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W. W. Skippy, ’65S. J. A. HARTWELL, '89 8.
C. PF. Linpsiey, 75S. L.S. WELCH, 89.
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W. G. DaaeexTT, ’80. P. Jay, °92.
EDITOR.
Lewis S. WELCH, ’89.
ASSOCIATE EDITOR.
WALTER Camp, ’80.
ASSISTANT EDITOR,
E. J. THompson, Sp.
NEWS. EDITOR.
FRrpD. M. DAvVIEs, ’99.
ASSISTANT.
PRESTON KUMLER, 1900.
Advertising Manager, O. M. CLARK, ‘98.
Assistant, BURNETT GOODWIN, ’995.
Entered as second class matter at New Haven P. 0.
NEW HAVEN, CONN., May 24, 1899.
WORKING “YALE LOYALTY,’’
We venture to give a warning. Be
careful—even be suspicious—of anybody
who solicits your support of any enter-
prise or anything on the. ground that
“Yale loyalty demands it.” Ili Yale
loyalty requires a special act of sup-
port, the fact appears on the surface
and does not require being dwelt upon
to establish the fact. It. may be in
order to set forth the opportunities of
the particular occasion at some length.
It may even require some argument to
show that the results aimed at are to
be reached by the means proposed.
Again, there have been plenty of good
enterprises in the name of Yale which
could bear being dwelt upon with
fullness and with much ringing of the
changes upon staple arguments in order
to make it sure that the listener would
strike the maximum ratio between the
urgency or the opportunity of the occa-
sion and the total of his surplus.
But on any genuine Yale undertak-
ing, the stamp and the superscription
plainly appear. Don’t forget the fact.
Don’t allow yourself to be worked.
We had almost said, don’t be a fool.
When a man lays a proposition before
you and he is not willing to have you
consider it on its merits, but talks about
“demands of loyalty,” then beware of
the proposition, even as a_ business
proposition. It is not safe. There is
deceit in it.
Must a Yale man be told when his
loyalty should be his motive? It has
been the history of the University and
her sons that they need be only shown
the facts of a Yale need or a Yale op-
portunity, in order to put themselves
in the right relations to it. It is some-
what of an insult to say to a Yale man
that he must. As though a son must
be taught, after he has come of age,
that when his mother is in need it is
filial to supply her wants, or must be
assured, when she asks for special
means, that she will use those means
-for the blessing of others.
How money goes into pockets that
have no will or ability to do aught with
it for Yale, because some man ‘with
glib tongue and easy conscience says
that “Yale loyalty demands” this sub-
scription! It is hard to believe, some-
times, that men of business sagacity,
who are logical about most things, are
so easily gulled by representations of
this kind. They are set forth often by
people who have no connection with
the University. The object for which
the support is asked, is often ‘one which
is plainly a business enterprise in whose
profits the University can possibly have
no part. But the claim is boldly made
and the graduate; particularly if at some
distance from the University, and if not
closely in touch with it, is unable to
do the investigating necessary and de-
cides to give Yale the benefit (?) of the
doubt.
Yale graduates ought not to do this.
It hurts every real Yale enterprise or
good Yale cause. Wait until you can
look into a thing. No harm can come
from taking time. Write to New Ha-
ven. If the WEEKLY can serve you it
will be glad to. That is what it is here
for. If we don’t know, we are glad to
look things up.
And when you find a thing that is
really a fraud and an imposition, write
to us. It will be a pleasure to show it
up. Please send all the evidence you
can.
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IMPROVING ALUMNI MEETING.
The Class Secretaries and the Com-
mittee in charge of the different re-
unions have it in their power to make
of decided value the general alumni
meeting in Alumni Hall on Tuesday
morning of Commencement week.
This ought to be a _ representative
gathering of alumni for purposes of dis-
cussion and exchange of views. It
might be made much of. It is disap-
pointing at present, when considered in
the light of its possibilities. There are
some things considerably lacking in
the arrangement, but no great improve-
ment can be expected unless the alumni
themselves attend and attend in good
numbers; As at.is now, the business
meetings of the different classes are
generally held between ten and twelve
o’clock, which is exactly the time when
the general alumni meeting is in
progress.
the only man present for a single class
will be the man who has been chosen
to speak for that class, the other mem-
bers of the class being in attendance
on their own business meeting at that
time. These business meetings could
be just as well arranged for either an
earlier or a later hour, or the business
could be transacted just before the
Class supper. If this were done and it
were advertised that alumni were
expected at the Hall, and if, when they
got there they had excellent speakers,
with, perhaps, some singing or some
other feature to enliven the exercises,
the meeting would develop into some-
thing of substantial’ value to those who
attend and to the University. Unless
something is done to “brace it up,” the
alumni will be left entirely without any
“town meeting.” And the alumni of
Yale. are people to whom the old New
England idea of government ought to
be quite applicable, if to anybody.
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The next issue of the WEEKLY goes
into the mails June 1.
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CURRENT YALE LITERATURE,
Statement of the Contents of ** Yale;
Her Campus, Classrooms
and Athletics.”
The book called “Yale; her Campus,
Classrooms and Athletics,” whose pub-
lication was announced for last month,
but was delayed by the failure of the en-
graver to carry out his large contract
on it, has finally appeared.
The general purport of the book has
already been given in the WEEKLY.
