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186 YALE ALUMNI WEEKLY SUBSCRIPTION, - $3.00 PER YEAR, Foreign Postage, 4o cents per year. PAYABLE IN ADVANCE, Single copies, ten cents each. For rates for papers in quantity, address the office. All orders for papers should be paid for in advance Checks, drafts and orders should be made payable to the Yale Alumni Weekly. All correspondence should be addressed,— Yale Alumni Weekly, New Haven, Conn. The office is at Room 6, White Hall. 7 ADVISORY BOARD. HENRY C;: “ROBINSON, ?53,....-caasse- Hartford. WILLIAM W. SKIDDY, ’65S.,..........New York, C> PuRDY. LINDSLEY, 775 S.,.. 002 shee New Haven. WVAT TER CAMBS ROS, wick a sce chs oe New Haven. WILLIAM G. DAGGETT, ’80,....0...0. New Haven. JAMES R.. SHEFFIELD, °87,....0...-- New York. Joun A. HARTWELL, ’89S.,........- ..New York, Lewis. So WERCH Sy ch. S50. once eed New Haven. EDWARD VAN INGEN, ’o1S.,....cee00. New York, PORREEAPAY). Ors eiccaes « 6c tans exe New York. 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 S. Entered as second class matter at New Haven P. O. NEW HAVEN, CONN., JAN. 31, 1900, TO EACH YALE GRADUATE. Questions involving most radically the future of the YAreE ALUMNI WEEKLY and requiring answer now, are before the Advisory Board of the paper. If you are in any way interested in the paper, you are invited to communicate at once and the facts will be pre- sented to you. Address YALE ALUMNI WeEEKLy, New Haven, Conn. Lewis S. WELCH, Editor and Manager, YALE ALUMNI WEEKLY. te YALE’S BI-CENTENNIAL $ BUILD- INGS. The only question about them is—can Yale have them? The plans are shown in full here. They are described on the first page of this paper. They have been talked about by the President and his speeches reported at great length in this paper,—until the whole body of Yale’s alumni and friends are aware of the purposes and hopes and needs of Yale. The time has now come for Yale men to answer the appeal that has been made to them in behalf of the Yale of the twentieth century. et i nr, YALE TRACK ATHLETICS. Mr. Brooks’ letter, printed elsewhere in this issue, is quite naturally well worth reading. It is especially timely and in sympathy with the prevailing spirit of the new athletic era of Yale,— the era of ideals, of athletics for all, of sport for the love of sport, and when it is none the less a disgrace, than in the old days, to be overcome, if you have not put forth the best efforts of which you are capable. Track athletics ought to become an integral part of the sys- tem of athletics and the outdoor life, all the year round, at Yale, or they ought to be dropped at once. We are getting thoroughly disgusted with the spectacle of Yale doing things half way. Let there be an end of it. If Mr. Brooks’ plea were for an artificial form of sport, for which interest must be especially ex- cited, and which had no value for the development of the individual, we would advise him to quit his exertions. But such is not the case, The reverse of YALE AUMLUMNI these things is true and we are glad to hear such a good, frank talk from him. As in other branches of athletics, the Yale leadership is excellent this year and we look for better things. ——__ @ « —___—_— ALUMNI CO-OPERATION FOR YALE As the columns of the WEEKLY abun- dantly testify, Yale alumni are well or- ganized, and they are well connected with the University through these or- ganizations. They ought not, however, by any means to remain contented with the present condition of things. Most alumni associations can accomplish a great deal more than they do, both for Yale and for their members. The alumni of other colleges and universi- ties are following Yale’s lead in this respect and are accomplishing a great deal through their organizations. We do not begrudge them anything, but wish them godspeed. At the same time, Yale must be awake and her graduates must not feel that Yale alumni are the only alumni who are working for their alma mater. President Hadley either began or closed nearly every speech on his west- ern trip with a tribute to the loyalty of Yale men, and with an emphasis on the fact that only by this sentiment of loyal cooperation can Yale realize her great hopes. These are not words of oratory, or courteous appreciation of hospitality, or the forced compliments from one who wishes to get the aid of others. They are the words of truth and soberness. Yale alumni cannot think of them too often. me atl Gp ee ee FEWER AT THE PROM, Not so many people for the Prom. This is an interesting thing to observe. It is hard to explain. There are specu- lations on it elsewhere, which may go for what they are worth. We are not troubled. The Promenade will not die. There is no more danger of it than that there will be an end of moonlight nights and sunsets and other glories. Some of the artificial environments of what is now called the Prom may be changed a good deal, but the realities of the Prom will never be abandoned. The sub- stance, or better, the heart of the Prom is too close to the heart of young (and old) Yale. There may be different places and times and seasons, but whether it be Armory doors or the great bronze gates of a Memorial Vestibule, the Saint will ever swing them open with something more than graciousness in his manner when the Prom girl knocks. ——+04—____—_ THE BASEBALL PRESIDENCY. The retirement of Mr. Reuben C. Twichell from the Presidency of the — Yale Basebail Association is regretted by all who know Mr. Twichell, and that means by a large part of-the Univer- sity. He is of the right kind for a Yale officer—very emphatically so. A captain is greatly helped and a Univer- sity benefitted by stitch management as Mr. Twichell has shown himself capa- ble of giving. Yale affairs more and more demand the service of such men and any failure of popular elections to secure them, for any reason whatever, will call for rebuke