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ADVISORY BOARD.
H. C. Roprnson, 58. J.R. SHEFFIELD, ’87.
W. W. Skippy, ’65S. J. A. HARTWELL, '89 8.
C. P. LinpsLey, 758. L. S. WELCH, ’89.
W. Camp, ’80. E. VAN INGEN, ’91 S.
W.G. DaaaGeETT, ’80. P. Jay, ‘92.
EDITOR.
Lewis 8S. WELCH, ’89.
ASSOCIATE EDITOR.
WALTER Camp, ’80.
ASSISTANT EDITOR.
E. J. THompson, Sp.
NEWS EDITOR.
FRED. M. Davrzs, ’99.
ASSISTANT.
PRESTON KuUMLER, 1900.
BUSINESS DEPARTMENT ASSISTANTS.
O. M. CuaRK, ’98. BURNETT GOODWIN, ’99 S.
Entered as second class matter at New Haven P. 0.
NEW HAVEN, Conn., Dec. 15, 1898.
THE DEBATING VICTORY.
In the face of great natural difficul-
ties, Yale, through the hard working of
her students and the faithful codpera-
‘tion of those of greater years, has won
a most excellent victory on the plat-
form. We congratulate those who won
it and those who helped them to win it.
There is no particular reason for con-
gratulating the student body of Yale.
The support at the debate in the way of
attendance was not good. The audi-
ence was unworthily small.
Wouldn’t debate fare better at Yale
if the chance to secure the opportunities
of a membership in the Union, or a
place at the banquet, were not offered
so freely? Isn’t debate made too
cheap?
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A GENEROUS FRIEND OF YALE.
The generosities of Mr. John W.
Hendrie, Yale ’51, to his alma mater,
have been very handsome and very fre-
quent in the last few years. And they
do not cease. We congratulate the
Yale Law School and Yale on having
such a friend.
YALE ORATORY /?)
Why .cannot Yale have form as well
as substance in her debates? It is very
well to glory in the record of solid
fact and clear argument and quick ad-
vantage taken of weak points. It
speaks well for the virility of mind and
thoroughness of drill, and we are glad
to see debates won by good hard logic.
But why not try for oratory in the
speakers representing Yale University?
We have not in mind any particular
band of debaters, as being especially
deficient in this sort of thing. Practi-
cally all of Yale’s debaters have been
conspicuous for the absence of the
effective graces of oratory. Indeed,
all public speaking at Yale shows the
same thing. Yale men are generally
wooden when they get on a platform.
They badly strain the natural bond of
sympathy between them and their audi-
ence. Were it not. for that natural
sympathy, we grieve to think what the
result might be.. The best arguers and
thinkers of the Senior Class and the pro-
fessional schools would, generally, have
a mighty poor time trying to make an
impression on a critical—not to say a
hostile—audience. ;
The fault is a fault of the Yale educa-
tion. It is not a fault of the debating
system. There is a very capable in-
structor in platform service on the
Faculty, but matters are not so arranged
that his work makes any appreciable
effect on the men who ought to be good
speakers. Oratory is an art and an
inestimably valuable one for the edu-
cated man, who wants to do his part
in public service. At a time when, to
an almost alarming degree, men of
brains and character are needed in the
public service, the national institution,
Yale, famous for the training of men
for work among men—for public work—
is not at all doing her part in a ‘most
important direction. We commend the
matter to the attention of the Corpora-
tion of Yale.
SOLDIERING IN MANILA.
Letter from Harry W. McCauley, °88,
Corporal Ist Colo. Regt.
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The WEEKLY is in receipt of a com-
munication from Corporal Harry W.
McCauley, ’88, of Denver, Col., through
Class Secretary Philip Pond, 2d, from
Manila, Philippine Islands, in response
to a request for his war record with the
United States troops in that part of the
world. The record will be printed in
the Eighty-Eight Class Book soon to
appear, but Mr. Pond has kindly
handed it to the WereExty for earlier
publication. It runs as follows:
On May 1, 1898, I was mustered into
the United States service at Denver,
Colorado, on the President’s first call
for volunteers, becoming a private in
Company E, First Regiment Colorado
Infantry, U. S. Volunteers. In order
to do so I resigned my position as
reporter on the Republican, but was then
directed to act as the Denver Republican
staff correspondent wherever our regi-
ment might be sent. » This work I have
done in such leisure minutes as the dis-
charge of a soldier’s duty permitted.
