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the school for peers and peeresses were
present, and a number of the nobility
who are patrons of educational interests.
The manner of the daily lecture was
as follows: Mr. Ukita,'a former Japan-
ese student at Yale and later professor
at the Doshisha University, came to
the Professor’s house about two o’clock
each afternoon, and being furnished
with Dr. Ladd’s notes began the prepa-
ration for his work of interpretation.
If Professor Ladd could catch a few
minutes from the incessant calls which
were made upon him, he spent them in
going over the subject with Mr. Ukita,
and explaining points that were not
quite clear. At four o’clock they left
the house for tne lecture hall and then
after the inevitable cup of tea in the ante
room of the hall, the lectu-e began.
The Professor sat and spoke what he
had to say (sat i. e. after the audience,
which always rose to its feet as he
stepped upon the platform, had inter-
changed bows with him) in paragraphs
of from ten to twenty minutes. Mr.
Ukita then repeated in Japanese, occu-
pying from twenty-five to fifty per cent.
more time than it had taken to say the
thing in English. The entire lecture
thus lasted two hours and a quarter;
then the lecturer and audience inter-
changed bows standing, there was more
tea-drinking and Dr. Ladd took his
jinrikisha home to a late dinner.
LECTURES IN BOOK FORM.
- Three very skillful short-hand repor-
ters (the best in the city; indeed they
were the men employed by Parliament)
took verbatim reports of Mr. Ukita’s
interpretation, which they wrote out
each night and presented to him in
the form of a neat pamphlet the fol-
lowing day. Thus the lectures, after
revision by Mr. Ukita and a final look-
ing over by Professor Nakashima, are
to be published in the form of a book
which Professor Ladd has dedicated
and presented to the Educational
Society, and which will undoubtedly
have a very large sale and ‘be a per-
manent influence upon the teachers of
the country. After the last lecture was
over, President Trugi made Professor
Ladd an address of thanks, and then,
while he was wondering what was
coming next, a rear-admiral who had
been a constant attendant on the course,
rose, stretched “his legs well apart and
put his arms akimbo, as_ though on
the quarterdeck of his ship in the battle
of Yalu River, and emphasized the re-
marks of the President of the Associa-
tion.
Since this course of lectures before
the teachers was over Professor Ladd
has been receiving constant evidences
of its effect upon the audience. Some
of the teachers from the provinces have
gone home, and held public meetings in
the town halls to tell the citizens and
the other teachers what they had heard,
and to spread the inspiration they had
received.
AT THE IMPERIAL UNIVERSITY.
The Monday after the Friday on
which this course closed, Professor
Ladd’s lectures at the Imperial Univer-
sity began. Here the audience was, of
course, smaller (between one and two
hundred) and more select. It included,
however, not only the professors and
special students of psychology, but the
President of the University and the head
professors of physics, geology, biology,
etc. In these lectures there was no
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interpreter, but Professor Ladd spoke in
English three-quarters of an hour, then,
after an intermission of fifteen minutes,
another three-quarters of an _ hour.
This course also was regarded as emi-
nently successful.
But during the’ five weeks of Profes-
sor Ladd’s stay in Tokyo these two
courses of lectures were only a part of
what he was urged into doing. All the
schools, both government and_ private,
were constantly besieging him with
requests to address their students.
Compliance with one such request
meant compliance with a considerable
number; and each such invitation in-
volved upon Professor Ladd consider-
able labor. For the distances are 1m-
mense in Tokyo and to say something
fresh more or less of special preparation
had to be made for each case. But
quiet preparation was simply impossible;
since the professor was called upon
before he was out of bed in the morning
and after he had retired for the night.
However, he managed to get through
with a number of supplementary ad-
dresses and thus reached: several thou-
sand young men with at least an hour’s
talk upon some matter of import con-
nected with their education.
AN AUDIENCE OF NOBILITY.
One of the most interesting of these
“asides” was an address before the
Association of Nobles. This associa-
tion or club is a purely social affair
and it is said that they have never before
extended to any one a similar invitation.
