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ter. The object was to bring before the
graduates the exact form of the Senior
petition, the statement of the number of
men that signed and a request that grad-
uates interest themselves in securing the
best results. The appeal arose from a
general class feeling that the graduates
should see the petition and that their
assistance and advice was quite neces-
sary. For this reason there were no
signatures, because those of us who sent
them did not feel that it was neces-
sary that we should put our names down
as a self-appointed committee, although
we gladly shared the trouble and ex-
pense of putting the petition in the hands
of recent graduates. :
“A personal note was sent the Ninety-
Nine men, signed by D. R. Hooker, the
Class Secretary, and Elliot Watrous, en-
closing a blank form of a petition with
a request for individual ratification. In
doing this, they acted entirely inde-
pendently.
“We sign our names below,- not be-
cause we feel that we represent the
Class officially, but simply because we
comprise the first twenty who signed the
original petition as presented to Presi-
dent Hadley, and are responsible for
the appeals which were sent to the
eraduates: E. A. Park, Philip C, Wal-
ecott: F.- -B: Ait, -W.. Re Metoney, Ir.;
Jesse D. Dana, James P. Lombard, T.
W. Swan, John W. Decrow, Allen I.
Kittle, Fred H. Winters, Raymond L.
Tweedy, John B. Hartwell, Walter L.
Chittenden, Keyes Winter, Clarence E.
Ordway, A. Judson Baker, M. E. Lom-
hard. iv... Jt Vogeler,. charles . 5.
Brooks, Wm. Rockwell Clarke.”
The English of the Petition.
To the Editor of YALE ALUMNI WEEKLY:
Sir :—There has recently come to me,
and, I believe, to many other Yale grad-
uates, an anonymous communication en-
titled, “An appeal to Yale Graduates,”
by which I am informed that 254 mem-
bers of the present Senior Class have
presented to the Faculty a _ petition
which, in the first paragraph, speaks of
Sophomore societies; in the second, of
the Faculty; in the third, of Junior
Fraternities and graduates and under-
graduates; and continues with a fourth
“Whereas,” thus: :
“Whereas, After nearly four years of
contact and experience with the present
system we feel that the need of change
is becoming more and more urgent, and
because we are unwilling to leave col-
lege without an effort to make a bene-
ficial change, as members of the Senior
Class we feel ourselves forced, as an
expression of our loyalty to the best
interests of Yale, to go on record as
thoroughly opposed to their existence.”
To the existence of whom or what are
these Seniors declaring themselves
“thoroughly opposed,’ —the “Junior
Fraternities,” “the graduates and un-
dergraduates,’ sthe ©: Faeclty >the
“Miembers of the Senior Class,” or
“the best interests of Yale?”
That 254 out of 324 of the present
Senior Class are so savagely nihilistic
is the one threatening fact brought home
to me by this anonymous communica-
tion. The prayer is hopelessly inconse-
quential to the recital. I venture, as the
only fitting conclusion to the quoted
clause, “We, therefore, respectfully
petition the Faculty, by the help of God,
to teach your petitioners the English
language.”
Very truly yours,
Cuartes H. Hamit.
Chicago, Feb. 19, 1900.
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Track Team Training.
Nineteen additional names have been
added to the list of candidates trying
for the track team, bringing the total
up to 245. It is probable that before
the middle of March there will be more
than three hundred men in training for
the different events. Captain Johnson
has offered three silver cups for three
novice high-jumping contests, in the en-
deavor to bring out some strong men in
an event where Yale has been weak
for a good many years. The contests
will be held in the early Spring. The
hurdlers have already had their first
lesson from Mr. Robinson, in the
Gymnasium, and the weight men will
be started March 1, under the care of
Mr. _ Flanagan, who reports much
promising material.
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Athletic Notes,
The Yale Basketball team defeated
a basketball team from Dartmouth Wed-
nesday, Feb. 21, at Boston, by the score
of 10 to 8. Both teams played in fine
form, but Yale was more aggressive
and alert. Clark, 1901, right-forward;
Sharpe, M.S., center, and Rogers, 1901,
left-guard, scored the points for Yale.
Columbia’s hockey team defeated that
of Brown at the St. Nicholas Rink, New
York, February 23, by the score of 4
points to 1. The game was one of the
intercollegiate series. Brown’s forwards
were very slow and a big score against
them was only prevented by the cleverest
kind of defensive work on the part of
the goal tender.
Yale lost the swimming match to the -
University of Pennsylvania by less than
a foot, in ‘the contest at the Sportsmen’s
Show at Boston, Saturday, February 24.
Teams from the University of Pennsyl-
vania, Columbia and Yale competed and
the distance was 320 yards, each man
covering a fourth or 80 yards. G. M.
