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YALE ALUMNI WEEKLY SUBSCRIPTION, - $3.00 PER YEAR. Foreign Postage, 40 cents per year. PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. Single copies, ten cents each. For rates for papers in quantity, address the office. All orders for papers should be paid for in advance. Checks, drafts and orders should be made payable to the Yale Alumni Weekly. ; All correspondence should be addressed,— Yale Alumni Weekly, New Haven, Conn. The office is at Room 6, White Hall. ADVISORY BOARD. H. C. Roprnson, 538. %J.R. SHEFFIELD, ’87. W. W. Skippy, ’65S. J. A. HarrweE.t, '89&. C. P. LINDSLEY, 75S. L.S. WELCH, ’89. W. Camp, ’80. E. VAN INGEN, ’91 S. W.G. DaGGeETT, 80. P. Jay, ’92. EDITOR. LEwIs 8S. WELOH, ’89. ASSOCIATE EDITOR. WALTER Camp, ’80. ASSISTANT EDITOR, E. J. THOMPSON, Sp. NEWS EDITOR. FRED. M. DaviEs, 99. ASSISTANT. PRESTON KUMLER, 1900. Advertising Manager, O. M. CuaRK, ‘98. ‘ Assistant, BURNETT GOODWIN, '998. Eniered as second class matter at New Haven P. O. NEw HAVEN, CONN., May 10, 1899. YALE COLLEGE. With the time drawing near when the Corporation is expected to make its all important choice, the friends of Yale are more and more seriously con- sidering what the future has in store for the place. There has been much gen- eral talk, and some definite and clean cut prediction and analysis. Of the lat- ter, we are obliged to say that nothing -has laid the thing open quite as clearly, in our humble opinion, as the letters from A. P., published in the WEEKLY in the last few months. The last letter of that group was quite radical and indicated, it seemed to us, a spirit towards the traditions and inter- ests of Yale College which is not safe. The impression was given that the life and spirit of Yale College were a good deal like the life and spirit of any other college; that they do not depend en- tirely, or even largely, on any particular environment or on any peculiar order- ing of the course; that if the old forms of college activity, around which this life has centered in the past, are changed in the development, then new forms, better than the old, will take their place, and round these forms will gather the new college life, which will be just as strong, and brighter and fairer and even sweeter than the old college life. That is risky. We will trust Yale a long ways; but if you have anything good in this world you must stand guard over it. Ex-President Harrison says in his book on “This Country: of Ours,” that neither any collection of statesmen nor the Lord himself could set up a government which you could go away and leave. The idea has been altogether commonly accepted around here that something in the way of a social order has been set up here, called Yale, or as A. P. might say, called a college, which is unchangeable and in- vulnerable and which will flourish and dispense its blessings, though hedged about with all kinds of restrictions and though the most alien forms of social life are grafted onto it. This is an im- possible idea about anything human, and Yale is very, very human. We must watch Yale and all the good things there are in it and hold fast that which is good. -We don’t believe in surrendering the Yale idea in education or any particular element in education point seems clear to us. which Yale has developed, on whatever side of the subject, for any other idea of education. The curriculum is very far from perfect; the University needs all kinds of development and unifying. But nothing has yet been pointed out which would offset the loss of that edu- cation which is found in Yale College, academic and social. It is not only wrong to talk about the possible neces- sity of dispensing with Yale College,— it is useless to do so. Isn’t there op- portunity enough for the development of specialization in the Graduate School, not only as it is, but as it will be, and in all the other departments? Yale is already flirting with the purely material ideas of education, which count it of dreadful importance that a man should begin to draw his $5 a week in a lawyer’s office or a banking house, one year earlier than the Yale educa- tion allows him to.. The idea seems to be slipping away from a great many people that this place stands for ideals and for such a preparation of a man that he may apply ideals to life. You can’t run this kind of education on the same plan that you can run an apprenticeship. May there always be months and years of the Yale education that lead nowhere in particular as far as dollars and cents are concerned, but only help to make a stronger, broader, fairer man. > > a at CHAPEL. The Yale News is doing well in taking up the Chapel question. We reprint two of the letters which it has received in answer to its inquiries for opinions. We also print in this issue a further letter on the subject to the WEEKLY, from one who is on the ground and is an earnest student of these things. The time is a ripe one for considera- tion of these problems. The passing from one distinct period to another dis- tinct period in Yale history is near at hand and it is a time for most serious thoughtfulness about everything which. we prize here. Let us therefore be very free to whip out the great problems. This chapel problem is a large one. Many of the most serious men, includ- ing many of the most religious men, at Yale, are very uncertain as to what is the right course for the Yale College of the future, while many others of the same class are strongly arrayed on one side or the other of the question. One The social consideration must be an incidental one. If it can be shown that, from the stand- point of true religion, the exercises are of no avail or are worse than that, then they ought to go. The social side is of immense importance to Yale, but some substitute, that is not offered in the name of religion, must be found. The question is difficult enough when not involved with this secondary considera- tion. CURRENT YALE LITERATURE. Mr. Colton’s Work. Mr. Arthur Colton, Yale ’90, is one . of the younger Yale men in literature who is doing work of a very high grade. We do not recall anything from his pen that has not been finished