FALLING BEHIND.
Alumni Fund’s Condition—-Remark-=
able Carelessness.
A meeting of the directors and class
agents of the Alumni University Fund
Association was held at the Yale Club,
New York City, Tuesday evening,
March 7. Among those present were:
W. W. Skiddy, ’65 S.; Thomas Thacher,
*71;- Samuel R. Betts, ’75;. William M.
Barnum, ’77;. Julian. W. Curtiss, ’79; _
Arthur Hy, :
Day, 89 S.;. Lewis S..Haslam, ’90; Ed- |
Howard T. Walden, ’81;
ward H. Floyd-Jones, ’92; Noah H.
Swayne, 2d, ’93; Marion B. Phelps,
96S.; and Frank H. Simmons, ’o8.
The object of the meeting was to
compare notes and consult as_ to
methods of increasing the fund, and
especially to hear reports from the class
agents as to the results to date in their
respective classes. In addition to the
reports made by the class agents pres-
ent, written reports were read from a
number of class agents who were unable
to attend.
Though it is still hoped that this will
be a successful year for the fund, many
classes are considerably behind their
record of this time last year, and the
total amount of subscription received
by Treasurer Farnam is more than six
hundred dollars less than. the amount
in hand at the same date last year.
It was the opinion of all present that the
situation disclosed is such as calls for
increased efforts on the part of class
agents whose classes are falling behind.
It was a subject of much comment
among the class agents that so many
men fail to respond to the class agents’
notices, or even to personal letters,
which would seem to call for the
courtesy of a reply, whether accom-
panied by a contribution or not. This
carelessness or ii.difference on the part
of classmates imposes upon the class
agents an additional amount of work
by making it necessary for them to
send a second or even a third reminder
to those who do not reply to the first.
Another meeting will probably be
held early in May, when it is hoped that
a more favorable report can be made.
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A Princeton Tribute to Yale.
[Speech of Judge McPherson at the Banquet of the
Central Pennsylvania Association at Harrisburg.
February 15.
This is the first Yale dinner it has
ever been my good fortune to attend,
here or elsewhere, and-I may-as well
say at Once that my experience to-
night leads me to regret sincerely that
the Yale men in this neigborhood have
only lately been moved to follow the
example that Princeton has been setting
them for twenty years or thereabouts.
We believe in the college spirit, of
which alumni) meetings are one expres-
sion; and I think you will agree that
the Princeton spirit is a determined
and aggressive force in more than one
department of intercollegiate rivalry.
But we are far from denying that the
sons of Yale are. knit together by a
spirit quite as strong and quite as per-
vasive. We have tried your quality on
many a stricken field, athletic and other-
wise; and, without attempting to bal-
ance the account with commercial pre-
cision, we are willing to admit that in
certain directions at least you push us
close. .There is such infernal persis-
tency and grit about the average Yale
representative, such stubborn ignorance
about his real desert, such deplorable
unwillingness to stay. behind in his true
place, that we have sometimes yielded
for the sake of-peace, and have allowed
him to occupy. temporarily a position
which of course we knew was right-
fully our own. ; ioe
We have always felt that something
must be conceded toa friend; and _ if
perhaps you are exhibiting a sporadic
football or other missile in your trophy
room, as if you really won it on your
merits, we do not intend to dispute the
apparent, but misleading, situation.
We value your friendship too highly to
-let the true facts be known. It is al-
ways easy to resume the leadership, and
meanwhile susceptibilities are soothed,
and harmony is undisturbed.
Indeed, I am willing to go further, |
events, which from our truer point of
view only wear the illusory aspect. of
defeat; for, even after this concession,
it is still undeniable that, on the whole
and with brief intermissions, we share
between us the supremacy of the college
world—although WHarvard’s leg does
seem occasionally to get half way over
the fence, and some of these upstart
youngsters in the west are threatening
to be troublesome. I suppose we may
be content this evening with a joint
glorification, without a serious quarrel
over the precise proportion of laurels
that should go to either university.