Smith, 1901, Yale’s first man, finished
four yards ahead of the Columbia swim-
mer, Spencer. At the end of the second
relay Columbia had gained the lost dis-
tance and was even with C. Oglebay,
1900, who had this relay, while _Penn-
sylvania was eight yards behind. W. R.
Orthwein, 1903, Yale’s third man, fin-
ished with a lead of three yards on Co-
lumbia and U. of P., the latter having
come up by a splendid spurt by Morse.
FE. A. Wenck, 1003 L.S;; for. Yale. and
Schaeffer of U. of P. fought the last
lap out in a remarkable close struggle,
in which Schaeffer won by only a few
inches.
J. A. Allen, 1900S., the University
tennis champion, won the indoor tennis
championship of America in New York,
Saturday, February 24, defeating Cal-
houn Cragin in the finals. His style was
very brilliant, especially in smashing and
driving. H. H. Hackett, 1900, won the
consolation singles, defeating J. P. Paret.
In the championship doubles, Hackett
and Allen, and Cragin and Paret, after
each had won a set, were forced to stop
playing on account of darkness. By
agreement these sets will not be counted,
but a new match will be played Saturday,
March 3, at the Seventh Regiment
Armory.
The meeting of the Executive Com-
mittee of the Intercollegiate Bicycle Rac-
ing Association, which was to have been
held at the Ffth Avenue Hotel, Satur-
day, February 24, has been indefinitely
postponed.
Captain Alien has begun to move his
squad of oarsmen from the tank to the
harbor, several of the more proficient
crews having been put in the barges last
week. The change will go on as fast as
possible till all the squad of 116 men are
boated. Forty-seven Freshmen are still
rowing and about 70 of the upper classes
as follows: Seniors 20; Juniors 24;
Sophomore 25.
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Yale-Harvard Hockey Game.
Yale won the hockey game from Har-
vard Monday night, February 26, at St.
Nicholas Rink, New York, by the score
of 5 to 4 points, in a very fast and
interesting contest. Yale was in the
lead the greater part of the game, and
her fine team work everywhere could not
be overcome by Harvard’s heavy rushes.
Goodrich of Harvard scored three points
unaided. For Yale, Walworth and In-
man, who scored two points each, and
Bronson, played an exceptionally alert
and sure game. Captain Campbell’s pass-
ing was a feature of the Yale play.
There was a very large attendance.
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The telegraphic chess match Washing-
ton’s Birthday, between teams repre-
senting Boston and the Institute of
Technology on one side and the New
Haven and Yale Chess Clubs on the
other, was decided in favor of the Bos.
ton players.
Leonard A. Hochstader, 1900, won the
University Club pool tournament by de-
feating Harold C. Neal, roo, in the
final round by a score of 75 to A8.
Clarkson Potter, 1901, defeated Lester
M. Spier, 1901, in the final round of
the billiard tournament. The tourna-
ments have been running at the Club for
several weeks past.
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Baseball Candidates,
Mr. Nichols, pitcher of the Boston
League Nine, is expected at Yale, Mon-
day, March 4, to take charge of the
battery candidates. He will remain un-
til the Easter recess, and besides his
work with the pitchers and catchers,
will probably give some attention to the
other departments of the game. Cap-
tain Camp expects several graduate
coaches to give a few days each with
the team before the Easter trip. The
schedule for the trip has been completed
but the Faculty has not yet given its
approval.
Almost a hundred men are out for
the nine, not counting the players on last
year’s team. Battery practice has been
going on daily since February 9, and
the work at the Field has begun. There
is much fine material in sight.
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Gymnastic Contest with
Columbia.
The Yale Gymnastic team will meet
the Gymnastic team of Columbia in the
latter's gymnasium in New York, Fri-
day night, March 2. These Yale men
will compete: G. H. Whipple, 1900; E.
L. Ehason, 1901; R. T. Hinton, 1900,
and W. L. Otis, I900, Captain.
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Whist With Harvard.
The University Whist team has ar-
ranged a match with Harvard to be
_ played at Cambridge about the last of
March. There will be eight men on a
side, play to be according to the Nara-
gansett system. R. B. Tillinghast, 1902,
is captain of the Yale team, and E. M.
Tillinghast, Yale ’88, coach.
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Hiarvard’s New Rowing Plan.
The complete failure of the Newell
Rowing Club at Harvard to take the
place of a satisfactory rival to the Weld
Club, has brought the rowing authori-
ties there together with a plan which,
it is believed, will take care of the 500
men now rowing and give them ade-
quate instruction. The plan includes
the discontinuance of the present method
of choosing the class crews and makes
the selection arbitrary of the men from
all the classes to the two clubs, so that
there may be an even distribution be-
tween them of rowing ability. | Each
club will form as many eights as possi-
ble from the classes represented and by
a process of internal races the best crew
of a class in one club will meet the
best crew of the same class in the other
club, in a contest for the representation
of that class in the Class regatta, which
will be held about the middle of April.
