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NEW HAVEN, CONN., WEDNESDAY, NOV. 8, 1899. ,
Copyright, 1899, _ _.
y Yale Alumni Weekly.
PRICE
MR. CAMP'S VIEW,
The Eleven has Taken on New Life—
Faults Not Unconquerable.
From a wealth of raw material a
fairly active and very willing team has
been developed by the energy and per-
sistence of Mr. Rodgers and Captain
McBride. The early progress was slow
and tedious. . Then followed a period of
decided encouragement culminating in
the victory over Wisconsin. Whether
this success had a deteriorating effect or
not, the team did not advance during the
next week and upon meeting Columbia
suffered a defeat that seemed for the
moment paralyzing to its progress.
Then the University itself came to the
front and showed the team that there
was confidence in their ability in spite
of the disaster. Under this inspiration
and aided by the return of a number of
devoted coaches the team has taken on
new life. The weaknesses of the in-
dividuals are known and are not re-
garded as unconquerable. Their play is
not yet up to that of Harvard nor up to
the standard of a veteran team, and so
there is still much to do. _ The make-up
ot the eleven will be such that to beat it
will mean a triumph and the work of
whipping it a difficult undertaking.
WALTER CAMP.
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DIVINITY MEN IN LINE.
Students Discuss Beneficiary Aid —
Resolution Adopted.
One of the first evidences that Presi-
dent Hadley’s inaugural address is hav-
ing a salutary effect was given last
Thursday night, when the students of
the Divinity School met in mass meet-
ing and passed with practical unanimity
the following resolution:
“Resolved, That we, as members of
the Yale Divinity School, would heartily
welcome any change in the distribution
of the scholarship funds which would
be in line with the recent utterances of
President Hadley.”
The passing of this resolution is
more significant than may appear on
the surface. The discussion of the sub-
ject began in an attempt among the
students to have the men pledge them-
selves voluntarily to take no beneficiary
aid from the Seminary, except under
stress of imperative need, and when so
taken to regard it strictly as a loan.
Much opposition was at once shown to
such an effort, both by those who could
not sign it for themselves and by those
who thought that it would tend to
divide the men into two classes. Ac-
cordingly a mass meeting was held and
the whole subject of beneficiary aid in
its relation to the preacher was ear-
nestly, if not hotly, discussed.
The situation at Yale is this: Practi-
cally every man in the Seminary can,
and does, receive in addition to free
tuition and free room rent, an annual
scholarship of one hundred dollars. In
fact one periodical during the past Sum-
mer carried an advertisement to the ef-
fect that a free education could be had
at the Yale Seminary.
At the meeting held to discuss the
subject, every shade of opinion was
expressed and the session finally ad-
journed without action, to meet again
in one week. At the second discussion
it became apparent that while there was
great diversity as to what specific
changes should be made, there was gen-
eral agreement that the present system
was not right. Some men however, be-
lieved that because they were studying
for the ministry they were by that fact
entitled to. such aid, and that they
should not be expected to return 1t.
They argued that the ministry was un-
like other professions. Others answered
that the student mist be a man first,
and a preacher afterward, if the tone
of preaching and the grade of preach-
ing is to be improved; that the addi-
tional hardship begat a more strenuous
spirit; and that self-maintenance as de-
fined in the other professional schools
would be the best possible stimulus to
the kind of effort and self-sacrifice that
the ministry should stand for. Some
men urged that, because the ministry
was decidedly underpaid, borrowed
money to be returned from the salary
received in professional work would be
to a large number an almost impossible
hardship. Others replied that the inde-
pendent attitude would add to a man’s
capability more than the amount of the
obligation and that such a stand—that
of refusing to accept discriminations in
favor of this profession—would do more
than anything else toward raising the
preacher’s salary.
Many favored the adoption by the
Faculty of a method of aid distribution
which should condition its bestowal up-
on one of three things: distinct excel-
lence in~ scholarship, remuneration in
the form of service rendered, or that it
be regarded as a loan. This seemed to
others to disregard the fact that effec-
tiveness in the ministry did not depend
primarily upon scholar ship. “The prize
man is not the preacher,’ was quoted
from the Boston Council.
With these and manv others differing
opinions it was difficult to formulate
any specific resolution to meet the ap-
proval of the men. Some opposed ‘the
effort to formulate any resolution what-
soever, but the large majority agreed
that the present system of virtually in-
discriminate giving to every applicant of
one hundred dollars besides free tuition
and room rent was not in keeping with
the spirit of that part of the inaugural
address which summed its position up
in, “Renumeration, not pauperization.”
The above resolution was agreed up-
on, and, though general in character,
and an admission that one more speci-
fic could not have been carried, it is the
result of a thoroughgoing discussion
and records the fact that the men of
the Seminary will welcome any move
which the Faculty may make to put aid
distribution on a basis better calculated
to stimulate the spirit of self-depend-
ence.
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University Time Table.
A unique and at the same time most
useful publication called a “University
Time Table’ will make its appearance
Thursday of this week. It is made up
similar to the time table of a railroad
and is in handy form for the pocket.
Its 40 pages contain about everything
necessary for the location of anything
or any person in the University. Be-
sides the officers of administration,
names and locations of religious organi-
zations, clubs of research and criticism,
etc., there is a complete alphabetical list
of all the Faculties and instructors in
all departments, with the hours marked
when they may be seen, and the time
and place of their recitations. Then
there is a schedule of recitations of all
classes in the departments, including
the Graduate School. A list of publica-
tions by the University and a table of
contents complete the time table. A
charge of 10 cents will be made for the
pamphlet, which may be had at the Yale
Cooperative Store.
THE MILLER MEMORIAL GATEWAY.
Photo by Pach.
Registration Figures.
The later registration figures have
nearly established the figures for Yale
for the year. On November 2, they
stood as follows:
Academic Department .......... ; 228
Scientific “Department ..0..05 2.0. 569
Graduate Department ...... pebas 283
SROOIOES Go. GG So aera esas ATs 99
DoW kes es dad he ce oe 197
WMEGHEMe as ees eS 134
Masigno dee chee. pro : 103
ANE SEL eo co oe Set IS 50
Course for: teachers: 2. esn<50 . g 165
‘PGtal=)<e 0s e7% cies aie. oe
This does not allow for names ap-
pearing twice, which will cut the total
down by about 130. The numbers in
the courses for teachers remain about
the same as last year. This figure is
subtracted in figuring the number of
students in the Universitv. The net
registration will, therefore, be from ten
to twenty greater than last year.
Yale 24; West Point 0.
Yale scored four touchdowns against
the West Point Eleven and kicked the
four goals in the game at West Point,
Saturday, Nov. 4, giving her 24 points
in all, or 1 better than Princeton’s total
and 6 better’ than Harvard’s. West
Point reached Yale’s 30-yard line but
once, that time on a 35-yard run by
Rockwell, her spriest halfback, but most
of the two halves she was struggling on
her own territory. Her greatest con-
secutive gains throuch the line totalled
8 yards, when she made her distance
through tackle, and on the next three
plays made a yard each time.
The Yale team was together better
than in any of the previous games this
year, and the coaches, generally, were
well pleased with the all-around 1im-
provement since the Columbia game, at
which time the team seemed to be at the
point of greatest depression. There was
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