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H. C. Rosprnson, °58.  J.R. SHEFFIELD, ’87.
W. W. Skippy, ’65S. J. A. HARTWELL, ’89 5S.
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EDITOR.
Lewis S. WELCH, ’89.
ASSOCIATE EDITOR.
WALTER Camp, ’80.
ASSISTANT EDITOR,
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NEWS EDITOR.
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Entered as second class matter at New Haven P. O.
NEW HAVEN, Conn., May 17, 1899.
FIRST PRINCETON GAME SEATS.
The WeEEKty has received through .
the courtesy of Mr. F. H. Brooke,
Manager of the University Baseball
Association, a considerable block of
seats for the Yale-Princeton game at
New Haven, June 3. These seats may
be secured by subscribers by direct
application to the WEEKLY. The price
per seat, one dollar, must be accom-
panied by 12 cents to cover registration
and the usual letter postage.
lutely no application will be considered
later than Friday, May 26. On that day
the tickets will be apportioned by lots
among the applicants and will be mailed
Saturday, May 27. There are no seats
under cover, the grand stand which was .
destroyed by fire last year having not
yet been replaced.
THE PRESIDENCY.
Confidence is increasing that the
Corporation will elect a successor to
President Dwight in the near future.
Many are found who say that it is an
absolute certainty that the election will
take place at the regular meeting at
the end of this month, but there is,
and can be, no official confirmation of
such a prediction. If the members of
the Corporation have their minds made
up then, they will elect; otherwise they
will not. 3
There is increasing confidence on the
part of the alumni as to the probable
action of the Corporation. They have
come to know the members of the body
better since this tremendous question
came up. As to what the Corpora-
_ tion was in its personnel and its general
character, there was a nebulous idea
on the part of men otherwise well in-
formed in regard to University affairs.
One by one the different members of
the governing board have come, in
their capacity as Corporation members,
directly or indirectly into relations with
a large number of the alumni, and the
latter have seen in them such an earnest
desire in this matter to reach a con-
clusion which should commend itself
to all of the workers and the friends
of Yale as in line with the best future
of Yale, that many men have substi-
tuted for criticism a very large measure
of confidence in the outcome.
This is not the feeling of those who
are wrapped up in the prospects of
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‘some individual candidate as such, but
of men who believe in a certain type of
Yale President, such as has been ex-
pressed over and over again by alumni
in these columns in the last few months,
and who now feel thoroughly confident
that the Corporation will turn every
stone to realize that ideal, or to come
as near as in the possibility of things
they can come.
This is a great gain and those who
have helped to bring about this under-
standing of good men by each other
have done a service for Yale which
augurs well for the new administration.
ATHLETICS.
One of the many phases of Yale life
which should have in a sense a new
handling under the new conditions of
the next Yale era, is athletics. All the
problems of Yale, when reduced to es-
sential considerations, have common
qualities. In the future of athletics, as
in the future of Yale College, it is a
question how the qualities of the old
time can be conserved in the larger con-
ditions of the new time. We have no
longer patience with those who think
they will conserve themselves.
We hope, with all our heart, that
the next administration will take up
athletics as a part of the education of .
this place and a most important part,—
that it will see to it that the undergrad-
uate shall get out of that education
everything possible in the way of self-
‘development by bearing of responsi-
bility, and will also see to it that the
undergraduate shall have just as good
means to work with in new Yale as he -
had in old Yale.
We demand, for the future, an intelli-
gent cooperation between undergrad-
uates and alumni in the undertakings
of Yale University in the field of inter-
collegiate athletics. We demand also
an understanding between the Faculty
and the undergraduates which shall
consist in something more than occa-
sional penalties. We demand the
means necessary to carry out these two
conditions. If the future shall not
show a sufficient courage to supply this
means, then we will begin to think that
the sand is leaking out of Yale.
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THE DEFEATS.
The Track Team deserves congratu-
lation. It.was beaten, but it did so
infinitely better than anybody expected
it could do a few months ago, when
affairs in this branch of athletics had
reached stich a woefully low ebb and
conditions seemed so hopeless, that it
has really exemplified some of the best
qualities in Yale athletics in the records
that it has ever made. The future is
bright.
As to the debate—Yale was beaten,
that was all. A good team was worsted
by a good team. Thanks are none the
less due the friends who worked so
well with the debaters, and the debaters
are none the less worthy of the Yale,
for whom they strove.
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THE HALE BENEFIT.
