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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
