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YALE ALUMNI WEEKLY
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Yale Alumni Weekly, New Haven, Conn.
The office is at Room 6, White Hall.
ADVISORY BOARD.
H. C. RoBrnson, 538. J. R. SHEFFIELD, ’87.
W. W. Skippy, ’658. J. A. HarTweE Lt, ’89 58.
C. P. LINDSLEY, 75S. L. S. WELCH, ’89.
W. Camp, ’80. E. VAN INGEN, ’91 5S.
W. G. DagGeETT, 80. P. Jay, 92.
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EDITOR.
Lewis S. WELOH, ’89.
ASSOCIATE EDITOR.
WALTER CAMP, ’80.
ASSISTANT EDITOR.
E. J. THOMPSON, Sp.
NEWS EDITOR.
PRESTON KUMLER, 1900.
ASSISTANT BUSINESS MANAGER.
BURNETT GOODWIN, 7995S.
Entered as second class matter at New Haven P. O.
New HAVEN, GONN., Nov. 22, 1899.
THE GAME.
One very wrong impression we wish
to correct, because it is a reflection on
the spirit of the eleven. Yale did not
play for a tie. “Much as Yale’s friends
were pleased, Yale’s captain and players
played to win at every point and were
keenly disappointed that they did not
succeed.
It was clean, glorious, unequaled foot-
ball. We accept congratulations and
salute with respect and admiration our
ancient rival.
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SPECULATION.
Word has reached the WEEKLY that
some people, relying on their acquaint-
ance. with Yale men who have rights of
application, have planned to speculate
with tickets by borrowing their names.
We therefore wish to repeat the warning
given several different times that the
most perfect record is kept in this office
of the tickets that are sent out and that
we hold responsible the persons whose
names are on the applications. If they
have been careless enough to let other
people use their names, who are willing
to descend to this kind of business, it is
their misfortune. Their names will be
entered as not eligible for future distri-
butions and will be published in the
college papers. Please remember that
the question is not whether the tickets
were directly disposed of to speculators,
but whether they get into the hands of
speculators. Please remember also that
the speculation need not be open and
on the street.
St
AS TO SEATS.
A large number of applications for
tickets for the game came in late to the
WEEKLY office. It was impossible to fill
those with any other than seats that
were left; namely, in the end stand.
These seats are not bad seats, whatever
people may think about it. They
show the opening of the line and the
meaning of many plays as no other seats
do. It is perfectly easy, also, to follow
the play.
But this statement is made not to try
to make anyone feel differently, but to
emphasize again the fact that it is neces-
sary to comply with the rules and get
applications in on time, in order to get
even a chance at what are called the
more desirable seats.
A number of other applications have
gone astray because men have not
properly directed their mail, or have
made applications personal, when they
should have gone to the Ticket Depart-
ment. If those who are disappointed in
not receiving the seats they want could
only go through one season in New
Haven, they would probably never again
wonder if no attention whatever was
paid to applications received outside
of the rules provided. The fact that it
would be such a great personal pleasure
to accommodate these many excellent
men has nothing to do with the case.
The WEEKLY, as a distributor of seats
to the alumni, has no seats except those
that are given out by regular graduate
application, according to lot, and after
the rules laid down by the Committee
on ticket distribution.
As to those, who-have applied on time
and in order and who still secured the
seats considered least desirable,—we can
only repeat what everyone must realize
who stops to think of it, that there must
be an end to the list as well as a begin-
ning. The records are now made up.
Another year, or in a second year fol-
lowing, provided the same system is fol-
lowed, these on the end will be given
better position in the drawing. The
drawing this year was directed and
personally supervised by the committee
of graduates.
After the side stand seats on the so-
called Yale side had been used up,
graduates were placed on the other side.
This does not mean that they were
placed among thé Princeton supporters.
Princeton has eight sections in the
middle of the west stand. The Yale
crowd will go around to it on each side.
YALE ARCHITECTS CHOSEN,
First Definite Steps in Commemora-=
-tive Hall Plans.
The committee on building of the Yale
Bi-centennial Committee held a session
in New York Monday of this week
and considered the plans which had been
submitted by the six competing architects
for the commemorative hall, or com-
memorative group of buildings, to be
finished at the time of the Bi-centennial
celebration.