The movement originated with some of
the younger members who had become
interested in the lectures before the
‘teachers. At first the Club was timid
about undertaking such a matter, for
fear the audience might not be worthy
of the name. It was found, however,
that there was more demand for invita-
tions than they could accommodate.
Professor Ladd spoke on ‘Habit and
Character” to an audience of the nobil-
ity which filled to overflowing the hall
in which they do their dancing. A
verbatim report of Mr. Ukita’s transla-
tion of this lecture is to be published
in pamphlet form for distribution to the
members of the Club.
Another morning was spent by Dr.
Ladd at the Higher Normal School,
where a thorough course is required
of every pupil in logic, psychology,
and ethics. The higher class in Eng-
lish was found reading one of Locke’s
Essays. Still another morning was
spent at the school for peers and peer-
esses, where Professor Ladd addressed
some six hundred of the noble’s sons—
in age from fourteen to twenty-four.
A class was reciting in the Professor’s
own Psychology at the hour he visited
the class-rooms of the school.
HONORS.
Many honors and attentions have
been showered upon Professor Ladd.
No other foreigner has ever been so
honored in Japan for his attainments
and character simply. He had an audi-
ence with the minister of education, and
a long conversation with -the Marquis
Ito, the Prime Minister, in connection
with an invitation to luncheon. His
opinion on educational matters has been
consulted by those most prominent in
such matters. And finally, at the re-
quest of the minister of education him-
self, Professor Ladd has been decorated
by the Emperor with The Order of the
Rising Sun, Third Degree, which is re-
served for persons of distinguished
merit, and he has been admitted to the
Imperial audience and has shaken hands
with his Majesty. All this put Pro-
fessor and Mrs. Ladd under the
special protection of the government, so
that during their stay .n Kyoto one of
the carriages of the prefecture was put at
their disposal. The American Minister,
Colonel Buck, has let it be understood
that he regarded Professor Ladd’s ser-
vices as of a really public character to
the nation, and as worth more than
much diplomacy in cementing friendly
relations between the two countries.
In this connection it may be worth
stating that Yale this year has more
Japanese students than any other for-
eign wumniversity except Berlin Univer-
sity. Dr. Ladd’s visit to Japan is likely
to have the effect of turning still more
of the brighter young men of Japan
toward Yale, and thus of increasing the
influence which Yale has been exerting
upon the higher education of that most
interesting country.
NEW FOOTBALL CAPTAIN,
His Record as Athlete and Student—
Standing of Players.
The election of Francis Gordon
Brown, Jr., 1901, Tuesday night, Dec.
5, as Captain of: next year’s football
team, closed the year in football at Yale.
Every man who played in the two
championship contests—Captain Mc-
Bride, Brown, Olcott, Francis, Stillman,
Hale, Hubbell, Snitjer, Gould, Gibson,
Fincke, Sharpe, Keane, Richards and
Chadwick,—was present at the meeting
in the Trophy Room of the Gymnasium
and the vote, as it had been predicted
all the season, was a unanimous one
for Brown. After the election the fif-
teen men went in a body to the Uni-
versity Club, where the annual football
smoker was held. The election was a
very popular one, and when it became
known on the Campus a considerable
body of men gathered, and marching
to Brown’s room gave repeated cheers
for the new captain.
Captain Brown, whose home is in
Flushing, N. Y., where he was born
a little less than twenty years ago,
has a remarkable athletic record. At
Groton School, where he prepared for
College, he captained the School eleven
and played guard. Coming to Yale he
made the University eleven in his
Freshman year, playing left guard in
the Harvard tie game of 1897, at Cam-
bridge, and in the Princeton game
which followed a week later, where Yale
won by the score of 6 too. He played
the same position on the teams of 1808
and 1899 and has the almost unprece-
dented record of having been in every
game the University eleven has played
in the three seasons he has been one
of its members.
Besides being one of the best foot-
ball guards playing to-day, Brown is
an oarsman of great power and more
than ordinary finish. He captained his
Freshman crew, and rowed at No. 5
in the University Crew last year. He
will not go out for the crew this year,
having decided to break the almost
continuous training he has been under
since entering Yale, and devote his
time entirely to the work of develop-
ing the eleven of 1900.
