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ADVISORY BOARD.
H. C. Rosprnson, 58. J. R. SHEFFIELD, ’87.
W. W. Skippy, ’65S. J. A. HARTWELL, '89 S.
C. P. LINDSLEY, 75S. L. S. WELCH, ’89.
W. Camp, ’80. — E. VAN INGEN, 91S.
W.G. DaeaeTt, ’80. P. Jay, *92.
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, 799 S.
Entered as second class matter at New Haven P. 0.
NEw HAVEN, CONN., DkEc. 6, 1899.
THE COACHES.
A good deal has been said first and —
last about the loyalty which coaches
have shown in their attentions to Yale
teams. Their work is more or less in
evidence .all the while and people are
quite familiar with their names. At the
same time, we venture to say that very
few, even among those who follow ath-
letics very closely, appreciate just how
much of a sacrifice is made every year
by alumni of Yale in assisting a Uni-
versity captain to put upon the field the
best team of which Yale is capable.
Men come on every year who do not
see how they can leave their business,
but who see less how thev can refuse
the call. Think of taking from one to
six weeks out of active business or pro-
fessional work or the quite as active
preparation for it,—generally without
having made plans accordingly in ad-
vance.
untoward cause drives a man for any
length of time from his work, he gen-
erally feels that he has suffered severely.
The loss is just as great in such a case
as this. Practically none of the men
who have come back to Yale this Fall
to coach the football team, or who,
while living in New Haven, have taken
their time at the Field day after day,
could, from such a standpoint of per-
sonal interest as guides most men in the
conduct of their affairs, afford to make
the outlay.
And these men come back, not to take
the burden of an eleven, with the chance -
of winning distinction, by making it a
successful one, but only to take their
place in line and obey general orders—
to develop players for certain positions,
to offer suggestions which may or may
not be accepted. A captain, like the
Captain of the Yale football eleven of
this Fall, does not arbitrarily assert his
power, but he has absolute power. No
coach could over-rule it or would try
to over-rule it. The so-called head
coach or supervising coach has the next
say. The man in that position this year,
who gave two months of his time for
that work, was not a man to in any way
make undue or unreasonable use of his
power. At the same time, the captain
and the chief coach are the responsible
ones, as they ought to be, and the others
work under them.
There are otherwise well informed
men, who take the ground that football]
coaches are more or less actuated by
selfish interests; that they come back
When sickness or some Other.
for the glory and the fun of it. We
have heard that idea seriously put forth
by men who are generally well informed
and who even know personally those
of whom they themselves speak. We
have no sympathy with such -a notion
The many graduates who have come
back to New Haven this year have had,
as in previous years, the sole purpose of
helping Yale to put forth her best efforts,
and the purpose of this editorial 1s
simply to call once more to attention the
amount and the intensity of the loyalty
which gathers this faithful band. <A
large number of those who help coach
Yale teams have never accepted invita-
tions from any other institution to help
in the development of football, and a
still larger number have done so only in
the first year or two after graduation,
when the stipend was a necessarily great
attraction. There is no disposition to
criticise those who are thus occupied,
but the tendency is more and more, for
all who have anything of skill or spirit
to impart, to give that and all the time
and energy they can spare to their Yale.
The gathering of coaches this year :
was the finest tribute to the spirit which
controlled Yale football, and Yale is not
at all troubled by the criticisms that
have been made in some quarters, that
this splendid force of men were. work-
ing somewhat at cross nurposes, or at
least not in harmony. We know where-
of we speak when we say that never
were athletic men at Yale so well to-
gether in their purpose and in their
work as they have been this year. Old
and young have worked as the Captain
and the Coach wished to have them
work, gladly, and the Captain and the
Coach have only too gladly taken advan-
tage of experience and maturer judg-
ment.
These men are already looking for-
ward to next year, when they can con-
plete still more satisfactorily the work
which they have begun so well this year.
Be A, ee
Football appears to be almost purely
athletic “work”’—New Haven Corre-
spondence New York Evening Post.
Not so. Football has been enjoyed
as a sport at Yale by more people this
Fall than ever before in our memory.
A suggestion yet to be acted upon is
the development of the Association
game for light players. If this can be
satisfactorily put through, greater good
than ever will come to the general body
of students from football.
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The usually excellently informed
correspondent of the New York Even-
ing Post writes as follows:
Very likely one of the earliest and
certainly one of the most important ob-
jects of the new body’s attention will be
the possibility of combining the later
work of the academic department with
the earlier work of the professional
schools—a subject which for some time
at Yale has been actively discussed, and
among the professors in the schools has
found considerable support.
May the support of the furtherance of
this idea be a diminishing and disappear-
ing factor in the situation. . This is a
move too strongly in the direction of
things purely utilitarian. An academic
course is meant as a protest and safe-
guard against a utilitarian view and use
of life. Let us not begin to operate on
its vital principle.
CURRENT YALE LITERATURE,
The Yale Review for November com-
ments editorially on the “Gains and
Losses from our Recent Public Policy”
regarding the Philippines and discusses
_ The Philosophy of Modern Advertis-
ing.’ In the body articles Mr. William
F. Willoughby, of the U. S. Department
of Labor, contributes an instructive
article on “The Modern Movement for
the Housing of the Working Classes in
France.” Mr. George K. Holmes, of the
U. S. Department of Agriculture, in a
discussion of “Some of the Economic
Conditions of the Farmer” reveals some
remarkable facts and figures. Professor
James T. Young, of the University of
Pennsylvania, in an article entitled
“Liberty versus Efficiency” draws some
very significant comparisons between the
form and spirit of our American gov-
ernmental institutions as they exist at
the present time. Mr. Edward Porritt
makes an interesting résume of “British
Municipal and Educational Legislation
in 1899.” In the “Notes,” Mr. Porritt
discusses “Subsidy and Bounty Legisla-
tion in Canada in 1809”; Professor John
C. Schwab contributes some interesting
“Statistics of College Graduates”: and
Dr. A. G. Keller, of Yale University,
furnishes a brief notice on the “Labor
of School Children in Denmark.” The
number concludes with the usual book
reviews. This department is made of
more practical value by the addition of
shorter book notices under the head
of. “Recent: Literature”... The =- Yule
Review is published quarterly by Tuttle,
Morehouse & Taylor, New Haven, Conn.
