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WEARING THE COLLEGE COLORS. From now until the last Roman can- dle pops its last ball and sputters its last spark, in honor of the victors at the Yale-Harvard four-mile straightaway, the men of the colleges of America most in the eye of the people of America will be the college athletes. By the way these college students act will their colleges be judged. They themselves will be talked about and praised or condemned, according to their deserts, but that is not a fact . to be considered publicly. Their per- sonal reputations are their own con- cern. The fact that they are always identi- fied with the college whose colors they wear, so. that what they do is spoken of and thought of as what their col- lege does—this is of much consequence and is the concern of every college man. Jack Meanwell may play ball all the afternoons and Saturdays of his youth with the Redtowns (the same be- ing a nine whose highest victories are scored against both those they play against, and the statutes and common law of the sport), and he may do exactly as he pleases and dares. If he decides to compromise between his silent monitor and the Bleachers, and accepts as germane only such argu- ments as he hears, that is exclusively, Jack Meanwell’s business. But when the name J. Meanwell ap- pears in a batting list, headed by the name of a college, it all changes. Our young friend is still an American, but in the Redtown sense he is not free any more. When he put on the Red- town uniform he accepted the task of making as many runs as he could and keeping the other fellows from making them, by playing baseball and by such other possible means as seemed good to him. When his college put its colors on him, it gave him first of all a name to bear unstained, and that name one which was made clear and pure by the labors and lives of saints; which was glorified by the works of scholars; which was borne into all strenuous labors by men who toiled for the public good and often gave their, lives for others, because their college, their nourishing mother, had taught them to reck not what they gave to any high endeavor. This is general and quite common- ' value of their enterprise. place. It ought to be assumed and not need stating. But again and again, year in and year out, in the history of all college athletics, Yale not excepted, the fact has been altogether for- gotten or ignored. Some of the best fellows the Lord ever made, their sense distorted by convention and their spirits untrained to conquer excitement by self-control, have worn the blue, and other glorious college colors, and acted while they wore it as though ideals were nothing as compared with what was shown at the finish line on the river, or the tape on the track, or on the score card when the last inning closed, or the whistle sounded the end of the game. Let us take counsel with ourselves, gentlemen, as our Yale goes onto the track and the diamond and the river. If players, let us remember what it is to stand for Yale. If only spectators— students, graduates, members of the common brotherhood and so as deeply concerned as any,—let us not forget and be cowards, when rooters shout or many are excited and forget themselves and their college. For ourselves, we will try to do our little part in reporting things as they are, and we much hope that it will be a very pleasant: privilege instead of a disagreeable duty. Corporation Nomination. The following circular nominating Mr. F. S. Parker, Yale ’73, to the Ed- ward G. Mason vacancy in the Corpora- tion has been sent to Prof. E.G. weg ter; We, the undersigned alumni of Yale University, do hereby nominate Mr. Frederick S. Parker, of the Class of 1873, as a candidate for the office of Fellow of Yale University to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Edward G. Mason, Esq.: Simeon B. Chittenden’....% ... 1865 Joshua My Fierei,iyiees. ce 1870 Albert B: Boardman. vi ..cia<s 1873 William “BeBe dae 1881 FE. H.. Golten-is aise 1860 Walter S.-Brewster +s) ss.u0%. - 1889 Wm: B. Davenport «.¢ - in. a4e = 1867 David: Stewart: Gisas yale. 2 1896 W.:C. Beechetsad 9. wpeerkan. 1872 Almet:-F. Jenks Hae. cases cs 1875 Fredérick: Dwightiac. «sacthas « 1894 Geo. C. Brainerd: io ison eos 1867 Arnold: G... Danas. 433, 1883. William 3... NeEwton. .. .ase5.5 1893 Albert. J; Shaw iw: ...05aF 1893 Arthur Mathewson’..:...0.4--. 1858 Frederick ‘A.’ Ward’. 24033352. 1862 Chas. E:: Bigelow ose 1873 Henty RK. Dwight... 30 ae 1893 Thos: A’ Perkins 225; Se 1858 Alex: Cameron 2004.04 See 1869 Clarence D. Ashley ... 033855 1873 John ‘Hill Morgan... «4.7247 ige3 Henry F.. Homes: : sna oe 1868 Philip Earl Dudley ... a.53.. 1898 W.. A; Taylors ee ne. 1884 Charles N...Jagsonc7 7.7... ¢). 1862 CURRENT YALE LITERATURE. “ Universities and their Sons.” If the publishers of “Universities and Their Sons,” the R. Herndon Com- pany of Boston, can cover thoroughly, fairly and intelligently the field which they have entered, they will find no dif- ficulty in establishing any claims which they’ may be disposed to make as to the Their scheme, in a word, is to show what University education is and what it is good for. They show what it is by describing the universities which they take up, in his- torical sketches and general descrip- tions of departments, of the officers and instructors, and of the different habits and characteristics. They propose to show what it is good for by giving bio- graphical sketches of a selected com- pany of graduates who are using their university education in busi i siness an professional work. : hk The first part of this scheme is not new. More or less descriptive litera- ture about the universities is constantly coming from the press. The second part of the scheme is decidedly novel and its