Freshman Measurements.
The figures which have been oktained
from physical measurements of the en-
tire Freshmen class, furnish many in-
teresting comparisons. The average
age of the Class at the time of measure-
ment (October) was found to be 19
years, I month and 19 days. The
average weight was 1343 pounds,
while the lightest man weighed 97
pounds and the heaviest only 185. The
average height was 5 feet 8'/10 inches,
with the tallest man 6 feet 334 inches,
and the shortest 5 feet 1% inches. The
average chest was 36% inches, the larg-
est measuring 41% inches, with the
smallest 32 inches. It is a very re-
markable fact that there are none under
32 inches, as the anthropometric table
gives as many as 7 under that average.
The average lung capacity is 265 cubic
inches, the largest being 420 cubic
inches, and the smallest 178 cubic
inches. This outclasses last year’s aver-
age by 25 cubic inches. The machine
used in making these averages was the
same in both cases. In looking over
these statistics it will be noticed that
the high average is due not to a few
very good measurements, but to the fact
that there are very few poorly developed
men,
For the sake of comparison, ‘the
average measurements of the Class of
Eighty-Seven, the present Sophomore
class and the present Freshman class
are given:
Class Class Class
AVERAGE. of fe) of
1902. 1901. 87.
$e ...- 2. ee Fate. SY, eM Ig Yo mM.
Weight... 134. 134.2 133
neh 4 5:08.1 5:07.5 5:07.8
Chest (nor.)____. 36.2 34.4 33-4
Capacityoflungs 265 240 225
Perhaps the best way to account for
this increase of average is the fact that
67 per cent. of the Class of 1902 engaged
in some athletic sport while at their
preparatory school. This would ap-
pear to be the reason why ‘the average
of the present Freshman class is so
much above that of Eighty-Seven.
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Intercollegiate Debating.
(Cecil Frederick Bacon in the Forum. ]
For many persons, nothing has a
greater attraction than the various
forms of intercollegiate contests. In
the Fall term, football is in vogue; dur-
ing the Winter, there are track athletics;
and the College year is closed with base-
ball and rowing. Among the conflicts,
the great debates between rival colleges
occlipy a unique position; for they are
virtually the only contests in which are
exhibited to the public not physical
power and endurance, but intellectual
kil and gtasp.- =i
Investigation shows that not a few of
our great men acquired in this way
their incentive to effort, and _ their
earliest training for later achievements.
Among the records of the debating
societies of Williams College are found
many accounts of the debates between
the late President Garfield and ex-Sena-
tor Ingalls. The occasions when these
two were pitted against each other—
occasions when even standing room was
at a premium,—are well remembered.
It is interesting to note how plainly the
characteristics of these distinguished
men were already visible in this college
work. A spectator at one of their bat-
tles described Garfield as a “slow de-
bater,” but cool, reliable, showing excel-
lent judgment, and descending with un-
erring accuracy and force on _ his
opponent’s weak points; while Ingalls
was quick, brilliant, sarcastic, and light-
ning-like in thought and expression.
In the early 60s debating began
gradually to decline in interest. This
may have been due to a general depres-
sion in educational work; for nearly
every institution suffered a diminution
in numbers and, consequently, a reduc-
tion of activity in all departments.
About I5 years ago, when matters col-
legiate were reviving, the great athletic
contests came into being, absorbing the
attention of the students. Debating,
however, continued dormant.
It is only within the last few years
that the great intercollegiate debating
leagues have been formed, giving to
this work the stimulus of public notice.
But, once revived, probablv nothing in
the world of education has made more
rapid progress.
VALE ALUMNI WEEKLY
Ninety-Six Dinner.
The Ninety-Six dinner at the Yale
Club in New York on January 28th
was very much the largest and alto-
gether the jolliest class meeting ever
held on the premises. The total attend-
ance was sixty men, including several
from out of town, such as Vaill and
Strong from West Winsted, Conn.;
Bond from New London; Shoemaker
from Saratoga; Kneeland Ball from
Buffalo and Judge Yeaman from Den-
ver. Practically all of the New York
City alumni were present.
There being no one room in the Club
sufficiently large for the gathering, two
connecting rooms were used. This
gave rise to a great deal of rivalry in
the singing, which was kept up con-
tinuously from the oysters to the coffee,
now in one room, now in the other.
After the cigars had been passed
around, the men went down stairs to
the piano and had a great deal of close
harmony led by Eagle, Stalter, King-
man, Hoeninghaus and others.
After several ineffectual attempts,
Maitland Griggs succeeded in calling
the meeting to order long enough to
announce that the Triennial Committee
had lost a member through Hunt
Taylor’s ‘emigration to Minnesota.
Walter Haven Clark was unanimously
elected to fill the vacancy.
The meeting ended at a very late
hour amid—not sad farewells—but a
jolly chorus of “See you next June, old
man.” The whole evening was a typi-
cally Ninety-Six one in the hearty and
universal good-fellowship that pre-
vailed. It was a real old-fashioned re-
union and a most pleasant foretaste of
the larger gathering which will meet in
New Haven at the Triennial.
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Alumni Representation.
In a speech to Amherst alumni in
1898, Mr. Talcott Williams of Phila-
delphia gave some statistics in regard
to alumni representation, which is an
- ever-interesting subject to Yale men:
“The grouping of alumni, as well as
the increase of their numbers, led 30
years ago to the effort to use their in-
fluence in the government of our col-
leges to the election of trustees. In
this, as in so much else, Harvard led
the way in 1865, when its overseers
were first elected by the alumni. Yale
placed the election of one-third of its
trustees in the hands of its alumni
seven years later, and Amherst in
1874. By 1883 every New England
college except Tufts and Clark Uni-
versity had in some way given its
alumni a share in its government. At
Harvard all the overseers are thus
elected. At Bowdoin one-half of 43;
at Brown the trustees elect on the nom-
ination of the alumni—in the group of
colleges to which Amherst belongs;
Wesleyan 10 out of 45 and Yale six
out of 19, and in Amherst and Williams
five out of 17. Those of us who shared
in the agitation to secure this change
25 years ago will, I think, agree with
me that it has never met the apprehen-
sion of those who opposed it or filled
the expectations of those who urged it.”
pian ey cena mead
Yale In No Danger.
James E. Lormer of Lloyd street,
New Haven, has introduced a bill into
the Connecticut Legislature providing
for a tax on real property belonging
to collegiate and ecclesiastical cor-
porations. The bill reads that: “All
real property of collegiate corpora-
tions yielding an income to said cor-
porations, with an exemption of $7,500
in said property of said corporations,
shall be taxed the same as all other
property under the General Statutes of
said State.” The bill was tabled.
City Attorney Jacob Goodhart, when
seen by a representative of the WEEKLY,
stated that Yale had nothing to fear
through this measure.
Clear
the voice,
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TROGHES. cna cics,
1850—In boxes only—1898
The University’s Guests
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HOUSE... Ws a. matter -of
course with them. They
have. been doing it for over
thirty years.
They ltke tt.
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