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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.
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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.”
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“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. White, Holbrook, Mass.
John H. Wigginton, Selma Univer-
sity, Selma, Ala.
Edward M. Williams, The Sherwin
Williams Co., Cleveland, O.
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