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EDITOR.
LEwIs S. WELCH, ’89.
ASSOCIATE EDITOR.
WALTER CAMP, ’80.
ASSISTANT EDITOR.
E. J. THOMPSON, Sp.
NEWS EDITOR.
PRESTON KUMLER, 1900
ASSISTANT BUSINESS MANAGER.
BURNETT GOODWIN, ’99 5.
Entered as second class matter at New Haven IP. O.
CONN., JAN. 3, 1900.
New HAVEN,
BLUNDERING ABOUT GIFTS
YALE,
TO
It is a new affliction which has been
visited upon Yale,—this crediting the
University with gifts of enormous value
when none have been made. Of course,
the report that the Misses Stokes of New
York have given gifts variously stated
at from half to three-quarters of a mil-
lion, will go to a thousand different
places which Mr. Stokes’ denial of that
report will never reach. Yale will seem
rich to overflowing and many a purse
will be closed. The Associated Press
reports sent out from here were
correct. The papers which made the
worst blunders printed the correction
considerately in a few lines of fine type
in an obscure corner.
If any Yale man has been deceived, let
him now know that no such gift has
come to Yale. Instead of $750,000 for the
full group of buildings, the very generous
gift of the Misses Stokes of New York
was the sum of approximately $40,000
for a single Administration building, on
which it would be difficult to spend more
money than that.
There has not been, according to any
reliable information that the WEEKLY
can secure, any considerable additions
to Bi-centennial funds since the last
statement was made months ago. Most
of the money is yet to to be secured.
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Price of the New York Dinner.
To the Editor of YALE ALUMNI WEEKLY:
Sir:—I beg leave to take up a few
moments of your time by a communica-
tion which I am led to direct to you in
view of the recent “New York Yale
Dinner,” given in this city.
I wish to say at the outset that it is
not my intention in any way to criticise
any person or persons connected with
the management of the dinner. But I
wish to call attention to what seems to
me a very serious mistake in policy in
charging the price of $6.00 per plate.
The announcement of the dinner sent out
to the graduates contains this  state-
a ;
ment: “The price of tickets, covering
wines and cigars, is $6.00.” Of course
the price named, when it includes “wines
and cigars,” is not at all unreasonable,
but that a price should be set which
must necessarily include wines, seems
to me a considerable hardship upon
those men who do not indulge in wine.
I am not questioning the advisability of
using, or of abstaining from the use
of wine, but the fact remains that there
is a large number of men, and I think
I may safely say, the majority of men,
who do not drink wine. It therefore
seems a hardship that such men should
be forced to choose between either pay-
ing for wine which others drink, or
else staying away from their Yale din-
ner entirely.
I say their dinner because it is their
dinner; it is a dinner, the object of
which is to gather together once a year
just as many alumni of the University,
resident in and about New York, as can
possibly come. These gatherings of
alumni are universally acknowledged to
be the occasions upon which loyalty to
the University is fostered and her sphere
of influence enlarged. The older grad-
uates, whose enthusiasm may have be-
come somewhat dulled through the dis-
traction of years and labor, are made
to feel that enthusiasm anew and their
pride in the University is strengthened,
and more men are thus induced to
choose Yale as their alma mater. That
these alumni gatherings are of great im-
portance to the University is conceded,
I am sure, by every interested person,
and the faculty certainly recognize it by
sending their best men to represent them >
at the alumni gatherings all over the
United States, wherever they are held.
The principal alumni gathering is un-
doubtedly the one held here in New
York, and it should be made to include
just as large a number of men as can
possibly be gathered together. If aman
who does not care to use wine and
whose circumstances compel him to be
careful in small expenditures, finds that
the price of the dinner, when set at
$6.00, necessitates his paying for the
wines used by other men, he will, and I
know instances where he has, declined
to attend. Undoubtedly fifty per cent.
of that charge was made to cover wines,
and without wine, the tickets could have
been set at $3.00.
The Quill Club, of this city, has a din-
ner once a yedr at Sherry s, and 2 is
in every respect, with the exception of
wine, a dinner of as high a standard as
the Yale Dinner. The price charged in
that instance is $3.00 per plate.
