Vou 1 Noe
EPTEMBER, 1899.
NEW. HAVEN, CONN, 8
THE ATHLETIC SITUATION.
The Ideas Governing the Plan cen
Change.
As the readers of thé Commencement
WEEKLY will recall, a meeting was held
in New Haven early in July, of captains
and managers of Yale athletic teams and
a few graduates, who were accessible at
the time, for the purpose of considering
the condition of Yale athletics and the
steps nevessaty vw “Secure their more
harmonious and reasonable management.
A committee was appointed at that meet-
ing and the committee has been at work
during the Summer on different plans
towards the end in view. At present
writing, however, the matter has not
taken final form, although there has been
a perfect unanimity of feeling, in regard
to the general end and the general means
best adapted to secure the end, on the
part of all interested, the Faculty, the
undergraduates and the graduates.
There has been no step contem-
plated which has ‘meant any radical
change in the principle of Yale athletics.
The idea is, as formerly, that the cap-
tain and the manager should have the
fullest sense of responsibility. There is
no desire to have a system which will re-
lieye a captain from the duty of choos-
ing his men, or from taking the means
necessary to bring out the best material, ©
and it is not intended to have some
standing committee who will tell the
manager just what gamés he can arrange
for, and just what he must avoid or in
any other way hamper the exercise of his
power. Those, who have been most ac-
tively interested in seeing some change
in the direction of system and harmony,
are very strongly of the opinion that the
old Yale way is the best way, and that .
the present move should be a return to
the essentials of the old régime.
What is desired to-day,--is-some one
at hand always with whom the captains
and the managers can consult; who can
treat with the administration and with
the Faculties in all questions of govern-
ment and discipline, and who will be
- recognized by the administration and the
Faculties through whom their authority
shall be exercised; whose watchful eye
shall see that those in charge of any one
branch of athletics are allowed to do
nothing which interferes with the suc-
cess of any other branch, and who will
have it within his power to stop abso-
lutely, ‘without question of appeal, any
move of any representative of Yale.
which threatens the good name of the
University.
To put it in another way, a good cap-
tain and good manager would only be’
grateful for the assistance such a man
would render, and everybody would be
grateful for such things as he would be
called upon to prevent. His constructive
work would be in the direction of such
means of management as would arouse
the greatest interest throughout the Uni-
versity in all branches of athletics, and
would bring out the greatest amount of
material and would send the greatest
number of men into healthful athletic
work. Such a man would also be the
one to whom the graduates would look
with any question, or would come with
any suggestion. In short, he would keep
the undergraduates and graduates to-
gether.
_ Any one familiar with the way ath-
letics were managed in the latter
eighties, or some time thereafter, will see
in this sketch only a picture of what
was done at that time. The permanent
officers, so to speak, who ,codperated
with undergraduates, graduates and
Faculty at that time were men who, as
it chanced, had the time to give to such
advice and direction of affairs as would
bring about the best end. No impor-
tant step was taken by undergraduates
without full conference with and con-
PROF. BERN ADOTTE PERRIN,
Faculty Chaplain.
sent of these three or four men, and yet
they never interferred with any proper
prerogatives of captain or manager.
There is another very important direc-
tion in which a step forward must be
taken by Yale at the first moment pos-
sible. It is a step which all other large
colleges have taken and which Yale has
held back from, largely out of fear of
too much relieving undergraduates of
responsibility. . This is a business-like
system of handling the finances of the
allied Yale athletic interests. There is
now no system and little responsibility.
There should be a definite organization
- of all interests under one head, who
~would act for each and all to best ad-
vantage. If a man can be secured for
this position, which is an onerous one,
who has also the qualities of head and
heart necessary for the discharge of the
duties above mentioned, a long step will
be taken in advance.
The rumor persistently reappears in
‘the press that Yale will create a pra-
fessorship or directorate of athletics“and
that the position will be taken by Mr.
Walter. Camp, Yale ’80, Yale has no
such plan in mind and Mr. Camp would
accept the place if it were offered to
im.
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Changes in the Faculty.
By the death of Professor Luquiens,
which is recorded elsewhere, the French
Department has lost its head professor.
Professor Luquiens’ undergraduate work
for the coming year will be taken care
‘ of -by Professor Robert Sanderson, who
_comes from a school in New York. He
was formerly Assistant Professor of
French at’ Harvard. Mr. Sanderson is
practically a Frenchman by birth and
training, and was chosen for the Yale
Faculty on account of his scholarship
and ability as a teacher. His appoint-
ment is that of an assistant for the year.
The graduate work in the French De-
partment will be re-arranged and part
of that which was taken before by Pro-
fessor Luqutiens will be carried on by
Professor Lang.
Dr. W. A. Adams has resigned his
- position in the German Faculty to ac-
cept the position of Assistant Professor
at Dartmouth. There is no head pro-
fessor at present in the German Depart-
ment at Dartmouth, so Professor Adams
will have charge of the Department.
