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ADVISORY BOARD.
H. C. Roprnson, 58. J. MR. SHEFFIELD, ’87.
W. W. Skippy, ’65S. J. A. HaRTWELL, '89 5.
C. P. LINDSLEY, 75S. L. S. WELCH, 89.
W. Camp, ’89. E. VAN INGEN, ’91 8.
W.G. DaaaeEtT, ’80. P. Jay, ‘92.
EDITOR.
Lewis 8S. WELCH, ’89.
ASSOCIATE EDITOR.
WALTER Camp, ’80.
ASSISTANT EDITOR.
E. J. THOMPSON, Sp.
ee
NEWS EDITOR.
FRED. M. DaviEs, 799.
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PRESTON KUMLER, 1900.
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NEw HAVEN, Conn., MARCH 8, 1899.
THE TEN EYCK SPEAKING.
The speakers in the Henry James Ten-
Eyck prize competition (The old Junior
Exhibition) were announced this week.
We wish to congratulate ‘them on the
winning ‘of the honor, and to make a
suggestion to them and to those who
have their training in hand. Let there
be oratory at the Junior Exhibition; let
there be a finished form of platform
work; let there be either good ges-
tures or no gestures; let there be ease;
let there be sparks of fire where there
are both flint and steel to strike them;
let the pieces be pounded into shape for
delivery to the audience, not for read-
ing by the critic. We would earnestly
urge all those who are in the competi-
tion to pay any cost, in the way of time
and effort, to make their work, on the
day of the speaking, a credit to them-
selves and to Yale.
There has been some good speaking
in recent years, but more wretched
speaking. The pieces have generally
been good. Last year the average was
exceedingly high. The average oratori-
cal form last year was very unsatis-
factory, to say the least. It is all non-
sense to talk about the lack of interest
in a good speech. Men will go any-
where to hear a good speaker and a
good speech. But Yale has so
wofully ignored training in platform
service, that it has come to be expected
that a Yale oratorical exhibition is ex-
ceedingly trying. It would take one
first rate exhibition to get all the old
interest back again.
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THE WORK OF THE NEWS.
Sketch of a Year Which Has Seen
Many Changes,
The control of the Yale News, having
passed from the Ninety-Nine board to
that of Nineteen Hundred during the
past week, a resumé of the work and
purposes of the paper while under
Ninety-Nine’s directorship is in order.
At the suggestion of the board from
the Class of Ninety-Eight, the present
Senior board elected their officers as
soon as the full quota of nine men had
been taken on the paper; this occurred
at the end of their Sophomore year,
or in June of 1897. The object of
choosing the Chairman and Business
Manager thus early was to furnish
assistants to the Senior officers and to
prepare the new men for their coming
responsibilities. The experiment has
proved eminently satisfactory and has
been followed by the Nineteen Hundred
board. This enables the incoming
Chairman to thoroughly acquaint him-
self with all the details of management,
and to get no little practice in editorial
writing before he was actually shouldered
with the whole responsibility of the
paper. The Ninety-Nine board, there-
fore, felt in a measure more prepared
for their duties, which fell to them
about the middle of February of last
year.
In so far as it was practicable the
outline work of new candidates for
positions was assigned to special men
among the contributors, so as to lessen
the mere machinery of heeling, and the
Senior editors were given charge of
departments, such as the athletic, the
religious, debating, etc. This tended
to give heelers more time for original
articles and also reduced somewhat the
numbers of hours of work each day.
THE LIT. CRITICISM.
One of the first innovations intro-
duced by the Ninety-Nine board was
publishing a criticism of the Lit. each
month. The author was not known to
the outside world nor indeed to the
Lit. board, notwithstanding the fact
that they demanded to know him..
After the first surprise had worn away
the Lit. gracefully submitted to the
reviews and they have been continued
this year, but not without provoking a
warning from “Yale’s oldest periodical.”
The News, with the YALE ALUMNI
WEeEEKLy, had charge of the Cruiser
Fund project. Of the success of the
venture, little need be said to readers
of the WEEKLY. Only just now opin-
ions are being called for from under-
graduates and graduates as to what
shall be done with the fifteen hundred
dollar surplus which was left over from
the money so generously contributed
at that time by “all Yale.’
In June the Ninety-Nine board pub-
lished a “Boating Extra” directly after
the boat race. It appeared on the
streets of New London before any of
the city papers, and-indeed before the
observation train had reached the New
London station. Mention may also be
here made of the Yale-Harvard Extra,
published directly after the Harvard
game last Fall; this was, however, an
easy task, compared to getting out a
special number away from New Haven.
THE TIME OF PUBLICATION.
