated lecture
on “A Painting of Appelles.”’.
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Will Yale Let Go?
[Springfield Republican.]
It will also have to be said that Presi-
dent Dwight’s administration was coin-
cident with Yale’s most brilliant athletic
victories. The old Yale football su-
premacy goes with Timothy Dwight.
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