I submit that it would tend much more
to a successful alumni gathering in this
city, if the price charged were without
wine and if those who desire wine are
allowed, as they easily could, to order it
in any quantity as an extra. I am sure
by this means the alumni gathering
would be larger, and I understand that
a large gathering is always preferable to
a small one, not only for the fostering of
our pride in the college, but also for fur-
thering our acquaintance with each
other.
Very truly yours,
: ELBERT B. HAMLIN.
New York, Dec. 18, 1890.
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Essex County Alumni,
The annual meeting of the Yale
Alumni Association of Essex County
(New Jersey) was held at Davis’s Res-
taurant, Music Hall Building, Orange,
on Friday, Dec. 15th. In the absence of
the President, Emile Schultze, ’85, who
was unable to be present on account
of the recent death of his father, George
EK. Coney, ’76, acted as presiding officer.
The following officers were elected for
the ensuing year: President, Richard M.
Colgate, ’77; Members of Executive
Committee, Charles A. Mead, ’84, and
Sanford E. Cobb, ’87; Nominating Com-
mittee, Emile Schultze, ’85, Frederick
Seymour, 81, Frederick R. Lehlbach,
97.
The President-elect, Mr. Colgate, was
unable to be present, being confined to
his house by sickness. On being notified
of his election he responded through
the medium of the telephone.
At the close of the business meeting
supper was served, after which Edward
D. Duffield, Princeton ’92, of South
Orange, N. J., responded to the toast
“Princeton.” He spoke feelingly of the
debt of gratitude Princeton owes and
always will owe to Yale and paid a warm
tribute to Yale athletics. Certain yel-
low journals, that have of late been cast-
ing reflections upon Yale, were men-
tioned in language good and true.
Princeton, said Mr. Duffield, has taken
Yale as a model in athletics for twenty-
four years past and is proud of the fact.
All true Princeton men took great pleas-
ure in watching the football game at
New Haven, even when it appeared that
Yale had won. Mr. Duffield closed by
saying, “Yale men need never be
ashamed of the defeat. It was a beauti-
ful exhibition of gentlemanly sport. I
say with all sincerity that it is a pleas-
ure to watch such a contest from begin-
ning to end.” “I must say something
about the good, old Yale spirit. Prince-
ton is better as a result of it and it
must be our constant endeavor to in-
culate that Yale spirit at Princeton,”
“Really I can not close without mention-
ing the fact that Yale has always stood
by Princeton. We have had our trou-
bles in the past, but Yale has always
been a strong, true friend, and we love
Yale for it.”
At the close of Mr. Duffield’s remarks,
which were enthusiastically received and
at times interrupted by applause, a
Princeton cheer was heartily given.
Addresses were also made by Malcolm
MacLear, Yale ’91; Charles E. Eaton,
Yale 84; Sanford E. Cobb, Yale 787,
and Sidney M. Colgate, Yale ’85.
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Conference of Universities.
The Presidents of Harvard Univer-
sity, Columbia University, Johns Hop-
kins University, the University of Chi-
cago, and the University of California
have issued an invitation to sister insti-
tutions to a conference to be held in
Washington some time in February 1900,
for the consideration of problems con-
nected with Graduate work. The fol-
lowing paragraphs are taken from the
invitation :
“We beg to suggest that the time has
arrived when the leading American uni-
versities may properly consider the
means of representing to foreign uni-
versities the importance of revising their
regulations governing the admission of
American students to the examinations
for the higher degrees.
“This invitation is prompted by a de-
sire to secttre in foreign universities, —
where it is not already given, such credit
as is legitimately due to the advanced
work done in our own universities of
high standing, and to protect the dignity
of our Doctor’s degrees. It seems to
us, for instance, that European univer-
sities should be discouraged from con-
ferring the degree of Doctor of Phil-
osophy on American students who are
not prepared to take the degree from
our own best universities, and from
eranting degrees to Americans on lower
terms than to their native students.
“There is reason to believe that among
other things the deliberations af such a
conference as has been proposed will (1)
result in a greater uniformity of the
conditions under which students may be-
come candidates for higher degrees in
different American universities, thereby
solving the question of migration, which
has become an important issue with the
Federation of Graduate Clubs; (2) raise
the opinion entertained abroad of our
own Doctor’s degree; (3) raise the
standard of our own weaker institutions.
