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3 vALE ALUMNI WEEKLY “pa. INAUGURATION PLANS. Invitations to Other Universities and to Schools, The inauguration of President-elect Hadley has been set for Wednesday, October 18th. Before the Summer vacation a committee was appointed, to take charge of the ceremony, consisting of the Rev. Drs. T. T. Munger, ’51, Charles Ray Palmer, 755, and Mr. Thomas G. Bennett, ’70 S., of the Cor-— poration; Mr. Thomas Hooker, ’69, and Professor J. C. Schwab, ’86. lhe following plan for the ceremony has been perfected: The specially in- vited guests and Corporation will meet at two o’clock. Special invitations have been sent to a large number of presidents of American universities and colleges, especially to those founded by Yale graduates, and those whose presidents are at present Yale graduates, also to those graduates who occupy professor- ships at present in various institutions, as well as to all former members of the Yale faculties. The large preparatory schools will be represented by their principals or head masters. Invitations have also been sent to the leading - officials of the State of Connecticut and the City of New Haven, and to repre- sentatives of the Federal Government who are Yale graduates. tion, Faculty, invited guests and gradu- ates will form a procession similar to the one at Commencement, and will pass into the Battell Chapel, where the inaugural ceremonies will begin-at three o'clock. The musical part will be under the direction of Professor H. W. Parker, head of the Department of Music. The leading feature of the ceremony will be the introduction of the President-elect, and his inaugural address. There is also to be a congratulatory address by a mem- ber of the Faculty. The Latin saluta- tory of former inaugurations. will be omitted, also the address by an under- graduate student, which formed part of the inauguration of President Porter. After the ceremonies in the Chapel, the President’s reception to the gradu- ates, Faculty and specially invited guests will be held in the Art School from five to seven, where a collation will be served. Later in the evening the Cam- pus will be illuminated and a torchlight procession of students will parade through the leading streets of the city, passing houses where formal dinners are being given to the distinguished guests of the occasion.. As the inauguration occurs but three weeks after the opening of the Fall term, no elaborate preparations -can be made for the undergraduate share in the exercises, but, it is hoped to make a striking feature of the evening parade. It will be academic in character, and embrace, it is hoped, the great body of students from all departments, each department being recognized by a dis- tinguishing color. Those in charge of this procession hope to utilize it as a preparation for the more elaborate share the students will-have in the Bi-centen- nial celebration of nineteen hundred and one; when, moreover, it is expected graduates will take a large part in the functions of that celebration. CURRENT LITERATURE. In the educational number of the Outlook of August 5, Arthur Reed Kim- ball, Yale 77, has an illustrated article on “Yale as a University, at the thres- hold of the Third Century.” The article summarizes the history of Yale and states clearly the problems of the imme- diate future. Mr. Kimball answers the questions of how far Yale may sutccess- fully meet these problems, by pointing with confidence to the character, con- victions and abilities of her new leader. An article by Professor Henry W. Farnam of Yale on “Economic Aspects of the Liquor Problem,” appearing in the Atlantic Monthly of last Spring, was reviewed at some length in the WEEKLY at that time. The complete material, from which the article was drawn, has since been published by Messrs. Hough- ton, Mifflin & Co. The title of the book is the same as the article. It is by John Koren, who made the investiga- tions for “The Committee of Fifty” The Corpora- under the direction of Professor Far- ho is secretary of the Economic cab Barnes: The chapters include “History of the Investigation, The Liquor Problem 1n_ its relations to Poverty,” “in its relation to pauperism, in its relation to the destitution and neglect of children, and in its relation to crime.” There are also chapters on the relation of the negroes and the North American Indians to the liquor problem, and a final chapter on the “Social Aspects of the Saloon in Large Cities:”? The appendix contains a large number of tables giving the figures under the different heads. The most striking feature of the Century for September, which will be a Salt-Water Number, is the first instal- ment of Captain Joshua