Vou. VIII. No. 31.
Price Tren Cents.
THE YALE COURANT.
Review of the Wear’s Work by its
Chairman.
When the Ninety-Nine Board was
elected to the control of the Courant it
was the pioneer of the reduced board
system adopted later by the Record, and
this year by the Scientific Monthly. It
was also the first board in the later his-
tory of the papers of which the mem-
bers were taken on all at the same time. -
As for the reduced board plan in
general, it is conceded that it has
worked successfully in so far as each
man has been sincere and interested in
his work and has done it regularly and
systematically. In regard to the Cour-
ant in particular such has been the case.
Our work had been done on time and
a system has been carefully observed.
Throughout our term of office there has
always been present that absolute har-
mony which is so conducive to success,
and makes possible the publication of
the paper on time, raising it much
in the estimation of the undergraduates.
Only one of the twenty numbers which
have been issued by the present editors
has appeared later than schedule time,
and that was due to a misunderstanding
- between the printers and the Board.
THE POLICY OF THE COURANT.
The policy of the Courant, if it can
be said. to have a hard and fixed policy,
as handed down by our predecessors,
has been preserved. First of all, we
have aimed to make every page of the
paper interesting, and if we have failed
it has been in following out the idea
of publishing articles in which the sub-
ject matter was infinitely better than the
literary style. We have ‘endeavored to
keep out of “polities, scandal and jail,”
and to make the editorial column more
or less of a literary thought exchange,
avoiding mixing up in College ques-
tions unless of paramount interest.
It has been our wish and aim to have
an editor represented in each number
by a leading article, believing that in
this way we showed the College world
that our interest was lively, and
making impossible the common charge
that as soon as a man is elected to a
board, he leans back in his chair and
degenerates into a dormant critic.
We believed in short reviews of up-
to-date books now and then, when the
book was one in which the ordinary
college man might have some interest.
THE CHANGING COVER.
While much might be said in favor
of the plan of having a different cover
each week,—adopted by our predeces-
sors,—with our second number we took
the present design with the idea that
such design once becoming familiar
would serve, if continued, to fix the
paper in the minds of its friends, while
the different colors would be a sufficient
element of change each week. The
aim has been in all ways to make the
Courant a paper for the many, not an
exquisite literary exotic for the few.
It has been demonstrated quite con-
clusively in the last two years that the
Courant has unmistakably a field of its
own, entirely apart and distinct from
the Lit. and that with no desire to tres-
pass on the ground of its older rival
it can travel in that field successfully,
Our next door neighbor is a friend
and over against our neighbor lives
another friend.
Of the methods and style of the board
it is hardly necessary to speak, suffice
it that although we have beer likened
NEW HAVEN, CONN., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 26, 1899.
to Swinburne and Browning, down
through Kipling and Capt. King to
Laura Jean Libby and Archibald
Clavering Gunter, all that has been done
has been with the best of intentions.
Our deepest feeling and interest has
been always for the Courant. The com-
petition has never been as large, as
spirited or of such high merit <> that
shown for the Nineteen Hundred
Board and in turning over the control
to the incoming editors it would be
injustice to say that we do so with any-
thing but the perfect confidence inspired
by a familiarity with their work, and the
hope that they will get as much pleas-
ure, in a literary and social way, out of
the editing of the Courant as we our-
selves did.
THANKS FOR THE COLLEGE PAPERS.
In closing we wish to thank the News
and its critic for their kind attitude and
the fairness of their criticism; the Lit.
for the friendliness they have mani-
fested toward us, and the Record for that
absence of all petty spite and jeering
which although appearing in the past
towards our paper has been pleasantly
absent the last year; and to hope that
these same relations will be indefinitely
preserved.
And our hearty thanks to all our
friends in the College who with their
well wishes and friendly feelings and
often with more substantial aid have
helped us and made possible what
_ otherwise would have been impossible
to perform. We have appreciated this
more because it has been spontaneous
and we feel sure has been genuine, and
. we trust the Courant will, in the future
continue to merit this, and not by any
action or tone jeopardize the now
thoroughly honest and candid spirit of
criticism and sympathy which exists
towards it throughout the University.
H. B. B. YERGASON.
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University Football Schedule.
The schedule of the University foot-
ball games for next Fall is announced
as the WEEKLY goes to press. The
changes of importance are the trans-
position of the Harvard and Princeton
games, the latter coming first this year;
the taking on of four new contestants—
All-California, University of Wisconsin,
Pennsylvania State College and Bates
College (Me.), and the dropping of
three old ones—Brown, Carlisle and the
Chicago Athletic Club. The complete
schedule follows:
Saturday, Sept. 30-—Amherst at New Haven.
