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ADVISORY BOARD.
H. C. Roptnson, 58. J.R. SHEFFIELD, ’87.
W. W. Skippy, ’658. J. A. HartTwELt, 89S.
C. P. Linpsizey, 75S. L.S. WELCH, ’89.
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W.G. DaceztTT, ’80. P. Jay, °92.
EDITOR.
Lewis S. WELCH, ’89.
ASSOCIATE EDITOR.
WALTER Camp, ’80.
ASSISTANT EDITOR.
E. J. THoMpPsoNn, Sp.
NEWS EDITOR.
PRESTON KUMLER, 1900.
ASSISTANT BUSINESS MANAGER.
BURNETT GOODWIN, 998.
Entered as second class matter at New Haven P. O.
NEw HAVEN, Conn., Nov. 15, 1899.
FOOTBALL TICKETS.
Those who are interested in securing
seats at the Princeton game and who
have sent in their applications, the time
for receiving which closed on Wednes-
day, November 15, at noon, should read
the statement about tickets printed else-
where. It may save some unnecessary
feeling or some unnecessary correspond-
ence in the future.
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RIGHT KIND OF PLAYERS.
Before this paper reaches many of its
readers, the Football contest of the 18th
will have been won and lost. We have
already said what we have thought of
the ability and energy and enthusiasm
of the Yale leadership and management
this year. They have gone up. hill on
straight, strong lines, to the benefit of
all athletics, and to the benefit of future
years as well as this year, and to the
great strengthening of the Yale spirit
throughout the University and through-
out the body of graduates.
One point we wish now to emphasize.
What particularly wins the ‘admiration
of those at New Haven—resident alumni
and members of the Faculty—is the tone
of the whole season and the standard of
character which has been aimed at in
the players. It is this fact, perhaps,
more than any other, that has gathered
the friends of Yale to the support of
this Eleven, to a degree which very few
Yale organizations have ever secured.
At this writing,—and we are confident
that there will be occasion to retract
not one word of this statement—we can
say that not a player will go into
the game on Saturday, or into the game
of the following Saturday, who is not
the right kind of a man according to
a high standard of college athletics;
that there will be no men in that team
wko are at Yale for athletics only; that
they will be men who are not only highly
thought of by their fellows, but highly
thought of by their instructors. With-
out exception, to our best knowledge
and belief, they are men who are regu-
lar and faithful in class-room work,
while not a few of them are scholars of
exceptional ability. Two men who were
prevented from playing early in the sea-
son by Faculty restrictions, Messrs.
Hubbell and Cook, and who may yet
go upon the Eleven, have earned their
way back to it by good attendance and
good work. Their stand is safe, and
their standing with both instructors and ©
students above reproach. They have
brought themselves above the application
of the special rules, framed to keep out
of athletics the wrong kind of men.
We are proud of the kind of men Yale
will send into the big games of this
year.
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THE ATHLETIC AGREEMENT.
The athletic financial agreement en-
tered into last Friday and by the Univer-
sity at the mass meeting this week,
will be appreciated on the reading of
it in another column, by those who
are familiar with athletic affairs here.
It is hoped that its meaning and value
will be clear to all who are interested
in the,rational conduct of Yale athletics.
It will strike the reader in the first
place that the undergraduate managers
of the present year are men who have
the interests of the entire University
very much at heart. It seems to us safe
to say that no better evidence of disin-
terested loyalty has been given within the
present athletic era than this voluntary
change of control of the finances of
athletics. As the article elsewhere states,
there have been no more enthusiastic
advocates of the plan than the present
undergraduate managers. Strongly sup-
porting them, have been many managers
of recent years who have had the same
feeling, but who have not been able to
put it into execution. Without this sup-
port of the managers, it would have
been impossible to execute the scheme.
The feeling that the affairs of the demo-
cratic community of Yale should be in
charge of that democracy’s chosen repre-
sentatives, is just as strong as it ever
was. The néw plan is only a modifica-
tion of the system by which that spirit
has been applied in the past,—a modi-
fication called for by the changed con-
dition of the enlarged University.
The problem was to apply graduate ~
cooperation to the undergraduate man-
agement, where it could be of most
value, and this, in our opinion, has been
carried out admirably. When in this
spirit, the Football Association, through
its President, deliberately turns over
the independent handling of a revenue of
$30,000 or $40,000, and joins in the plan
with equal enthusiasm with the Boat
Club, whose balance is always a great
deficit, one feels that the Yale spirit
is in pretty good condition.
It is not because of great abuses of
management that this step has been
taken. It is only to make what is good,
better. There have been things done
in the past which have not been reason-
able, but on the whole, the athletic as-
sociations have been in admirable hands
and the management has steadily im-
proved. They have now seen an oppor--
tunity to take a further long step in
advance and they have taken it; and
to them is the credit. We venture to
say that future athletic managers will
thank them for the relief which they
have thus given, and for the opportunity
which is open for the more successful
discharge of the responsibility in mat-
ters where they can _ operate _ best.
We may be pardoned for referring to
this year as one of the best evidences
that this will be the result. The pres-
ent football management comes very
near, at least, to being above criticism
in every way. Whatever previous man-
agement has equalled it in energy, in
far-sightednes, in good sense, has made
an admirable record. Yet we venture
to say that to no management would
this plan have been more acceptable at
the opening of the season than to the
present one. It would have made that
management even more effective in the
discharge of the duties of the season.
