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Vou IX. No. 28. NEW HAVEN, CONN., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7, 1900. OUTGOING NEWS BOARD. Mr. Adams, its Chairman, Briefly Reviews its Work and Progress. The past year has been an eventful one in many ways to the outgoing Board of News editors. For in addition to the outward changes in the University which it has fallen to their lot to record, there have been several changes of a vital nature in the administration of the paper itself. When the Nineteen Hundred Board assumed control, the system of competi- tion for editorial positions on the News was materially altered. Attempts on the part of former Boards to’ check the abuses of the former system had proved ineffectual, and a radical change seemed necessary. Accordingly it was decided that in the future the quality from a literary standpoint, as well as_ the quantity of articles submitted, should be recorded, and taken into consideration in the elections; and that as many arti- cles as possible should be assigned, by an editor especially appointed for that purpose, to the various contributors, thus lessening the amount of routine work demanded of each man, and insuring a more carefully written paper through- out. This system has worked even more satisfactorily than was anticipated, and has been adopted, with the excep- tion of a few minor details, by the in- coming Board. Two legacies from the preceding Board, the morning delivery and the enlargement of the paper, have been retained as changes which time and experience have justified. During the year the editors have been greatly helped by the aid and sug- gestions of many of the alumni and members of the Faculty, and by the codperation of all undergraduates who were in a position to assist them. The News has grown to be recognized as oficial wherever undergraduate Yale is in question. It has been the aim of the editors to express accurately, and in some cases where. it has been found necessary, to mould undergraduate sen- timent; to point out defects in existing institutions, and to propose changes, wherever reform was necessary. Many problems will come up for the incoming Board to solve, not the least important of which concerns Yale as she has been represented, or rather misrepre- sented, in the outside press. This trou- ble is mainly due to the fact that some correspondents, the majority of whom are members or graduates of the Uni- versity, have allowed themselves to lose sight of Yale’s best interest in the desire to further interests of their own. Two years ago a Press Club was organized, but failed to accomplish any noticea- ble results.owing to the unexpectedly large number of correspondents and the difficulty of effecting a satisfactory or- ganization. The proposed plan of a press censor would in all probability be equally inefficient. The true remedy lies in the creation of a strong sentiment against those who are inclined to abuse rather than use the opportunities given them to form public opinion concerning Yale. The responsibility for the solu- tion of this problem rests in part upon the Nineteen Hundred and One Board. This Board and its officers have for several months been closely associated with their predecessors, and from the experience thus gained are unusually well fitted to take up the work where it has been left by Nineteen Hundred. FrepertcK B. ADAMS. ‘tuted many years ago. The Banquet, The twenty-third annual banquet of the Vale Daily News, which was held at the Tontine Hotel, Friday night, March 2, was a very successful one in all ways, and goes on record as the largest, in point of attendance, since the custom of public banquets was insti- Ninety-six men, of whom 70 were invited guests, princi- pally from the Senior Class, sat down to table at 7.30 o’clock. The menu was an excellent one. After coffee and cigars the following list of toasts was responded to, at the call of Julian Day, toastmaster i. “The Retiring Board,” F. B. Adams, 1900 “Farewell! a word that must be and hath been.” “The Incoming Board,” G. A. Welch, 1901 “On with the dance! let joy be un- confined.” “The Harvard Crimson,” L. G. O. Smith “The rose that all are praising.” “The Daily Princetonian,’ W. E. Hope -“O give him welcome, this is he Worthy of our gorgeous rites.” “A Pleties; sn vet cee Walter Camp, 80 “QO iron nerve to true occasion true.” “The Faculty,” Hon. Wm. K. Townsend, ’71 “Hear ye not the hum of mighty work- ings?” “A United Yale Alumni,” Thomas Thacher, ’71 “United we stand.” The substance of Mr. Adams’ re- sponse to his toast are printed in his review of the work of the Nineteen Hundred Board, written for the WEEKLY and preceding this article. | Conclud- ing his address, he formally turned over to the new Board the control of the paper, with confidence that the responsi- bility would rest on competent shoulders. Mr. G. A. Welch, the incoming Chair- man, told briefly his policy for the year; of .the stress that should more and more be laid upon the quality of the work done by contributors and of his intention to fight as his predecessors had done for the best interests of Yale on every question. He favored a closer re- lationship between the journals of the different colleges and believed much could be accomplished by such means. He appealed to captains and managers to come to the News with their an- nouncements and to give it all the sup- port they could, as it was only by such cooperation that the paper could occupy its proper field. Mr. L. G. O. Smith responded for the Harvard Crimson in place of Mr. J. N. Trainer, Jr., who was unable to come. He spoke of the differences in the man- ner of choosing editors followed by the Crimson and the News, and _ rather favored the New Haven plan, believing it to be productive of better results as far as news gathering was concerned, and giving a better newspaper tone. He said he thought the Crimson more distinctly a university sheet than the News, and thought the editors of the latter might develop the official notice side of their paper. Mr: Hope told of the changes pro- posed in the Alumni Princetonian and spoke very favorably of Yale’s alumni paper. In responding to the toast “Athletics,” Mr. Camp touched lightly on the dif- ferent Associations and their prospects which he intimated were very good. “The contest with the Englishmen,” said Mr. Camp, “is still being discussed be- tween Yale and Harvard representatives. We have already had 15 meetings, more