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FOOTBALL TICKETS.
Alumni in New Haven and those who
may desire to communicate by telephone
in regard to tickets will learn in another
column, of the opening of a separate
office for the Ticket Department of the
WEEELY.
And this warning is here given of the
closing promptly at noon, November 15,
of the application for seats at the
Princeton game.
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THE FOOTBALL SITUATION.
The West Point game,. with its ex-
cellent record in the second half, shows
Yale turning into the right road, and
no Yale man will have any other ex-
pectation than that she will travel here-
after directly on it and with increas-
ing speed. The green men have begun
to wear off their nervousness, and there
begins to appear an element of team
work. We are looking for great im-
provement daily, and our joy in the
stuff of the eleven and the spirit of
Yale grows hourly.
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THE UNIVERSITY CLUB.
The last WEEKLY told the story of the
very admirable development of the Uni-
versity Club and the plans for its still
greater development as a center of Yale
life and as a means of holding together
the undergraduate interests of the dif-
ferent branches of the University.
Every move in that direction is to be
commended and encouraged. The
greater Yale becomes, the more a central
social institution is needed.
The last week brings the news from
Harvard that the long cherished plans
for a University club on a very broad
and democratic plan are now to be made
possible of early execution by the gift
of $150,000, by Mr. Higginson, the
donor of Soldier’s Field. Harvard has
felt very keenly the disadvantages of
size and has suffered from them in a
Way apparent to outsiders as well as to
Harvard men. Those dangers are no
less real here. They have been threaten-
ing for some time. The situation should
not become too acute before the steps
are taken to preserve in institutions
adapted to the new conditions, the spirit
and character of the student life of Yale
—the University’s greatest treasures.
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A PRACTICAL JOKE.
The practical joke, described in
the last issue, in the letter from the
Class Secretary of Ninety-Nine, will
appear to most men as something quite
impossible. How anyone can be that
kind of a rascal at the expense of a
friend or an acquaintance, passes one’s
comprehension. It does, however, ap-
peal to a certain type of man to make
trouble in this way. Once or twice
before the WEEKLY has been imposed
upon in just such a way. Probably its
readers wondered what carelessness
could have caused such an error.
We give notice that if this thing hap-
pens again, we shall be ready to spend
a great deal of time and money in secur-
ing legal evidence as to who was re-
sponsible for it, and will then print,
very conspicuously, the name of the man
who was willing to publish to the world
at large a false statement about an
acquaintance, or classmate, or fellow
alumnus, on a matter of such a personal
nature as this. The incident emphasizes
a point which it is well to repeat for the
benefit of some who are careless in that
matter,—that the WEEKLY cannot print
alumni notes from any information or
communication that is unsigned.
CHAPEL SERVICE.
Undergraduates Object to Changes—
Wradition Preserved.
The character of the week-day ser-
vice in Battell Chapel has been the
source of considerable discussion among
the undergraduates of the College dur-
ing the past few weeks. This year a
prayer read by the College Chaplain and
followed by the Lord’s Prayer in uni-
son has been necessarily substituted for
the extemporaneous prayer delivered by |
the President during previous adminis-
trations. Other changes, made more
recently, are noted in the following
communication advocating a return to
the order of service followed during
the opening weeks of College, which ap-
peared in the Yale News on Nov. 2:
To the Editor of the News:
The selection of a layman as Presi-
dent of Yale made it apparent last
Spring that certain changés in the
method of conducting the weekday
Chapel exercises would be tecessary
at the opening of the present college
year. No one regretted the innovations
which would have to be made because
they were involved in the choice of
the man best qualified to assume the
responsibilities of the office, a more im-
pu.tant consideration. Many plans for
the new service were suggested, during
the Summer, which finally resulted in
the appointment of six College Chap-
lains, to conduct the Chapel exercises.
The returning students felt, to say the
least, considerable curiosity as to how
the new system would work. It is safe
to say that the great majority were
gratified to find that the new service
conformed so closely to the long-estab-
lished forms of the College Chapel and
the expression of approval published in
the editorial columns of the News on
September 30th voiced the sentiment of
the student body.
Some ten days ago, however, we were
surprised to find that we were expected
to stand. at the close of the usual hymn,
and chant an “Amen.” Few regarded
the addition of importance; on the con-
trary, it was generally supposed that it
was made simply at the suggestion of
the organist. This morning we were
again surprised when instead of the
usual scriptural reading, an Episcopal
form was substituted, the Chaplain read-
ing the Commandments in order and the
choir chanting at the close of each.
I have been informed that it is the
plan to thus vary the usual service on
Wednesday morning of each week.
The writer begs to make a plea for
a continuation of the plan of service
followed during the opening weeks of
College. The circumstances attending
the foundation of Yale made the College
essentially sectarian in spirit during its
early history. Yale is still a Congrega-
tional institution, although the most
binding ties which have connected the
College to that church have been severed
as a natural outcome of her develop- .
ment. There is basis for opposition to
the introduction of new forms simply
on the grounds of Yale’s present rela-
tions to the Congregational Church.
But your correspondent prefers to take
‘a more liberal attitude.
As Yale grew and the spirit of sec-
tarianism waned, the week-day Chapel
exercises have come to be regarded as
a Yale service, not as a Congregational
service, and men of all faiths have been
numbered on her rolls. Hence I argue
for the continuation of the old order
of worship, not because it is Congrega-
tional, but because it is in accordance
with one of the oldest and most valued
of all Yale traditions.
