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YALE ALUMNI WEEKLY
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ADVISORY BOARD.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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