The offer of Mr. Goodwin to present
Clyde Fitch’s “Nathan Hale,” in which
he has made much such a conspicuous
success the last season, next Fall as a
benefit for the Nathan Hale statue, is
a very graceful and generous act which
is appreciated by the members arid
friends of the University. It ought to
_be the means of adding very materially
to the funds for this purpose.
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The Chess tournament entries close,
Thursday, May 18.
Mr. Ripley’s Candidacy.
The following letter has been sent out
by Mr. Pettee, 87, to members of his
class and others:
Phillips Academy, Geo. D. Pettee,
Registrar.
Andover, Mass.,
My dear Sir:
Mr. Alfred L. Ripley, of Andover, a
graduate of Yale in the Class of ’78, and
now Vice-President ot the Hide and
Leather National Bank of Boston, is
nominated for the vacancy on the Yale
Corporation caused by the death of
Edward G. Mason.
I shall vote for Mr. Ripley at the
coming Commencement election and
for many reasons take pleasure in
endorsing his candidacy. Among them
are these: |
Mr. Ripley’s previous connection with
the Yale Faculty, as professor of Ger-
man, gave him an intimate acquaintance
with college life, college problems and
college needs. His own large partici-
pation in college affairs as a student was
thus supplemented by a most honorable
record as instructor and _ professor.
During his term of service he was
highly esteemed by the college men who
knew him. He was to his pupils a
masterful teacher and a loyal friend,
concerned for their largest welfare and
interested in their entire college life.
His business record is well known in
Boston, and his scholarly instincts and
training have given a recognized value
to his methods and to this counsel.
His residence in Andover gives him
an intimate personal acquaintance with
the Phillips Academy students. As
Graduate Treasurer of the Athletic
Committee his services and his advice
are much prized by the Academy boys
and by the school authorities. The
graduates of the school, going to Yale
in large numbers, find in Mr. Ripley a
May 5, 1899.
worthy type of the Yale idea, and his -
influence stimulates in our students a
high regard for clean, honorable and
manly athletics.
His personal character and excep-
tional qualifications make ‘him a valued
member of our own school community
and indicate his peculiar fintness for
membership in the Corporation of the
University.
These items, expressing my personal
estimate, are passed on, in the interests
of Yale.
Very sincerely,
Gro, D. PETTEE,
Yale ’87.
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Concerning a Candidate.
To the Editor of YALE ALUMNI WEEKLY:
As my class is not represented on
the circular nominating Mr. Ripley for
office, I would like to fill the gap in-
formally with my own name. Belong-
ing to the “narrowest of the sects”
(See recent fulmination in the Lit.),
a sect that has been busy planting col-
leges for more than two centuries, I do
not object to the number of Congrega-
tional ministers in the Corporation.
Nevertheless, I recognize the import-
ance of having members who are ex-
perienced business men, and for this
reason as well as for his peculiar fit-
ness in other respects, and not because
Mr. Ripley has been a valued friend for
many years, I feel that the alumni
would honor the University highly by
electing him.
Henry BALDWIN, 771.
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An Artist’s Opportunity.
To the Editor of YALE ALUMNI WEEKLY:
Sir:—The retirement of President
Dwight thas inspired many worthy
suggestions and among them let me 3
add one of my own. In the memories
of the graduates of the College, I am
sure, no College scene lies more long-
ingly than the Senior’ Bow. in the
Chapel.
unique scene in all Yale and it is still
a marvel to me that some artist has
not reproduced it in an etching—of
course worthy of the subject. We have
had several fine scketches of Yale life
in etching and they are worthy, but the
scene offering the most poetry and
ideality has remained ‘‘undiscovered.”’
I think there is a gold mine for the
first successful artist to produce such an
etching. I am willing to subscribe for
one and I am sure many will say ditto
to me. The venerable President can be
taken too at a splendid moment in his
career, a moment all will wish to have
caught by a worthy genius who will
perpetuate it and commemorate it.
The suggestion comes late, but it is not
yet too late. Let it be agitated to
fruition. 92.
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Nat Goodwin’s Offer.
Between the acts of “Nathan Hale,”
which was played at the Hyperion
Theatre last Saturday night, Nat Good-
win, after responding to one of a num-
ber of encores for his fine work, said:
“T was told to-day that in 19or there will
be erected just across the street from
here, among the buildings where
Nathan Hale studied and graduated in
1773, a statute of that great American
patriot whom I am endeavoring to por-
tray to-night. It is with great pleasure
that I announce that | and my company
hereby volunteer to come to New Haven
some time next season and give a bene-
fit performanice of ‘Nathan Hale’ for
the monument fund.”
A large number of Yale men were in
the theatre and they received the gener-
ous announcement with cheers.
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