Yale’s relations with the Church in
recent years have been most satisfactory.
The strict churchmen among the alumni
have realized that the connection be-
tween Church and College could not re-
main the same and have not been dis-
pleased with the course the changes
have taken. On the other hand, those
who do not approve of a church college,
have found nothing objectionable in the
simple Chapel exercises, which have
been continued quite as much -for the
traditions associated with them and their
value in the social life of the University
as for their religious influence. There
was a time when Yale suffered greatly
from disputes concerning her religious
connections and Yale is treading on
dangerous ground when she invites a
return to the old state of affairs.
The old Chapel exercises were uni-
versally satisfactory. They included ‘no
forms of a strictly sectarian nature.
The services was not so distinctly Con-
gregational as it was distinctly Yale.
If the exercises are to. be varied by
the introduction of Episcopal ritual, are
not the Methodist, the Baptist and. the
Catholic entitled to consideration in the
re-arrangement of the service? The
tendency of the change is rather towards
narrowness than broadness. It is the
plan to substitute for a uniform service
which has proved acceptable to all
through scores of years a variety of
exercises pleasing, perhaps, each day
to the few but decidedly distasteful to
the many. 3
fixed in character by the traditions of
Yale generations, we are to expect an
assortment of forms limited only by the
discretion of the occupants of the Col-
lege pulpit.
I, for one, most earnestly hope for a
permanent return to the old Chapel ser-
vice.
TRADITION.
Professor Perrin, who has performed
the College Chaplain’s duties since the
opening of the year, said last week,
in commenting on “Tradition’s’” com-
munication: “I was pleased to see the
remonstrance in the News, for it indi-
cates that there is at least some portion
of the student bodv still actively in-
terested in the Chanel service. The
writer of the communication, however,
has apparently over-estimated the im-
portance of the more recent innovations
and mistaken the spirit which suggested
them. They were made solely for the
purpose of rendering the exercises at-
tractive by the introduction of more
music. It was Doctor Munger who
suggested the addition of the “Amen.”
As to the so-called Episcopal ritual,—
the reading of the Commandments in
order followed by the chant, it is a. form
at present employed in the Center
Church and was the regular scriptural
reading simply varied with music. Last
Wednesday at the close of the Com-
mandments I read a parallel selection
from the New Testament, as has been
my custom. All the churches through-
out the country are enriching their ser-
vices with borrowed forms, and it was
merely for the purpose of securing the
benefits resulting from this present
tendency that the chant was introduced.
Since Wednesday, however, members
of the choir and some of the students
have expressed dissatisfaction at the
change, and I have abandoned my plan
to repeat the reading of the Command-
ments with the chant, on next Wednes-
day.”
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Hotchkiss Club.
The Hotchkiss Club, made up of men
from the Hotchkiss School now in Col-
lege, held a meeting, Wednesday, Nov.
I, and elected officers for the year as
follows; President, S. B. Camp, 1900;
Vice-President, J. S. Eells, 1901; Secre-
tary, C. H. Collins, 1902; Treasurer,
H. S. Mead, 1902; Executive Committee,
mG. Twichell, r9oo0%: 42a aarecics,
ig00:S.;-C. P--Cook, 190t S;, ane J. Ta:
McAlarney, 1903.
Instead of a Chapel service
| Pencils without breaking off every minute.
PRESERVATIVES.
In one of those scholarly and wholly
delightful essays that we find to-day in
James Russell Lowell’s “Among My
Books,” our American humorist says,
that the great antiseptic or preservative
force in literature is humor. He points
to the bright touches that have relieved
even the world’s greatest tragedies, to
the humor of Plato and even Aeschylus,
and, coming down through the ages,
show us the latent humor that exists
to the making of much that would other-
wise have fallen into the dusty limbo of
the forgotten.
Issue may be taken with the decision
the Professor has announced in favor
of humor, but no just issue can be taken
on the point of the existence of some
preservative. Such a force is an abso-
lute necessity everywhere, or growth
would cease from yery lack of soil. In
life, for instance, in human society,
where would we be were the preserva-
tive of self-respect to be eliminated?
When a man has lost this birthright his
whole character crumbles away. When
a man has lost this he ceases to hold up
his head and to look his fellow in the
eyes.
Perhaps the poet sang true when he
told us the birth of self-respect
“preceded duty’s by so much
That in the younger’s arms
The older grew to strength.”’
Sure it is that nothing strengthens
self-respect as does the prompt doing of
a prime duty. It may be truism,—but
if one call for proof he has only to turn
and look at those great ones who do
the world’s work, steadily and simply,
for there he will see self-respect shine
out most clearly.
With duty to be considered, then
(considered and done) the question is
inevitable: “Is there any social duty
that outranks insurance properly ac-
complished?” Sound insurance lightens
the burden of the state and community
in that it lightens the heart (and so the
burdens) of the individual. Sound in-
surance promotes peace in that it kills
care and worry; it provides for the
future, and so brightens the present; it
stimulates thrift and prudent action,
and so betters the condition of all its
followers. Is it not a duty to one’s
self, to one’s family, to one’s country,
that is far too important to neglect
another hour? A policy secured in the
Mutual Life of New York warrants any
man the fair right to hold up his head
among his fellows. The self-respect he
himself will justly feel will call forth
an answering respect from all thinking
men about him.
One final word: the day to attain to
this is the day that antedates to-mor-
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