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EDITOR.
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NEWS EDITOR.
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New Haven, Conn., JunE 21, 1899.
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MORE WAR RECORDS WANTED.
The publication of the record of the
Yale men in the Spanish war has
brought out a number of names which
this office had cen unable to secure up
to the time of publication. We were
confident that there were others whose
addition would make Yale’s record all
the more unusual.
The WEEKLY will publish the addi-
tional names in the Commencement
number, and hereby makes special re-
quest, to all who know of any Yale man
who was in the service of the Army or
Navy during the war with Spain, and
whose name and record did not appear
in the War Recoid issue, to send word
immediately to us, giviag all the facts
possible to be obtained concerning him.
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SPYING.
The Yale and Harvard crews at New
London have not yet come up to one
opportunity, just before them. The
newspapers for the last few days have
been full of stories of spy work, and
attempts on the part of one or the
other crews to catch the time of the
other.
It is an old story to all those who
have watched New London for years.
The first inclination is to laugh at it.
The spying is not quite such an iniqui-
tous thing as critics have made it to be.
It is rather a part of the fun at New
London, a bit of excitement in the
otherwise monotonous work of training.
Each crew is conscious, as it swings up
and down for its prettiest work, that it
may be passing a masked battery of spy
glasses in the woods along the shore.
The substitutes are supposed to be very
useful for this kind of observation.
They not only chase the rival crew
around, while they are at their pair oar
work, but they do much signal service
work on the shore. An elaborate system
of wig wagging has often been brought |
into operation, whereby the start and
finish have been accurately timed. The
crew didn’t know anything about it,
until they saw a handkerchief wave just
as the boat crossed the finish line.
As has been said, this is generally
done in good part, but there is a chance
to make bad blood and it is sometimes
made. It is essentially a very dis-
courteous act, or would be, if it did not
have a quasi sanction in tradition. It
has the same relation to standards of
courtesy that gate stealing used to have
‘to the ordinary standards of ethics, when
there was something or other in the air
of the Campus that made it seem that
gates were in vogue for the purpose of
allowing a Freshman to take them off
and burn them up.
But, after all the extenuating circum-
stance of tradition, it is bad business.
It doesn’t look well to the outside
world. It adds one more suggestion
of professionalism to the athletics of
universities whose whole atmosphere
should be absolutely clear of it.
When it comes to the fine points of
boating, most laymen know very little.
Nobody knows anybody about it, really,
except experts, and they don’t agree,
but it is a beautiful sport that a man
with red blood in his veins immensely
enjoys. All Yale and Harvard men are
especially interested in it because it
brings their universities conspicuously
before the public. On the basis of that
general interest, we beg respectfully to
ask the question, what is there to con-
ceal? Is Yale able to go anv faster,
because Harvard is known to be rowing
fast, or vice versa? Does it teach any
particular skill of rowing, to learn that
your neighbor has gone over four miles
in twenty-one minutes and seventeen
seconds in fair conditions, with a light
wind from the southwest? You can al-
ways watch your neighbor more or less,
and you can tell much more bv watch-
ing him than you can by looking at
times, unless they are extraordinary
times. And what harm comes of it,
pray, if you learn everything about his
boat, not only what his time is, but the
way he makes it? Why, in the name of
reason, can any University crew be
afraid of letting any other University
crew see it row?
The substitute fours had a little race
“on their own hook” the other day, and
enjoyed it immensely. It was an out-
rageously bad thing to do from the
standpoint of those intercollegiate
athletes who look on colleges in ath-
letics as though in war. And Yale has
shown quite a willingness to let Har-
vard look at her. Let such tendencies
grow. Let the times be known by all
in interest and the spy’s occupation be
gone.
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DEGREES FOR FOREIGN REPRE-
SENTATIVES.
The statement has gone the rounds of
the press the last few days that Harvard
is to give the degree of LL.D. to M.
Cambon, the French Ambassador, at
the coming Commencement, in recog-
nition of his distinguished public ser-
vices in the negotiations restoring peace
between the United States and Spain.
Wherever this statement appears it is
said, in connection with it, that this is
the first time that a leading University
of America has conferred such an honor
on a representative of a foreign power.
The last statement is inaccurate. One
hundred and twenty years ago this
Commencement, in 1779, Yale College
gave the degree of LL.D. to M. Gérard,
who was the French Minister to the
United States. How often this may
have been done since then, if at all, we
do not know, but this degree was such
a notable one that it ought not to be
overlooked in this connection. The
French Ambassador was a very distin-
guished man, and the French services
to the United States were tremen-
dously appreciated by the nation.