Slocum’s “Sail- ing Alone Around the World.” — This is the narrative of a daring voyage of circumnavigation, undertaken by the author in 1895, in a forty-foot sloop bulit by himself in Buzzard’s Bay,. and taken back and forth across the Atlantic and thence around Cape Horn and the Cape of Good Hope, without assistance or companionship. The distance tra- versed was 46,000 miles, and the accur- acy of the navigator’s landfalls through- out was a thing to marvel at, his chrono- meter for most of the time being a little tin clock of the cheapest kind. Julian Ralph has written for the Satur- day Evening Post of Philadelphia a series of twelve articles on “The Mak- ing of a Journalist.” They begin in the issue of August I2. Prizes for Poems. A- gentleman, whose responsibility is vouched for by the New York Sun, sends to that paper, under date of July 26, the following offer of prizes: “To the editor of the Sun—Sir: Last January the much-lauded poem of Edwin Markham, “The Man with the Hoe,” was published in a San Francisco news- - paper and the author promptly found himself famous. While I would detract in no degree from the beauty, grace and strength of his versification, it seems to me that Mr. Markham has twined some very leafy and flowery vines around a vacuum. Either the “Man with the Hoe’ is a type of the great mass of those who use farming imple- ments for a living or else he is an excep- tion. If the latter, then the strength of the sentiment uttered lies in the con- cealment of its weakness, and if the former, then the poem does wrong to a most respectable and able-bodied multi- tude of citizens, every one of whom ought to resent Mr. Markham’s attempt to throw ‘the emptiness of ages in his face,’ and certainly deserves better of the poet than to be called a ‘monstrous thing’ and ‘brother to the ox.’ “From time immemorial the tiller of - the soil has been invested with his full share of the honor of this world, and where any individual example of the class—or, in fact, of any honest and respectable class—has given reason for Mr. Markham’s inquiry: ‘Whose breath blew out the light within this brain?’ it can, I think, be safely said that the man’s own breath blew it out. There is no occasion for a farmer to have his soul quenched or to become a ‘dumb terror.’ He can hold his head as high as any man’s, and he generally does: and what calling is more honorable—at least in this country?—to which, by the way, I understand Mr. Markham’s observation and study have been confined. “What about the man without the hoe? he who cannot get work, or, hav- ing the opportunity to labor, won’t do it? There are thousands of young men in this country who have been educated up to this point where the honest and healthful occupation of their fathers in the field has become distasteful to them, and, in many cases, they have grown to be ashamed of it and of their parents. In European countries, particularly, there are multitudes of young men, the younger sons of titled people, for in- stance, who have been taught that com- mon labor or work in the trades is beneath them, and they sink their indi- viduality; their manhood and their fu- ture in the ranks of the army and in petty government. positions. They must have money, but they must earn it only in a ‘genteel’ way. These are the men without the hoe—the real brothers to the ox. Who shall tell their story? From one end of the land to the other, wherever men who demand the best are found, Fownes’ Gloves are the recognized standard of merit and fashion. They are best for dress, for the street, for riding, driving, or golfing — for all occasions and all purposes. To wear them is to be cor- rectly gloved, sell them. All leading haberdashers Who shall best sing the bitter song of the incapables who walk the earth, driven hither and thither like beasts by the implacable sentiment of a false social education, suffering the tortures of the damned and bringing distress upon those dependent on them because they have lost that true independence of soul that comes to him who dares to labor with his hands, who wields the hoe and is the master of his destiny. The writer would like to see a good poem written on these lines, and the sub- ject is a great one. He therefore offers to give for the best poems written on this general subject $400 as first prize, $200 as second prize and $100 as third prize; the competition to be decided by a com- mittee of three, one to be the editor | of the Sun and the others to be Mr. T. B. Aldrich and Mr. E. C. Stedman, if those. gentlemen will be willing to serve on such a committee. All poems to be sent in to the editor of the Sun before Oct. 15 next. 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