A close observation for a few years has
convinced us that the amount of work
a good manager can do in the way
of helping the College to have a thor-
oughly successful season in football, is
only limited by the amount of time he
has to give to it. And entirely outside
of finances,—in arranging for the return
of coaches, in bringing out the best ma-
terial, in keeping the whole big system
going with all the rush and excitement
of two hard months, he has his hands
full.
In creating this office of graduate
treasurer, Yale has followed in her
conservative way, the precedents already
established in other colleges. Of course,
we think here that the way we have
worked it out of our own experience is
better than the way pursued elsewhere,
but the principle is the same. Yale
has come to the application of that
principle later than Harvard and Prince-
ton, simply because Yale is as_ she
should be, very tenacious of the under-
graduate idea, and unwilling to move
forward towards graduate management
or University supervision, until she can
find a place where such ideas do not
conflict with the essentials of the under-
graduate idea. We believe she has
found that place and we are glad the
University meeting enthusiastically rati-
fied the act of her leaders.
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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS,
Questions and Answers For Bar Ex-
aminations and Review, by Charles
S. Haight, M.A., LL.B:, of the New
York Bar. and Arthur Mo Marsh,
B.A., LU-B., of the Connecticut Bar:
8vo, N. Y. Baker Voorhis & Co.,
1899.
The average quiz-book is a poor affair
enough, reminding one of the average
college digest; for the office of each is
apparently to get an unfaithful student
through an examination.
But the authors of this book have
conceived a very different office for a
quiz-book, to wit: to serve as a guide
to the student who wishes to review the
work he has done in the Law School.
The book would be of little use to those
who had not covered the ground before;
indeed previous study is presupposed.
In each subject treated in the book
many questions are propounded and
answers given. The student is referred
for each and every question to a decision
of a court of respectability, where the
point in question is discussed and de-
cided. References to standard text-
books are also given, but the cases are
much more relied on for the student’s
review. The book purports to be a
series of quizzes on the course of the
Harvard Law School, and parallel cita-
tions to the case-books used in that
school are given where possible.
The fact that the book quizzes after
the case method would make it no less
valuable to one who had not been in-
structed by that method. The subject
of Evidence must be excepted from this
statement. The quiz on Evidence is a
very excellent review of Prof. Thayer’s
Cases, but references to such a book as
Stephen’s Digest should have been given
wherever possible, for the rules of Evi-
dence are to a great degree a mere
matter of memory, and reference to such
a book as that of Stephen is therefore
very valuable.
The book is particularly successful in
its treatment of Torts, Agency, Bills
and Notes, Partnership, Contracts, Dam-
ages and Pleading at Common Law.
Each one of these subjects is systemati-
cally subdivided and successfully treated.
Frequently explanations are given at a
length which could scarcely be expected
of a book of this kind. The quiz on
Pleading at Common Law is to be spe-
cially recommended for its compactness
and systematic arrangement. The quiz
on Pleading and Practice under the New
York Code is another valuable chapter
in the book.
The chapters on Real Property, Con-
stitutional Law and Trusts seem to us
inadequate. For instance, Interstate
Commerce is slighted in the chapter on
Constitutional Law. Under Real Prop-
erty the authors treat Wills and Mort-
gages. The last subject is slighted very
much. quiz on Wills without so
much as mentioning the rule against
perpetuities is quite incomplete. Besides
this omission, the rules for construction
of a will are not touched upon.
The quizzes on Corporations, Criminal
Law and Equity are to be commended.
So also are those on Personal Property,
Quasi-Contracts and Insurance.
In spite of these very few defects we
have noted, the authors have certainly
realized their hope “that a book which
aids in an honest and thorough review
of legal principles previously acquired
occupies a legitimate field.”
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President Hadley on Athletics.
[Harvard Bulletin.]
We have chosen to print at length
this week, the remarks of President
Hadley of Yale on athletics, as con-
tained in his inaugural address. We
have done so because we believe the
sentiments he has expressed are sound
and wholesome. If we seem, in select-
ing that one portion of the address for
republication, to be giving an undue
prominence to the subject, we would say
in excuse, that we have done so becatse
we believe that the fostering and culture
of the true spirit of sportsmanship in
our athletics is something which every
geraduate, every undergraduate can have
a part in. A strong appreciation of
what is the right thing is all we need
to give us what is right. :
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Harvard’s Good Wishes.
{Harvard Crimson.]
Yale is to be considered fortunate in
her choice of an executive officer who,
indeed, steps into his new position,
young, vigorous and fore-handed, with
clear vision and the realization of ar-
duous toil confronting him. To-day
Yale is in the presence of a new power;
she begins a new era, fruitful of high
hopes and aspirations, holding to view
the possibilities of great accomplish-
ments. It is the wish of every college-
bred man in the land that it may be an
age of well-earned prosperity.
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Courant Contents.
The list of contents of the next number
of the Yale Courant, which appears Sat-
urday, November 18, is as follows:
“The Misdeeds of Neighbor Alice,”
Ray Morris, 1901; “A Fickle Mistress,”
E. Lyttleton Fox, 1902; “Epemetheus,”
W. B. Hooker, 1902; “A Letter from the
pouth,” . He cA. teiber 20005.; “The
Hunters,” E..C. Root, 1900.
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