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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.”
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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 |
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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.”
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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.”
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
