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NEW HAVEN, CONN., FEB. 21, 1900.
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HENRY C. ROBINSON.
Of all the older Yale men one could
hardly be selected whose death meant
a personal loss to so many, both young
and old, as does the death of the Hon.
Henry C. Robinson of Hartford. It
was not because of his public positions
and public appearances, although the
former were many and honorable, and
although the latter won hearts as well
as applause. Mr. Robinson is missed
and mourned in the Yale family because
he was such a good friend to so many—
and particularly to so many young men.
It was often a wonder to those of us
who were given from time to time evi-
dence of his thoughtful friendliness, that
our affairs and hopes were a matter of
concern to one whose mind and heart
were so crowded with great interests
and close intimacies.
It need hardly be said that, as Senior
member of the Advisory Board of this
paper, he was always ready to give its
plans and its problems his interested
thought. How much of a difference
his presence made at Yale meetings at
Hartford and Yale meetings in other
places; and indeed everywhere. How
interested he was in everything that
went on here, and how sanely and help-
fully he viewed things and advised men.
He was a good and helpful friend and
supporter of Yale, just as he was of
very many men of Yale.
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SOPHOMORE SOCIETIES.
The Senior petition to the Faculty for
the abolition of Sophomore Societies,
and the reasons given for circulating it,
appear in another column. There has
been a difference of opinion as to the
wisdom of this step, but we can see no
reason why anyone should complain of
it. If it was not necessary, the society
men were the ones to forestall it by
proper action or statement. A feeling
existed that they yet failed to appreci-
ate the strength of the sincere and
thoughtful sentiment against the present
Sophomore societies. That feeling was
entertained by very reasonable men and
accurate observers. If it was a wrong
feeling, the society men, who are the
ones in authority and power, must not
criticize those who held it.
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But it is idle to speculate about this.
The petition went in and it was headed
by as fine a list of Yale names as one
can well put together in any cause.
For completeness, it is almost without
parallel. The great majority of men in
the Senior class felt that this demonstra-
tion was necessary. That is enough to
say about it. "They made the issue ab-
solutely clear. No reasonable Yale man
can now doubt that Sophomore socie-
ties, as at present existing, are challenged
by the overwhelming sentiment of the
College as opposed, in their constitution,
to the best interests of Yale. The
Seniors have the right to speak for the
College and they do not speak one bit
more strongly than the classes below
them would speak, if it were wise to call
upon them to say anything, or than the
classes who have graduated before them
would speak, if they were asked for
their sentiment and had knowledge of
the facts.
The situation remains as it was, only
The society men. still
have the responsibility for action on
their shoulders. The fact that the peti-
tion is addressed to the Faculty is a
mere incident. The Faculty do not want
to act in any such matter and ought not
to act in any such matter. They are
individually as keenly interested as any
alumni or as any undergraduates can be,
but they do not wish to take the re-
sponsibility from the shoulders of those
upon whom it properly rests. At such
a very critical juncture in the affairs
of Yale, in a matter of supreme import-
ance to the life of the College, they
would be very unwilling to overturn a
most important tradition of undergradu-
ate responsibility in matters of under-
graduate life. They would feel that they
were turning things backward and tak-
ing away from the vigor and the whole-
someness of the life of the place. They
have not lost faith in those men who are
in the societies, whose loyalty and dis-
interestedness have been proved in every
other Yale relation into which they have
entered, and who are now called upon to
accomplish a great thing for Yale.
With even more confidence we are
ready to speak for the alumni, and to
say that they do not want to interfere
in this matter. They still believe that
the undergraduates can settle it. They
propose to let them settle it and will
not act, unless they who ought to do
this work prove unwilling or unable to
do it. It goes without saying that they
will be only too glad to place their
experience, energy and time at the dis-
posal of the undergraduates, if the latter
seek their codperation,
In the meanwhile—and we speak here
with great confidence,—they consider
the efforts to stir up an angry revolt
throughout the graduate ranks of Yale
against the existing condition of things,
and the attempt thereby to bring pres-
sure upon the Faculty, as ill-timed, as
hostile to the interests of Yale unity
and as injuring. the cause of reform.
Their position is: “If we are really
called upon to act, we will act and we
will do so in a way which will be quite
unmistakable; but we are not interfering
and we have not lost faith in. men who
have in every other matter served Yale
well.” We write this without knowing
how many of the petitions which have
been circulated have been returned or
without knowing how many letters have
come in. We write it from a knowledge
of the best alumni sentiment of Yale as
expressed voluntarily in letters received
from all parts of the country, from
many classes, and from both society and
non-society men.
It is perfectly possible for those who
wish to continue this agitation, to do so.
but in that direction does not lie any
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hope, only a danger. It is perfectly pos-
sible for the society men to take this
agitation, beginning with the Senior
petition, as a threat against them and as
an evidence of ill will, and to stand
upon their dignity, and to say that they
are on the defensive, and to talk about
self-respect and pride and_ all
things. But those who become partisans
will no more help the situation than the
extreme agitators.
The evidence is at hand of the right
disposition on the part ‘of society
men, and it must be answered by a
cordial response from without. There
are men, in the Class of 1900, who thus
have the opportunity of their lives to
help Yale. It is not hard to guess who
these men are. They are the conserva-
tive, thoughtful, earnest men, both in
and out of the societies, who trust each
other and credit each other with an
equal sense of loyalty, and who can
meet and redeem the situation in a
spirit of frank coopération.
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Yale Club Members.
The following were elected members
of the Yale Club on February 7, 1900:
Resident—Arnold W. Sherman, ’94
L3.3° @arl KO Palmer, o9G. 7 Me
Lean Walton, ’99S.; Henry Roland,
799; R. G. Dun Douglass, ’98; Arthur
>. Hamiin, ‘99; Charles: Bo Eddy. 937
Gerhard H. Cocks, ’c9; John S. Phipps,
*90 S.; Charles G: Bartlett, jun., “oo; E.
Howard Lewis, ’99; Nelson W. Sayles,
95; John Reid, jun., ’o9.
Non-Resident—Frederick C. Lee, ’96;
John F. Archbold, ’o99 S.; - Robert -K.
Dickerman, ’93; Francis G. Hall, ’99 S.;
Charles: M.- Cooké, -jun., -o7- > Harvey
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