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192 Rapa ee ee Ss Re ee ee Professor, ‘those are the Ten Com- mandments which I took from the Bible.’ ‘Oh,’ said the student, ‘I beg your pardon, I supposed that you got them out of the Episcopal Prayer Book. “My next living picture relates to the Yale life as shown in the death of a Yale man. Not long ago a fellow in College who was prominent and popular - One of his College classmates wrote to his mother and said: “I do not know any man who was more be- loved by ail the best element in Yale University or who was more prominent in everything that went to emphasize and represent the Yale life, and, as I have been perhaps his most intimate friend, I want to tell you that I have never heard him say a word which he might not have said in the presence of his mother or his sister. Mr. Presi- died. dent, from an intimate acquaintance with the best fellows in Yale to-day, many of whom come together every week at my house, I believe this statement truly represents the spirit and the tone of the Yale life of to-day as illustrated by Bert Twitchell, Cady, Barbour and Brainard, and by that martyred hero, Lieutenant Ward Cheney, as pure, clean and perfect a representative of the Yale life as ever lived, or died, ‘for God, for Country, and for Yale.’ “My next picture relates to so-called Yale athletics. On the morning after that disastrous football game when the glint of the afternoon sun spoiled a goal for Yale, and when the side-line coacher defrauded us of a hard-earned victory, Dan McBride, Captain of the Football Eleven, received a letter from a gentle- man who was present at the game, in which he said words substantially to this effect : “Dear Mr. McBride: Dot not let the disappointment about yesterday's game and the unintelligent criticism which 1s sure to follow, blind you to the fact that your work is heartily appreciated by all the Yale men whose opinion is worth having. Sincerely yours.’ “The writer of that letter, gentlemen, was President of Yale University. What a contrast to the conduct of a certain other college president, who, on a similar occasion, rushed into print to say that at his university they culti- vated brains, not muscles. “My next picture is Yale and Hart- ford. When that able and eminently qualified gentleman, Frank Tyler, con- sented to become Treasurer of Yale Uni- versity, we of Yale raked the country over with a fine tooth comb to get the best man for his chair of jurisprudence, and were forced to come to Hartford and get Ed. Robbins to fill the bill. What a humiliating thought, gentlemen, for us citizens of New Haven that while Hartford makes the laws for New Ha- ven and all the rest of the State, New Haven has to go to Hartford to get the law for Yale University. Judge Shipman teaches them Practice; Judge Prentice teaches them Pleading; | Ed. Robbins now is to teach them Jurispru- dence and H. C. Robinson teaches them the Ethics of law practice.” ——_—_—__§-46>— -—___—~ Yale Water Polo Team. A call for candidates for a water-polo team was issued last week and as a re- sult twelve or fourteen men are prac- tising daily in the swimming pool in the gymnasium. Organization will be per- fected and a captain elected during the present week. A match with the Knick- erbocker Athletic Club has already been arranged for February 15. ee Een en SUNOS aU ACADEMIC SLOUCH, (Reference being to a hat), has a Style of its own, no mat- ter what its hues and age. That is true of most any- thing a College man puts on his head. So gmany College men wear Knox Hats | ~~ Sts 6 ALUMNI YALE BASEBALL CRITICIAED. No Coaches to Return—No Grand Stand—Indifferent Support. A man who thinks, acts and writes very knowingly about the game of base- ball, has been talking with one of the WEEKLY staff about the situation. doesn’t like it and wants to know why it is as it 1s. “Why is it?” he expressed it, “that there will be nobody, not a soul, to coach the nine this Spring? The foot- ball men come back en masse, but Camp must train that team without help this Spring.” 