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22,2 YALE ALUMNI WEEKLY SUBSCRIPTION, - $3.00 PER YEAR. Foreign Postage, 40 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, drafcs and orders should be made payable to the Yale Alumni Weekly. nce should be addressed,— = arpa aaa Alumni Weekly, New Haven, Conn. The office is at Room 6, White Hall. ADVISORY BOARD. WILLIAM W. SKIDDY, 6s See Se eeNeW YOK. C5. PUBDY TANDSLEN, »'75 5.5 <jconi ee as New Haven. MATTER CAME. (O0se sc cao 0s os 0kas oes New Haven. WILLIAM G. DAGGETT, '80,......5... New Haven. JAMES R, SHEFFIELD, ’87,........... New York. Joun A. HARTWELL, ’89 S.,........ ..New York. Powis S.: WELCH. I80,,.. 505 cksccmins New Haven. EDWARD VAN INGEN, ’oI S.,.....0000. New York, PIERRE JAY, °92,.20:020000 EE: oso 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., FEB. 28, 1900. THE SOCIETY SITUATION. The situation in regard to Sophomore Societies is better than it-has been for many years. The Sophomore Society men have authorized a most representa- tive committee to confer with a commit- tee of those who signed the Senior petition. The petitioners have appointed a committee to meet them and so the first step toward the solution of the problem has been taken. There is no question that a work of very great mag- nitude is before this conference commit- tee. The reconstruction of a. society system 1s a very difficult undertaking. We believe, however, that the members of the committee will enter upon their work with a most sincere desire to ac- complish their end and in such spirit toward each other as will bring the best results. All Yale is now definitely com- mitted to a change. It is impossible to conceive that anyone will now take any position which will impede the work of reform at an early date. The general spirit which now prevails is sufficiently set forth in the news columns this week. We can only congratulate the Class of 1900 and Yale on the way in which they are taking up the great work. One word about the position of this paper in regard to the matter. We have been asked to print a number of dif- ferent articles in regard to the agitation, criticising the methods of reform, de- fending the societies, and taking up vari- ous other sides of the controversy. We have been obliged to decline to publish any of these, simply because we believe that to continue the discussion about the good or evil of Sophomore Socie- ties or the way in which they have been attacked, is to keep up hard feeling and partisanship. This will not serve the interests of Yale. We take this means of saying that our columns are closed to the discussion of matters that are now matters of the past, such as the history of the societies and the methods of the agitation against them. As far as dis- cussion of this matter goes, we shall limit the columns of the WEEKLY to such articles as shall seem to us to positively help in creating a new system. pe eer SS ee Records of the General Secretary of the Yale Y. M. C. A. show that sixty- five per cent, of the students of the TALE ALUMNI -WHEKLY Academic and Sheffield Departments are church members. This is rather a re- markable proportion, although some fre- cent class figures show a still higher percentage. These figures, as have often been before remarked, are not sufficient themselves to show what kind of life the Yale life is, but there are such abundant evidences that this large num- ber of positive religious men are sincere and active, that it is very satisfactory to point to it. ,Some timer ago the WEEKLY ventured to suggest that such facts as these justified a position of ag- gressive activity on the part of men who are interested in seeing the standards of Yale kept high and the name of Yale freed from any reproach by those on her lists. It is very pleasant to hear that this feeling is finding expression in Yale life this term. —_——__>o___——__ LIEUTENANT LEDYARD’S DEATH. Elsewhere are printed some facts con- cerning the death in the Philippine Islands of Lieutenant A. C. Ledyard, of the Class of Ninety-Eight. They are what his friends would expect them to be. They show, at the last, a man fearless and ready for his duty. The numbers against him did not seem to count with him any more than they did with Lieu- tenant Ward Cheney, whose death was under very similar circumstances. It is infinitely satisfactory to Yale men, whether they knew these younger grad- uates or not, to find that the ideals which we associate with this place were so well fulfilled in their lives and in their deaths. ee THE ONE IMPORTANT MEMORIAL. In another column appears an arti- cle concerning the preservation of South Middle. We do not at all agree with the point that the sentiment in favor of the preservation of South Middle is due to the fact that its former occupants are