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ae Poets MPS ee fy eS Web or lad Ao tee che! 38 YALE ALUMNI WEEKLY SUBSCRIPTION, - $3.00 PER YEAR. Foreign Postage, 40 cents 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. Alle ndence should be addressed,— sere Ae Alumni Weekly, New Haven, Conn. The office is at Room 6, White Hall. ADVISORY BOARD. H. C. Roprnson, 58. J. R. SHEFFIELD, "876 W. W.Sxrppy,’658. J.A. HARTWELL, 89 S. C. P. LinpsLey, ’%5 8S. L.S. WELOH, ’89. W. Camp, ’89. E. VAN INGEN, ’91 8S. W. G. DaagettT, ’80. P. Jay, °92. EDITOR. Lewis 8S. WELOH, ’89. ASSOCIATE EDITOR. WALTER Camp, ’80. ASSISTANT EDITOR. E. J. THOMPSON, Sp. Entered as second class matier at New Haven P. O. New Haven, Conn., OcToBer 18, 1899. What shall it profit us if we gain the whole world and lose our own soul; if we develop the intellectual and material side of our education, and lose the tra- ditional spirit of democracy and loyalty and Christianity P "—From President Hadley’s Inaugural Address. <> Li wr FOOTBALL TICKETS. The attention of those who plan to attend either of the big games is di- rected to the announcement in another column. ; ADVISORY BOARD MEETING. A call has been sent to the members of the Advisory Board of the YALE ALUMNI WEEKLY for a meeting Wed- nesday at 12.15. It is expected that im- portant action will be taken at that meeting and a report of it will appear in the next issue of the WEEKLY. ee A PRACTICAL MATTER.’’ If readers of the WEEKLY recall an editorial printed in the September issue under the head “A Practical Matter,” it is suggested that the ideas in it may be put in practice in connection with the current issue of the paper. Just as in the firm and final establishment of any good institution, all those who are in- terested in the WEEKLY must co- operate. If that codperation is on busi- ness lines and results in better returns to Yale men, it is our business to urge it as much as possible. THE ADDRESS. The best thing that can be said to any- one who is any way interested in Yale, about the Inaugural Address of Presi- dent Hadley, is: Read it. A graduate, a student, a friend of the University, or anyone interested in the problems of American education to-day, cannot af- ford to miss receiving at first hand this platform of the new administration of Yale. | Its spirit is high, its tone is catholic, its principle is true to the best Yale of the past and to the best possible Yale of the future. Its expression is frank ‘QIye190jNe Sulog ynoyyWM ‘yUspyuoD pue progressive without being destructive, and plainly pointing ahead without con- demning any part of Yale that has lagged behind. — It does not say in detail just what the Yale system of education ought to be. President Hadley is wise in not saying this. He does say frankly that the ini- tiative for the changes rests with the different Faculties and he rightly leaves with them the responsibility of taking ihe initiative and moving ahead. He leaves them in no doubt that he expects them to move. As to the general direc- tion of progress, he marks out lines on which all men agree. As to exact method and detail, he wisely leaves it to them. He commits himself and his administration unreservedly to progress, but he does not embarrass it in advance by a definiteness of program, which it will take time and patience and infinite tact to develop. We like best of all in the address, the few lines which we have placed at the beginning of the editorial columns: “What shall it profit us if we gain the whole world and lose our own soul; if we develop the intellectual and ma- terial side and lose the traditional spirit of democracy and loyalty and Chris- tianity?” When in this sentence and in the passages which follow, the President develops the value of the moral side of education as ‘transcendent, he does the ‘best service he possibly can for Yale and for American education. Any ac- tion’ of the Governors of Yale, which places things material above things spiritual, which makes it of more ac- count to have a new course or a new building or a big class, than to have con- ditions which make. for the development of the truest character in rich or poor, in high or low,—will be plainly marked treason to Yale. We are glad that the President says he is unwilling to yield to the demand for a shortened college course; that he insists that the work of character de- velopment is part of a college course as well as of a preparatory school, and that the true principle here of action is to adapt the college requirements to the conditions moral and intellectual of the preparatory schools. We are glad that he recognizes that luxury in student life or in student environment must have its effect in the atmosphere of the Cam- pus, and must be restrained in all pos- sible ways. We are glad that he places such great emphasis on the value of traditions and of the body of commomrm interests which will draw all the students together in the strongest possible social ties, and we are more than glad that in this connec- tion he has struck such a high note for Our. the conduct of University athletics. gratitude for this is only second to the endorsement which he gives to athletics as a most important part of the educa- tional side of college life. He has struck at the folly of too much beneficiary aid, with a directness and a reasonableness which is most acceptable to the whole- some manhood of Yale. Finally he names Yale, without any reservation, as a Christian College. It is well to close this comment with his exact words in this line: “Of all these interests, the most funda- mental are those connected with religious observances and religious feeling. Yale is, and has been from the first, a Chris- tian college. All