: Professor Adams graduated from Yale
in 1886 and during the year 1886-7 was
Instructor in Latin in Kenyon Military
Academy, Gambier, O. From 1887-1889
= studied in Germany, and from 1889-
18901
Languages in the MacVicar Military
Academy, Montclair, N. J. In the Sum-
mer of 1801 he studied abroad, from
1891-1893 was Instructor in German at
Cornell University, and from 1893-1899
held ‘an instructorship in German at
Yale. 3
Prof. W. A. Adams’s Sophomore work
will be taken up by Mr. H. A. Farr, ’06,
who has been in the Department a year.
Mr. Jay G. Eldridge, ’96, has been as-
signed the work done by Mr. Farr.here-
tofore. Professor Palmer will take the
Geethe electives, in Junior and Senior
years.
Dr. Harlan Creelman, who has been
on the Divinity School Faculty for the
past five years as instructor in Biblical
Literature, has gone to the Montreal
Congregational College, where he has
been appointed Professor of Old Testa-
ment Language and Literature. ‘Dr.
Creelman graduated in the Yale Theo-
logical School, Class of 1889, and re-
ceived his Ph.D. from Yale in 1894. He
was first appointed an assistant in
Semitic Languages before he was made
an instructor in Biblical Literature.
Dr. Warren J. Moulton succeeds Rev.
Dr. Harlan Creelman as instructor in
Biblical Literature in the College.. Dr.
Moulton is a graduate of Amherst
College in the Class of 1888. He
graduated from the Yale Divinity
School in 1893 and spent a year and a
half studying in the School under the
Hooker Fellowship. Later, he studied
in Gottingen, Germany, and took his
Doctor’s examination there in June, 1808.
His work in the Biblical Literature De-
partment began just a year ago.
Dr. James Campbell, who resigned the
chair of Obstetrics and Diseases of
Women and Children in the Medical
School last Summer, is a resident of
Hartford, where for a number of years
he has been President of the Board of
Health. He received his appointment
to a professorship at Yale in 1886. In
1891 he received from Yale the honor-
ary degree of M.A. He established in
1890 the Campbell Gold Medal, which
is awarded to the student in the Medi-
cal Department who has maintained the
highest average standing for three years.
On his retirement from the Medical
School Faculty, he was recommended to
the Corporation by the Faculty of the
School for an appointment as Professor
Emeritus. :
The absentees of the year include Pro-
fessor George T. Ladd, who is making
PROF. A. M. WHEELER,
Faculty Chaplain.
a trip around the world, and giving lec-
tures in Japan and India.
Professor George B. Adams of the
History Department will also be in Eu-
rope during the coming year.
he taught Ancient and Modern -
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CHAPEL EXERCISES,
Prayers to be Conducted by Chap-
lains—No Other Change Likely,
Chapel exercises of the coming year
will be conducted very much as hitherto,
with the exception that the President
will not conduct the service. President
Hadley will, however, be in the pulpit
every morning when he is in New Ha-
ven. He will appear in his academic
PROF. E. HERSHEY SNEATH,
Faculty Chaplain.
robe, and a robing room has been pre-
pared for him in the basement of Durfee.
The service will be conducted by six
members of the Faculty, who will act as
Chaplains, serving in rotation for six
weeks at atime. In general charge and
at the head of this Committee is Pro-
fessor Bernadotte Perrin. The other
Chaplains are Professor A. M. Wheeler,
Professor John C. Schwab, Professor E.
Hershey Sneath, Professor William
Lyon Phelps, and Professor Charles
Sears Baldwin. It has been said that
a regular ritual has been secured for the
service, but this is not a fact. ‘There
will be, as before, simply reading of the
Scriptures, and the prayer. The differ-
ent Chaplains will make their own
prayers, or use the prayerbook, as they
elect.
Music will be furnished by the choir
as hitherto, with perhaps still more at- .
tention paid to its preparation. The
choir will appear in the regular academic -
gowns of black. They will have a rob-
ing room in the basement of Durfee.
This detail of change for the choir has
been considered for some time. It is
simply a move in the direction of mak-
ing the service more formal and digni-
fied. | :
It is expected that the bow to the
President will be retained. It is hoped
that some changes will be effected in the
order of leaving Chapel, which will make
the exit more orderly. The old rule,
that all classes but the Freshman, keep
behind the President as he goes out,
may accomplish the end.
The whole change in the service is a
reversion to former customs, rather than
an innovation. The Faculty conducted
prayers in former time.
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‘The International Law Association, at
its session in Buffalo this Fall, ap-
pointed Hon. Simeon E. Baldwin and
Professor Theodore S. Woolsey, of the
Yale Law School, on the committee
representing the United States, to con-
sider the propositions of the Hague Con-
vention.