and rebellion. It is very fortunate that Mr. Adams was placed in Mr. Twichell’s office. The standard will be-well maintained. It is a very happy selection. ee In the speech of President Hadley at St. Paul, in which, for the most part, he went on other lines than in his pre- vious Western speeches, or treated old themes in a new way, the fact was Wr eo ee brought out that the former Treasurer of the University, Mr. Farnam, con- tinues to serve the University in a most important capacity as Chairman of the Building Committee. This is worth calling attention to, because it simply adds to the long record of valuable service given without any compensation to the University by Mr. Farnam. It still further increases his claim to the gratitude and regard of the entire body of Yale alumni and friends. —_—_—__—_¢@—__ BOATING AT HARVARD. Immediately upon the announcement of the burning of the Harvard boat- house the graduates in New York increased their original gift for the house by $15,000." Mr. Weld also announced that he would furnish the Weld, Newell Clubs a_ swift, new launch. Harvard is thus reassured as to the proper care of her boating interests, and Yale congratulates her upon this evidence of the confidence of her grad- uates and friends, and the substantial form which this confidence has taken. The burning of the boathouse was most unfortunate, but it seems now that it will cause only temporary inconveni- ence at the most. a History of Ancient Philosophy. “History of Ancient Philosophy,” by Dr. W. Windleband. Authorized trans- lation by H. E. Cushman, Ph.D., from the Second German Edition. Charles Scribner’s Sons. 388 pp. $2 net. Dr. Cushman’s translation of Windle- band’s. “History of Ancient Philosophy” has made available for English readers a book which is well known and highly appreciated in Germany. For the special student of philosophy it is an excellent manual because of its clear, concise and comprehensive exposi- tions of the various philosophical systems of antiquity. To the general reader also it is valua- ble as revealing the imperishable worth which the creations of Greek thought possess for human culture. Most inter- estingly is an insight given into the thoughts of those early thinkers who were unsatisfied with the mythological explanation of the beginnings of the world from the loves and quarrels of the gods and goddesses, and who believed that observation and reasoned reflection upon the world of experience would yield a truer knowledge of its real na- ture and meaning. In the course of this progressive process the author points out the distinct steps which were taken and which constituted the origin of modern European science—how Anaxi- mander drew the first map of the known world; how Heraclitus came upon the idea of natural law; how Empedocles distinguished force and matter; how Anaximander first conceived of chemical elements; how the Pythagoreans at- tempted mathematical formulations of natural laws, discovered the sphericity of the earth and guessed at the helio- centric theory in astronomy; how Dem- ocritus first postulated atoms and me- chanical necessity to explain the natural world, and how several of the philoso- phers anticipated the nebular hypothesis and modern evolutionary ideas. In religious thought the development is similarly shown. Particularly clear is the history of the transition from pop- ular polytheism to philosophic mono- theism through purely speculative rea- soning, which began with Xenophanes and fairly completed itself in Aristotle. The entire exposition, first of Greek and then of Roman philosophy, conclud- ing with the early church fathers and the Neo-Platonic movement, is illuminated by the tracing of the relation of the philosophic thought to the history of af- fairs which shows, for instance, how the successful issue of the Persian Wars brought about the period of the Greek enlightment, and how the develop- ment of the spirit of political independ- ence gave an individualistic turn to theoretical ethics. _ The book is also well adapted as an introduction to the study of philosophy. The translator remarks in his preface: “I have never been able to see why the approaches to the study of philosophy have been made as difficult and uninvit- ing as possible. In other hard subjects tts all sorts of help and devices are used to allure the beginner within. Into philosophy the beginner has always had to force his way with no indulgent hand.” By this translation he has per- formed a real service to students of philosophy in this country, for the author interestingly leads the reader to phil- osophize for himself by a kind of in- ductive method. He shows just what problems each of the old philosophers attacked, how they solved them, with what merits and what defects, and how these latter were continually rectified and supplemented by the succeeding phil- osophers. Through a survey of this historical development of philosophic thought among the keen Greeks and the practical Romans, and through an in- telligent understanding of how and why certain concepts were overthrown in the course of criticism, while certain other concepts maintained themselves satis- factorily to the minds of several cen- turies of thinkers, the beginner in phil- osophy is helped to the progressive con- struction of an adequate philosophical system of his own. The book has recently been adopted as a University text-book. Y ave Law SCHOOL For circulars and other information apply to Prof. FRANCIS WAYLAND, Dean. When doing business, please be sure to mention the YALE ALUMNI WEEKLY. Guaranty Trust Co. of New York. NASSAU, CORNER CEDAR STREET. CAPITAL, = = ™ = $2,000,000 SURPLUS, = $3,500,000 ACTS aS TRUSTEE FOR CORPORATIONS, FIRMS, AND INDIVIDUALS, AS GUARDIAN, EXECUTOR, AND ADMINISTRATOR, TAKES ENTIRE CHARGE OF REAL AND PERSONAL ESTATES. 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