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YALE ALUMNI WEEKLY
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
