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scription agents, a fair allowance would
be $100 per year for the four years.
VI. CLOTHING, TRAVELING, INCIDENTALS.
Under this head are grouped all other
legitimate college expenses, not included
above. Those who go home frequently
in term time must naturally take the ad-
ditional item of travel into consideration.
The average expenditures for these three
items vary from $50 to $300 per year.
The conclusiongg arrived at may be
tabulated as follom®:
Be PNUTION oops vbw oh ek ee os $155
Oe Oar a Seis be a ais Fa 200
III. Room, heat and furniture 200
IV. Books, stationery, etc. .. 45
V. Subscriptions, dues, etc. 100
VI. Clothes, traveling and
RiCHibite hs Fork ees 150-300
Cost of a yeafat:¥ alesy.4 3. $850-$1,000
A summary of the average annual ex-
penses of each class since 1890 as pub-
lished in the class records is as follows:
$800 Fi es ee $1,059
POE ee eS, 945
TOGO oe Gees ak ee as. 779
5 RRR Cte TRL REE ig Gr ay Seca 1,077
WR Pe eee PE tT 132
Pee iG heey ce as ea 957
oo RENEE Sep Sieg sgh EE OS aed a 942
81 ga Nanel aaa Wiis Rent Lage oes S 803
B00 re I; O15
ba ee ee ae 900. 36
In the two classes of 1897 and 1898
out of about 400 men who reported, 275,
or 68%, had spent less than $1,000 an-
nually.
A study of the facts presented leads
to the conclusion that the cost of a year
at Yale has decreased within the past
decade. Promenade expenses have been
lessened, private sweeps have been done
- away with, and abuses in connection with
subscription-soliciting among Freshmen
have been checked by Faculty restric-
tions. The average undergraduate of
the present generation is spending far
less money for drinks than formerly and
perhaps more in dress. He is generous
in his support of religious and philan-
thropic enterprises. He recognizes that
“Yale is a place for work” and that a
premium is placed upon all worthy exer-
tions. In many instances men of large
means, catching this spirit, have pre-
ferred to cover part of their own ex-
penses by personal efforts rather than
be entirely dependent upon an annual
allowance from home.
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Eighty Crew Candidates.
The call for candidates for the three
upper class crews was made by Captain
Allen, Saturday, January 28, and brought
out 68 new men, which number added
to the University men of last year and
the substitutes brings the total up to 81,
the largest number reporting in the his-
tory of Yale boating. By the plan of
working through the classes, as de-
veloped by Dr. Gallaudet and Captain
Allen, a wide departure from the old
methods, everyone of these 81 men are
considered candidates for the University
Crew, all the positions of which are
open till at least the Spring regatta.
_ Work was begun Monday afternoon
in the tank and, considering the large
number of men to be handled, moved
very smoothly. Each crew gets half an
hour’s careful coaching from coaches
from the Senior and Junior classes, who
are quite competent to teach the funda-
mental of the stroke.
The Freshmen, who started work in
the tank two weeks ago with 120 candi-
dates, have been reduced to about 60.
In this number there appears to be a
great deal of good material.
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Football Association Officers.
The election of officers of the Univer-
sity Football Association Friday night,
January 26, resulted as follows: Presi-
dent, Robert B. Hixon, 1901, La Crosse,
Wis, by acclamation; Vice-President
from 1901 S., William M. Fincke, New
York City; Assistant Manager from
1902, Charles D. Francis, Winchester,
Tenn.; Secretary from 1902, George W.
Lindenberg, Columbus, O. At the same
meeting P. A. Rockefeller, President for
last season, read a statement of the fin-
ances of the Association, showing the
total football receipts to be $43,455.13.
Expenditures were $21,217.52, leaving a
balance of $22,237.61. The gross re-
ceipts of the Harvard game _ were
$509,384, and the net $49,700.32, while the
gross receipts of the Princeton game
were only $20 450, less than half as
much, and the net receipts, $27,745.49.
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Baseball Season Soon to Open.
The Yale baseball season will com-
mence Wednesday, February 7, when
Captain Stewart Camp puts both the
University and Freshman batteries to
work. About two weeks later field work
will be begun and by Mar. 1, when Coach
Nichols of the Boston League nine 1s
expected to arrive, Mr. Camp hopes to
have his system going smoothly. Nichols
will stay with the nine until the first
week in April, giving most of his at-
tention to the battery candidates. The
chances for a good team are unusually
bright.
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Wale Union Officers,
The semi-annual election of officers
for the Yale Union was held on Friday
evening, January 26, and resulted as fol-
lows: President, Philip Cory Walcott,
1900, of Rutherford, N. J.; Vice-Presi-
dent, Ralph Olney Wells, 1901, of Hart-
ford, Conn.; Secretary, Thomas Wat-
son, 1900, of Greenville, Pa.; Treasurer,
Charles Mills DeForest, 1901, of New
Haven, Conn.; Executive Committee,
Ashley Day Leavitt, 1900, of Mel-
rose, Mass.; Allan Harvey Richardson,
1901, of Waterbury, Conn., and Mason
Trowbridge, 1902, of Chicago, Ill.
