Vl ee
YALE ALUMNI WEEKLY
SUBSCRIPTION, - $3.00 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,—
Pyale 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.Sxrppy, 65S. J. A. HarTwE Lt, °89 S.
C. P. Linpstry,’%5S. L.S. WELCH, ’89.
W. Camp, ’89. E. Van INGEN, 791 S.
W.G. DaaaxTT, ’80. P. Jay, °92.
EDITOR.
Lewis S. WELCH, ’89.
ASSOCIATE EDITOR.
WALTER Camp, ’80,
ASSISTANT EDITOR.
E. J. THOMPSON, Sp.
NEWS EDITOR.
FRED. M. DAaviss, ’99.
ASSISTANT.
-PRESTON KUMLER, 1900.
Advertising Manager, O. M. CLARK, ’98.
Assistant, BURNETT GOODWIN, ’998.
eat
Fintered as second class matter at New Haven P. O.
NEW HAVEN, Conn., JULY, 1899.
The University means all interests, all
studies, all departments. Tt means com-
prehensiveness, large-mindedness, gener-
osity in providing for every need, a wide
outlook, anda far outlook. It means this
for the thought and action of every grad-
uate and every friend, in his relation to
it, as well as of every officer of the insti-
tution. Yale will have in the coming
years a distorted growth, or an imper-
fect growth; it will fail of the promise
that offers itself with richness and ful-
ness, if its officers and its graduates do
not have magnanimous loyalty to it in
all its interests. There can be no genuine
devotion to the future University, in the
largest meaning of the words, unless the
devotion is universal and all-embracing.
—From President Dwight’s last Report.
THE COMMENCEMENT ISSUE.
In accordance with the advertisement in
the last issue of the paper, advance orders
of the Commencement issue have been
filled at the regular price of ten cents.
On the appearance of the paper, the price
of this special issue is made twenty-five
cents. If you cannot secure the paper of
your newsdealer, write to this office and
it will be promptly forwarded to you,
postage prepaid. |
> =
Ban es sat
THE SUMMER ISSUES.
This issue of the paper is the July
issue. The next will be the August and
will be published on or about the fif-
teenth. Hereafter the paper will be
published monthly during the Summer
and the issues will be known as the July,
August and September issues, to be
published on or about the middle of
the month. This makes the publication
of the paper continuous throuchout the
year. We trust that these facts will re-
move the suspicion that lingers in some
minds that the ALuMNI WEEKLY sus-
pends business during the Summer
months. The year’s work of the paper
is continued during the full twelve
months without any intermission.
-» wy
— wo
A CHIEF POINT,
Faith in Yale seems to us the strong-
est of the many strong qualities of the
outgoing administration.
‘Uhere are many other things of great
credit to the University by which Presi-
dent Dwight will be remembered. It
is pleasant to enumerate them, but they
are already familiar to Yale men, for
the facts of them are in evidence. The
" material growth, the increase of stu-
dents, the development of the Faculties,
are some of them. The incoming
President showed, more clearly than it
was ever before publicly shown, how
great a debt Yale owed to President
Dwight as a financial officer. To that
speech by President Hadley at the
Commencement dinner, we refer all
graduates of Yale. It was a well de-
served recognition, on a fitting occa-
sion, of a most important fact in Yale
history.
And in addition to the fact of large
public service, there will ever remain
in the minds of thousands of Yale men,
as they recall the second Dwight ad-
ministration, the memory of a man of
warm and friendly feeling for all the
sons of Yale. This feeling is one
which has been shown not only in public
addresses, but has been demonstrated in
many ways, which will never be known
to the world at large, but which have
found their way to the minds and then
to the hearts of a very large number
of those who have lived on the Campus
in. the last thirteen years. President
Dwight’s generous and unselfish inter-
est in the personal affairs of students is
only another side of his Yale bounty
through which, already, a fortune has
gone into the coffers of Yale.