her institutions show this throughout their structure. This was the dominant purpose in Yale’s foundation; and the work and thought of the children have conformed to the wish of the fathers. What changes time may bring in the outward observances, or how soon it may bring them, I know not. The question of compulsory at- tendance on religious exercises is one which is seriously discussed by the fac- ulty, the students and the graduates; nor can we predict the outcome of such dis- cussion. But this I know: that it is approached by all, young as well as old, in a spirit of wise conservatism. and reverence for past usage, and that no change will be made unless it shall surely and clearly appear to those in authority TALE ALUMNI WHEHEKLY that.we are but modifying the letter of a tradition for the sake of preserving its spirit.” FOOTBALL TICKETS Distribution to Alumni Weekly Sub- scribers and to all Graduates. Tickets for graduates for the Yale- Harvard and Yale-Princeton football games will be distributed entirely by the YALE ALUMNI WEEKLY. The general arrangements for this distribution can be here announced, but the specific con- ditions will not be announced until the next issue of the WeExKty. It is not, therefore, desired to have applications sent to this office by subscribers or by any graduates until the exact system of conditions has been announced in the next issue. This will allow plenty of time for ap- plications to be received and to be acknowledged. The first game is the Harvard game in Cambridge, on No- vember 18th, and it is probably safe to say that Yale men who desire to go will not have any difficulty in securing very fair seats. ‘There will be plenty of time after the next issue of the paper to re- ceive applications for this game. Each subscriber to the WEEKLY and probably each alumnus will be allowed four tickets on applications to this game. For the Yale-Princeton game, which comes in New Haven, November 25, there will be the usual heavy demand for seats and the usual impossibility to give to each one just the seat that he wants. The management, however, has made more careful preparation than ever against the possibility of seats getting into the hands of those who are not en- titled to them. The management has also made a very fair division of the seats between: the graduates and the un- dergraduates. The ALUMNI WEEKLY, on its part, will record with great definiteness the dis- tribution of seats to each graduate, and a system will be adopted whereby it will be impossible for the same graduate, by being unfortunate in the drawing, to re- ceive, year after year, the least desirable seats. Each graduate can dpply for three - seats for the Yale-Princeton game, and it will probably be possible to fill this application with some kind of seats. The drawings will be entirely. by lot, subject to one or two general classifica- tions. These drawings will afl be under the supervision of a committee of grad- uates whose names will be announced in the next issue of the paper, and whose reputation will be a guarantee for the - fairness of the drawings. The only general direction we can give in this announcement is, that it will be best for all subscribers to the WEEKLY to apply as such. The drawings on behalf of any club must name the individuals who apply to- gether on behalf of that club. It will be impossible for any individual to send in more than one application for tickets by using different agencies. There will be no duplication. a in i A es ee Preliminary Catalogue. The registration in the Academic and Scientific Departments of the Univer- sity is now practically complete and it is interesting to note the numerical changes over last year as they appear in the Preliminary Catalogue, which has recently come from the press. In the Academic Department there is a very noticable increase in all classes except the Junior, where a discrepancy of no less than 60 appears, the number last year being 320. The greatest in- crease is in the Sophomore class, a total registration of 308 being credited to them as against 271 in the college year ’98-’99. The present Senior class, numbering 326, is larger by 26 than its predecessor. An increase of 5 is also shown among the Freshmen,.whose num- bers were but 333 last year. The total registration of the College is therefore 1,232 as compared with 1,224 last year. The Sheffield Scientific School has fal- len off slightly in the two upper classes. The Fheshmen number 194, or 2 more than in 18098: The Junior class, whose present enrollment is 159, is 4 smaller, while the Seniors have lost 8 from their last year’s number of 140. Sheffield is then an even 10 smaller than last year, when the registration was 554. Intercollegiate Tennis Officers. After the close of the Intercollegiate Tennis Tournament, held here last week, these officers were elected to the different positions for the coming year: Presi- dent, R. D. Little, Princeton; Vice- President, Beals Wright, Harvard; Secretary and Treasurer, Howard A. Plummer, Yale 1903. ——___~+09—___ UO. of M. Registration. Kvery department of the University of Michigan shows an increase over the cor- responding time last year. From unoffi- cial tables published in the University organ, the U. of M. Daily, it is esti- mated that the total will be in the neigh- bor-hood of 3,400 as compared with 3,066 last year. This includes the eight de- partments of the University: Literary, Engineering, Medical, Law, Dental, Pharmacy and Homeopathic. Accurate Use of English Marks a Man as Refined and cultivated far more than7 DRESS or MANNER can. The most useful tool for acquiring an Accurate Use of English is THE STUDENTS’... 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