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NEWS EDITOR.
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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-
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