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Lecturers Appointed.
At a meeting of the Faculty of the
Yale Theological School held recently,
Professor William N. Clarke, D.D., of
Colgate University, and Professor John
F. Genung, Ph.D., of Amherst College,
were appointed special lecturers in the
School for the coming year.
The appointments have been accepted,
but the dates and subjects of the lectures
have not as yet been determined.
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Condition of Profs. Phelps and
: Chittenden.
The condition on Tuesday of Hon. E.
J. Phelps, Kent Professor of Law in
Yale, who was taken sick with pneu-
monia last week, was a little improved
over his condition last Sunday. There
are now hopes of his recovery.
Director R. H. Chittenden of the
Scientific School has safely passed the
crisis in his typhoid fever and seems to
be recovering rapidly. He will not be
out, however, for several weeks to come.
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Cheney and Ives Memorials.
The Class of Ninety-Six held a meet-
ing at the Yale Club in New York on
Saturday, January 27, about seventy at-
tending. It was voted to build a joint
memorial to Gerard M. Ives and Ward
Cheney, the preference being for a gate-
way, if that is possible. Fuller details
of the meeting will be published in a
later issue of the WEEKLY, the present
paper going to press too early to admit
a full report.
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Gifts to Colleges.
Summing up the gifts to Harvard
University last year, when the total re-
ceived by the University reached the
handsome figure of $1,550,000, the Crim-
son points to the fact that only $35,000
was given without restrictions. What
such a fact means is too well known to
require elaboration. It means that prob-
ably the running expenses of Harvard
have been greatly increased by the estab-
lishment of special departments, while
practically nothing has come in to meet
those extra expenses. It is a thing for
those who wish to benefit a college to
remember.
In the meanwhile, the Alumni Register
of the University of Pennsylvania, in
its January number, which, by the way,
is an unusually handsome one, calls at-
tention to the new gift to that Univer-
sity of $250,000, of which $200,000 is
given without restriction, to be used as
the trustees see fit. The other $50,000
is guaranteed to make up any deficit in
the War Memorial Tower.
Man’s Rcason.
The standard definition of man’s reason is, specifi-
cally, the faculty that enables him to distinguish between
the real and the imaginary, the true and the false, in the
degree possessed by all sane persons, and to take part
in the ordinary duties of life; the normal exercise of
rational faculties; that which is in conformity to general
Opinion; the mature consensus of public thought, free
from prejudice or passion, that becomes a standard in
the community ; common sense; that which is right or
benefiting; just procedure. This certainly seems an
adequate and sufficient definition of ‘‘reason,” yet in the
face of this, it often happens that the man of means,
who is assumed to be reasonable, allows the thought to
enter his mind: ‘‘ what need has a man for life insurance
who already has riches?” To those who have been
benefited under policies taken out by their prudent and
and wealthy fathers, husbands or legators, in days gone
by, this question needs no answer.
One of the chief causes of the rich man continuing
rich, is due to the fact that he re-invests his income con-
tinuously, thereby keeping his possessions in such a
condition that in the event of his sudden death, an
available sum of money, such as a policy of life insur-
ance would provide, is a necessity in order to protect
the estate from sacrifice or irreparable loss, and thus
maintain the affairs of the deceased in a condition con-
sistent with their past.
Unthinking people may not be aware that the
moment a man dies, the protecting hand of the law
covers all his properties (except the life insurance policy,
which is the property of the beneficiary named), and no
part thereof can be made use of, even by his nearest and
dearest heirs, until the will shall have been proved or
the administrators appointed, when the just claims of
relative, friend and creditor, alike, are to be met.
Many wealthy men would gladly pay for life insur-
ance, a rate far in excess of that now fixed, if they were
physically eligible to the benefits of that great pro-
tection. .
One might ask the rich man why he insures his
property against loss by fire, he having sufficient means
to rebuild should he have such loss. To such a question
he would scorn to answer, when that answer is -so
obvious, but continue to protect his property against
loss from a most uncertain element—fire ; yet he fails to
provide against that which is inevitable—his death—an
event by which his family and property must suffer much
greater loss. Examples of this kind are presented
almost daily, to those who are in a position to realize
what might have been saved from sacrifice by the judi-
cious forethought and proper use of reason.
“Let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest
he fall.” In other words, don’t trust too far to present
financial safety, but provide the surest safeguard against
future reverses of fortune. Make life insurance the
barrier between your loved ones and possible poverty.
In the contracts of the great Mutual Life Insurance
Company of New York, can be found all the qualities
of absolute protection, based upon sound business
reason.