Image provided by the Yale Club & Scholarship Foundation of Hartford, Inc.
About Yale Alumni Magazine | View Entire Issue (Jan. 19, 1899)
140 YALE ALUMNI WEEKLY SUBSCRIPTION, - $3.00 PER YEAR. Foreign Postage, 40 cents per year. PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. Single copies, ten cents each. For rates for papers in quantity, address the office. All orders for papers should be paid for in advance. Checks, drafts and orders should be made payable to the Yale Alumni Weekly. All correspondence should be addressed,— Yale Alumni Weekly, New Haven, Conn. The office is at Room 6, White Hall. ADVISORY BOARD. H. ©. Roprnson, 58. J. IR, SHEFFIELD, ’87,. W.W. Skippy, ’658S. J. A. HARTWELL, °89 5. C. P. LINDsLEY,’75 S. L.S. WELCH, ’89. W. Camp, ’8). E. VAN INGEN, ’91 8. W.G. Daagerrt,’80. P. Jay, '92. EDITOR. Lewis 8S. WELCH, ’89. ASSOCIATE EDITOR. WALTER Camp, ’80. ASSISTANT EDITOR. E. J. THOMPSON, Sp. NEWS EDITOR. FRED. M. DavriEs, 799. ASSISTANT. PRESTON KuUMLER, 1900. BUSINESS DEPARTMENT ASSISTANTS. O. M. CLARE, ’98. BURNETT GOODWIN, 799 S. Entered as second class matter at New Haven P. O. NEW HAVEN, CONN., JAN. 19, 1899. ELECTING YALE PRESIDENTS. In one department of Yale news we confess to considerable negligence. The WEEKLY has failed to record the different elections of successors to the presidency which have already been made. We recall, now, three men who have been definitely selected for the place, and two others in whose direc- tion movements have been made by the officials. This collection of three presidents-elect, and two nearly ready for selection, is an imposing fact in current Yale history. : We have talked with members of the Corporation and members of the Fac- ulty, and they have all failed to rise to an appreciation of the situation. Members of the Corporation, especially, are not informed. They don’t know how to talk about it intelligently. We are going to keep a record, hereafter, of those who are elected, or to whom. definite offers are made. A complete list ought to be interesting to the Cor- poration, when they actually begin to work upon the problem which is be- fore them. There is no question of the authenticity of these elections; they have been in newspapers published all over the country. wer RD pe ee OF NOT MUCH ACCOUNT. The opening of the new Yale Mission building (already paid for in cash with- in 6 per cent. of its cost) is not an event which will keep head-line builders busy from Maine to Luzon. It stands for an outlay of hard work for years by hundreds of strong young men. By cash contributions, many hundreds more are interested—most of them young men, now in College or just out of it. It is a voluntary, aggressive effort on the part of those who study ‘and live the College life at New Haven to make a part of the city which is a long way off from the Campus a better place, and-to help pull up other fellows, young and old, of whom they never heard, who did not start life as well as they did, and who have improved one or two of their profuse opportunities for going the wrong way. The work is planned quite as carefully as Yale’s best efforts in football, is much better organized than any branch of Yale ath- letics, and has proved its worth by defi- nite results, both as to the community TAL: ALOMIENI WEN KLY as to individuals. The Mission’s work and its allied interests represent, on the part of the students of Yale, an average of effort to help others which is no higher than it should be—probably not nearly as high as the ideal re- quires—but which is far beyond the average of effort in that direction by most young men of equal age. It strengthens the best impulses of youth, set in ideal environments, more than almost any other activity or influence in all the wide range of the varied education of a great University. But what of that? There isn’t much “news” in it. It doesn’t compare as “a story” with the vagaries of a bunch of Sophomores running wild after a little ale and giving the long cheer at a five hundred dollar fire. That’s “de- fiance of the whole fire department,” a “riot in the City of the Elms,” a civic cataclysm of vast contemporary im- portance. And this mission business isn’t much fun talking about, when one is righteously soured,—as are many sometimes and some always. It is far more to the appetite to pick out some thunderingly good football player, who has helped a college to expand too fast in intercollegiate athletics, get common consent in your select society to call