My articles have appeared in the Den-
ver Republican always as signed articles.
I have also written signed articles for
the Boston Globe since sailing for the
Philippines.
The regiment was in camp at Camp
Adams in the suburbs of Denver, Colo-
' rado, from April 29 to May 17, 1808;
at Camp Merritt, San Francisco, from
May 21 to June 14, on which day the
second expedition for the Philippine
Islands went aboard transports in the
harbor of San Francisco. When next
day just after noon, June 15, the expe-
dition sailed for the war in the Orient
the various transports of the expedition
carried the following troops: Steamship
China, flagship of Brigadier-General F.
V. Greene—ist Regiment Colorado In-
fantry, U. S. V.; half of Battery B, rst
Utah Light Artillery, U. S. V.; two
companies 18th Regiment Infantry, U.
S. A.; a detachment of engineers; and
ten marines for service on Rear Ad-
miral Dewey’s dispatch boat McCul-
loch. Steamship Senator—ist Regi-
ment Nebraska Infantry, U. S. V.
Steamship Zealandia—two battalions of
the 1oth Regiment Pennsylvania In-
fantry, U. S. V.; half of Battery B, 1st
Regiment Utah Light Artillery, U. S.
V. Steamship Colon—two companies
18th Regiment Infantry, U. S. V.; four
companies 23d Regiment Infantry, U.
S. V.; Battery A, 1st Regiment Utah
Light Artillery, U. S. A. ,
These troops of the second expedi-
tion, together with the 1st Regiment
California Infantry, U. S. A., which
had sailed three weeks before on the
first expedition, are the ones that took
the most active part in the subsequent
siege and capture of Manila.
The second expedition, with which I
sailed, left San Francisco June 15;
reached Honolulu June 23, where it was
feasted two days by the residents of that
place. The departure from Honolulu
was at noon of June 25.
On the morning of July 4, which was
July 5 in the United States, Brigadier-
General Greene and a number of officers
from the various military organizations
on the China landed on Wakes’ Island,
latitude 19.15 north, longitude 166.33
east, which may be of future use for a
cable station. I was the only enlisted
matrin the party. As the island seemed
to be uninhabited, we took possession
of it in the name of the United States
and without loss of life raised the
American flag which is flying there
still, for aught anybody knows. Rec-
ords of the taking possession of the
place were left there in the usual
weather-proof boxes.
WORKING ON ENTRENCHMENTS.
Our expedition arrived in Cavite har-
bor July 16, and two days later my regi-
ment was landed on the Island of Luzon
between Cavite and Manila at a camp
four miles from Manila and which later
was Officially designated as Camp
Dewey. My regiment was the first
complete regiment to get so near to
Manila, only one battalion of the Ist
Regiment California Infantry locating
in Camp Dewey four days before the
Ist Colorado went ashore.
July 29 the campaign against Manila
was begun in earnest by the construc-
tion of rifle pits and entrenchments for
the artillery a mile south of Malate, one
of the outlying districts of Manila,
where the strongest land fortifications
of the Spaniards were situated. These
entrenchments were thrown up, almost -
to the last foot of earth, by my regi-
ment, which also repaired roads for the
transportation of artillery. Brigadier-
General Greene said that he considered
the Colorado regiment the backbone of
his brigade.
RAISED FIRST AMERICAN FLAG.
My regiment was in the fights of July
31, August I and 2. On the day of the
Battle of Manila, August 13, the First
Colorado was given the position of
honor in the firing line, that is directly
opposite Fort San Antonio de Abad,
the strongest fortification in the Spanish
line.
