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NEW HAVEN, CONN., JAN. 17, 1900.
WARD CHENEY’S DEATH.
We will not talk about our loss. It
is better not to try to describe it further.
Some things may be and must be put
upon the record, and classmates in dif-
ferent cities, fellow workers, companions
in arms, are saying such things about
Ward Cheney as they can find words for,
pointing to virtues proudly, to graces and
to loveableness with sadness, because
they are lost. If there are those who
doubt that there yet remain at the Yale
which Congregational ministers founded
and governed the ancient virtues of Pil-
grim and Continental, and of those who
went steadfastly and in great com-
panies to their death, hardly more than
a generation ago, we ask them to read,
in the records of another page, what
manner of youth it was who has just
given his life to his country? Those
who testify are boys who knew him on
the Yale Campus, and who can not yet
sense the fact that he is not to come
back to the Campus; fellow workers on
his newspaper, mature men and young
men; soldiers who watched him with
pride in the name he bore and the name
he was making. In it is a great tonic
for sick souls—for hearts that fail or
weaken thinking of their country.
As for us, men of Yale, we glory in
the story of Ward Cheney’s life and
death. It seems to us the privilege and
the opportunity of Yale Americans, to
take his sacrifice in the spirit in which
he made it. It again pledges the place
we love as our second home and all the
members of this great family of Yale
to a higher and more constant devotion
to that country, to which Yale at her
birth was consecrated and to which from
time to time she has offered, with proud
tears, her dearest sons. The feelings
will come that are not to be put into
words. It is not in us to be reconciled
when asked to give up such boys as Gus
Ledyard and Ward Cheney. But let us
take the best that the hour and its sacri-
fice give to us. It is the time to turn
again to the address of Horace Bush-
nell, the grandfather of Lieutenant
Cheney, given here at New Haven, at
the Commencement of 1865, and learn
again from him how not only those who
have gone have honored us by the sacri-
fice they have made, but how also they
have laid upon us a high and a holy ob-
One of the Guild’;
the author of “Princeton Stories.”
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ligation, for whose discharge their own
example is a guide and an inspiration.
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PROFESSOR IRVING FISHER.
The WEEKLY has paid no attention
to the persistent rumors that Professor
Irving Fisher had severed, or was about
to sever, his connection ‘with Yale.
Those rumors have been loaded with so
much stuff about alleged changes of the
theory of instruction of Economics at
Yale, with fool talk about former cap-
italistic tendencies and present purposes
to play a popular role, that it has
seemed unnecessary to say to the con-
stituency of the WEEKLY that they were
entirely without foundation.
However, the fact of Prof. Fisher’s
connection with the College would
naturally depend somewhat on _ his
health, and it is a pleasure to be able
to say that he has no intention of giv-
ing up his professorship, although he
does not purpose making a permanent
home in New Haven for at least some
time to come. Within. the near future,
although he does not set the time ex-
actly, he will resume his work and be in
New Haven for the Fall term. His
health is greatly improved and almost
completely recovered. He is now at
Colorado Springs. — ;
To those who have been in any doubt °
about his connection with the College,
the news will be very welcome, as Prof.
Fisher’s position in his particular branch:
of economic study is most advanced
and his value as a member of the staff
very great.
CURRENT LITERATURE.
University Matters in the
‘“ Atiantic.”
A great deal of literature interesting
to University people is promised by the
Atlantic Monthly this year. And some
of it has already come. “Reform in
Theological Education,” by President
Hyde in the January number, handled a
hard problem in an interesting way. In
numbers to come will be found “The
Perplexities of a College President by
and “Progress in
English Instruction,” by Professor Cook
of Yale. Professor Woodrow Wilson
of Princeton will have a article on
“Democracy and Efficiency.” And these
are fair samples of the excellent things
in all lines prepared for Atlantic readers
in 1900. Every lover of good things in
literature and education and politics is
glad to read the publishers’ announce-
ment that the magazine has more sub-
scribers than ever and had greater
growth last year than at any other time
in its history.
A Good Princeton Story.
