YALE ALUMNI
WRERLY
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. HARTWELL, 89 8.
C. P. LInpsLey, 75S. L.S. WELOH, ’89.
W. Camp, ’80. E. VAN INGEN, ’91 S.
W.G. DaaeettT,’80. P. Jay, ’92.
EDITOR.
Lewis S. WELOH, ’89.
ASSOCIATE EDITOR.
WALTER Camp, ’80.
ASSISTANT EDITOR,
E. J. THOMPSON, Sp.
NEWS EDITOR.
FRrepD. M. Davri&s, 799.
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., JUNE 14, 1899.
Errors can be avoided and promptness
ensured by addressing all correspondence,
referring either to editorial or business mat-
ters, simply to YALE ALUMNI WEEKLY,
New Haven, Conn.
th Go die
a Lie Ai
ABOUT TICKETS.
People who want tickets for the boat
race or the ball game must read the
instructions in regard thereto printed
in the last issue of the paper, and in this
issue of the paper.
low those instructions. Otherwise they
will probably be disappointed. Those
using the application blanks must read
all the conditions named thereon and
follow them. Otherwise they will prob-
ably be disappointed.
In regard to the handling of the seats
by the ALUMNI WEEKLY, we can only
add, that the rules will be followed; that
applications will be received in the or-
der named elsewhere in this paper; that
the applications will be drawn by lot
in each class, under the supervision of
a responsible committee.
Lastly, those desirng special personal
favors in regard to seats, must not apply
to the WEEKLY. Weare here to handle
We
adopted a system approved by grad-
uates and undergraduates officially con-
seats for Yale graduates. have
nected with the boat race arrangements,
and we will follow that system.
th di
OM
THE NINE.
Even with thirty-two pages to use,
there were a great many things we
wanted to say in the last issue that we
couldn’t say. One thing that was hard
to keep over was the complete expres-
sion of our satisfaction with the game
at New Haven on June 3. To have a
contest like that is very reassuring to
the Yale athletic interest here. The
kind of ball played was worthy of the
best traditions of Yale. It was good,
clean, hard work with no ragged edges.
The spirit all through the game was
excellent. Indeed, one could not ask
for more than that Yale’s athletics
should appear in as good a light as they
did on the diamond on June 3. Things
were not quite so perfect the next Sat-
They must also fol- -
urday, but the prime desiderata of hard
and generally excellent work and gen-
eral good feeling seem to have been
there. Now Yale must play up to her
limit next Saturday, and all of Yale
that is in good health and within reach
must be there to see her play. The tie
game is the test of a Yale Nine.
.
—_—_—_++e—___—_
NO BOAT-RACE PROGRAM,
There will be no official program this
year in connection with the Yale-Har-
vard boat race. This is a decided move
in the right direction. We have been
accused of being too harsh when we
have before referred to these devices for
the extraction of coin, from those.who
wish to be in favor with the University,
so it may not be well to say all we feel
on the subject. Suffice it to say that
the Committee decided that the pro-
gram business was a nuisance and an
imposition, and was so dangerous as to
often result in dealings discreditable to
University men. They therefore de-
cided that there should not be an offi-
cial program. Advertisers will proba-
bly be informed by unscrupulous per-
sons that they have the opportunity to
enter “‘the only authorized card” con-
cerning the races, but if they are wise,
they will examine their man’s creden-
tials carefully; and if thev do that, they
will find that there is no official request
or desire that they contribute in this
way to the support of the races. The
Committee have evidently decided that
if they want any money, they will call
on Yiale’s friends for it and not force it
out of them in the name of advertis-
ing.
+e
A REQUEST TO WEEKLY READERS.
The YALE ALUMNI WEEKLY reader
will do the paper a service if he will let
this office know of any dealings with
any person, firm, or company hav-
ing advertising announcements in the
WEEKLY, which shows or suggests that
this person, firm or company is not
absolutely reliable, and is not meeting
the actual business representations made
to the advertisers of the WEEKLY.