3 “Let's review a few teams. In ’g2, Murphy had Cushing, Dalzell and Stagg back; in ’93, Bliss had practically no- body; in ’94, Case had Beall only, and then but for about a week. The ’95 team needed no coach and had none. In ‘96, Quinby had nobody to coach a green team (seven veterans went out in ’95) till one coach came the last two weeks. In ’97, Keator had Ruston only; in ’98, Greenway was left high and dry till the last month, when one coach helped him out for the rest of the season, with Keator, the king of them all, coming down occasionally. In ’g9, deSaulles had nobody, Keator could only spent four days all told, and Carter three. “Now, why is this? It is not certainly because they do not want to come back, for everyone knows that Yale baseball players are as congenial a lot of men as one wants to be with. But there seems to be no one in sight. Rustin is going to Omaha; Redington is an ac- tive trial lawyer; Carter and Green- way are tied hard and fast; indeed Carter is practically done with coaching for all time. Everybody that played ball at Yale seems to get a job that re- fuses to be left.” TALK OF A GRAND STAND. Another thing that this baseball en- thusiast did not like is the fact that Yale had no grand stand; and he brought up the point that probably does not occur to anybody but baseball players,—that it is no easy matter to pick up a hot ground ball with blue and red parasols and dresses constantly mov- ing, for a background, where a grand stand would give a substantial, steady and regular background. “Do you re- member,” said this baseball man, “that when the football team needed grand stands the president of the Football As- sociation raised some $15,000 as a spe- cial subscription. for this purpose. Where are the baseball enthusiasts? _ And this was his closing comment: “Another thing and I am done. They talk of Yale’s loyalty to her teams. If you get a‘dozen men at Princeton for the Yale game there, you are doing pretty well. Princeton, with less than half the number of men, sends about two hundred and fifty to the game at New -Haven,—and that in examination time.” —_—_—__~+4—_____ Place for the Track Games. Commenting editorially on the differ- ence of opinion as to the place for hold- ing the track games between the team from Oxford and Cambridge and that from Yale and Harvard, the Yale News says that there is no danger of a per- manent break between Yale and Har- vard. The News supports Yale’s conten- tion for neutral grounds and says: “To hold the contest in New York simply for the sake of the money to be obtained from it would be indeed a poor motive for choosoing that or a similar neutral city—a motive which for the good name of college athletics does not deserve to be entertained. But to hold the contest in such a city because of the facilities for preparing for it, for entertaining our visitors with an equal show of hospi- tality and good will, and for accommo- dating the greater number of the alumni and undergraduates of both universities, is a move which both common sense and a due consideration of the preroga- tives of both institutions commend.” —_+o_____ The American students of the Univer- sity of Leipzig, numbering about 65, have recently formed a society which they named the American Students’ Club of the University of Leipzig. He - WEEKLY Names and Weights of Candi- dates, The names and weights of the 68 new men from the three upper classes, who came out at the call of Captain Allen for the class crews, all being at the same time candidates for the Univer- sity crew, are as follows: 1900—B. S. Adams, 150; N. Bardeen, 145; N. W. Bartlett; 152; G. M. Col- vocoresses, 155; C. P. Ellerbe, 155; F. . Havemeyer, 180; P. H. Hays, 170; G. W. Hubbell, 180; G. Lowell, 156; G. A. Lyon, 170; A. MacLean, 160; W. E. Minor, 156; 3B. B. Robertson, i80;; &... Ps Rebinson,” 15:8 WE: Schoyer, 167; C. Stetson, 145; C. H. Wilson, 145; S. M. Wood, 155; S. B. Bourne, L. S., 140. 1901—F’, Beltz, 160; A. H. Carver, 150; S. L. Coy, 175; E. Hausberg, 144; W. W. Hoppin, 150; W. D. Howe, 160; P. B. A. Johnson, 160; J. A. Keppel- many tees C. Mellean.;< tase Ay HH, Markwell, 170; R. M. Newport, 175; MM, KO Parker, 783; S:> BP Resor; 148; Rowland. 100. 4.1... tery jae: P. Tyler; 140; C. 3B. Waterman, 160; J. M.- Watts, 163; W. P. Westfall, 185; A. S. Williams, 158; J. M. Patterson, 160 5: 4G, Pearce, 168.5) fstay aa Ien, 145. 1902—G. Abbott, 150; O. S. Ackley, 165;-°A. S- Blagden: ¥0S* “H.- By Cox, 175; Wak. Day,:142; W.4e Din: 165; R:. B. Dresser, 170;. E. Easton, 160; W. DD. Embree, 120: E.. LL. Pex 65 - WwW; ©. Geamsey, 104; Kz... 2 Goddard. 165; b. 4. Molt. 100; —h se aapore, 1703-4. Di Jonnston,..r545— i <1 eag, 159; G, G. dancoln, 150;-4,. ©. Lud- ington, 155; A. E. Roraback, 155; B. C. -Rumsey, 105; -H. S: Sherman, 170; A, Mo Tayler, 463; 1. Ns etoxell, 245; F. S.. Warmouth, 166; house, 162; W. M. Krementz, 165; P. H. Keinzig, 178. ——_—__+>—___—_ The Annual Ninety-Six Dinner. [From a Ninety-Six Correspondent. ] The “Gladsome Banquet” of Ninety- Six came off on Saturday, January 27, at the Yale Club in New York. The Club is still there, albeit gasping faintly for breath, for seventy men came in re- sponse to the Committee’s tidings and it was a tight squeeze. The dinner itself was conducted in _the traditional manner and _ sounded, from the floor below, like the