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James Brittain Miller, a graduate of
the Yale Divinity School in the Class
of Ninety-Four and since that time a
student in the Gradtiate Department,
was arrested a week ago, charged with
the theft of books from the store of
Mr. Augur on Church street. When
Miller’s room at 123 West Divinity was
searched by the detectives, over two
thousand books were found stored there.
After the circulation of this news, book-
sellers all over the city came forward and
told of losses of books for some time and
asked permission to look at the books
in Mr. Miller’s room. Mr. Judd of the
Edward P. Judd Co., positively identi-
fied as his a number of the volumes, as
did also W. H. Kingsbury and A. R.
Andrews, dealers in second hand books.
Miller worked the scheme of an end-
less chain on Bookseller Kingsbury,
whose store on Orange street and later,
on Crown street near Orange, is well
known to Yale graduates. His plan, so
it is alleged by the prosecution, was to
steal books from the shelves of this.
dealer, and after holding them for a
time, sell them on commission. When-
ever he came with a large supply his
excuse was that he was handling the
books for friends of his. In this’ way
the unsuspecting bookseller was made
to sell scores of his own books and pay
the bulk of the profits to Miller.
Among the books found in the room
were these: “The Making and Unmak-
ing of a Minister,” and “Mistakes of a
Minister.”
When arrested, Miller had on a large
overcoat, the inside of which was fitted
with several mammoth pockets. His
plea in the case is absent-mindedness.
Under the advice of his counsel, Attor-
ney Tyner, he would not answer the
question whether ue was a kleptomaniac °
or not. Among Miller’s personal
effects were found two bank books with
a total amount of $1400 on deposit.
Two days after his arrest and release
on $500 bail, Miller was a~ain arrested
charged with the thefi of a gold watch
from E. E. Wallace, a graduate student
who rooms in 19 East Divinity. Wal-
lace reported the theft to the police over
a year ago. Miller was released on
$1,000 bonds and will be tried at an
early date.
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University Prize in Poetry.
A prize’ of fifty dollars is offered by
Professor Cook for the best unpublished
poem which shall be submitted by the
writer on or before May 1, 1899. Com-
petition is open to students of the Uni-
versity in all departments. The award
will be made by a committee which will
be designated hereafter. If none of the
poems possesses sufficient merit, the
prize will not be awarded.
A College not a Home for In-
curables.
[From the article by Dean Briggs of Harvard, on
“Fathers, Mothers and Freshmen,” in the January
Atlantic.]
A college is not a home for incur-
ables or a limbo for the dull and ineffi-
cient. Moreover, as a Western father
observed to President Eliot, “it does
not pay to spend two thousand dollars
on a two-dollar boy.” Though a firm
believer in college training as the su-
preme intellectual privilege of youth, I
- am convinced that the salvation of some
young men (for the practical purposes
of this present world) is in taking them
out of college and giving them long
and inevitable hours in some office or
factory.
I do not mean that all success in
- college belongs to the good scholars;
for many a youth who stands low in
his classes gets incalculable benefit
from his college course. sot 4s
the weak-kneed dawdler who ought to
go, the youth whose body and mind are
wasting away in bad hours and bad
company, and whoce sense of truth
grows dimmer and dimmer in the smoke
of his cigarettes; yet it is precisely this
youth who, through metre inertia, is
hardest to move, who seems glued to
the University, whose father is help-
less before his future, and whose rela-
tives contend that, since he is no man’s
enemy but his own, he should be
allowed to stay in college so long as
his father will pay his tuition fee,—as
if a college were a public conveyance
wherein anybody that pays his fare may
abide “unless personall-- obnoxious,” or
a hotel where anybody that pays enough
may lie in bed and have all the good
things sent up to him.
No college—certainly no college
with an elective system, which pre-
supposes a youth’s interest in his own
intellectual welfare—can afford to keep
such as he.. Nor can he afford to be
kept. One of the first aims of col-
lege life is increase of power: be he
scholar or athlete, the sound underegrad-
uate learns to meet difficulties: “stum-
bling-blocks,” in the words of an ad-
mirable preacher, become “stepping-
stones.” It is a short-sighted kindness
that keeps in college (with its priceless
opportunities for growth and its corre-
sponding opportunities for degenera-
tion) a youth who lies down in front
of his stumbling-blocks in the vague
hope that by and by the authorities will
have them carted away.
One of the surprises in administrative
life at college is the underhand dealing
of parents, not merely with college
officers, but with their own sons.
