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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.
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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.
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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.
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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. — .
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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.
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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-
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ruary 26. The collection includes
bronzes, oriental rugs and_ tapestries,
porcelains and unique chinas. The sale,
which is by auction, is expected to con-
tinue throughout the week. \
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