mn Yale’s Overshadowing Need. [New Haven Register. ] There is no secret of the fact that the great need to-day of Yale is money. There is no more expensive thing im- aginable than higher education, and it can exist only where a liberal endow- ment is joined to the willing self-sacri- fice which culture demands. It not only amazes one, but it frightens one when it is recalled what vast sums of money are being given every year to institu- tions of learning which a few years ago were unheard of. The University of Chicago has literally sprung from the dust like a fairy. Millions roll into her coffers as thousands do into the coffers of Yale. Harvard has al- ready secured an endowment, which guarantees her against loss from com- petition. Columbia is still in need of tunds, but it can not be questioned that the citizens of New York will at the proper time give her all she re- quires. The- graduates of Princeton and of Cornell are seeking to make those institutions strong enough to withstand the increasing influence of the new col- leges. It almost seems, as one runs over the list of bequests for the last few years to all institutions of learning, as if Yale had been positively neglected. The Dwight administration was more successful than any that preceded it in adding to the equipment of the old college, but even so, there was no such exhibition of generosity on the part of Yale men, to wkom the University he: the right to turn, as there was on the part of men accredited to other institu- tions. Dr. Hadley must have these men well in mind when he states that he ex- pects $2,000,000 to be the fund raised by graduates, $1,500,000 more than has os far been raised after persistent ef- ort. It should be clear to the commonest mind that if Yale fails to obtain the endowment she needs to more and more broaden her scope and add to her fa- cilities, and to retain and acquire the services of the most eminent instructors and original students, she must give up her present eminence and content herself with an inferior position. Unless she can offer, in these very particu- lars, inducements which the newer Universities can not offer with twice the endowments, the popular support must go more and more to other neigh- borhoods. Yale and Harvard have over all other institutions the natural advan- tage of prestige and tradition, but under modern conditions these count for less and less: unless the power to add each year to their practical achievements is liberally supplied. This is not a pessi- mistic view of Yale’s present condition and future prospects. We believe it to be the very basis of the remarkable trip taken by her young and progres- sive President. Harvard, as we have already said, is safe, but what a blow it would be to Connecticut and New Haven to have her known as the single first-class universitv in New England. We do not say that this is probable, be- cause we have great and growing faith in the outcome of Dr, Hadley’s trip, but we do say it is possible. Every dollar added to the treasury of the Chicago — University and every dollar withheld from the treasury of Yale. University weakens the latter in a section of the country where she is strong and where she ought to grow stronger. It is not a question of fearing the dollar that goes to Chicago. but dreading the fail- ure of the dollar to reach New Haven. We do not presume to advise the very wise and able administration of Yale, but we can at least state, as a matter of fact, that it is a conviction among - many well informed Yale men, that the i EIS i THE GOODNESS of KEEP’S SHIRTS consists of so many. things that they are difficult to describe. Briefly they are made by skilled work people, of best materials, in one of the most com- plete factories in the trade. Ready made, $1.00, $1.50. Made to measure, six for $9.00. If laundered, $1.00 more. KEEP MFG. CO., B’way, bet. 11th & 12th Sts. We have no other store in New York. Seer oe Se SeSeSese egg 252 52525252525 if t c rf f if t c if t ye J. F. HAVEMEYER, YALE ALUMNI actual condition of the University should be stated in such unequivocal terms that those within whose easy ability it lies to put Yale forever beyond danger of being passed in the race for préemi- nence, may be stirred to make the neces- sary gift. —_——__+o___- Eighteen Yale Representatives. Since the publication of the list of Yale men in the Fifty-fourth Congress in a recent number of the ALuMNI WEEKLY, it has been pointed out that two important names were omitted from that list, those of John Kean, ex-’76, who was elected to the Senate from New Jersey, January 24, 1899, and James W. Wadsworth, of Geneseo, N. Y., who was elected to the House of Repre- sentatives last Fall. This gives Yale eighteen men in the two houses, six in the Senate and twelve in the House, a total of three more than Harvard, her nearest rival. John Kean, who was elected to the Senate from New Jersey, Jan. 24, 1808, was born at Ursino, Union County, N. J., Dec. 4, 1852. He came to Yale, but at the end of Sophomore year decided to study law, and, leaving Yale, he entered the Columbia Law School, graduating in 1877. Two years later he was admitted to the New Jersey bar, but on account of the pressure of busi- ness affairs he never practiced. He was director of the State National Bank in 1877, and later Vice-President and Presi- dent. Among many important business connections he was made First Vice- President of the Manhattan Trust Co. of New York, in 1893. Yale gave him the degree of M.A. in 1890. He was elected to the 48th and 50th Congresses and in 1892 was chairman of the Republican. State Committee of New Jersey. James W. Wadsworth, to whom Yale gave the degree of M.A. in 1898, was born in Philadelphia, Oct. 12, 1846. He prepared for Yale and entered the Shef- field Scientific School in a special course, but after a short time there he left and went into the army, serving on the staff - of General Warren until the Civil War ended. He was elected supervisor of the town of Geneseo during 1875, 1876 and 1877, and was a member of the State Assembly in 1878 and 1879. In 1880 and 1881 he was comptroller of the State of New York. He has been elected to the 47th, 48th, 52d, 53d and the present Congress as a Republican. ee eS Se A proposition has been made at Har- vard to enclose the college yard with a memorial fence, sections of which are to be contributed by the various college classes. The Bulletin reports that much interest is shown, by the inquiries from the class secretaries. Passports. Procured through New Haven Custom House in three days.—ddv. KERBOo \G K. «TRUST CO.

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