The attempt 1s to cover the three dis-
tinct sides of Yale life; the social side,
which comes under the head of “Cam-
It is very often the case that ©
pus”; the intellectual side, which is
described in the department called
“Classrooms,’ and the athletic side,
which comes under its own head in the
third division of the book. The attempt
is made to give a fairly thorough re-
view of these three departments of Yale.
In the first two divisions—the Cam-
pus and the Classrooms—the descrip-
tive sketches are largely limited to the
present time. Tlie ‘historical side is
confined to chronological tables appear-
ing as appendices to their respective
divisions. At the end of the first divi-
sion, the Campus, the appendices in-
clude a condensed history of each of
the publications at Yale from the earli-
est time; a similar history of the so-
cieties; a record of Yale in debate, with
the main facts of each contest, and the
facts and dates in the history of Yale’s
voluntary religious organizations. At
the end of the second department,
“Classrooms,” appear chronological
tables covering the history of each de-
partment—Yale College the Scienti-
fic School, the professional schools and
the like, with other tables of special
record, like a list of the principal gifts
to Yale from her foundation, the rec-
ord of attendance, the appointment rec-
ord of the last twenty-five years, a com-
parative record of administrations and
so on.
In the portion devoted to athletics,
Mr, Camp, after a general sketch of the
policy of Yale in the management of
her athletics, gives a history of each de-
partment, beginning with rowing. Then
at the end of each department comes a
tabulated record of the University’s his-
tory in this particular kind of athletics,
showing for instance, in rowing, just
what races were rowed, the time for
each, who won, what kind of a shell was
used, the conditions of weather, and
other important details.
But the main part of the book is a
description of Yale as it is to-day.
The social side is covered bv a brief
sketch of a man’s course through col-
lege, taking up those things which most
impress one as he goes through his
course. It is meant to be, in a way, an
autobiographical sketch. The treatment
is a little unusual, the chapters being
named as follows: First, “As to Making
a Yale Man”; second, “The Initiation”;
third, “The Sense ot Membership”;
fourth, “‘Living only in Yale’; fifth,
“nunning Yale as Senior”; sixth, ‘“Get-
ting out of Yale and into it Again.”
After this the different institutions of
the place are taken up and described by
sketches, sometimes of single incidents
in connection with them. The descrip-
tion of Fence life comes in a chapter
described “Tle Fight to Save the
Fence.” .The religious life is described
in two chapters, one called “In Battell
Chapel” an‘ the other “In the Young
Men’s Christian Association.” A de-
scription of the societies is introduced
by a description of Tap-day, followed by
a general sketch of the workings of all
the societies. One chapter is devoted
to “The College Dean” and another to
“The Poor Student’s Opportunities,”
another to “The Prom and the Prom
Visitor,’ another to ‘Yale Journalism;”
the history and condition of debate is
described under the head “Revival of
Debate.” There are chapters on “A
Reunion,” “The Graduate and the Uni-
versity.” “Some of the ways of Yale,”
and “For God, for Country and for
Y pies
Under the head “Yale Classrooms” is
an introductory sketch called “Yale, the
College and University.” The next
chapter is on Yale C Jlege, the next on
the Scientific School, and after that the
_ different professional schools are taken
up. In-all these sketches the aim has
been to describe the condition of things
at Yale to-day. and to give such facts
as one would like who wished to know
about the different Yale svstems of edu-
cation and how they were applied.
After the different departments
of the University, including the De-
partment of Music, are treated, the
point of view changes and the dif-
ferent divisions of study are taken up.
Philosophy is covered by recalling a
few main facts about the teaching of
philosophy at Yale and then describing
the courses that are given now and the
men who give them. This treatment of
the different divisions of study is largely
personal, something being said about
each of the men mentioned. But as
pointed out in the preparatory note to
these chapters, they are not intended
as a critical study of the men of the
Yale Faculty. Facts are given about
the different men in so far as they help
to illustrate the work of the department.
Sometimes the instructors are simply
named; at other times a point or two
is mentioned about their record and
characteristics as teachers. In this de-
partment of the book, as appears from
the reading, assistance was freely given
by persons familiar with the special
work of each department.
The authors are Walter Camp, ’8o,
and Lewis S. Welch, ’89. “The Cam-
pus’ was written entirely by Mr. Welch,
with the exception of the article on de-
bate, which, as announced in one of
the introductory chapters, was prepared
by Mr. Walter H. Clark, 796. In the
preparation of the second part of the
book, which was also a part of Mr.
Welch’s work, he was assisted by a
number of different men. Professor
Schwab wrote the chapter on “Yale
College”; Professor Corwin wrote the
Scientific School; Professor Weir de-
scribed the Art School, while recent
graduates in the Theological and Medi-
cal Schools prepared the material for
those sketches.
The third section of the book, on
athletics, was prepared entirely by Mr.
Camp.
The introduction is by Mr. Samuel
J. Elder, Yale ’73, and is very grace-
ful. The book is a volume of 628 pages
and contains eighty full pages of illus-
trations. The typography and press-
work are excellent and the cover is a
design in Yale blue with the seal of the
College in gold and white. The pub-
lishers are L. C. Page & Co., of Boston.
The book is handled in New Haven
by the E. P. Judd Co. and the Yale
Coéperative Store.
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be held at Sherry’s, Fifth avenue and
Forty-fourth street, Friday evening,
May 26, at 9 o'clock.
An address will be delivered by Ber-
nadotte Perrin, Ph.D., LL.D., Profes-
sor of Greek Language and Literature
in Yale University, on the subject “The
Future of Yale College,” (as distin-
guished from Yale University.)
Supper will be served.
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