. Jesse Lynch Williams continues to set
forth the Princeton spirit in ways that
reflect credit on him as a writer and
on his alma mater as a place where
good men are made. The processes, as
portrayed in such a book as “The Ad-
ventures of a Freshman” are not gentle,
but they cut towards the form of cardi-
nal manly virtues and one does not care
to criticise details. In fact it makes a
Yale man rather sigh for the days of
wholesome personal encounters between
the classes to follow the fortunes of the
“Deacon” and the ways by which he
learned to walk the line of Self-respect-
ing independence without destroying the
laws of the Campus. “The Adventures
of a Freshman” is a good story as well
as being wholesome. And the public, it
is a pleasure to note, appreciate it. It
would be strange if they did not take
kindly to anything in this line offered by
The
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The board of editors of the Yale
Literary Magazine have awarded the
gold medal to Ranulph Kingsley, IQOI,
of New Rochelle, New York. The sub-
ject of the essay was “The Spirit of
French Poetry in the Nineteenth Cen-
tury.” The medal, which is valued at
$25, is offered annually by the editors
of the Magazine, and is open to competi-
tion to any member of the Academic
Department.
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THE LATE LIEU. CHENEY.
Resolutions — Memorial Suggested —
Mr. Adams’ Tribute.
The body of the late Lieutenant Ward
Cheney, whose death from wounds re-
ceived in the fighting near Imus was
recorded last week, will be brought to
this country for burial.
Three days after the news was re-
ceived of Ward Cheney’s death, Mrs.
Charles Cheney, wife of Ward’s oldest
brother, died of typhoid fever. She had
been desperately ill for several weeks.
She was, before her marriage, Mary
Brainard, daughter of the Hon. Leverett
Brainard of Hartford, and brother of
Charles Brainard, who was in the
Class of Ninety-One at Yale and died in
his Senior year, and of Morgan Bulkeley
Brainard of the present Senior Class of
Yale College.
THE LATE .LIEUT. WARD CHENEY.
The following editorial, which ap-
peared in the Hartford Courant, was
written by Charles H. Adams, 66, of
the editorial staffff of that paper, who,
like all others in the office, was very
deeply attached to Cheney:—
“Tt is a very hard thing for us, who
such a short time ago were associated
with him in the intimate companionships
of daily work and talk, to say goodby
in this public way to Ward Cheney.
In the wide sorrow which his death has
caused, the Courant has its full share.
There was no oné here who did not love
him. It was from this office that he
went away in 1898 at his country’s
summons. We had persuaded ourselves
with a resolute hopefulness that he
would escape the hazards of the cam-
paign and come back—bronzed, gaunt,
soldierly, a veteran—to the welcome
that awaited him. Now that grave,
earnest face of his, as the dear fellow
marched by the City Hall with his com-
rades on the way to his first camp, has
become one of those memories that do
not fade until all things earthly fade.
“Bismarck once said that the whole
Eastern Question was not worth to Ger-
many the bones of a single Pomeranian
grenadier. In the first smart of this
bereavement, some of us who loved him
may very likely have felt that all the
Philippines were not worth the life of
Ward Cheney. Of course it is a hasty,
indefensible feeling. The duties of the
country, the interests of the country, our
obligations with regard to both, are
precisely the same to-day that they were
a week ago. But very precious, very
costly, is the offering of a young life
so full of promise. Rich and secure is
the country to which such offerings are
made.
“Ward Cheney inherited, with his fine
physique, his courage and his patriotism,
a singularly fine nature—sound and
sweet, through and through. The
robust body was tenanted by a sane and
clean mind. Manliness, frankness, truth,
honesty, looked out of his eyes. Mean-
ness of any sort was as impossible to
him as cowardice. He attracted every-
body—his playmates in boyhood, his
classmates and instructors at the uni-
versity, his acquaintances here in Hart-
ford, his comrades in the service. There
wasn't a drop of the prig or the milksop
in his blood, but he cherished a high
self-respect, he took serious things
seriously, and he did his appointed task
“as ever in his great Taskmaster’s eye.”
Bubb, now commanding the
When he enlisted in 1808 it was not
inconsiderately, from boyish love of
excitement, with any thought of military
picnic or frolic. He had heard the low,
whispered “Thou must,” and his heart
replied “I can.” WHe carried into the
service the thoroughness that had always
marked him in work and play. He took
to soldiering with the inherited aptitude
of one whose father was shot and for a
time supposed to be dead on the field
of Antietam, and he quickly mastered
his new duties. The men in his com-
pany learned to look up to their young
lieutenant with loyal admiration, trust
and affection. His military superiors
found that they could depend upon him
‘absolutely in any pinch calling for brains
Lieutenant-Colonel J. W.
Fourth
Infantry, a hero of the civil war who
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