Before Rear Admiral Dewey had
completed his bombardment and while
the guns of the Utah Light Artillery
were still battering away at the Spanish
forts and block houses, my regiment
led the land attack, capturing the first
Spanish works, Fort San Antonio de
Abad, on which the first American flag
was raised. This was at eleven A. M.
Half an hour later the first American
flag was raised in Manila, in the dis-
trict of Malate. This flag was that of
the First Colorado, and while it was
being raised one of our men was mor-
tally wounded beside it; but Color Ser-
geant Richard G. Holmes of our regi-
ment planted the flag in spite of the
bullets that rained all about him and
his dying comrade. : |
During the whole of the fight our
band, the only one that went into the
engagements with its instruments,
cheered us on to victory with “Star
Spangled Banner,” “A Hot Time,” and
the like. It was our band and our regi-
ment that took part in the raising of
the American flag over the ramparts of
Manila late in the afternoon when the
city surrendered.
Perhaps, my dear Pond, this may ap-
pear to you as largely braggadocio.
But facts are facts and both the Ameri-
can and the European newspapers since
the surrender have awarded the honors
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of the occasion to the First Colorado
regiment.
We are, as it were, not the Rough
Riders at the battle of Santiago, but the
Rough Walkers at the Battle of Manila.
September 1, I was made a Corporal.
I feel as proud of this promotion as I
did when I became a Sophomore. Our
regiment is now barracked in the San
Sebastian district of Manila. How long
it is to be kept here no one knows.
The American troops have finished
the fight with the Spaniards, but they
are now engaged in a battle with small
pox and the numerous fevers which
infest this country. The graveyard is
growing very fast.
Although not wounded in battle 1
am having a set-to with a cold and a
bad attack of malaria, trusting all the
while that it will not turn into typhoid
malaria. :
Unless the regiment is ordered home,
a letter addressed as below will reach
me.
Sincerely yours in Yale ’88,
Harry W. McCau_Ley,
Company E, 1st Regt. Colorado Infan-
try, U. S. Volunteers, Manila.
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Wale’s Victory.
[Editoriai in Yale News.]
Another splendid victory has been
placed to Yale’s credit by her defeat
of Princeton in the fifth annual de-
bate between the two Universities. It
was a struggle to determine a tempor-
ary supremacy, since each had hitherto
won two contests; and Yale proved
equal to the occasion. In point of logic
and strength of argument the speeches
of our representatives showed a remark-
able degree of perfection and a thor-
ough mastery of the subject. Their re-
buttals, where, on account of their com-
parative inexperience, our men might
have been expected to weaken, have sel-
dom been surpassed in the history of
intercollegiate debating. Princeton,
however, was. far from easily van-
quished. Her team was composed of
men who were worthy opponents in
every respect. Their delivery was
superb; they fought well. But they
were unable to maintain their ground
successfully. For Messrs. Kitchel,
Leavitt and Walcott the University has
naught but words of commendation and
of praise, and for their untiring loyalty
and conscientious efforts they have our
sincere gratitude. — é
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Regretted at Princeton.
[Editorial in Princetonian.]
Princeton’s defeat last night at the
hands of Yale in the first of the inter-
collegiate debates this year is regretted.
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Heretofore Princeton has held her
own against Yale, and owing to the
disproportion numerically between the
two colleges a considerate public has
awarded the first place to Princeton;
but last night’s defeat has materially
changed this phase of the question, and
Princeton is again behind in the race.
There is one way, only, by which
the stigma of the present defeat may
be partially removed, and that is by
defeating Harvard, who is popularly
considered the champion in argumenta-
tive contests.
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Harvard’s Football Captain.
William Armstead Moale Burden of
New York has been elected Captain of
the Harvard Football Team for next
year. He prepared for College at the
Groton School, where he played on the
Eleven for two years at center. He
played on his Freshman team. Last
year Burden was substitute center, and
this year has played at right-guard in
every game. He is twenty-one years
old.
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The second of the series of Berkeley
sermons was preached by Rev. Floyd
Tomkins, D.D., of Providence, R. L.,
in Trinity Church on Sunday, Decem-
ber 11th.
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