Though feeling called upon to make
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this reminder of an earlier occasion, we
are none the less glad that Harvard is
to confer this honor on such a dis-
tinguished representative of a friendly
power. Such acts create international
good-will, and further strengthen the
position of the universities as strong
factors for good in the national life.
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The obituary column gave last week
another sad evidence of the activity of
Yale men in the service of the United
States. There are a number of Yale
‘men in the Philippine Islands at pres-
ent, in both the regular and volunteer
army, and it is hard to tell when the full
story of Yale in the Spanish war and its
successors, will be told.
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We would like to hear news of the Sum-
mer doings of graduates for insertion in
the Commencement and August issues.
The readers of the YALE ALUMNI
WEEKLY are urged to send in reports con-
cerning themselves and their friends.
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CURRENT LITERATURE.
The Lounger in the June Critic has
a self-explanatory passage in connection
with an excellent likeness of the late
Professor Marsh. The WEEKLY re-
ferred to the incident of the May num- -
ber and is pleased to reprint this state-
ment:
“This is the portrait of the late Pro-
fessor Marsh that I intended to print
in the May Critic, but printed that of
Professor March instead. The accident
arose from the similarity in the names.
An order was given for the electrotype
of Professor Marsh, and that of Pro-
fessor March, of Lafayette College, was
taken from the case instead. I have had
a number of letters pointing out the
mistake. One indignant reader writes:
‘The oversight is unfortunate, as it
casts a doubt on the other counterfeit
presentments printed in the Critic. Who
really are “Mr. Dooley,” the Baroness
Wolfe, Aubrey Buieadsley? ‘o this
sceptic I. beg to say that ‘Mr. Dooley’
is Mr. F. P. Dunne; the ‘Baroness
Wolfe, I do not know, though I have
the pleasure of knowing Miss Elsie de
Wolfe, whose portrait was printed in
the April Critic. The face of Aubrey
Beardsley should be familiar to all
readers of this magazine. ‘Can it be,’
writes a correspondent from Lafayette
College, ‘that the personalities of these
two educators were so nearly identical
as their names? When I suggested this
to Dr. March this afternoon he only
smiled and looked out over the base-
ball field, and observed that the score
was three to one in favor of Lafay-
ette.’ ”
The New Englander for June con-
tained a very complete article on New
Haven, by Walter Allen, Yale ’63. All
the different interests of the town and
University were covered in very reada-
ble and concise history. ‘The article is
very freely illustrated. A few of the
portraits are among the best magazine
illustrations that have come, for a long
time, before our eyes. The article is
thoughtful and suggestive, as well as
informing, as Mr. Allen’s writing is
apt to be.
A further contribution to the all-ab-
sorbing problem of America in the East
is offered in a book by that name from
the pen of William Eliott Gdiffis, for-
merly of the Imperial University of
Japan, and author of “The Mikado’s
Empire,’ and other similar works.
The book is published by A. S. Barnes
& Co. Of its spirit and contents the
preface gives good suggestion.
“Called to face new duties, from
which they do not propose to flinch, the
American people want facts for guid-
ance. History gives the surest ground
for prophecy. I have tried to look our
problems in the face, and to show our
past in the Pacific. Four years’ resi-
dence in the Far East, from 1870 to
1874, nourished and increased an inter-
est in the Asian peoples, which I may
call hereditary, because it sprang from
a line of seafaring ancestors, English
and American.” Several of the papers
were written for the Outlook and one
for Harper's. “With fresh matter in-
corporated, these studies, observations,
and forezasts are herewith set forth in
a revised and more attractive form.”
The dedication is as follows: ‘I dedi-
cate this little book to the memory of
my honored friend, John Leavitt
Stevens, Minister of the United States
to Hawaii, who, believing that the lives
and property of American citizens
abroad ought to be as well protected as
if they were at home, acted according
to his faith.”
Outing 3
is like a glance at green woods and a gleam of
smiling waters. It covers every legitimate sport
and pastime, and its fiction and travel departments
are charming features.
As usual the illustrations are of a high order.
NOTABLE FEATURES:
On a Pennsylvania Trout Stream, by
Ep. W. Sanpys,
The Golf Clubs of Chicago, by Avexis
COLEMAN.
Catboating on Jersey Inland Waters,
by Henry. T. Brown. :
Canoeing Down the Penobscot, by
Wm. Austin Brooks.
A Glorious Fourth Awheel, by A. H.
GopFREY.
The Launch of the Columbia, by Carr.
A. J. KENEALY.
A Surrender at Discretion, Fiction by
KENT WARFIELD.
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