But of these things we have written
before, somewhat, and it is not neces-
sary to emphasize them in detail now.
We wish, however, again to hold up
as worthy of all admiration and of con-
stant recollection in the years to come,
the fact of great faith in Yale which
has characterized all the President’s
acts and utterances from the time of
his inauguration to the day of his re-
tirement. He not the less believed in
Yale when he took the helm, because
there was so much in it then which
discouraged and threatened; and when
his Yale had grown to such proportions
and so many of his plans had been real-
ized, he did not the less call for greater
growth and greater efforts to meet the
opportunities of the future. His faith
has never been dismayed by a situation
which might discourage a less hopeful
nature, and his efforts have never been
relaxed, when the tide of prosperity
seemed to turn toward this institution.
In the name of the alumni of Yale,
we bid President Dwight a farewell, and
we assure him that as he leaves his posi-
tion, he takes with him into the years of
honorable retirement—many of which
we hope are before him—not only the
admiration, but the warm friendship of
a great company; namely, of those
whom he describes with a kind of
paternal right as the Yale Brotherhood,
and whom we describe as about the
best. people on the face of the earth.
» ww
wey
THE NEW SECRETARY.
The faith in Yale which we have
spoken of in President Dwicht, is not
only highly characteristic of the new
President, but is a distinguishing mark
of the man whom the new President
has chosen for the secretaryship. We
have described, in a matter of fact way,
the record of Anson Phelps Stokes, ae,
in another column, and that is, we be-
lieve, sufficient assurance of what Yale
may expect of him in his new position
of adjutant to the head of the adminis-
tration. But it is worth while to em-
phasize the fact that he is also a man
who believes in Yale with a faith that
nothing can shake. His enthusiasm for
the University is always of the most
optamistic kind. In College, he always
entered into a Yale enterprise with ab-
solute assurance of a successful issue,
and probably has had as much pleasure
as anyone ever had, in recalling, after
the successful accomplishment of his
task, the comments of those of weaker
faith who spent their time and their
writing paper in telling him that what
he was up to no man could do.
Of his new secretary, as well as of
his former chief, the new President
speaks also, with great force and in an
informing way, in his Alumni Dinner
speech. Let it only be said for the
present, by way of further comment,
that in this position which is so im-
portant, and which by some re-organi-
zation may take on new duties of pecu-
liar value to the University, Yale has a
man who will always with great credit
represent her; who has a well founded
reputation for carrying through to suc-
cessful issue every work to which he
lays his hand; who has the high regard,
as well as the warm friendship, of those
Yale men who know him, and who is
bound to make friends for Yale and to
do good work for Yale so long as he
is connected with the University.
Te ee fe
OUR VICTORS.
It is getting rather monotonous to
congratulate our highly esteemed rivals
in the different branches: of athletics.
We have no less regard for them than
we had before. In fact, as Yale has
come to know those to whom she is
most closely and most naturally as-
sociated in athletic sports, in the more
open and manly relations of the present
day, she has come to think better. and
better of them, week by week and sea-
son by season. Nevertheless, we trust
it will not be considered ungracious if
we dismiss with a single line these feel-
ings of high regard. We assure Prince-
ton that, in our opinion, her spirit,
which we have always thought well of,
is not in any way weakened, and that
the results of it are none the less ad-
mirable than in the days when we tested
them in the generous judgment of
victors. Harvard has done valiantly on
land and river, and we mean that just
as much as we would if we were sym-
pathizing with her, and we emphasize
it just as strongly as we would if it were
not so self-evident. And as to the Uni-
versity of Pennsylvania, who was re-
ported to Yale in her position in the
remote rear as the easy and overwhelm-
ing victor of the track games, we can
only say, that the highest possible per-
fection in any branch of sport which
she entered used to be Yale’s own rule
of action, and will be again; and we can
only hope that in the matter of track
sports, the University of Pennsylvania
has enjoyed the results of applying that
rule as much as Yale has done on for-
mer occasions. Because there have
been many differences of opinion be-
tween Yale and the University of Penn-
sylvania, it is none the less true that
Yale men appreciate a University that
is determined, that is not dismayed, that
makes its members loyal, obedient to
rule and well disciplined, and _ that
works all its parts in harmony.