or less, and the real hitch is because the Englishmen refuse to pay the ex- penses.” His auditors gathered from this that if the Englishmen decided to — come over there would be no difficulty about settling the place of meeting. Before concluding Mr. Camp compli- mented the managers and captains of the various teams, referring to M. L. McBride ‘as a man who had done more for football at Yale than anyone else for a long space of time.” Judge W. K. Townsend made a witty speech on the toast, “The Faculty.” He disclaimed authority to speak tow) Stich <-a. ‘toast; 4-as «for: -the: tast twenty years he had been only “a back- door member of that august body.” He recalled the time when he had spoken to a similar toast thirty years ago, the sentiment under that toast being: “Men of brilliant incapacity; unimaginable and various misinformation and im- mense requirements,” and turned a number of jokes on his classmate, Thomas Thacher, who sat by his side. Mr. Thacher was the last speaker. He spoke very earnestly and convinc- ingly of the great good that would be accomplished by the Yale Club of New York. He thought it could be the means of bringing large numbers of Yale men together, not only in New York, but all over the country and assured his hearers that the alumni were in sym- pathy with all the undergraduate move- ments and were ready to support and assist them whenever such support or assistance were needed. —_——__++__—_- ilarvard-Yale Debate. Harvard has chosen the affirmative side of the question “Resolved, That Puerto Rico be included in the customs boundaries of the United States,’ for the debate with Yale, March 30, in New Haven. The judges will be the Hon. T. B. Reed, Prof. Henry VanDyke, of Prince- ton, and Prof. G. W. Pepper, of the University of Pennsylvania. At Yale, in the Academic trials, thirty- seven men spoke, of whom G. H. Bar- tholomew, 1900; L. W. Ong, 1900; T. W. Swan, 1900; M. Trowbridge, 1902; A. Tulin, 1903, and P. C. Walcott, 1900, were retained for the finals. In the Law School sixteen men competed and_ the three chosen for the finals were: H. G. Eastburn, 1902; R. L. Munger, 1901, and J. T. Smith, 1902, and as alternates, F. A. Lord, 1900; L. M. Sullivan, 1902, and R. P. Stapleton, 1901. The two men selected in the Scientific Depart- ment were P. Tromp, 1901 S.; C. Lockwood, 1900 S., and as alternates, W. J. Ehrichs, 1900 S.; F. P. Bassett, 1900 S. In the Divinity School trials the fol- lowing men were retained: N. Osborne, 1900; J. C. Blanchard, 1901, and J. Becknell, alternate. The final trials will be held Wednesday, March 7. At Harvard, about thirty-five men re- ported for the first trials. Of these, the following men were selected as Har- vard’s representatives: W. Morse, 1900; H. A. Yoemans, 1900; E. Mayer, 1900, and M. Seasongood, 1900, alternate. The Coolidge prize of $100 for the best work in preparation was awarded to H. A. Yoemans, 1900. - Whe Yale Club Quarters. The option on the property desired by the Yale Club for new quarters on Forty-Fourth Street has been extended thirty days. The subscriptions to the stock now amounts to nearly $100,000. The building company needs a capital of $175,000 to purchase the property and erect the building. Copyright, 1900, by Yale Alumni Weekly. Price 10 Cents. FOOTBALL RULE CHANGES. Rules Committee, Which Meets This Month, May Make Alterations, No definite steps have yet been taken toward a formal call for a meeting of the Rules Committee to act upon the present football code. It is being dis- cussed and there is every likelihood that a call will shortly be issued. What the changes likely to come up for discus- sion are, no one can certainly predict, but it is safe to say that the scoring rule will be one that will be brought up and many are the promised varia- tions that may be offered. Conserva- tism and a strong belief in making as few alterations as possible are features that have always marked the delibera- tions of the rule-making body. Hence it is one of the probablities that sweep- ing changes in scoring will not be adopted. Two points are most likely to bear the brunt of the discussion in this particular rule. These are the value of a drop or rather field kick and the credit to be given for converting a touchdown into a goal. Minor points in the rules which are merely matters of interpretation will also be taken up and definite understandings reached so as to leave as little as possible to the discretion of the already overworked officials. Another point that has been brought forward with unusual prominence, Ow- ing to an incident of one of the final matches of the past season, is that re- garding coaching by non-players and those enjoying side-line privileges. Whether the result of the consideration of this question will be the relegation of all persons to certain prescribed limits outside of any possible infraction of this rule, is still an open question which can only be decided when the committee meets. Another rule that has long existed but which has seldom been brought into such prominence as it was in the Yale-Harvard game, is that permitting the retention of the ball by a side willing to sacrifice twenty yards for the sake of still holding the ball. There has been some suggestion that this rule is to come up for con- sideration before the rule-makers, but this is not nearly so generally com- mented upon as are the other rules al- ready spoken of. The meeting will probably take place some time during March, to be followed by other meet- ings should they prove necessary. —_———__soe___—_ A Campus Post Office. A Campus post office is one of the probabilities of the near future at Yate: Mr. Tyler, the Treasurer, and Mr. Howarth, the New Haven Postmaster, have been looking into the matter with much care for some time. Questions of location and methods of management are. under consideration now and the hope is to hear from the undergraduates as freely as possible about these points, so that the plan will meet their needs and wishes, when it is found possible to put it into operation. | It is possible that some telephone facilities may be introduced in connec- tion with the Campus postal station, but the telephone service may be indepen- dent. A telegraph station for the Cam- pus has been talked of, but it. 1s not probable that this will be established. +++ The track team managers have de- cided to accept the challenge of the University of California for a meet to be held in New Haven, April 28 or May 5S.