“This invitation is extended to the
University of California, the University
of Chicago, Clark University, Columbia
University, Cornell University, Harvard
University, Johns Hopkins University,
University of Michigan, University of
Pennsylvania, Princeton University, Le-
land Stanford Junior University, Uni-
versity of Wisconsin, and Yale Univer-
sity. The United States Commissioner
of Education has been invited to take
part in the conference. The Federation
of Graduate Clubs has likewise been in-
vited to send a delegate.”
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A Collectivism of Spirit Needed.
[From President Hadley’s address as President of
the American Economic Association at its
- session at Ithaca last month. |
If it were true that each man’s mental
horizon were bounded by his class inter-
ests, this would simply mean that we
were fundamentally unfit for the task
that is before us. It would mean that
the trusts which were placed in the hands
of our citizens by the new conditions
of business and of politics, were of a
kind which we could not fulfil. It would
indicate that the largeness of our prob-
lems ruin us morally and politically, as
Rome was ruined by her imperial prob-
lems two thousand years ago. But I
have faith to believe that this is not the
fate marked out for us to-day. I believe
that the American people and the modern
civilized world in general will solve these
problems, as they have solved other prob-
lems which have come up in the suc-
cessive phases of their history; that we
shall meet the new collective needs of
industry and government with a true
collectivism of spirit and purpose. Not
with that superficial collectivism or
socialism which, like the individual that
it strives to supersede, often makes too
much of mere political machinery, and
believes that men are to be saved by
their institutions rather than their
characters; but with a public spirit
which demands, as a part of the national
ethics, that men shall shape their course
on the basis of conviction rather than
of compromise, and that public discus-
sion shall look toward a common under-
standing rather than a bargain. Be-
cause the political and commercial
methods of the past have led to com-
promise rather than conviction, or be-
cause the successful man of affairs must
be made to compromise where he fails to
convince, let us not say that all politics
and all commerce is but a tissue of com-
promises, and that a political or com-
mercial science which pretends to be
something broader and better than this,
is an illusion. Let us as economists take
the opportunity that lies before us, in
the face of new conditions for whose
treatment the old methods are proving
themselves inadequate. Let us employ
our understanding with regard to public
needs as a means of evoking public
spirit. Let us use whatever special
knowledge we have with all the breadth
of purpose which it is in our power to
attain, and make ourselves, as becomes
men of science, representatives of nothing
less than the whole truth.
A Choice Field Souvenir.
The Eugene Field Monument Com-
mittee took a very happy way for ac-
knowledging contributions to the Fund,
which is to be divided between the family
of Mr. Field and the Monument, by
issuing a book called Field Flowers. Lt
is an illustrated souvenir of Field, if the
term may be used. Some of his choicest
verses have been brought together here
and illustrated, by not less than fifteen
different artists, who made this a work
of love. Those who have drawn for it
are: R. M. Hynes, Reginald B. Birch,
W. L. Taylor, George Wharton Ed-
wards, Frederic Remington, Carl Werntz,
R. W. Taylor, Frank O. Small, Henry
Sandham, C. J. Taylor, W. Granville
Smith, Irving R. Wiles, A. B. Wenzell,
Mary Hallock Foote, Alice Barber
Stephens, J. T. McCutcheon, Eric Pape,
F. Hopkinson Smith, E. W. Kemble,
A. B. Frost, W. A. Rogers, Abby E.
Underwood, Harry Fenn, W. H. Drake,
Charles C. Curran, Charles Mente,
Charles Graham, William Schmedtgen.
Some of the poems chosen were “The
Dream-Ship,” “Little Mistress Sans-
Merci,” “Over the Hills: and Far
Away,” “Jes’ ’Fore Christmas,” “The
Rock-a-by Lady.” The last piece is a
reproduction of the manuscript of “Little
Boy Blue,” illustrated with the little toy
dog and the little toy soldier. The
book is cloth bound, eight by eleven,
and a very pretty thing to keep or give
away. It is given in acknowledgment
of contributions to the Fund, and also
sold at any book store or by the Monu-
ment Fund Committee, A. L. Swift,
Secretary, 180 Monroe Street, Chicago.
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