more aggressive. We know that among those who are most earnest for this reform are those who never. lived under its roof. It seems plain that, if Yale is to pre- serve a memorial, it is best to preserve the oldest memorial Yale has and one about which cluster the greatest number of interesting memories. South Middle is plainly that. It was built in 1756, while North College does not go back of this century. The case for the older building seems to us infinitely stronger than that which can be stated for any other memorial on the Campus. We take this opportunity to register again our belief that it would be nothing less than wanton to destroy South Middle. It is a pleasure to see the strength of the sentiment for it. —_—_+_04 THE YALE CLUB. The success of the Yale Club is one of the most interesting features of Yale alumni organization. The very forma- tion of such a club was questioned by the older men, but the majority knew they wanted it and went ahead and formed it. Its success has been un- qualified from the start. When the club moved into its present quarters, it was thought that there was room enough for many years to come, but already it is necessary to expand. The Club has in- creased in membership from five hun- dred to eleven hundred -in three years, a growth which even its best friends did not anticipate. It is hoped that it will be proved possible to take the ex- cellent site on which the council have secured option. The plan of meeting the expenses for the new quarters seems very business-like. The large number of rooms for out-of-town members will prove a very attractive feature of the Club. — . ——— $<. To James Lyman Whitney, ’56. {Read at a complimentary classmate dinner given by Dr Wolcott Calkins, Newton, Mass, Jan. 16, 1900, in honor of Mr. Whitney’s recent elevation to the position of Librarian of the Boston Public Library.] He has come to his chartered dominion; He has soared to the Polyglot Land. Every leaf that he thumbed was a pinion For the boy with a book in his hand. From the hustle and cram of college The Muses took him in care, Till, crowned in the Court of Knowledge, He rides in his curule chair. | He knew his own path—never shunned it For wealth or pleasure or love; Fate planned to make him a pundit, And his meed is the glory thereof. He is warden of wisdom grown hoary, He lives where immortals belong, In the quiet Valhalla of Story, Philosophy, Science and Song. And thinkers grow rich with his giving, And doubters are answered and calmed Where he welcomes the mind of the living To the heaven of minds embalmed, “And far from the chafe and the choler Of the multitude tempest-whirled We sit at the feet of the scholar - With the chiefs of an older world. Jim Whitney! long life to his crescent! Let him grow as the years unwind In his realm where the Past is present And wealth is the wit of mankind. He has given his soul without fetters, His work is his mistress alone; Our prince in. the kingdom of letters, He rules with no queen on his throne. Long ago—(-we can wink at the fancy) — Fair Venus, with Cupid in train, Lay. in wait with her sly necromancy For the heart that beat close to his brain, But her scheming all went topsyturvy When, clear from Olympian skies, Called the spinster goddess Minerva, “James Lyman, look straight in my eyes!” ’Twas enough. Over Love’s rosy borders The sweet temptation to rove Disappeared the day he took orders From the wisest daughter of Jove; And when in her service he stirruped His feet to go and to come, All the gods of authorcraft chirruped, And claimed the young man for a chum. She gave him no leisure for sporting— Her minister, priest, pontifex ;— | Her school had no primer for courting, And the nouns of her grammar no Sex. But in friendship no less he grew clever And true as in culture and art, And the lingoes and ologies never Drove his Class from the heart of his heart. He is proud of our pride in his mission, Every triumph that crowned the dear boy, On the peak of his summit ambition He is glad with our joy of his joy, And the loving-cup that we mingle To his honor is wine of his wine— Our schoolfellow forty vears single Who worships at Pallas’s shrine. Still as bright and bold will be burning, When the centuries go as they came, O’er the fanes of Genitts and Learning The stars of the Whitney name, And all the merry vexation Will be past for us and for him, Though none of that constellation Are the sons’ sons’ sons of our Jim. THERON Brown, ’50. —— ee Sale of Marsh Curios. All the remaining curios of the late Prof. Marsh’s collection were put on sale at the rooms of the American Art Gal- lery in New York City, Monday, Feb- ruary 26. The collection includes bronzes, oriental rugs and_ tapestries, porcelains and unique chinas. 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