Of the different plans, several were
very attractive and imposing. The
trouble with them all was the fact that
they could not be built for the sum which
the Committee had set apart for this
purpose, or for anything like it. As far
as can be learned, the different plans
submitted would require an average out-
lay of $1,000,000. Therefore, the Com-
mittee began by adopting the following
resolutions:
“Inasmuch as no plans submitted can
be carried out for a sum approximating
$400,000,
“Therefore, Resolved, that the author
of that design which gives promise of
the most satisfactory result to the Uni-
versity be appointed architect for the
work, that the necessary modifications be
suggested, and that new plans be pre-
pared to conform therewith.”
Acting on this resolution, the Commit-
tee appointed Messrs. Carrere & Hast-
ings of New York the architects for
the work. The plan which they had
proposed seemed to the Committee to
give most promise of a result that was
satisfactory, although in its original form
it called for a very much greater outlay
than it seems possible to make.
Messrs. Carrere & Hastings were in
New Haven in consultation with Presi-
dent Hadley and Treasurer Farnam
most of the day on Tuesday and are
now at work on modifications of their
plan to bring it within the cost.
The only statements about the new
plans that can be made now. must, of
necessity, be very general. It may be
said, however, that the building, or
group of buildings, will occupy the cor-
ner of College and Grove streets. The
College street side will run most of the
length of the block up to the property
of the Kingsley Trust Association (The
Scroll and Key Society). This means
up to the small house directly adjoining
the Society hkall—as the rest of the
Society’s property, on that side, has been
transferred to the University; and on
Grove street the building will occupy
about half the block.
The general plan is to secure two
large halls; one an auditorium for
alumni reunions and other large Uni-
versity events, with a seating canacity,
it is hoped, of about 3,000. The other
calls for a University dining hall with a
space of 10,000 square feet, exclusive of
serving rooms. That is somewhat larger
than the Memorial hall at Cambridge.
That is something less than 10,000 square
feet, exclusive of serving rooms. Be-
side these two large halls, and perhaps
connected with them, it is proposed to
make a memorial vestibule or hallway,
in which may be placed the tablets to
the memory of Yale’s most distinguished
dead.
Besides this, the group of buildings
is to contain the offices of administration
of the University.
By placing this group on this corner,
with the buildings set back perhaps
thirty feet from the street, an interior
court will be created,—a kind of Uni-
versity Campus, where the alumni will
gather at Commencements and_ other
times, and which will be shut off from
the street.
As the resolution above indicated,
the Committee means to keep the cost
down to a sum not greatly exceeding
$400,000. It is strongly desired to have
the building of stone, but it has not yet
been decided what the material will be.
Everything depends on the way in which
the new plans conform to the cost. It
is hoped that the final plans may be
adopted and specifications made out in
time to receive contractors’ bids and
award the contract before the building
season begins next Spring.
The University now owns the land for
this building and a good deal of the rest
of the block, although not all of it.
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Few Meteors Photographed.
The very extensive preparations made
at the Yale Observatory to watch and
photograph the fall of the great No-
vember shower of the Leonid meteors
went for naught.
Observations were begun on the night
of Monday, November 13, andplates were
exposed from 11.30 Pp. M. until 5.30 A. M.
Until the moon set, plates were changed
every thirty minutes, to prevent them
being too badly fogged by the moon-
light to photograph the meteors. Af-
ter the moon had set, continuous ex-
posures were taken until dawn, about
5.30 o'clock. Tuesday night proved
stormy, though a careful watch was
kept; on Wednesday night, the weather
clearing a little before midnight, plates
were exposed and changed every twenty
minutes until dawn; on Thursday the
same program was carried out.
The results from all this work were
very disappointing, owing to the
cloudy condition of the sky and the
moonlight; only seven Leonids were
seen that were thought to be bright
enough to make an impression on the
plates. Whether the great shower of
Leonids actually occurred as expected,
is not definitely known by the Yale
astronomers, but it is evident that it
did not take place during the above
period of observations.
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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 very 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 more 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-morrow.
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