A ere ALU MN OW Ky
YALE ATHLETICS,
A Meeting to Consider Means of Im-
; proving Them.
On Monday, July 3, the Captains and
Managers of the Yale teams for 1899-
1900, with the exception of Captain
McBride of the Football team and Cap-
tain Johnson of the Track team, met
in one of the rooms in Dwight Hall,
with a few graduates who had been
called in at the eleventh hour to talk
over the athletic situation and try to
devise plans for its improvement in the
coming year.
It was an absolutely unanimous feel-
ing that the existing conditions, result-
ing from an attempt to run things in a
University of 2,500 men on the plan
of their conduct in an institution of half
the size, were not defensible on any
erounds and could not be continued.
It was agreed that some system must
be found by which athletics could be
conducted with reference to years to
come, and also in such a wav that the
different branches would co-operate to
the general good more effectively; and
also, so that a greater unity of action
may be secured between graduates and
undergraduates; and still further, so that
the different Faculties may work more
harmoniously with the students.
Only a handful of graduates were
present at the meeting, because it was
called on so short a notice; but those
who were present felt that on the gen-
eral questions considered they could
safely speak for practically the. entire
graduate body, inasmuch as the matter
had been much discussed for three years
and with increasing frequency and ear-
nestness in the last twelve months.
A committee was therefore appointed
to carry out the purpose of the meeting.
The plans considered are at present so
intangible as to make it absolutely im-
possible to make any definite announce-
ment. Things can not take shape yet
for two or three weeks, owing to cer-
tain conditions in the University.
It may, however, be stated, with a
great deal of emphasis, that there is not
the slightest possibility of founding a
chair of athletics at Yale and of plac-
ing Walter Camp in that chair. Inas-
much as that rumor has gained con-
siderable credence in the press, it may
be as well to say that Mr. Camp would
accept no such position.
There was also no talk of a series of
mass meetings or anything of that sort.
Those present were Mr. Rockefeller,
President of the Football Association;
Mr. Schweppe, President of the Boat.
Club; Mr. Twichell, President of the
Baseball Association; Mr. Dana, Presi-
dent of the Athletic Association; Mr.
Allen, Captain of the Crew; Mr. Camp,
Captain of the Nine, and of the grad-
uates the following: Mr. Walter Camp,
"80; Mr. Ray Tompkins, ’84; Mr. Lewis
S. Welch, ’89;, Mr. Edson F. Gallaudet,
7093; Mr. Frank Butterworth, ’95, and
Mr. D. C. Twichell, ’o8.
A number of telegrams were received
expressing heartiest sympathy with the
purpose of the gathering. It can be
said that there is no disposition to in-
terfere with established principles of
running Yale athletics.
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New Corporation Members.
Rev. Newell M. Calhoun, who was
elected by the clerical members of the
Corporation to succeed Rev. Joseph
W. Backus, resigned, entered Yale
with the Class of 1872, but in his
second year failing health compelled
him to leave. Later he returned and
graduated from the Divinity School in
the Class of 1874. He has held impor-
tant pastorates in Milford, Conn.;
Canandaigua, N. Y.; Cleveland, O.,
and Winsted, Conn., and now lives in
the last named town.
Rev. Dr. Newman Smyth, who was
elected to fill the vacancy caused by
the resignation of Dr. George Leon
Walker, is a graduate of Bowdoin Col-
lege and of the Andover Theological
Seminary. He was*first settled over a
Presbyterian church in Quincy, Til.
where he began a career in authorship
which he has kept up until the present
time. He has written several volumes
of sermons and an important work on
social ethics. Dr. Smyth has been pas-
tor of the Center Church, New Haven,
about fifteen years, and is one of the
best known clergymen of the State. He
is recognized as a man of marked
ability. :
Mr. Alfred L. Ripley, elected to the
unexpired term of the late E. G. Mason,
is a graduate of Yale in the Class of
1878. Mr. Ripley was Assistant Pro-
fessor in German in the Academical
Department of Yale from 1885 to 1888.
He is at present Vice-President of the
Hide and Leather National Bank of
Boston.
Mr. Henry F. Dimock, who_was
elected for six years, succeeding Hon.
F. J. Kingsbury, Yale ’46, resigned, is
a graduate of Yale in the Class of 1863.
After practicing Law several years in
New York, he became Manager of the
Metropolitan Steamship Co., and has
been prominently identified with the
transportation service till the present
time. He isa Director of the Knicker-
bocker Trust Co., the Western National
Bank and the Dominion Coal Co.
A fuller sketch of Mr. Dimock’s life
appeared in the March Ist issue of the
ALUMNI WEEKLY.
University Club Addition.
Plans are now being drawn by Mr.
TW. Ronmeon, 25°20 efor’ a
$5,000 addition to the University Club
and work on it will be begun in the
Fall. The object is to make room for
a permanent University training table;
which shall’ be under the control of
college managers. The experiment of
establishing the baseball and crew table
at the club last Spring was very satis-
factory, ex .epting in the point of room,
and to get over this difficulty the addi-
tion, which will give ample space for
the kitchen and the dining room, will be
built.
A detailed sketch of the building
will be published in the August num-
ber.
ches hk LEON Ss ae a
Reward of $25.00.
