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YALE ALUMNI WEEKLY
“NARROWNESS AT YALE.”
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man who is interested in athletics is
generally entirely absorbed in them. It
is not true to say that the literary man
at Yale is not at all the man of affairs.
It is not true to give the impression, if
not to actually say, that the men who
are most active in the religious life of
the place are bigoted and prejudiced.
It is not true that the Yale man is
generally indifferent or indolent, or that
he is laboring constantly under the fear
of doing something which will not be
pleasant to his superiors. It is not
true that the general tone of Yale in-
struction is narrow and that Yale
teachers cannot appreciate the funda-
mentals of a liberal education. It is not
true that the Corporation of Yale Col-
lege are governing the institution from
the standpoint of the prosperity of the
Congregational denomination.
Why do we not argue on these
points, if it is worth while even to cite
the charges? We beg to say that we
are ready to, whenever any evidence is
adduced to support them. To do it
now is a work of supererogation. It
would involve the recital of a few
columns or pages of facts which are not
only perfectly familiar to the Yale man
who knows anything of the history of
his College, but to all of those who are
moderately familiar with the story of
modern education.
Not to be misunderstood, and desirous
to agree with something in the article,
we do wish to emphatically endorse
every harsh thing that was said about
the mistakes of members of Sopho-
more Societies. When Yale men, who
have been given the peculiar privileges
and great opportunities of Sophomore
societies, so lose their heads and their
characters as Yale men, as to consider
their privileges and opportunities as
given them for their exclusive enjoy-
ment within and without their Society
hall—in other words, when Sophomore
society cliques form, then we will en-
dorse any condemnation that the Eng-
lish language can equip. In acting in
such a manner, men show themselves
unworthy of any of the privileges of
Yale life and we rejoice at any reoukes
which they receive.
And now just one word more about
this style of general criticism of Yale.
Why is it not a better thing to dwell
upon those things which make for
breadth and strength and culture at
Yale, and, encouraged by their force,
point directions in which they may still
further expand, or, better, actually lead
them in some new channel, than to
stand on one side and lament the im-
perfections of college nature? Why
pass over the marvelous facts of growth
and expansion as shown in the develop-
ment of the Yale curriculum, instead of
asking that this development may be
still further directed along this or that
or the other line of a liberal education?
Why turn one’s back on the tremendous
movement of the last fifteen years and
weep because men may yet carry the
Yale degree and be imperfect in their
mental vision or yet unformed in their
intellectual sympathies?
We do not believe in adulation, but
we do recommend dealing with the
things at hand and using the forces that
are. The Yale system of education has
been developing for at least a century
and a half, and magnificent battles have
been fought and won in the cause of
light and truth during all these years.
Men have won them and applied their
fruits, whose names are revered where-
ever learning is cherished, and men
who are toiling in their footsteps are
fighting new battles. There are great -
victories yet to be won, not only for
Yale education, but, through it, for all
education. Why stand aside as the line
moves on, and mourn that the charge
has not gone further up the hill?
And as to the Yale man,—does he
really seem indifferent and indolent? It
is not his nature. It never has been
his nature. Whatever else Yale has
been, it has always been a busy place,—
a center of great activity. Ils the Yale
man now drifting insensibly with the
tide of indifference? We surely do not
think so, bit if anyone does, let us ask
one question. Did the Yale undergrad-
uate body, when fairly presented with a
good cause which would better its own
conditions and further the general wel-
fare of the place, fail to respond with
enthusiasm and great force?
Let us criticise when we have facts to
present. It will help. But let us not
call names. That never helps. Into
that danger we believe the Lit. leader
fell not consciously. Its motive was as
high as possible. The spirit back of
those harsh lines was the spirit of truest
Yale patriotism. But the method was
abominable, and the results, we fear, as
far as Yale’s advance is concerned, have
been something else and worse than
nothing.
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Giee Club Report.
Edward Sawyer, Manager of the Glee
and Banjo Clubs last year has presented
his report as follows:
‘ RECEIPTS.
Coticerts: 253 ce ce oo 2 $16,065.85
Quartettes:.: 252.3 Nip eee 482.59
Rebates = ei) a se 351.31
Members on account......... 381.10
J. P. Sawyer Mgr., 1896-7.... 3,000.00
Rebates, 1805-06 =... 2... 10.50
Rebates: 1806-07. =. 25-3 33 ee 13.40
T. S. Mafhitt Mgs., 2d Club::. 19.15
W. A. DeCamp for box pay-
Ment received... 0.1.4 4.2.04. 12.00
$20,335.90
; EXPENDITURES.