development will be watched with a great deal of interest. The pub- lishers say that in carrying out the sec- ond part of their work, “The Sons of Universities,” they propose to take up “representative men in the affairs of life, rather than those who tower above their fellows in intellect and position, and have reaped their full reward of success and honors.” ‘They propose to give a place to those who are “ac- tively, worthily and usefully filling a place in the world, it may be in some modest sphere, but having in them the elements and spirit of growth and ad- vancement to higher place and power; and particularly to obtain and present the facts showing the connection be- tween their university training and the positions they now occupy in the busy world outside.” Of the alumni of Har- vard, Yale, Princeton and Columbia, the institutions treated in this series, there are more than forty thousand liv- ing. The publishers admit that it is im- possible to give biographical represen- tation of a considerable portion of them in a work of this character, but they propose to pick out three or four thou- sand whom they think will best carry out the purpose which has already been stated, and concerning these they will give not only the biographical data, but the portraits, when they can secure them. In making their selection they say that they have relied mainly on the results of personal investigation made by their agents as to the standing and comparative influence of “university sons” in the respective communities where they reside. This review began with an “‘f,”’ be- cause the scheme is so large and so untried. But one may safely say that, if the rest of the work is done as thor- oughly and as ably as is the first volume, which is made up principally of the histories and the descriptive sketches of the four universities treated, then one may look for very interesting and valuable results. For this first volume is certainly well done. The list of editors already given in the prelim- inary notice of this book a few weeks ago is in itself a sufficient guarantee of the quality of these histories and sketches. With Harvard in the hands of Mr. William Roscoe Thayer, the edi- tor of the Harvard Graduates’ Maga- zine; Yale taken care of by Professor Charles Henry Smith; Dr. John De- Witt and Mr. Jesse Lynch Williams for the Princeton department, and with Professor J. Howard Van Amringe - writing the story of Columbia, there is all the assurance one desires of thor- ough work. And one must admit that the biographical editors, on whose shoulders must rest the burden of that ‘most interesting part of the work yet to come, are apparently chosen with quite the same skill. Charles E. L. Wingate, Harvard ’83; Albert Lee, Yale ‘o1; Jesse Lynch Williams, Princeton ’92, and Henry G. Paine, Columbia ’80, are the namesinthis row. |. There has been a disposition to be suspicious of this biographical portion of the work, as putting it in a certain commercial way on a level with publica- tion enterprises that are not in_great favor among intelligent men. To in- quiries by those who entertain this sus- picious feeling, our reply has been that it is easy to see the grounds for it on general principles, but that an inves- tigation of the character of the editors was all very much in favor of the book. All that can be said is that the pub- lishers have apparently taken every measure possible to carry out sticcess- fully and creditably their large and un- ustial undertaking. When the rest of the volumes come, if they are not up to the plan published and emphasized at the inception of the work; if they are not true to the quality of the men whose names are used to float this work, it will be time to give it the condemnation which such a disappointment will de- serve. Until then it will certainly be in order to wait with a keen and hopeful expec- tation. When such men as have been mentioned, together with General Joshua L. Chamberlain, ex-President of Bowdoin College and ex-Governor of Maine, and William T. Harris, U. 5. Commissioner of Education, are guid- ing this work, there is only one channel in which it ought to move. That the result of such a scheme would be val- uable to the science of higher education and a valuable exposition of its real value, there is no doubt. © Yale has been given a very generous portion of the opening volume, taking more space than that of any other uni- versity, and all this space is well taken. Professor Smith has made the plan of the book to cover, first, the College under its different administrations; sec- ond, the different departments of the University; and third, the voluntary undergraduate activities. Of course, it is done in a scholarly and thorough manner, and with a fair spirit. Under “Voluntary Undergraduate Activities” Professor Smith takes up: First, Religious Activities; second, Literary Activities; third, Athletic Ac- tivities; fourth, Social Activities. The first, “Religious Activities,’ is, as far as we know, the first complete history of the voluntary religious life of Yale; and it deals principally, as such a his- tory should, with the very diverse in- terests and activities of the College Young Men’s Christian Association. Under “Literary Activities’ a good deal of space is given to the history of debate and its revival in later ‘times, which is treated quite exhaustively and very fairly. This chapter also includes a description of the various College publications. 3 Athletics are treated with a general history of each branch, which follows the broad outlines intelligently. Pro- fessor Smith’s conclusion is that ath- [Continued on 28rst page.] Yale Law School. For circulars and other information apply to Prof. FRANCIS WAYLAND, Dean. DUNCAN HALL. 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