Please bear this in mind. We are giv-
ing just as much care to building up
the advertising end of the paper on solid
foundations as we are devoting to the
news and editorial department. Our
idea of the WEEKLyY’s advertising de-
partment is, that it should be run for
the advantage of Yale men. We don’t
take any advertiser that comes—and we
don’t mean to. We don’t mean to have
any announcement in the WEEKLY
columns of any concern that is not
reputable and with whom it is not per-
fectly safe for Yale men to deal.
oO
FAKES IN THE NAME OF YALE.
As this is a number that will reach
more Yale men than usual, it may be in
order to urge again the point made in
the last issue of the paper about Yale
fakes. The College connection is some-
thing that is easily played on and
worked, and the evidence accumulates
that it has been worked of late a good
deal, in a very unjustifiable way and in a
waythat hurts Yale. Ifthe evidence gets
more definite, the WEEKLY will print it,
but a word of general warning ought to
be enough. If the matter is a genuine
Yale enterprise and is in need of sup-
port as such, it is always susceptible of
demonstration. One can find out at
New Haven what it is and why it should
be supported. To fail to take this pre-
caution, and to yield to plausible reason-
ing while one is in doubt, is to encour-
age this kind of work and to help to get
one’s fellow alumni into the same kind
of trouble. As was said last week, the
WEEKLY is here to supply information
about these things whenever the alumni
desire it. If it is of a confidential
nature, it will be supplied in a confi-
dential way.
thy di.
a oe
The arrangements for the Yale-Har-
vard boat race have been refreshingly
business-like and most _ satisfactory.
The railroads, New London and the
Universities all seem to have gotten
together on a working basis, recogniz-
ing their mutual interests. This, we be-
lieve, has come from the fact that the
right kind of men have been in charge
of matters, and all have met in a spirit
of frankness and a recognition of each
others interests.
<p, >
ee
The New Haven correspondent of the
Chicago Inter Ocean, whoever he may
be, should confine himself to the state-
ment of those things of which he has
some remote knowledge. “Generally
these meetings (the Sunday evening
Dwight Hall meetings at Yale) are very
poorly attended.” That was in a recent
New Haven dispatch to the Juter Ocean.
One could not possibly be more suc-
cessful in getting a thing exactly wrong
than was the writer of that sentence.
a el
At a meeting of the members: of the
Princeton track team on June 1, John
F. Creegan was re-elected Captain.
Mr. Creegan won the mile and half-mile
runs in the intercollegiate games last
Spring and the mile run this year.
a a fp = ne
Educating the Citizen.
{Louis T. Golding, in Education.]
The individual shall save the whole.
—Herbert Spencer.
How shall we train up citizens? Citi-
zens in the old sense; men who value
the opportunities of citizenship and
welcome its responsibilities. The patriot
has learned how to die for his country,
how shall the citizen learn to live for
her? Our standard of citizenship has
fallen. Every community has its group
of men known as “good citizens’ who
in all their lives never made a honest
effort towards rendering this a better
government to live under. Yet in the
fields of social, religious and philan-
thropic activity they are-potent factors
for good. Such men are misnamed,
they should be called good men, but
bad citizens. The good citizen recog-
nizes his responsibilities. He is vigi-
lant in guarding the public faith, in in-
sisting upon official probity, .and in
striving to destroy that popular dogma
which teaches that public men may
have two standards of veracity and
honor, one fair and of full height for
private business; the other shrunken
and distorted for public action.
The need of this country to-day is
citizens who know why this a great and
properous nation and how to keep it
so. To-day we are a nation without
leaders. We have public men in plenty;
distinguished, patriotic, learned; but
lacking that which alone makes leaders
—a following. Public opinion, operat-
ing through manhood suffrage, is the
controller and director of American
destiny. .
The whole creed of good citizenship
is in the understanding of the questions
“Why is this nation prosperous and
happy,” and “how-shall we keep it so.”