Wednesday, Oct. 4—Trinity at New Haven.
Saturday, Oct. 7—Bates College at New Haven.
Wednesday, Oct. 11.—Wesleyan at New Haven.
Saturday, Oct. 14.—Dartmouth at Boston.
Saturday, Oct. 21— Wisconsin at New Haven.
Saturday Oct. 28--All-California at New Haven.
Wednesday, Nov. 1—Williams at New Haven.
Saturday, Nov. 4—West Point at West Point.
Sat’y, Nov. 11--Penn. State Coll. at N. Haven.
Saturday, Nov. 18--Harvard at Cambridge.
Saturday, Noy. 25--Princeton at New Haven.
College Crew Matched.
On Saturday, June 3, Yale’s Col-
lege Crew, known in previous years as
the Second University Crew, will race
the Eight of the United States Naval
Academy at Annapolis, Maryland.
The distance remains unsettled, but
will probably be either two or three
miles. The definite announcement of
the plans for this race has been made
by the officers of the Yale Navy, after
a period of negotiations extending
through several weeks.
UBINETY-NINE COUnet? BOARD
C. E. Hay.
F. M. Davies, Bus. Mgr.
H. B. B. Yergason, Chairman,
H. C. Robbins;
~ Richard Hooker.
INTER-CLASS GAMES,
Contested Events Showed Some Very
Promising Material,
The Inter-Class Track meet, held on
Saturday at Yale Field, was an inno-
vation in Yale athletics and, aside from
assisting effectively in determining the
qualities of the candidates for the team,
—the purpose for which the games
were primarily arranged,—afforded an
afternoon of excellent sport. The
weather conditions were well adapted
for the occasion, with the exception of
a high wind, which blew in the faces
of the ftunners on the back stretch.
The track was in excellent condition.
The meet resulted in an easy victory
for Nineteen Hundred, who scored 50%4
points; Nineteen Hundred and Two
was second with 23 points; Nineteen
Hundred and One, third with 19 points
and Ninety-Nine last with 9% points.
All the races were well contested and
in most of them good time was made.
The field events, however, showed great
weakness, with the brilliant exception
of the pole vault, which was won by
Clapp at eleven feet six inches, with
Johnson and Selin tied for second
place at eleven feet three. Boardman,
1902, who entered College from the
Hotchkiss School, was the star of the
day. He won the two hundred and
twenty yard dash in twenty-one and
three-fifths seconds, two-fifths of a sec-
ond less than the best previous Yale
mark in that event, but his record was
not allowed to stand because of the
high wind blowing at his back.
THE RELAY RACE,
Boardman’s work in the inter-class
relay race, the event of the afternoon,
was even more sensational, On the last
relay, Luce, 1900, had a start of about
fifty yards on Dupee, 1901, who led
Buckingham, 99, by a short distance,
and by the time that Boardman was off,
Luce was well around the turn with
the other two men some forty yards
from the tape. At first, interest was
centered in what was thought to be the
race for second place between Dupee
and Buckingham, but soon the wonder-
ful speed of the Freshman attracted the
attention of the spectators. Bit by bit
he cut down the long lead of the Sopho-
more and Senior, and as they turned
into the stretch, passed them, and fin-
ished second to Luce, who crossed the
tape an easy winner for 1900. Board-
man’s time was not taken, but he was
thought by many to have covered one
of the fastest quarters ever run on Yale
Field. Boardman is a _ brother of
Francis Boardman, ’97, who was also
a sprinter, The time of the winning
Junior team was three minutes and
thirty-four seconds, an average of fifty-
three ‘and one-half seconds for each
runner.
WHAT THE GAMES INDICATE.
When Mr. A. C. Copland, the new
athletic trainer, came to New Haven
in January, Captain Fisher’s call for
candidates for the Track Team brought
out some two hundred men, the largest
in the history of the University. Work
continued regularly in the Gymnasium
until about April 1, when the squad be-
gan training at the track. Great en-
thusiasm and earnestness has character-
ized the work throughout and the re-
sult, as indicated by Saturday’s games,
promises to be a spirited team of more
than average ability.
Seventy-four men, chosen from those
who competed in Saturday’s events,
now constitute the squad, and these men
' will continue work under the super-
vision of Mr. Copland with a view to
reaching the point of highest efficiency
by the time of the dual meet with Har-
vard, which will be held in New Haven,
May 13. The outcome of these games
is of special importance, as Yale’s de-
feat would give Harvard permanent
possession of the cup, which has been
contested for during the past six years.
A victory for Yale will tie the two Col-