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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. Brevity, strength of senti-
ment and expression and literary grace
and beauty to be the factors of merit.
RESPONSIBILITY.”
Mr. Cook’s Comment.
A foreign correspondent of the New
York Herald quotes Mr. Robert J. Cook,
"76, on the New London races as fol-
lows:
“T can congratulate Harvard that they
have had from Mr. Lehmann a lesson
on the correct principles, and I can con-
gratulate Mr. Storrow that he has so
faithfully put them into practice. I
assume that Yale, according to her usual
custom, is not offering excuses for de-
feat, and I could not think of suggest-
ing any.”
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