Notwithstanding the great amount of
time Captain Brown has spent in ath-
letics, he has been an excellent student,
regular in attendance throughout his
College course, and in the Junior ap- .
pointments received a Philosophical
Oration, standing in the upper half of
the twenty-five who received that honor.
It is quite likely that at present he is
hardly further down than sixth man in
his Class. Last year he won the 2d
“FRANCIS GORDON BROWN, JR., 1900.
DeForest Mathematical prize. An ex-
amination of the books shows that
Brown has not used up his eight term
cuts, although the team has had four
out of town games. The same is true
of George Stillman and Captain Mc-
Bride, who, though occupied with the
trying duties of a captain, found time
to attend recitations with great regu-
larity.
Almost without exception the mem-
bers of this year’s eleven, and the sub-
stitutes as well, have kept a very clean
record in attendance, as testified to by
the different professors, and stand well
above the 2.25 requirement. George S.
Stillman, rto9o1, right tackle, received a
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quarter, a Second Dispute, and Charles
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DEVELOPMENT OF NEW MATERIAL.
The report of the season should not
close without recording the work that
has been dione by Captain McBride and
supervising coach James O. Rodgers,
Yale ’98, and his assistants, in develop-
“ing material which will make the task
of building a team next Fall a much less
difficult one than Captain McBride had
to face. Starting with only two old
players and a large number of abso-
lutely new but willing men, they ham-
mered two auxiliary elevens into shape
by the first of October and kept them
playing more than a month under
steady, careful coaching. The result
was the development of many good
men who will be ready to take hold
with vigor next Fall without the loss
of much valuable time teaching them
the very rudiments of the game.
Thirty-two coaches, as far as the
WEEKLY has been able to learn, helped
in the great work this Fall, spending
time varying from one day to two
months with the men, most of them leav-
ing their business to help towards the de-
sired end. Their names are: James O.
Rodgers, 798; Walter Camp, 80; H. H.
Knapp, ’82; Ray Tompkins, 84; W.
TT) Bull (83 SW ee. Corbin, -’So0;
F. W. Wallace, ’80; Dr. J. A. Hartwell,
280 9.:° Dr W.-C. -Wartemburg, “89 S.;
Ho Ls Wiliams: “oi; Rhodes,
‘Gi Ti MeClnne oe: Vance Mc-
Gorhicek, 703 SS ~L-F-Buiss, ’935.; HH.
S. Graves, 794 L.S.; Thomas Cochran,
‘O47 oP OS -pitterwort, “05; G. ‘T.
Adee, "65; “Al Hainkty, ’95;°°P. T.
Strinian."05 3° W.4). Hickok; "95 S_;
S&S B. thorie, 60: H:-P. Cross, *96;
Be-T. Murphy;o7: C. Chadwick, ’97; L.
EHiinkey, “07245. B. Catten, ’97; L. M.
Hass. °o7; ©. 2M. Pincke 97; -M. U.
Ely, 98; and’ A:- H.- Durston; ‘99S.
Each one of these men was asked to
lend a hand and without friction they
worked together for the best interest of
the team. Besides Mr. Rodgers, who
was with the men from the first week
in October to the Princeton game with
the exception of about a week, and Mr.
Bull, who was absent from the field
only three days between September 2c
and the end of the season, Mr. Hinkey.
Mr. Murphy, Mr. Hickok, Mr. Cross
and Mr. Corbin gave the most time
Mr. Hinkey came the first of November
and remained the rest of the time.
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Captains at Other Colleges.
Harvard has elected Charles Dudley
Daly, 1901, to be captain, Daly has
played quarterback on the Cambridge
eleven the past two seasons. Prince-
ton’s new captain is Henry William
Pell, 1902, left tackle of the 1899 team.
At Pennsylvania Thomas Truxton Hare
was re-elected and at Columbia, Thomas
Simons, formerly a member of the Yale
Class of 1900.