A reward of $25.00 will be paid, and
no questions asked, for the return of
the sights of the two guns of the
U. S. Cruiser Yale, which were stolen
from the pieces during Commencement
week, when the guns were on exhibition
in the Gymnasium. The forward bar-
rel sight of “Handsome Dan,” and the
breech sight of “Eli” are the ones miss-
ing. The reward is offered by the Yale
Cruiser Fund, and will be paid upon the
delivery of the two sights at the office .
of Yate ALUMNI WEEKLY, 6 White
Hall, New Haven.
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Candidates for Admission.
The WerEkty is able to give, as it
goes to press, the figures of final and
preliminary examinations in the Aca-
demic and Scientific Departments of
the University. .A comparison is made
with the figures of last year:
ACADEMICAL DEPARTMENT,
July, 1808. June, 1899.
Binal. saa aie 379 334
Preliminary -si60%c3 344 304
LOUIS eee Gs 723 638
SCIENTIFIC DEPARTMENT.
July, 1808. July, 1899.
PATAIS a oe x 217 208
Preliminary 345... 179 201
SOLAS esa ess 306 409
These figures will be considerably
changed before the Fall, and it is be-
lieved the entering classes will be about
the same as those of last year, possibly
a little smaller.
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Capt. Stewart B. Camp.
‘After the New York game Stewart
B. Camp, 1900, was elected Captain of
next year’s Nine. Mr. Camp comes
from Winsted, Conn., where he pre-
pared for Yale. He has played on the
University Nine for the last two years;
is 21 years old, 5 feet 714 inches tall and
weighs 157 pounds. .
Most Yale Men Know—
HURLE & €O.,
.» .AILORS . .
38 Center Street, New Haven.
But some, perhaps, do not know that besides
carrying on their shelves material for the cloth-
ing of a gentleman, they have upon their walls
pictures of Yale teams since 1869, some of
which are the only ones in existence. A. visit
to their store will be profitable.
If a visit cannot be made, then a card to
the above address for prices and samples. will
recelve prompt attention.
Poughkeepsie Winners. |
The University of Pennsylvania won
first honors in the regatta at Pough-
keepsie June 26 and 27. On the first
day of racing her four-oar crew beat
that of Cornell on a two-mile course by
Il% lengths, in 11 minutes 12 seconds.
The Freshman race of the same day
was won by Cornell over Columbia and
U. of P. in 9 minutes 25 seconds,
Columbia second. On the 27th the
University race was won by U. of P.
The University of Wisconsin crew was
a very close second, while Cornell was
third. Time, 20 minutes 4 seconds.
Yale’s Large Purchase.
The University has recently purchased
from various owners on College street,
above Wall, and on Grove street, vari-
ous parcels of land, paying in aggregate
nearly $150,000. The most important
purchases were from Cathcrine A. At-
water and the Kingsley Trust Associa-
tion, the prices paid be.ng, $82,000 and
$25,000 respectively. Yale now has pos-
session of College street from the
Kingsley Trust Association’s lot north
to Grove street and along Grove street
about 150 feet. It is not unlikely that
the new Alumni Hall will be built here.
Space does not permit of detailed de-
scription in this number of the location
of the new purchases.
Harvard Oratory.
At the last dinner of the Yale Alumni
Association of Chicago Mr. Wm. C.
Boyden, President of the Chicago Har-
vard Association, represented the Har-
vard Alumni, and very wittily touched
upon some of the issues between the
two colleges. He referred to the foot-
ball score as follows: “It took Harvard
men on Yale ground to discover that
the Heaven born ratio was not 16 to
I, but 17 to 0, and on account of this
discovery it is rumored that President
Dwight has resigned and Mother Yale
has left New Haven, and can now be
found in a Chicago Department store,
“ment of the human race.
says of “Orangeine’:
where she is engaged in the more
profitable occupation of beautifying the
weaker sex. Even the Sons of Yale are
turning their thoughts to the better-
If a man who
can make two blades of grass grow
where one grew before, deserves the
thanks of his fellow men, how much
greater the deserts of that loyal Son of
Yale who is now engaged in stirring up
our livers, before whom the grip gérm
flees as the mist before the sun, and
who makes our pains a lullaby. Har-
vard takes off her hat to Chas. L. Bart-
lett, the introducer of “Orangeine.”
Hon. Frank H. Jones, ex-assistant
Postmaster General and a prominent
Chicago lawyer, says: “TI carry ‘Orange-
ine’ always ready to ‘head off’ colds,
headache and nervous exhausion. It is
‘great.’ ”
Hon. Frank Hamlin, one of Chicago’s
brightest lawyers, says: “The best
‘bracer’ during and after a_ tedious
lawsuit, with no _ reaction later, is
‘Orangeine.’ ”
Mr. William Gillette, the great actor,
“A most won-
derful remedy; the only certain thead-
ache cure and the only one with abso-
lutely no bad after effects.”—Adv.
Connoisseurs
Agree
that the best cuisine in the city i:
to be found at the cafe and din-
ing room of George F. Fleming,
930 Chapel St., opposite Trinity
Church. The table service is
excellent and the quality of
board at $7 per week could
hardly be improved upon. Its
central location makes jt ai
ideal place for students and _ thei!
fathers and their mothers. He
has also had great success cater
ing.