Your IX. No. 6:
NEW HAVEN, CONN., WEDNESDAY, NOV.
1, 1899.
Copyright, 1899,
by Yale Alumni Weekly.
Price 10 CENTS.
THE UNIVERSITY CLUB.
Many Improvements — Pians to
Broaden its Scope.
When the Yale University Club
opened its doors at the beginning of the
present College year it was able to boast
the most thorough equipment of any
club of its character in the country.
The many changes of a year ago were
followed during the past Summer by
others, the chief of which was the ad-
dition of a commodious and well ap-
pointed grill room. ;
The work of improving the University
Club, which has seemed an absolute
necessity for five years or more, was
begun by the Ninety-Eight Governing
Board, of which John M. Woolsey was
President, and was carried on by the
Ninety-Nine Board, under the presidency
of C. A. Brayton, Jr.
The plans for a remodeling of the
whole lower floor at a cost of $7,000,
were carried into effect and the work
completed a little less than a year ago.
When the workmen got through with
their job the two plain rooms on the
left of the hall had given place to a
handsome reading room, panelled in
black oak, with a heavy-beamed ceiling,
and polished hard wood floor. The
room was lighted with electricity and
furnished with easy chairs, cosy leather-
cushioned nooks, and well stocked tables.
Two large fire places, one at the side and
one at the end, spoke well for the cheeri-
ness of the place in cold weather. The
room to the right of the entrance, for-
merly the magazine room, was finished
in green, fitted with all conveniences
and given up to the purpose of writing;
and the vestibule and hall were panelled
in black oak and lighted with electric
lights in the manner of the reading room.
The clumsy and scarred wooden door
of the club was replaced by a handsome
oak and glass one. Changes in the din-
ing room, which included a refitting and
redecoration throughout, were also made.
THE NEW GRILL ROOM.
These improvements made the Club a
much more attractive place and the
membership increased rapidly from 140
to nearly the two hundred mark, last
year. A .growing demand for a grill
room induced the executive committee
of the Nineteen Hundred Board to ven-
ture the addition, which has turned out
to be very successful, and is already
more than paying for itself. This new
department occupies the room at the
head of the stairs which was formerly
used as a bed chamber, but which has
been closed for a long time. The wood
work is finished in white enamel,
with red burlap on the walls which
are decorated with arms, trophies.
of the chase and hunting prints. The
size of the room is not great, but it
is sufficient for its purpose for some
time to come. Another important step
taken by the Governing Board of the
present Senior class was the changing
of the entire service of the club. Adam,
known as such to club members of ten
years standing, was released and a new
steward, chef, and corps of waiters in-
stalled in the places of the old ones,
with the result that the service is ex-
cellent throughout. Minor improve-
ments, such as the hanging of pictures,
laying of rugs and fuller furnishing and
beautifying of the rooms, have also been
made. ,
And the Board has bigger plans ahead.
It is their aim to make the Club, in
no small measure, a substitute for the
old Fence, that is, a common meeting
ground for at least a large portion of
the two upper classes of the Academic
Department and the Scientific School:
Seniors. To this end the membership
limit will be raised from 225, where it
now stands, to 325 or 400—perhaps more,
and the dues reduced to $20 a year from
$30.
PLANS FOR A $15,000 ADDITION.
They have laid plans too, for an
addition to the Club to cost in the
neighborhood of $15,000, and which will
be sufficiently large to accommodate the
training tables of the teams, and yet leave
space for several bedrooms for grad-
uates, and graduate coaches who may be
working with one of the teams. In his
speech at the inaugural dinner given at
the Club, Tuesday night, Oct. 18, Frank
S. Butterworth, Yale ’95, who has been
an enthusiastic supporter of the plan
among the graduates, in outlining the
general plan, said that there must be
something to take the place of the old
Fence, that is, there must be some rally-
ing place if Yale wanted to keep that
thing called “Yale Spirit.” “Now, take
this University Club,’ said Mr. Butter-
worth, “enlarge it, enlarge the dining
room; have your teams eat here; have
your little dinners here; bring the velvet
cup here and throw open the doors to
the men of all the departments—
Law School, Medical School, Scientific
School—all of them. By this means the
Club will come in time to be a meeting
and rallying ground where men may
meet and talk and get to the bottom of
things.
or something similar, will the great
traditions of old Yale be kent alive.”
Besides Mr. Butterworth, the Yale
graduates who are interested in the
proposed enlargement of the Club are:
Walter Camp, ’80; Samuel R. Bertron,
85; Moses Taylor, ’93; Frank L. Polk,
’°94, and George T. Adee, ’95. The Board
is not prepared to state at this writing
how the money is to be raised, nor at
what time the building will be begun,
although the plans have already been
drawn and approved.
The present Governine Board of the
University Club is composed of 15 mem-
bers—12 Seniors and 3 Juniors, as fol-
J. MEDILL MCCORMICK, I900
President University Club Governing Board.
lows: Academic Seniors—J. Medill Mc-
Cormick, President; F. C. Havemeyer,
i. .1.-Cheney,- Fl. T. Crawtord, By W.