Rent of halls2. .: 2 $1,889.50
Pianos and cartageée........ 2: 38.00
Decorations and stage furniture 199.65
Police, tishers, ete... 104.75
AWNINGS 66 Soe eee 100.00
Commissions ©: .s.07 27. 32.4... 50.74
Bill ‘posting 2272.52 307.90
Newspaper advertising ...... 661.67
Street car advertising ........ 264.25
Signs, windows cards, etc. ... 60.68
Addressing annuoncements .. 44.21
Printing (programs, posters,
ete!) stare en i 965.95
EX DECSS = coun poe 89.70
Railroad transportation ...... 4,738.60
Chartered cars and steamboat
transportation. a 4,794.75
Commissionaries en route ... 1,455.50.
anhdry >. sco. = ore 44.28
street ‘cars and busses... .2.., 69.65
Protelo: uc ee eee 379.05
Expenses of quartettes....... 351.10
Arrangement expenses ....... 150.74
Porters, messengers, etc. .... 148.50
Telegrams and Telephone.... 76.40
Agents, miscellaneous ..:.... 37.58
Training Gleeand Banjo Clubs 575.74
(siee Club supplies... . a5: 170.42
Banjo Club supplies.......;. 479.10
Neero quartette: ceac.¢. 5.54 10.00
Prizes for words and music... 40.00
Advertising frames and photo-
raps te-clabs.; 3.2. 154.75
PMO. evicias «isi eo: 84.75
Members on account......... 447.50
Stationery and stamps........ 413.27
me OCW Milne 67.5 20 poe, 48.23
Glce Gxtures .. 3, oes, . 26.41
Cuts in Banner and Pot Pourri 40.00
Designs for programs and s
DOP ere oe sos ee oes Oe 30.00
Charms for Glee and Banjo
3 Se ee ee eee ee 132.00
Second Club account......... 25.50
Banjo Club ’97 acount........ 8.43
Freshman Club ’97 account... 10.05
Bevates COP 225 Sees & 35.50
General expense ............. 72.26
Poor Student Fund .......... 860.00
Turned over to T. S. Maffitt,
eaeet., 1808-00... 3,000.00
$20,335.90
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From one end of the land to the other,
wherever men who demand the best are
found, Fownes’ Gloves are the recognized
standard of merit and fashion.
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best for dress, for the street, for riding,
driving, or golfing — for all occasions and
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All-America Eleven.
Caspar Whitney in his choice of an
all-America team in the Christmas is-
sue of Harper’s Weekly, gives Yale two
places, Chamberlin at tackle and Mc-
Bride at half-back. Brown is given a
guard position on the substitute eleven.
The team as chosen by Mr. Whitney
is as follows: Romeyn, West Point,
full-back; Dibblee, Captain, Harvard,
and McBride, Yale, half-backs; Daly,
Harvard, quarter-back; Cunningham,
Michigan, center; Hare, Pennsylvania,
and Boal, Harvard, guards; Chamber-
lin, Yale, and Hillebrand, Princeton,
tackles; Palmer, Princeton, and Hallo-
well, Harvard, ends.
the line — Overfield,
Brown, Yale; Burden, Harvard;
Haughton, Harvard; Donald, Har-
vard; Folwell, . Pennsylvania; Poe,
Princeton. Back of the line—Reid,
Harvard; Warren, Harvard; Kromer,
West Point; O’Dea, Wisconsin.
Substitutes: In
Pennsylvania;
Outing” for January.
Outing for January brings the jingle
of sleigh-bells, the ring of skates and
the strong, healthful atmosphere of win-
try sport and pastime the world over.
The contents are: “Mid-Winter Mad-
caps’ (poem), by Charles Turner; “A
Christmas in Mooseland,” by Ed. W.
Sandys; ‘New Year’s Day at a Hud-
- son’s Bay Fur Post,” by W. Bleasdell
Cameron; “A Hockey Match,” by M.
Gertrude Cundill; “In Lotus Land
Awheel,” by T. Philip Terry; ““A Day’s
Sport in the West Indies’; “The Perils
of Whaling,” by Captain R. F. Coffin;
“The Passing of the Ice Carnival,” by
Edwin Wildman; “A Fox Hunt on the
Pedee,” by Jane Marlin; “A Snowshoe
Caribou Hunt,” by Frank H. Risteen;
“Bastien,” by S. Rhett Roman; “A
Christmas Morning in Carolina,” by F.
A. Olds; “A Leopard Hunt in Bengal,”
by J. W. Parry; “Figure Skating,” by
J. E. Mitchie; “Florida Fishing
Sketches,” by Mary T. Townsend; “The
Yarn. of the Yampa,” by E. Le H,
McGinnis; “Jack Rabbit Hunts and
Drives,” by David W. Fenton; “The
Orange Lake Ice Yacht Club and Its
Rivals,” by H. Percy Ashley, and the
usual editorials, poems and records.
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THE FIRST CHICAGO POLICY
- Was drawn by the Atna Insurance Company of Hartford. It was signed
by Gurdon S. Hubbard, who was appointed the Company’s agent
there in 1834.
THIRTY-SEVEN years later $3,782,000 went from the treasury of the Aetna
into that fire swept city.
met losses at the Boston fire of $1,635,067.
nearly $5,500,000 in but a little over a year.
stronger than ever after it,
Thirteen months later this same Company
This meant a drain of
And the A&tna was
In SEVENTY-NINE years, up to January 4st, 1808, it had paid in losses
$79,198 979,38. :