YALE ATHLETICS.
The title given to this editorial is
not as inspiring a one as it most always
is. It is, however, much more inter-
esting than it has been for the last ten:
years. The conditions described by it
have more significance, and unless we
are too sanguine—and we have reasons
for our faith—the year of disaster that
has just closed will hereafter be pointed
to as a highly sanctified affliction.
> a >
bp Son Se
YALE AND THE NAVY.
There was not as much official recog-
nition of the war and Yale’s part in it
in the recent Commencement as we
would have been glad to see, but when-
ever Yale men were given a chance they
certainly showed how they felt in the
matter. The receipt of the flags in the
Chapel and the ovation to Admiral
Bunce and to Captain Wise, as repre-
sentatives of the Navy, left no doubt as
to the enthusiastic loyalty of Yale. It
was a very pleasant thing to have at the
Yale Commencement feast the com-
mander of the cruiser in which the men
of the University took such an interest
during the war. It was also a source
of great gratification to those who ap-
_ preciate the very unusual record which
he has made, in his long and honorable
years of service, to see Yale honor
Rear Admiral Bunce. It was an un-
fortunate oversight in the speech of
presentation that one or two points in
his career which have given him such
a high position among naval men,
should have been left untouched. Such
was his institution of a new method of
gunnery practice, when he took the
North Atlantic Squadron, and his very
efficient handling of the Brooklyn Navy
Yard during the war. However, the
honor was given and there were no de-
grees that gave more general satisfac-
tion than those that went to the United
States Navy officers.
- as
THE YALE MEDICAL SCHOOL.
The changes which have occurred in
the Medical Department of the Univer-
sity during President Dwight’s adminis-
tration, and the lines along which it is to
develop in the future, are now of peculiar
interest. The present Dean of the
School assumed the duties of his office
only a few months before President
Dwight’s election, so that the existing
policy of the School has been almost
entirely developed during the past
thirteen years.
The affairs of the Department, at the
beginning of this period, were at a very
low ebb. Only a few years before this
the course had been graded and
lengthened to three full academic years,
and examinations for entrance were re-
quired. The Yale School was among
the very first in the country to take this
advarice step and the effect of it was
being felt in full force. The number
YALE VERSE.
SELECTION of representative verse
compiled by Charles E. Merrill, Jr., from
undergraduate contributions to the
periodicals of Yale University.
The verse has been chosen for its special
interest to Yale men as well as for its
intrinsic merit.
Yale has a right to be proud of this little blue
and gold volume.— Boston Literary World.
Unusually good both in strength of thought and
technique.—Aazsas City Journal. :
Very excellently done, and much superior to the
general run of minor poetry.—WV. Y. Commercial
Advertiser. : :
This book is one that Yale may take pride in
quite as legitimately as she would in a victory on
the athletic field. The poems give promise of a
higher order of literature in the future. This pub-
lication may well be taken as a challenge to other
colleges to appear in the lists.—Bostox Transcript.
The volume of 160 pages is bound in Yale
blue cloth, gilt top, with cover design in gold,
and can be ordered through dealers, or will be
sent postpaid by the publishers on receipt of
$1.25.
MAYNARD, TIERRILL & CO.,
29, 31 and 33 East 19th Street, N. Y. City.
Yale Law School.
For circulars and other information apply to
Prof. FRANCIS WAYLAND,
Dean.
DUNCAN HALL.
No. 1151 Chapel Street, New Haven.
Furnished apartments—suites and single—
for Yale Students. For rates and plans,
Address,
W. T.. MUMFORD, JZanager.