Paddock, M. L. McBride, P. A. Rocke-
feller, T. A. Howell, C. W. McKelvey.
Scientific School Seniors—J. D. Ireland,
Vice-President: C. BB. Levey,” He i.
Clark. Academic Juniors—J. H. Wear,
siedeurer, #. W.. Jit, oecretary ; }. i.
Hord, Graduate Treasurer. The Execu-
tive Committee of this Board, which
performs the work of the House Com-
mittee of the ordinary club and on which
a great part of the work and responsi-
bility falls and to which the credit is due
for the excellent work done through
the Summer and Fall, is made up of
these three members: J. Medill McCor-
mick, B. W. Paddock and T. A. Howell.
By this means, and only this, |
$$.
THE FIRST UNIVERSITY CLUB.
_The first move for a University Club
at Yale was made in June, 1880, by some
members of the Class of 1881, and by
the last of September, so strong was the
sentiment of the College for such a club,
the officers had been elected for the year,
the four-story brick house adjoining the
New Haven House leased and furnished
and the Club was under way with a good
membership. The original officers were:
President, John E. Bowen, ’81; Vice-
President, William Pollock, ’82; Secre-
tary, Cyrus Bentley, Jr., 82; Treasurer,
Arthur E. Bostwick, ’81;
Governors—Prof. D. Cady Eaton, ’60;
Morris F. Tyler, ’70: Theodore S.
Woolsey. 772; Charles H. Farnam, ’68;
William K. Townsend, 771; Henry B.
Sargent, ’71 S. In 1892 through the ef-
forts of Moses Taylor, ’93, the present
home of the Club, at the corner of York
and Chapel Streets, was purchased at a
cost of about $37,000, for which bonds,
of $1,000 each were issue. The Execu-
tive Committee of that year was: Al-
vah Chisholm, ’93; F. McMullen, ’93 S.
The Presidents of the University
Club Governing Boards since the found-
ing of the Club are as follows: ’81, John
E. Bowen: ’82, William E. Bailey; ’83,
Charles F. Collins; 784, Frank D.
Bowen; ’85, Wilson Catherwood; ’86,
C. Li Bailey, Jr.; ’87, James. Archbald;
’88, William B. Brinsmaid; ’89, Charles
T. Brooks; ’90, George F. Peter; ’gI,
Edwin V. Hale; ’92, E. H. Floyd-Jones;
’93. Moses Taylor; ’94, Frank L. Polk;
’95, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr.; ’96, An-
drew G. S. Sage; ’97, Arthur J. Brews-
ter; ’98, John M. Woolsey; ’99, Charles
A. Brayton, Jr.; 1900, J. Medill Mc-
Cormick.
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Yale Debating.
The prospects for debating at Yale
were greatly brightened by the meet-
ing in Osborn Hall, Monday night, at
which President Hadley and Prof. Sum-
ner addressed a large number of men
who are interested in putting this sub-
ject on a very high level. The WEEKLY
is tnable, on account of the nearness of
* the hour for putting the forms on the
press, to make more than a statement
that the very interesting proceedings
will be reported in full in the next issue.
Board of
YALE LOS? T0 COLUMBIA.
Outplayed by a Superior Eleven at
Nearly All Points,
The Yale Football Eleven was de-
feated by Columbia at Columbia Field,
New York City, Saturday, Oct. 28, by
the score of 5 to o. -The -points were
made by Weeks the left half-back, on a
clean run of about 45 yards between
tackle and end, which had been left un-
guarded because of Yale’s concentration
of energies against a mass play which
was supposed to be directed at center.
Yale was clearly out generaled, and
outplayed in all points of the game ex-
cept the punting of Captain McBride,
and was beaten fairly and squarely by a
team working together like a machine.
Columbia played, throughout both halves
the sort of game that Yale herself used
to be noted for—straight and fast, and
right through the line, making steady
gains, small at first, but gradually grow-
ing larger when she began to realize that
Yale was unable to stop them. In the
first half Yale’s defense met this scheme
of attack and though Columbia showed
at once a dangerous strength Yale kept
her gains well down and the ball far
away from the danger line. In the sec-
ond half, however, for some _ reason,
probably because of the anxiety to stop
the fierce rushes short off, Yale changed
her plan and played her backs close up
to the line, bunching them at _ the
threatened point. It was a fatal move,
for, while the concentrated weight fre-
quently stopped the masses, it left the
outer wings unprotected and Weeks was
sent. through left tacke for the winning
run.
Almost to a man Columbia’s line
though a lighter one than Yale’s, accord-
ing to Coach Sanford, outplayed their
opponents and it seemed to make little
difference where the play was directed,
right or left, or center, a hole was
found. Her protection for punts was
sufficiently strong to keep Yale well back
and not once was any of her punts in
danger of being blocked. Her interfer-
ence for running back kicks was excel-
lent and scarcely ever failed to clear the
wav for five or ten, and even thirty —
