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“NEW HAVEN, CONN., WEDNESDAY, DEC. 6, 1899.
Copyright, 1899,
by Yale Alumni Weekly. .
Price 10 CeENTs.
INTERCOLLEGIATE CHESS
Men who will be at New York dur=
ing the Holidays.
The eighth annual intercollegiate chess
tournament between teams from Yale,
Harvard, Princeton and Columbia, will
be held in New York during the Christ-
mas holidays, at the Columbia Grammar
School, beginning on Christmas day.
The final round of the open chess
tournament for the choice of Yale’s
chess representatives has been com-
pleted, with the following result: L. A.
Cook, 1900, won 9, lost 1; J. Morgan,
1902 S., won 6%, lost 3144; E. B. Adams,
1901, won 5%, lost 4%; A. Anstell,
L.S., won 5%, lost 4%; W. B. Luther,
1902, won 334, lost 6144; A. M. Webb,
1901, lost 10 by default. Yale’s two
representatives in the intercollegiate
tournament will therefore be L. A.
Cook, 1900,-and J. M. Morgan, 1902 8.,
with A. Anstell and E. B. Adams alter-
nates. Of these men Cook has played
in two intercollegiate tournaments, and
last Spring represented Yale in the inter-
national cable match, winning his game
from Hulbert of Oxford. Morgan, al-
though inexperienced, is a promising
player. Both of these men prepared for
Yale at Andover.
The four men who wall compose
Columbia’s chess team and their alter-
nates will probably be R. C. T. Schroe-
der, H. A. Boehm, K. G. Falk and F.
H. Sewall. At Harvard, the players
have not yet been chosen. The final
round of the tournament for the selec-
tion of the Princeton team is now in
progress. ‘The seven men who qualified
for the finals were Scott, Weston, Hunt,
Hurley, Ely, Pilgrim and Nevins.
CONDITIONS OF PLAY.
Play in the intercollegiate tournament
will begin every afternoon at 2 o'clock,
and continue through the evening with
a recess from 6 to 8 o'clock for dinner.
The requirements are that each contest-
ant must play one game with each of the
other men entered, and that fifteen
moves must be made within the hour.
The championship emblem is a silver
cup, weighing about seventy-five ounces,
and stands fourteen inches high. It was
designed by Tiffany of New York. The
cup’ goes to the winning team to hold
for one year, and if won ten consecutive
years by any team it becomes the perma->
nent property of the successful univer-
sity.
The record of the past intercollegiate
chess tournaments follows:
Hary. Colum. Yale. Prin.
1902. 5% .<c VA fe) 5 244
iter ee 7 8% 5 3%
19942 512% 9 3 6 6
T1808" ohers 84 8 3% 4
18062... 2. 10 AY 4 5
(Sof s 10 6% 4% 3
1808558 10 84 24 3
It will be seen that Harvard has won
five times in succession and that Co-
lumbia is her nearest opponent.
The strength of Harvard and Co-
lumbia in chess may be explained by the
fact that players of both these universi-
ties have excellent chances for strong
practice with the strong Boston and
New York clubs. In the last few years,
Yale has sought to offset this advantage
by employing a coach for the chess team,
who came to New Haven for a month -
before the tournament. But this year.
owing to a ruling of the Faculty in
regard. to Freshman subscriptions, no
coach has been secured. Another cause
THe COLUVEGE Cer:
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Smith (C. W.)
Ass’t. Prof. Jepson.
White. Hiseman.
Makepeace.
Arnold.
Jackson. Welch.
Sherman.
Photo by Pach
Smith (H. W.)
. Whittlesey.
Nore.—The gowns worn by the choir members are the regular academic gown, the yoke being edged with blue cord.
for Yale’s poor showing in these tourna-
ments in the past may lie in the fact
that the tournament, contrary to the cus-
tom of the other colleges, comes immedi-
ately after the semi-annual examinations.
A number of valuable days of practice is
thus lost to the men, as of course there
is not time for the regular drill.