him a brute, trace every broken bone to his malignity and hit him hard whenever his name appears in print. You can make him—as you know him to be—the type of his alma mater, and so serve your bitters, as a tonic in the name of Christian culture, to the sick- lied humanities of a once glorious College. Yale Missions and Christian associations, indeed! What are they? Cloaks for hypocrisy. Do they “mir- ror’ Yale lifep Are men who make reform a business to be fooled in this feeble way? ‘They know where the mirrors are, whose surfaces image the realities of Yale University in the blaz- ing light of truth. They are back of the bar at Heublein’s. But common mortals cannot ever keep these strenuous ways of scientific discriminations. We must sometimes take it easy, and fill our columns with simple stories about simple-hearted men, who just work all the year round to help things along and to get muscle to do more work afterwards. and a YALE VERSE. Yale verse is quite worth the com- _ piling, that is, it is worth it, if the com- piling is in the hands of the right man. The little volume just put out under the name of “Yale Verse,” with Charles » Edmund Merrill, Jr., Yale ’98, for its editor, and Chauncey Wetmore Wells, Yale ’96, for the editor’s consulting counsel, meets the requirements of a profitable compilation. Those who have followed Yale literary work in the last few years, know from the preceding sentence that the selections must be well made. Those who have followed Yale literary work for the last ten years, know that there was good fruit to gather. It has been picked principally from the products since Mr. Pond, Yale 89, made his compilation. We think the market for this little book will be a good one and shall be interested in watching’ to see how well: our prediction is fulfilled. It is inter- esting to see just for whom such a vol- ume has attraction. It ought to have it for the undergraduate. If it doesn’t, it seems to show that either the under- graduate or the undergraduate verse is out of order. We are not inclined to make this charge against either of these two factors. Just how far will there be interest outside of the Campus? We used to think that college verse could not command much attention by any but those who led the life of academic idealism. We are not so sure about that, after glancing through this vol- ame, ‘There is some significance in the quality and the subject matter of such verses. We do not know enough to say just what it is. There is signifi- cance enough from the Yale standpoint, showing that there is distinctly more of literature coming from the college presses than there was—well, some time ago. We do not want to make trouble, but that seems to us a fact. Poets have been thick in the last few years. They have been pretty good poets. The book is tastefully prepared, and its publication just now is opportune. Together with the book of Crosby drawings, which we have not yet had the pleasure of seeing but whose char- acter we quite well remember, it offers for Prom week visitors a good deal more of Yale and a good deal less of -advertising than is usually the case. —_—__++—_—_—__ TAN MACGAREN AT YALE. He will Preach in Battell Chapel on Sunday, February 19. Rev. Dr. John Watson (lan Mac- Laren) will preach in Battell Chapel at the regular morning service on Sunday, February I09. This will make the second time that Yale men have had the pleasure of hearing Dr. Watson in their own Chapel, his first appearance before them being in the Fall of 1896, when he spoke at both the morning and evening services. It is a pleasant surprise that Dr. Watson has consented to preach at Yale, as owing to an extended trip planned which will take much of his time in the West, it was feared he could not give Yale even a short visit. Dr. Watson is a graduate of the Uni- . versity of Edinburgh in 1870. Yale gave him the degree of D.D. in 1897. —_———_+0e—____—_ Athens Fellowships. It is announced that the competitive examinations for the fellowships of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens will be held this year on March 16, 17, and 18. Candidates are to enter their names on or before Feb. i, - with « Professor; B. . 