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NEW HAVEN, CONN., JAN. 25, 1899.
THE PROM PROBLEM.
Problems at Yale are thick, nowa-
days. And they are unusual, as college
problems generally are. We expect
unusual situations, rapidly developed.
But we are not a little surprised to
have this Prom Girl problem on our
hands all at once.
Where is the Prom girl? Why_ does
she stay at home? She was here, of
course, some this week .and-she was
just as invincible as ever—resistance
was probably more thoroughly hopeless
than ever. The University capitulated
promptly. It was all joysome and
everyone who could get enough dances
was very happy. There was nothing
mournful about Nineteen Hundred’s
Prom. We are not making infelicitous
remarks about these gay and cheerful
times.
But there is a problem and it must
be treated. The fact is that, relatively
speaking, there was this year much
absence of this visitor. One of the
WEEKLY’S staff has put the facts to-
gether and presented them elsewhere
in this paper. They make, as it seems
to the WEEKLY, a very interesting chap-
ter of current Yale history. We invite
a discussion of these things. One ex-
Promenade Committee man has writ-
ten to the WEEKLY already about it,
and we print his letter, without author-
ity :—
“TI submit, that the present inflated
expense attending bringing one’s best
girl to the Prom is really the cause of
falling off in demand (which the papers
attribute to the grippe) for the boxes.
It’s time it was killed, and a simply
attired debutante introduced, in place
of this over-dressed old dowager with
her gray-haired maids of honor, con-
sisting of germans and Heaven-knows
what to fill up a solid week and break
a solider bank account.”
Reading Dean Wright’s statement of
the comparative absence of money in
the student body this year, this corre-
spondent may feel more sure than ever
that he is right. The undergraduate
replies that the decrease of Prom visitors
is coincident with the cutting down of
the program of gaieties by the Faculty,
and adds that the early functions of
Saturday are not expensive and that the
longer stay in New Haven means only
bigger board bills—for the visitors,
not for the students. To which the
gradtiate will probably answer that any
functions ae expensive and that car-
riages and violets (which are still
bought) are apt to cost as much on
Saturdays and Sundays as on any other
days, and that it is plainer than ever
that the success of the Prom, as it has
developed up to this year, rests on the
presence in College of a coodly num-
ber of rich men, who can pay the big
bonuses and generally bear the heaviest
end of the burden of bringing visitors.
As for ourselves, we don’t quite know
about it. |
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AN EXCELLENT ACT.
The action of the Yale Navy man-
agement in selecting Dr. Edson F.
Gallaudet as the director of crew coach-
ing for the current year, with the
cooperation of old Yale oars of proved
ability and loyalty, makes one of the
bright spots in the not otherwise cheer-
ful athletic situation. We commend
the step unreservedly and with the ut-
most enthusiasm. When the Captain of
the Crew began months ago to quietly
canvass all the rowing sentiment of
Yale, with the idea of securing such
counsel as experience could give and
such support as loyalty would offer, on
the principle of mutual codperation for
the common good, the friends of Yale
felt that the thing was moving in the.
right direction. It has culminated more
successfully than we dared to hope.
It is not fitting to speak too much of
personal matters, but it is only due to
truth to say that the head coach is one
who embodies those qualities which
make Yale strong. To put it still more
plainly, one could hardly select a man
who would so worthily represent this
great University before the public or
before other colleges, and whose per-
sonal relations to students, in a position
of great influence, will be all that any-
one may desire.
With Yale drifting apart in so many
other ways, it is particularly refreshing
to see another strong move for unity,
for cooperation, for the subordination
of personal interests and reputations to
the common good. It is.the expression
of the Yale instinct—the instinct which
has long been more or less impeded in
its expression and which has seemed to
be sometimes almost smothered, and
which is now working freely in only a
few directions.
But it is an instinct which needs only
a decently favorable environment to
make it effective, and this step, taken
by the rowing management, points the.
direction in which Yale men may suc-
~ cessfully move in all branches of athlet-
ics, if they would only show half as
much common sense in meeting new
conditions, as they did when they took
advantage of the different circumstances
of the earlier Yale era and adjusted the
natural forces of Yale to the situation,
and made Yale invincible.
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MR. ROBERT J. COOK.