simultane- ous performance of about fifteen “num- bers” from: Poli’s. “Smoke” Eagle’s horse laugh and “Chevy Chace’s” Tim Toolan could be distinguished at inter- vals, but for the most part there was simply one. great roar which never slackened excepting for a moment or two as the duties of the feast required. At the close there was a pause as Wells rose and spoke briefly of Ward Cheney. “He was a good man,” said he, ‘‘a true son of Yale, and the clean- est and most honest gentleman it has ever been my good fortune to know.” The Class drank the toast in silence, and then left the tables. The piano down stairs was put into commission soon after, and had a rough time of it while Chairman Publius reck- lessly introduced speakers right and left. Henry Baker was first, and for some time bid fair to be last as well. The master at length succeeded in turning off his entertaining stream of strong thought and rich diction however, and put up Oviatt, followed by the faith- ful Ball and Father Loughran. Paret and C. Day then essayed to warble an original duet, after which the Class gladly took to music and song for a change. Just as the men were beginning to leave, a convivial telegram, signed “Berry and Lusk,” arrived from Nash- ville. It was given a long cheer and a vivid and appropriate reply was speedily despatched. The whole affair was a perfect stc- cess, and the large number of men from other localities who were present gave to it that “reunion feeling” which is so precious and counts for so much. We were all rather proud of the record- breaking attendance, but a jolly group of Ninety-Eight men in an adjoining room made us realize that our contem- poraries are likely to press us hard in this. For the good of the College we hope they will. The following is a list of those pres- ent: B. Adams, M. C. Adams, H. D 5... 3. . Waod- . WAIT A BIT! You probably remember we have a sale about this time of the year. Well, this year is go- ing way beyond all the Other years put together. We are going to move our store pretty soon and we would rather carry money than goods. Everything goes this time. Better put an order in now or, write for prices. CHASE & CO. NEW HAVEN HOUSE BLOCK. Baker, Ball, Beatty, Brinsmade, Beard, Carleton, Chace, Chapman, Colgate, Col- ton; ‘Conklin; “Corbitt; Curtiss, A. S. Davis, C. S. Day, Jr., deForest, Eagle, Field, Fisher, Foote, Frank, Goodman, Greene, Griggs, E. B. Hamlin, Hatch, Havens, Hawes, G. C. Hollister, Hunt, Jackson, Johnston, Jordan, Kip, Loomis, Loughran, Lovell, McKee, McLanahan, H. W. Mathews, Oviatt, Paret, P. C. Peck, Perkins, Porter, Pratt, Richmond, W. P. Robbins, Rockwell, Root, Scud- der, W. D. G. Smith, Spellman, T. S. Stone, . pia, 5. tapers, Ir: SS. B. Thorne, Trudeau, Vaill, T. B. Wells, Whitaker, W. F. Wood, Woodhull, Young, Sears, Seney, R. H. Williams, C. Woodruff. 3 : Copies of the ment containing Oviatt’s delectable sketch have been mailed to every member of the Class who did not attend. ——____—_ 6 —____—___— Governing the “VY” Award. A University meeting was held in Osborn Hall, Tuesday evening, January 30, to decide on a uniform basis of awarding the “Y” to athletes, the pres- ent system of awarding by the Captains of each association having caused dis- satisfaction and criticism among some of the students. The outcome of the meeeting was the unanimous adoption of a resolution to put the power of awarding the “Y” and University athletic insignia of any description, in the hahds of Walter Camp, ’80, and the captains of the four athletic asso- ciations—football, baseball, track and boating. This committee will draw up a set of rules shortly, which may be expected to end criticism. The resolu- tion was presented by Captain F. W. Allen of the Crew. Percy A. Rocke- feller presided and the attendance was very large. acaennRERERRR RI DRNENTISS clin. Senne Track Candidates out. Nearly 200 men are out for the Track Team and Captain Johnson expects that number will be largely increased in the next week. The men are going through the usual preliminary hardening train- ing and are under the care of James Robinson. : ct Property Purchased. Yale acquired by purchase last week another lot of land in the square re- quired for the Bi-centennial buildings. The property which belonged to Forest F. Smith and Grace A. Smith fronts fifty-three and four-tenths feet on Wall Street, North side, about the middle of the block. The price paid was $18,000. —_+o—_—__. Condition of Hon. E. J. Phelps. The condition of Hon. E. J. Phelps, who has been extremely sick with pneumonia for two weeks, is still very critical, although his physician reports him to be a little stronger than for several days past. There is a chance for his recovery.