Rivalry aside, there remains our
friendship; and this, I am happy to be-
lieve, is too firm to be disturbed. It
is founded upon a common conception.
of the true university curriculum, upon
similarly widespread sources of supply
to the student life of both institutions,
and upon an almost identical democracy
of spirit, which welds together each
body of undergraduates into a cor-
porate whole, active, energetic, eager,
resolute, manly—a fine American pro-
duct, belonging to the nation, and free
from the limitations of section or
locality. I am far from disparaging the
admirable training that may be had at
any one of several other universities that
I might mention; but I am bound to
say, that if a young man is to have the
soundest college discipline available in
this country; if he is to be subjected to
the most varied influences, drawn from
sources the most widely diffused; if
he is to learn to be a citizen with the
widest and therefore the truest outlook,
he is most likely, 1 think, to attain
these desirable results by spending his
student life at Yale or Princeton.
~ I love every. foot of the Princeton
campus. J revisit her halls with a
swelling heart, and with an emotion of
which I. am not ashamed. But New
Haven stirs me with a sentiment that I
can scarcely distinguish. Only lately I
came once more under ‘her charm; and
as I passed beneath: her elms, as I
reviewed her stately buildings, felt (as
an alien may) something of the power
of her past, and gave myself to the
contemplation of her inspiring future,
I was sure of this, ii I were not a son
of old Nassua, nowhere could I find
an alma mater to whom my allegiance
would be paid with such devotion as to
the nursing mother whose sons you
are so proud to be. I drink her
health to-night with all my heart. May
her glory grow with the increasing
years, and may her stalwart brood con-
tinue to be worthy of her splendid
fame.
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Vested College Choir.
A Yale graduate, in a recent *com-
munication to the Yale News, has sug-
gested that a uniform garb be worn by
the College choir, at least on Sundays,
stating that it would contribute much
to the impressiveness of the service and
would add to the dignity of the choir,
which is detracted from by the usual
array of coats of all colors. He sug-
gests that a black gown be worn, the
Seniors wearing their own, and the
other: men wearing gowns distinguish-
able from them by a blue trimming
of some sort. The proposal has
met with universal favor, Professor
Parker of the Musical Department and
Harry B. Jepson, conductor of the choir,
giving it their heartiest approval.
Many of the choir are also warmly in
favor of prompt action being taken in
this matter.
Dr. Watson’s Visit to Yale. »
The recent visit of Dr. John Watson
(Ian MacLaren) has recalled the way
in which Dr. Watson came to Yale for
a Sunday last month. It will be re-
membered that he came directly to New
Haven after he had been but a day in
New York, and stayed here through
Sunday, preaching a sermon in the
Chapel Sunday morning and talking to
the students in Dwight Hall in the
evening,
‘ When- it was learned that he was
coming to America for a lecture tour,
the students and graduates who are
‘particularly interested, in the manage-
ment ‘6f-the- ¥-M: C. A. of Yale, at
once desired to have him appear here.
They communed among themselves at
first whether to approach Mr. Pond,
From one end of the land to the other,
wherever men who demand the best are
found, Fownes’ Gloves are the recognized
standard of merit and fashion. They are
best for dress, for the street, for riding,
driving, or golfing — for all occasions and
all purposes. © To wear them is to be cor-
rectly gloved.
sell them,
All leading haberdashers
might involve delay, and so, without.
any further consultation, one of the
members of the Association went to the
cable office and sent this simple mes-
sage,—"“What day can you give Yale?
Please answer.” The answer came
vane forty-eight hours and named the
ay.
A correspondence between Professor
George P. Fisher and Dr. Watson ar-
ranged further details. The method of
accomplishing the result is worth re-
calling as indicating the orthodox Yale
undergraduate directness of procedure,
and also testifying to the loyalty and in-
terest of Dr. Watson in his American
University,—as he always calls Yale.
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