After the Easter recess the system of
graded crews, which was used last year,
will be begun and after May 2, which
is set for the date of a trying out race
between these crews, the University crew
will be picked. J. J. Storrow will be
the head coach, and Harry Vail has
been engaged as professional instructor. .
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Philadelphia Yale Banquet.
The Yale Alumni Association of Phila-
delphia held its thirty-second annual
meeting at Bellevue Hotel, Philadelphia,
Friday night, February 9, with an at-
tendance of more than a hundred. After
the dinner, which was served at 7.30,
speeches were made by William H. Ing-
ham, 67, President of the Association ;
President Arthur T. Hadley, Judge
Henry E. Howland, ’54, and Hon.
Anthony Higgins, ’61.. A. J. Baker,
1900, was present and spoke for the un-
dergraduates. President Hadley’s re-
marks followed closely in substance
those made recently by him on his West-
ern trip. His statement that Old South
Middle would be preserved as long as
possible and that it would be the last
of the Brick Row to go, was received
with much enthusiasm. Judge Howland
defended the position President Hadley
had taken against certain of the trusts
of the country, saying that he had been
misunderstood by a great many people.
The President, he said, did not arraign
all rich men and all trusts, but only
those which by unfair combinations of
capital and dishonest methods of man-
agement, were a menace to the general
public.
Excellent Fighting on Wash-
ington’s Birthday.
Washington’s Birthday, 1900, will live
in the minds of the present Yale genera-
tion, as the occasion of the best all-
around interclass fight seen on the
Campus in many a day. The annual
struggle was fierce, prolonged and
varied, yet full of that spirit of good-
natured fun which makes these events
other than objectionable. If the Faculty
sought to moderate the usual dis-
turbance this year by requiring the
men in the College to attend “eight-
thirties,” their means of reform cer-
tainly did not work out as expected.
That fight will continue as long as
Ratner’s stock of gray beavers holds out,
and whenever the number of participants
is augmented by the addition of those
over-cut and over-marked men held in
New Haven by a chapel service and first
recitation, its glories from the student
standpoint will only be increased.
About ten o’clock the Sophomores,
equipped with their toppers and canes,
assembled at their fence and marched
unmolested down Chapel Street. On
their return, they were met by a strong
representation from the other classes
and the snow piles along the edge of the
Green afforded ammunition for a spirited
running fight, which lasted until the Art
School was reached.
Here the Sophomores make a plucky
stand, but were finally forced to retire
to the Fence. The Freshmen, however,
had their first taste of blood and were
keen for more, so decided to depart
from the usual Yale program and make
a mid-Winter attempt to take the Fence.
They formed in front of Dwight Hall,
came running across the Campus, and
when they reached the Sophomores an
indescribable mix-up ensued. The rain
of the night before had converted the
four inches of snow into four inches
of good Campus mud, and, when the
Seniors brought the unfinished struggle
to a close with their cries of “All over,”’
the appearance of the contestants was
simply indescribable. But they shook
hands all around, 1902 cheered for 1903,
1903 cheered for 1902, and the Fresh-
men went back to York Street to change
their clothes, leaving the Sophomores
with their few remaining hats to have
their picture taken in peace.
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Sick Professors Improving.
The report, which was widely circu-
lated, that Prof. E. J. Phelps, who has
been very low for several weeks with
“pneumonia, had suffered a relapse, was
untrue. Prof. Phelps is still very weak
from the disease, but is at this writing
holding his own. |
W. H. Bishop, Instructor in Spanish
in the Scientific School, is recovering
from an attack of pleurisy, and is still
confined to his house.
Prof. John Wurts has_ successfully
passed the crisis in his attack of pneu-
monia and is rapidly recovering.
Prof. Benjamin W. Bacon, who was
threatened with typhoid fever, was able
to be up last Saturday, the- danger be-
| ing past.
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Philadelphia Alumni Scholar-
ships.
The Yale Alumni Association of
Philadelphia is endeavoring to create
one or more Scholarships of $600 an-
nually for four years, for the education
of deserving students from Philadelphia,
at Yale. About $575 have been sub-
scribed at the present writing, so at
least one scholarship may be regarded
as assured.
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Oregon Association Prize.
The Oregon Yale Alumni Associa-
tion has given its prize of $10 to Edward
Josiah Failing, of Portland, Oregon.
The prize is awarded annually to that
member of the Freshman Class from the
State of Oregon who shall pass the best
entrance examination.
An Associated Press dispatch, dated
Paris, February 22, says that a quartet
of Yale students from the student quar-
ter of the city, sang a number of songs
at the American University Club ban-
quet held on the evening of Washing-
ton’s birthday, at the Hotel Continental.