The idea of having an annual chess
tournament between the four universi-
ties of Harvard, Yale, Princeton and
Columbia, representing Massachusetts,
Connecticut, New York and New Jer-
sey, was originated by Mr. E. A. Cas-
well, Yale ’66, in the Fall of 1891. It
was through Mr. Caswell’s efforts that.
the handsome silver cup and medal die
were obtained, by subscription, and since
the first meeting he has been very active
in support of the tournaments.
Last-year an effort was made to rule
against the possibility of one star player
backed by. another of only average
ability, from carrying off the trophy.
The plan, which was to have four repre-
sentatives from each University instead
of two and to shorten the playing time
from six days to three, aimed at show-
ing the average chess ability of the
teams, was rejected by Harvard and
Princeton, when proposed. It is likely,
however, that the change may yet be
made, as it is understood that Harvard
has expressed her willingness to change
her vote of a year ago.
University Council Elections.
Besides the Deans of the several
departments, the following gentlemen,
have been elected by their respective
Faculties to serve on the University
Council :
Academic—Professors Dana, Perrin
and Sumner.
Scientific—Professors Lounsbury and
Pirsson.
Law—Professor Baldwin.
Medical—Professor Carmalt.
Theology—Professor Brastow.
fa. 28.
DIVINITY SCHOOL FACTS.
Some Interesting Figures on Attend-
ance—The Building of the School.
It was in 1822 that the Faculty of
Yale, which then consisted of President
Day and Professors Fitch, Kingsley,
Silliman and Goodrich, set forth in a
Paper the necessity for “an enlargement
of the means of theological instruction,”
which, as they said, ‘had been carried
forward since the appointment of a Pro-
fessor of Divinity, in 1755. Theology
had likewise formed a part of the under-
graduate curriculum from the founding
of the College.
The Corporation responded by estab-
lishing a distinct Theological Depart-
ment, detailing several College Profes-
sors to give a portion of their time to
teaching therein, and placing in the
chair of Doctrinal Theology Dr.
Nathaniel W. Taylor, then minister of
the First Church in New Haven, a
preacher and a theologian of extraordi-
nary ability. Under Dr. Taylor and the
colleagues who were associated with him
in the “old Faculty,’ the Institution
went forward until his death, which
occurred in 1858, and was followed in
1861 by the death of the last of the act-
ing Professors, Professor Gibbs.
The flourishing period of the Theo-
logical Department in this first era was
prior to 1850. From 1850 to 1861 the
average number of students was reduced
The largest number at any time
had been 82 (in 1837-8). The average
number for the entire interval (1822-
1861) was 46. Only in thirteen years
did the average exceed 50 students. One
effect of the talents and popularity of
Dr. Taylor was to make the friends of
the Divinity School forgetful of the
necessity of procuring permanent endow-
ments for its life and prosperity in the
future. When he died, and when the
new Faculty, of which Dr. Dwight was
the first to be elected, assumed control,
there was but a handful of students.
The property of the Divinity School
was less than $75.000, together with a
dormitory on the Campus at the north
end of the brick line, which, however,
it was bound to surrender at its ap-
praised value whenever the building
should be needed by the Academic De-
partment. Soon it was thus surren-
dered, for the sum of $13,000.
RECORD OF THE NEW FACULTY
The “new Faculty,” of which the
present Dean of the Divinity School is
the only member now in active service,
had the task laid upon it of building
up the Institution almost from the
foundation. Under the auspices of this
Faculty, and in the main by its exer-
tions, by far the major part of the
present endowment of the School was
obtained, including, besides what is
comprised in the General Fund, the
special funds for Elocution, for the Ly-
man Beecher Lecturship, for Scholar-
ships for the aid of students, for two
Graduate Fellowships, for the Reference
labrary: bie; > .
Under the same auspices and as the
fruit of like exertions of the Faculty,
the purchases of the site of West Divin-
ity. Hall and of the house beyond,
which was bought for the protection
of that edifice, were made, and all the
buildings were successively erected,
comprising East Divinity College, Mar-
quand Chapel, West Divinity College,
and the Reference Library Building.
As the facilities of the Department for
doing its work were by degrees en-
larged, the number *of students gradually
increased. This number rose from 21
(in 1858-9) and 27 (in 1861-2), until
(in 1873-4) it reached 101. So it re-