and there is already not a little which not only shows promise, but is itself of value as literature. He has written mostly verse, as we recall it, but there is a sketch in the current Atlantic Monthly, which is in the form of prose, though a good deal of it is poetry. “The Elders’ Seat” is a beautiful thing, alle- gorical and containing many things . one feels, but can’t easily say. As far as description goes, it is a choice bit of painting, of a mill stream and a vil- lage road, with two or three good out- line portraits of village characters. Another Volume of Sil’s Poems, The third collection of the poems of Edward Rowland Sill, Yale ’61, has just been published by Houghton, Mifflin & Co. It is a little volume worth having. It adds to the sum of good to have such poems where one who can appreciate that which is both exquisite and that which is strong, may have access to them. The publishers recall the fact that twelve years ago, the year of Mr. Sill’s death, a small collection of his poems was published under the title “Poems by Edward Rowland Sill.” “The volume was small and gave a hint only of the activity of Mr. Sill’s poetic nature.” His productions were scat- tered during his life-time in many pub- lications and under various signatures. The second collection, published in 1889, was called “The Hermitage, and Later Poems” and contained a tribu- tary lyric by Mr. Aldrich. The pub- lishers say that “the strong personal interest in Mr. Sill thus created has led to an urgent demand for a further collection of his scattered poems.” As the publishers point out, the three volumes rather contain a selection than a collection of Mr. Sill’s poetical writ- ings. The present volume is called ‘“Her- mione and Other Poems.” “Reproof in Love’ is one of the best things in the book. The tribute to Lincoln, “The Dead President,” is also published here, as well as the poem called ‘The World Runs Round,’ which he wrote for the Overland Magazine, San Fran- cisco, in 1884. A piece of optimism and a verse of the gospel of the stren- uous life given in this poem, is worth reprinting here: “When will the world believe Force is for him that is met and fought: Storm hath no song till the pine re- sists; Lightning no flame when it runs as it - lists; So do the wise Norns weave. The world runs round And the world runs. well: It needs no prophet, when evil is found, Good to foretell.” As representative of many of the others of the volume and one of the best, it is worth while to reprint “A Child and a Star”: “The star, so pure in saintly white, Deep in the solemn soul of night, With dreams of deathless beauty wed, And golden ways that seraphs tread: The child—so mere a thing of earth, So meek a flower of mortal birth: A far-off lucent world, so bright, Stooning to touch with tender light That little gown’ at evening prayer: It seems a condescension rare,— Heaven round a common child to glow; An! wiser eyes of angels know : The star, a toy but roughly wrought; The child, God’s own most loving thought. Yon evening planet, wan with moons, Colossal, ’mid its dim, swift noons,— What is it but a bulk of stone, Like this gray globe we dwell upon? Down hollow spaces, sightless, chill, Its vibrant beams in darkness thrill, Till thro’ some window drift the rays Where a pure heart looks up and prays; And in that silent worshipper, The waves of feeling stir and stir, And spread in wider rings above, To tremble at God’s heart of love. Tho’ it be kingliest one of all His worlds, ’tis but a stony ball: What are they all, from sun to sun, But dust and stubble, when all’s done? Some heavenly grace it only caught, When, like a hint from home, it brought To a child’s heart one tender thought: Itself in that great mystery lost, As some bright pebble, idly tost Into the darkling sea at night, Whose widening ripples, running light, Go out into the infinite.” ci Lie ~~ vv “East and West.” The projectors of the new magazine which is to be established in the Fall . by Mr. W. A. Bradley and Mr. George S. Hellman of Columbia, have decided to change the name and call it “East and West,” instead of “The American,” as at first contemplated. The name “American” is already in use on a pub- lication and they wish to avoid any possibility of conflict. Ninety-Three Changes, Noah H. Swayne, 2d, Secretary of the Class of 1893, has sent to each mem- ber of the Class a printed list of the present addresses. The list indicates a number of changes from the the ad- dresses given in the Directory of Liv- ing Graduates for 1899. Those in which a change is noted are given be- low: Franklin J. Abbe, Sheffield, Mass. Henry B. Barnes, Jr., 11 West 4oth st., New York City. George J. Briggs, care American Trading Company, Yokohama, Japan. Frank J. Brown, 305 Exchange Build- ing, New Haven, Conn. Cornelius S. Bull, care New England Watch Co., Waterbury, Conn. James S. Dwight, 42 Market st., Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Charles B. Eddy, 45 William st., New York City. John P. Edmison, St. Paul, Minn. Charles H. Ewing, 614 West Lake st., Chicago, Ill. Charles J. Fay, Columbia University, New York City. Thomas A. Gardiner, 49 S. Portland ave., Brooklyn, N. Y. James E. Grafton, care Waterbury High School, Waterbury, Conn. Col. Frederick A. Hill, care Judge Advocate-General, War Dept., Wash- ington, D: C. Shubael C. Hutchins, 55 Chestnut st., Providence, R. I. Sherwood B. Ives, M.D., 53 W. 52d. st., New York City. Adrian V. S. Lambert, M.D., New York Hospital. Homer T. Joy, M.D., Bellevue Hos- pital, New York City. Irwin B. Laughlin, Laughlin, Pittsburg, Pa. Irving P. Lyon, M.D., 75 Niagara Square, Boston. Dr. William H. Murphy, 3917 Balti- more ave., Philadelphia, Pa. Emerson R. Newell, 173 Fifth ave., New York City. | Harry« GC, .« Quintard, School, Bridgeport, Conn. Gerald L. Rathbone, 116 California st., San Francisco, Cal. George H. Rice, Republican Build- ing, Scranton, Pa. Derby Rogers, New Canaan, Conn. William W. Smith, Bradford, Pa. John B. Thomas, Branford, Conn. faward fH, ‘Tracy, Society tor Sav- ings Building, Cleveland, O. A. Hamilton Wallis, 48 Wall st., New York City. Albert B. 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