The contents of the American Journal
of Science for December are as follows:
The Highest Aim of the Physicist, by H.
A. Rowland; Notice of an Aerolite that
recently fell at Allegan, Michigan, by
H. L. Ward; Note on a New Meteoric
Iron found near Iredell, Bosque County,
Texas, U. S. A., by W. M. Foote; New
Occurrence of Nepheline Syenite in New
Jersey, by F. L. Ransome; Fauna: of
the Magellanian Beds of Punta Arenas,
Chile, by A: E. Ortmann> Results of
the International Cloud Work for the
United States, by F. H. Bigelow; Bacil-
laria of the Occidental Sea, by A.-M.
Edwards; Volumetric Estimation of
Cerium, by P. E. Browning; Estimation
of Thallium as the Chromate, by P. E.
Browning and G. P. Hutchins.
Other Notes,
The December Atlantic might be
called a Chicago number, for three of
the most striking articles are by Chicago
authors. Harriet Monroe’s “The Grand
Canon of the Colorado,” is an effective
sketch of nature and natural scenery;
Mrs. Elia W. Peattie’s lively “The
Artistic Side of Chicago,” pictures the
aesthetic. artistic, educational, and _liter-
ary features of the great citv. while the
short story “The Detectives,” by Will
Payne, is a capital example of the power
of Chicago writers in romantic fiction.
In the December Century is a prose-
poem of Henryk Sienkiewicz, Englished
by his authorized translator, Jeremiah
Curtin, and not yet published even in
Polish. It is called “The Judgment of
Peter and Paul on Olympus.” Sir Wal-
ter Besant begins in the December Cen-
tury a series of papers illustrating life
in East London, as it is to-day. His
manner of treating the subject is that of
the novelist, rather than the essayist,
for he takes as his point of departure
the birth of a typical girl of the East
End—“‘One of Two Millions in East
London,”—and traces her career to the
time of her marriage at seventeen to
a young countryman who has come up
to town to make his living as a porter.
Liz-is a “Geara ochool sitl and Sit
Walter holds that what the average
East Londoner learns from books at
school he afterwards forgets; but that
the civilizing influence of the schools is
incalculable, and has marvelously trans-
formed the East End within the past
In December Outing, there are ten
pages of football matter alone, compris-
ing dates, scores, and a concise descrip-
tion of all the important games played
in the East, Middle West. and South,
finely illustrated; this record matter
makes Outing especially valuable.
in A ete
A “Championship Fire” System
Approved.
[Daily Princetonian.}
One thing was proved beyond a
doubt—that the method employed in the
construction of the last two champion-
ship fires is far superior to that of for-
mer years. In point of brilliancy and
duration, last night’s production excelled
any of its predecessors. Indeed, great
credit is due the men who managed
the celebration for the able manner in
which it was conducted.
Harvard and Yale.
{Harvard Crimson.]
This year, the inclination towards
friendly, personal intercourse with Yale
men is more thoroughly predominant
than in years past. The meetings of
the two Universities have of late been
always most sportsmanlike, and from
the very nature of the relations now
existing, there seems to be springing up
a stronger feeling of affiliation arising
from a sense of common intérests and
ne desirability of mutual good-fellow-
ship.
SYSTEMATIC SAVING.
Although it has been asserted that
“order is heaven’s first law,” very many
people on earth dislike to be tied down
to the dull routine of any particular
method or system.
The failure of the multitude to follow
up self-imposed rules, the observance of
which is dependent upon their own unas-
sisted wills, is an illustration of this fact.
Many fail from carelessness and many
more from lack of perseverance.
In no respect is this failure more com-
mon than in that of the systematic sav-
ing of money. The resolution is often
made and the practice begun; but al-
though the opportunity continues the
practice ceases. The monthly deposits
in the savings bank continue regularly
for a while, are omitted once or twice,
continued again, again omitted, become
occasional, and then cease altogether.
What is needed in many of these cases
is a little help, a timely reminder, a slight
compulsion. Such a helper and monitor
is found, in its least objectionable and
most salutary form, in Life Insurance as
presented by companies like 1 he Mutual
Life of New York.
After careful consideration let the
amount that can be comfortably carried
be decided upon, and when the need of
systematic premium payment is realized,
the required stimulus, which at first may
to some seem irksome, will make the
practice a pleasure, especially when the
first dividend period is reached and the
fact realized that the payments have not
only purchased protection, but have at
the same time nroduced interest-bearing
assets accumulating at reasonable rates.
Many are saving in this way who
would most certainly fail to do so other-
wise, and besides this their families are
_ protected to the amount of their policies
in case of their decease.
There is continuous power in order,
system, method. These factors in men’s
lives have accomplished the grandest
results in scholarship, statesmanship and
accumulation of wealth. One of the
greatest of modern religious denomina-
tions, the largest and strongest in pro-
portion to-its age, receives its name
from its methodical arrangement and
government, largely the secret of its
wonderful growth.
While The Mutual Life Insurance
Company of New York does not pro-
fess to promote the strength of denomi-
nations or the scholarship of students, it
does profess to conserve and stimulate
the fortunes of its patrons.
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