1) Wheeler, (Ithaca, N. Y.), Chairman of Fellow~- ship Committee, from whom all infor- mation as to place, subjects, etc., may be obtained. These fellowships yield $600 each. a The Hoppin Fellowship, open to women only, yields $1000, and is as- signed without examination, preference being given however to such as have al- ready held a regular competitive fellow- ship. NEW YORK LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY. JOHN A. MCCALL, PRESIDENT. This Company has been in successe ful operation since 1845, and has now Over 300,000 policy-holders and over $200,000,000 in assets. It offers the most privileges and on the most favor- able terms, of any Company. Under its new system of classifying and com- pensating agents, it offers to young men continuous employment and a life income. Its policies and agents’ contracts will interest all students. 5 J NEW YORK LIFE "NSURANCE COMPANY, 346 & 348 Broadway, New YORK. YALE HALL DEDICATED. President Dwight and One Hundred Students Present. Yale Hall, the new building of the City Missions Committee of the Yale Y. M. C. A. at 153 Franklin street, with the history and purposes of which, the readers of the WEEKLY are already familiar, was formally dedicated last Sunday evening. President Dwight and Professors C. H. Smith, W. L. Phelps, and P. E. Browning of the University Faculty, Mr. S. H. Fisher, ’89, and Mr. J. B. Reynolds, ’84, of the Graduate Committee, Messrs Lotze, Irvine and Fenno, representing other organizations for Christian work in the city, an nearly one hundred students formed part of the audience. Perhaps the most remarkable feature of the service was the appreciative and attentive attitude oi the one hundred and seventy-five labor- ing men who crowded the hall and joined heartily in the songs. The ser- vice lasted for an hour and a half, but despite its length the room was as quiet and orderly as a church, the only ap- plause which was heard, coming quite spontaneously when the name of A. A. Stagg was mentioned. On the Saturday evening preceding, an informal reception was given to the men of the neighborhood, about twenty-five students acting as a recep- tion committee, showing the visitors about the building and serving refresh- ments of coffee and cake. The men were introduced to the reading room and library and every effort was. made to present the privileges and opportuni- ties which the new structure offered. As indicating the general spirit of grati- fication which was expressed, one man was heard to remark with the deepest sincerity as he finished one doughnut and reached out for another, “Your boys are doing a great work, coming down here to Christianize us men.” The service on Sunday evening was opened with three hymns which were -sung with a will, Wm. M. Hess, ’96, a former chairman of the City Missions Committee, then read the prayer of Solomon at the dedication of the Lord’s Temple from I Chronicles, which was followed by prayer by Chas. H. Welles, Jr. (90,- resident of tie Y. M. C. A. After a solo by George A. Dewey, 1902, James B. Reynolds, ’84, Secre- tary of the University Settlement of New York City, was introduced. He spoke for the graduates interested in the Mission, and gave some of his experiences in New York. The gist of his remarks was that every student who came to the Mission should come with the idea of receiving help as well as giv- ing it, and that the men in turn should be ready to give as well as receive. After a hymn, a quartette from the Yale Glee Club sang, and then Fred. M. Gilbert, ’98, who engaged in the work at the East Street Mission, and is well known to many of the men, spoke briefly. He made a pointed gospel ad- dress showing the necessity of accepting Christ for salvation and at the close in- vited Mr. Yorkston, as representing the men of the neighborhood, to relate his own conversion. George W. Simmons, 1900, of the Glee Club then sang a solo, which was followed by an address by Mr. Alexan- der F. Irvine, the Assistant Secretary of the New Haven Y. M. C. A. He spoke of the lack of appreciation of working men of their advantages, and also of the need of friendship; saying that the College men had come down to the Mis- sion to fill that need and be friends, who could and would help them to a better life. After a hvmn and a few remarks by Mr. A. D. Leavitt, 1900, the leader of the meeting, President Dwight, gave the closing prayer and benediction. After the service, the majority of the audience remained for nearly an hour talking with the students and graduates, with whom many of the men had been associated in former years on East street and Grand avenue. About $250 more has come in, so that $500 will now clear up the indebtedness. Yale Law School For circulars and other information apply to Prof. FRANCIS WAYLAND, Dean.