“Your son’s case is just where I cannot
tell whether or no it will be wise to
put him on probation,” says the Dean
to a well-educated and agreeable father.
“Tt will do him good,” says the father
emphatically. “Then,” says the Dean,
“we will put him on”; and the father,
as he takes his leave, observes, “I. shall
give him ‘to understand that it was in-
evitable,—that J did all J could to pre-
vent it.” Now and then a father writes
to the Dean for an opinion of a son’s
work and character. The Dean would
like to show him the answer before
sending it, so that everything, favor-
able or unfavorable, may be above
board; but he has, or thinks he has,
the father’s confidence to keep. Ac-
cordingly he says nothing to the stu-
dent concerned, answers the father .
straightforwardly, and learns later that
his letter, if unfavorable, has passed
from the father to the son without com-
ment, as if it had been a gratuitous
emanation from the Dean’s_ office.
Even the self-protecting words, “in
answer to your inquiry,’ are not
enough; for a letter may be garbled.
In answer to the inquiry of a distin-
guished man about his ward, the Dean
of a College made clear, first, that the
young man had been in danger of losing
his degree, and next that the danger
was probably over. The distinguished
man had the unfavorable part of the
letter copied, omitted the favorable, and
sent the partial copy to the student.
He omitted the Dean’s signature; but
the letter itself showed whence it came;
and it appeared to have been written
just after the Dean had assured the
student of his belief that the degree
was safe. The young man was. frank
enough and sensible enough in his per-
plexity to go straight to the Dean; but
the false position of the distinguished
man and the false position in which (to
some degree wtnwittingly) he would
have left the Dean before the student,
are clear.
THE HOTCHKISS SCHOOL
LAKEVILLE, CONN.
An endowed school, devoted exclusively
to preparation ,for college, or scientific
school, according to Yale and Harvard stan-
dards.
A limited number of scholarships, some
of which amount to the entire annual fee,
are available for deserving candidates of
slender means who can show promise Of
marked success in their studies.
EDWARD G. Coy, Head Master.
BETTS ACADEMY
STAMFORD, CONN.—6oth Year.
” Prepares for universities or technical schools.
- Special advantages to students desiring to sawe
time in preparation. HOME LIFE and the
INDIVIDUAL, the key-notes.
WM.1I. BETTS, M.A. (Yale), Principal.
Out-of-Door-Life and Study for Boys.
THE ADDRESS OF
THE THACHER SCHOOL
is Nordhoff, [Southern] California.
CHESTNUT HILL ACADEMY,
CHESTNUT HILL, PHILADELPHIA, PA.
The courses of study and the methods of
instruction are adapted to the requirements
of the best colleges. Catalogues on applica-
par oan ae YEE Te tion. JAS. L. PATTERSON, Head-master.
Class Secretuary’s Report.
Norman Leeds, Secretary of the
Class of Ninety-Five Sheff., has just
published his triennial report. It is
very complete and conveniently ar-
GIRLS’ SCHOOLS.
~ Miss ANNIE BROWN’S
ranged. BOARDING AND DAY SCHOOL FOR GIRLS.
Primary, Preparatory, Academic and Musica}
Departments. Preparation for college; certificate
. accepted by Vassar, Smith and Wellesley. Ad.
p r ofess ion al S C h OO i Ss. vanced courses and advantages of New York City
for special students. Otis Elevator.
741, 713, 715, 717 FIFTH AVENUE,
YALE MEDICAL SCHOOL.
86th Annual Session, Oct. 6, 1898.
The course leading to the degree of Doctor of
Medicine in Yale University is graded, covers four
years, and consists of systematic, personal instruc-
tion in laboratory, class-room and clinic.
For announcements, send to the Dean.
HERBERT E. Smitru, New Haven, Conn.
ST. MARGARET'S SCHOOL
WATERBURY, CONN.
‘Miss Mary R. HILLARD, Principal.
Reference by permission to President Dwight,
be prey 3 Principal C. F. P. Bancroft,
illips Academy.
SCHOOLS.
THE CUTLER SCHOOL, | woopsipe £8 SEMINARY
No. 20 E. 50TH ST., NEW YORK CITY.
Two hundred and twenty pupils have been
prepared for College and Scientific Schools
since 1876, and most of these have entered
YALE, HARVARD, COLUMBIA Or PRINCETON.
FOR GIRLS. HARTFORD, Conn,
Easter Term, Jan. 4, 1899.
MISS SARA J. SMITH, Principal.