The answer to the first question is to
be found in an examination of the
nature, scope, prerogatives and prece-
dents of our governmental institutions;
the answer to the second is found in
the light of the answer to the first.
The search for this knowledge is much
easier that at first glance it would seem.
It is not necessary to study Madison’s
“Debates in the Constitutional Conven-
tion” nor the letters of Jay, Hamilton _
and Madison in “The Federalist,’ or
the other great sources of light upon
the formation and scope of the consti-
tution. What the citizen should study
is the actual government as adminis-
tered by the executive and other offi-
cials. The best light on this subject,—in
fact it is practically the only original
information at hand, has been shed by
the presidents themselves. The consti-
tution imposes upon the president the
duty to “give to the Congress informa-
tion of the state of the Union, and
recommend to its consideration such
measures as he shall judge necessary
and expedient.” The result of this re-
quirement has been the preparation of
an annual report or analysis of the
condition and requirements of the
government. These annual and other
messages -. are a ‘part of history,
and more than history, for they
have sometimes made history. ‘Those
of the earlier presidents were in breadth,
dignity, logic and learning, models of
political literature. Writing of them in
1863, Sir William Vernon Harcourt
said, “The American State papers dur-
ing the early years of the French revolu-
tionary war present a noble monument
of dignity, moderation and good faith.
They are repertories of statesmanlike
principles and judicial knowledge.” In
' these messages and papers of the presi-
dents the citizen will find set forth, in
the light of their time, the great prob-
lems that one after another have been
solved, and whose solutions, like great
stones, were laid one upon another to
form the enduring foundations of our
national life. :
- The youth of to-day is the citizen of
to-morrow. Let us then teach him to
know the duties of citizenship that he
may do well his part, and that there
may be more men such as President
Garfield described:
“Men who, standing on a mountain
height, see all the achievements of our
past history and carry in their hearts
the memory of its glorious deeds, and
who looking forward, prepared to meet
the dangers that come.”
ie AEE ait
Suum Cuique.
To the Editor of YALE ALUMNI WEEKLY:
Sir:—The book “Yale: her Campus,”
etc., which has recently been published,
contains so much information based
on official records that its statements
may be quoted carelessly as official.
For this reason I call attention to the
slip on page 419, in the annals of the
Graduate School, which states that the
degree of Doctor of Philosophy -was
conferred by Yale first in 1871. The
date should have been 1861, ten years
earlier. The matter deserves special
notice only because the early services
of Yale in the field of graduate work
have often been overlooked. Our uni-
versity was far the first in this country
to offer definite courses of graduate
instruction apart from professtonal
schools, and conferred advanced degrees
on examination earlier than any other
American institution. Harvard con-
ferred the degree of Ph.D. first in 1872:
Princeton and Columbia, apparently
first in 1880.
> <>
as SOUT, aft
A Correction.
To the Editor of YALE ALUMNI WEEKLY:
Sir:—Since the book of Messrs.
Camp and Welch, Yale, Her Campus,
Class Rooms and Athletics, is one that
Yale men will wish to use for reference,
it seems worth while to note an error
in the data given on pp.* 4092, 50I, con-
cerning the first of the University races,
viz. the race at Lake Winnepesaukee
in 1852. The Halcyon, there credited
to Yale, was a four-oared boat that was
ruled out of the race. The Yale boats
were the Undine and the Shawmut,
eight oars each. The late Julius Catlin,
53, of New York City, was coxswain
of the Undine.
IT am, etc.,
THE Bow Oar OF THE UNDINE.
New York, May 27.
Yale Law School.
For circulars and other information apply to
Prof. FRANCIS WAYLAND,
Dean.
“DUNCAN HALL.
No. 1154 Chapel Street, New Haven.
Furnished apartments—suites and single—
for Yale Students. For rates and plans,
Address,
~ W. T. MUMFORD, JZanager.