Mr. Robert J. Cook is apparently out-
side of Yale athletic affairs for the pres-
ent and for an indefinite future.
has told friends, who met him in Paris,
that he will be there for two years
studying law. His plans after that do
not seem clear. For the present, at
least, others must take up the work
which he has carried. Whether or not
he ever participates in Yale athletics:
himself again, he has certainly reached
that point where he has a right to lay
down his burden. |
It is idle and unprofitable to say that
Mr. Cook was universally successful in
his work.
humanly impossible, for a man to carry
on, generally as labor crowded on to
other labors and put into. hours and
days which other men use for recrea-
tion, a work of such delicacy and re-
quiring such intellectual skill and such
re:
It is almost, if not quite,
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executive tact in the handling of men,
as the selection and development of
crews, and have that work invariably
accomplish its ideal. There is one
point especially, in the later years of
Mr. Cook’s athletic work here, which
we did not like, and of which we ex-
pressed our dislike, both in the paper
and in personal interviews with him.
That was the fact, that rowing friends
of Yale were not united in her support.
While one worked, others doubted or
criticised, and these latter were, in turn,
sharply dealt with for work which they
had done. It is not right to have this
feeling and this state continue, but we
do not hold any one man entirely re-
sponsible for the situation. It was the,
evolution of unfortunate circumstances
o
and a result which could have been fore-
seen five or ten years ago.
But neither that nor the altogether in-
consequential fact that the last two or
three crews with which Mr. Cook had
connection were not winning crews,
can take from the credit of his work.
Who, of all the coaches of all depart-
ments of Yale, and of all the coaches of
all other colleges, has given service of
such quality as his for so many years?
His career is without parallel in college
athletic annals. Yale thanks and praises
him, and wishes him well in all the ways
of life that are before him. She
promises him that his work will not be
forgotten. We have always spoken of
him with familiar unconventionality in
the Yale family, and in such terms will
he always be spoken of on the Campus
and fields and courses of Yale. When
another shall be seen who knows, as
he knew, how to select and to guide,
how to add the exquisite finishing touch,
and who can give again the confidence
that the Yale stroke cannot be beaten,
then the boys of Yale,—the students and
their grandfathers—will say: “It is Bob
Cook come again.”
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G00QD HARTFORD SPEECHES,
Pres, Dwight and Captain Goodrich,
U.S.N., at the Alumni Dinner.
Aside from the qualities of enthus-
iasm and good fellowship that always
characterize Yale gatherings, the din-
ner given by the Yale Alumni Asocia-
tion of Hartford at the Hotel Hartford,
in that city on Friday evening, Jan. 20,
was marked by a somewhat unusual
display of patriotic sentiment. This
was largely due to the fact that, as
Toastmaster William Waldo Hyde,
President of-the Hartford Association,
remarked in introducing Captain Cas-
par F. Goodrich of the Navy, “we
have succeeded in producing on this
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especial interest not only because Suc
a speaker and such a subject were out
of the ordinary run of collegiate aiter-
dinner speeches, but because of the
force and charm of the speake~ him-
seli—two qualities, by the way, that are
not always found together.
This patriotic tone was foreshadowed
by the decorations the guests found on
entering the large dinning room, where
the national colors and Yale flags were
intertwined in various decorative de-
signs. A large Yale banner hung
directly behind the toastmaster s chair
at the north end of the room. On Jr.
Hyde’s right sat His Excellency,
Governor Lounsbury, and on his left
President Dwight. Other seats at this
table were occupied by the speakers oi
the evening, by Col. Jacob L. Greene,
President of the Connecticut Mutual
Life Ins. Co., Charles Hopkins Clark oi
the Courant, Professor Acthur T.
Hadley, and others.
During the dinner an orchestra played
at intervals and the instruments were
frequently and informally reinforced
when certain popular airs were played,
by the voices of the younger men pre-
sent. An excellent double quartette
from the Glee Club was present and the
old and the new songs were vigorously
applauded and encored.
When the coffee and cigars had been
reached Mr. Hyde rose and after a few
remarks introduced the first speaker,
President Dwight.
PRESIDENT DWIGHT.
The President was enthusiastically
ereeted, with cheers and applause, all
standing. After the applause had sub-
sided he began in a characteristically
happy way, to evoke a good deal of
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