After careful deliberation the Ninety-
Nine board decided, with the beginning
of the present college year, to bring
the paper out early in the morning
and to have it delivered to subscribers
instead of having it appear at the
Cooperative store at twelve o'clock
noon. This has necessitated more work
on the part of the Board, but it has
added to the value of the paper in
giving it an equal chance with the New
Haven and New York dailies as re-
gards College news. This has made
the News more independent, and has
enabled her to be more generous in
her attitude toward the. many special
correspondents and the. Associated
Press, with whom there has been a
perfect understanding. Although done
with many misgivings, the Ninety-Nine
board have enlarged the paper so that
it contains something over five hundred
words more than formerly. It was
debated whether good reading matter
could be supplied for this space, but
time has proved that the risk which the
board assumed was warranted.
These are the main changes which
the paper has undergone during the
past year and theNinety-Nine board feel
that they will eventually work good, if
they have not already done so. How-
ever, if a year’s time proves them
inexpedient the following board is at
perfect liberty to resume former
methods. -
The board which is to take charge of
the paper for the coming year is com-
posed of the following nine men:
Frederick B. Adams, Chairman; George
N. Crouse, Business Manager; R. W.
Chandler, Julian Day, E. B. Greene,
Burns Henry, L. A. Hockstadter, Pres-
ton Kumler, and R. C. Twichell.
The News Banquet.
The banquet of the Yale Daily News,
the twenty-second in its history, was
held last Friday, March 3, at the New
Haven House. It brought together a.
very representative collection of Yale
undergraduates with a few graduates.
The arrangements for the dinner were
unusually thoroughly made and the
evening went off with much spirit and
enthusiasm. A quartet from the Yale
Glee Club, composed of Messrs. Schnee-
loch, Dewey, Sheehan, and McGee, and
a quintet from the Banjo Club com-
posed of Messrs. Conway, Lewis,
Loomis, Morgan and Clarke, showed a
splendid endurance and good nature, so
that the musical side of the dinner was
very rich.
C. H. Conner, Jr., ’99, was toastmas-
ter for the dinner and with Mr. Day
had made the arrangements for it. Mr.
Day responded for the retiring Board.
The substance of his remarks are given
in his article on the News printed else-
where. Mr. F. B. Adams, 1900, Chair-
man of the new Board, responded for
the incoming administration in a speech
very clearly setting forth a practical and
strong policy. He referred to the in-
novation of assignments to the com-
petitors, which would considerably
lighten the burden of News competition,
raising the quality and decreasing the
quantity of work.
The toast to the YALE ALUMNI
WEEKLY was responded to by Lewis S.
Welch, ’89. He expressed the value to
the WEEKLY of its always close connec-
tion with the News and its debt to the
News editors, who had first created it and
who had always helped in developing it.
He urged the News to stand always to
its guns and to remember that in its
keeping were the ideals of the Yale
Campus.
Mr. Alexander Armstrong, Jr., of
Princeton responded to the toast to the
Princetonian, in a very graceful speech.
He spoke of the admiration felt at
Princeton for the way in which Yale
supported her periodicals and hoped
that more of that spirit would appear
at Princeton. He was very enthusi-
astically received and a long cheer for
Princeton was given at the close of his
speech.
The last toast was “Yale Methods and
the Yale Men.” The speaker was Pro-
fessor Hadley. He spoke of Yale’s
lack of form, but presence of strength,
and expressed the belief that more
form might be cultivated without any
sacrifice of genuine strength. He paid
a very strong tribute to Yale democracy
and expressed the peculiar service of the
periodicals, as forming a rallying point
of the undergraduate sentiment, and so
strengthening the community life, and
so keeping all together in common
work, where each did his part and
where each was judged according to the
way in which he did it. Professor Had-
ley was very enthusiastically received
and was applauded to the echo as he
sat down.
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Prof. Rod’s Lecture.
Professor Edouard Rod, the Franco-
Swiss novelist and critic, will lecture at
the Art School March 18th, on the sub-
ject; « ‘Last - Days of Jean Jacques
Rousseau.” He visits America at the
invitation of the “Cercle Francais” of
Harvard and while here will lecture at
Harvard, University of Pennsylvania,
Columbia University, Vassar, Bryn
Mawr, Smith, Williams, Brown, Prince-
ton, Cornell, Chicago University and
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Announcement has been made by the
President and Fellows of Harvard Col-
lege, that a system of retiring allow-
ances for Professors has been estab-
lished to go into effect September Ist,
1899. All who have served as profes-
sors or assistant professors for twenty
years, and are over sixty years old, are
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by Harvard, it having been named as
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Summer meeting of the Corporation of
Yale in 1897, the decision was made to
pension all professors who have served
Yale twenty-five years consecutively,
and whio have reached the age of sixty-
five years. They are allowed to retire
on thalf pay. This was over two years
ago; but even before that, in Decem-
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system on a liberal basis, providing the
any professor who had been for fifteen
successive years in the service of the
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R. D. Starbuck, 1900, was elected to
be captain of the Cornell football team
for next year, Feb. 18. This is the third
election to the captaincy since the foot-
ball season ended. Read, the first, re-
signed, and the choice of E. R. Sweet-
land did not meet with the approval of
the Council.
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