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GYMNASIUM BATHS.
An Outlay of $2,000 Necessary to
Make Them Adequate,
For several years past complaints have
been made by the undergraduates who
use the Gymnasium, of the insufficiency
of the shower baths there, and in a recent
issue of the Yale Daily News the grow-
ing dissatisfaction was made the subject
of an editorial, in which the seeming
apathy of the Gymnasium officers was
criticised. The News, in stating the un-
dergraduate side of the case, said:
“In the first place the accommodations
are insufficient. The present methods
of training adopted by the track and
crew managements bring large squads
together at the same time to make use
of five shower baths. The necessity of
waiting thus occasioned is certainly not
conducive to good health. In the sec-
ond place, the baths are inexcusably
hard to regulate, the lack of hot water
often making regulation impossible.”
Dr. J. W. Seaver, Associate Director
of the Gymnasium, when seen admitted
that there were not enough showers for
the great number of men who wanted to
use them, but said there was no way to
improve the condition of affairs except
by the outlay of at least $2,000, and there
was no fund which could be drawn upon
for that amount. The plans for the
Gymnasium gave the locker floor only
three showers. A year ago these three,
being entirely inadequate to the demands
put upon them, the University Treasury
made the addition of two at the cost
of about $500, giving the locker floor
the use of five showers for the large
number of men who wanted them.
Only a portion of the men training
for the different teams are taken care
of on the lower floor.
By the expenditure of $2,000, five or
six new showers could be built adjoin-
ing the present ones, without much in-
convenience. It would necessitate cut-
ting off about five feet from the rows —
of lockers on the east side of the floor
and an entire re-piping, as the pres-
ent water supply is no more than suffi-
cient for present uses. The water for
the Gymnasium is drawn from 36 arte-
sian wells in the yard, and this number
would have to be increased by 20 to meet
all requirements. The trouble now ex-
perienced in the regulation of the hot
and cold water, which causes so much
dissatisfaction and discomfort among
the men, is one that cannot be gotten
rid of in the present system of piping
with its number of different outlets to
the same pipe. This causes a change of
pressure every time one is opened, and
often douches a man with boiling water
when he expects cold. The only way to
get an even flow of hot water, according
to Dr. Seaver, is by building a large tank
above the lockers, which shall be filled
constantly with hot water and carried
direct to the baths by separate pipes
similar to the method used in the old
Gymnasium. The estimate of $2,000 in-
cludes the building of this tank.
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Probably a Case of Varioloid.
The condition of G. W. Perkins, a
student in 19028., of Grand Rapids,
Mich., who -was taken sick last week
with what appeared to be small-pox, is
not serious, and the probabilities are
that the disease will turn out to be
nothing more than varioloid. Every
precaution has been taken by the Univer-
sity authorities however, all those men
who called on the sick student having
been vaccinated and given leave of
absence with instructions to isolate them-
selves. All the members of the Fresh-
man Class of the Scientific School have
been directed to be vaccinated.
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During Lent the Berkeley Association
will hold daily services, Sundays and
Wednesdays excepted, in Dwight Hall.
Frederick C. Havemeyer, 1900, won
second place in the University Club pool
contest, defeating Justus G. Dettmer,
a in the final round by a score of 75
to 30.
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Athletic Notes,
Mr. Nichols of the Boston League
team reached Yale, Monday, March 5,
and began work at once with the base-
ball candidates. The work so far has
been in the cage, but within a week
Capt. Camp expects to begin work at
the field. Seventy men are now trying
for the University, and 60 for the Fresh-
man team.
Dr. William G. Anderson, Director
of the Gymnasium has recently invented
a machine called the ergograph, which
registers the exact effort in foot pounds
made by the muscles in the performance
of certain feats of strength. It is not
affected by a slow or rapid performance
of muscular effort and cannot be
cheated.
The Executive Committee of the In-
tercollegiate Gymnasium Association
met in New York Monday night, Feb.
26, and decided to hold their first
gymnastic meeting, March 23, in the
Columbia Gymnasium. ‘Twenty-six col-
leges and universities will enter teams,
including Harvard, Yale, Princeton,
Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
A running track within the walls of
the Gym lot will soon be completed for
the use of the track team, until the
Field track is in shape. There will be
no attempt to build a thorough track, as
that would take too much time and
money, and the idea of the track man-
agement is merely to furnish a softer
and evener surface for running than the
street pavements afford, until the work
on the cinder path is begun.
The final doubles of the indoor lawn
tennis championship were finished Mar.
3, in the Armory at Sixty-sixth Street,
New York.
jo As Alien, 1000.5.3--anG 2. 44;—
Hackett, 1900, were defeated by J. P.
Pare «4.enox...1.. (5. cand Galnouw
Cragin, Seventh Regiment, by a score
OF: & 40.7...7. to. 5, 7 .to.5. and 10 to. 8.
The play was of a much higher stand-
ard than on the previous Saturday, and
there was a very good attendance.
The Yale gymnastic team was de-
feated Thursday night, March 1, by Co-
lumbia in a dual contest held at the lat-
ter’s gymnasium in New York. The
competition included work on the hori-
zontal and parallel bars, side horse, fly-
ing rings, and club swinging, and
tumbling. Aside from the points of
individual excellence scores were made
for the trophy—a banner—on a basis
of five for a first, three for a second,
and one for a third. In addition to the
gymnastic performances, there were
several fencing bouts between represen-
tatives from Cornell and Columbia.
At the Olympian games to be held in
Paris during the Exposition next Sum-
mer, the universities of this country will
be well represented. It is definitely
settled that Princeton, the University
of Pennsylvania, and Columbia, will
send teams to compete. The principal
events in which they will take part are
the dashes, ranging from one hundred
to fifteen hundred metres; the hurdles,
from a hundred and ten to four hundred
metres, and the international relay race
of five thousand metres. Though the
Columbia team is to be a small one,
not exceeding five or six men, it will
be exceptionally strong, and will, before
going to Paris, compete, along with the
University of Pennsylvania team, in the
English championships which are to be
held July 7, in London.
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Freshman First Di Vison,
To complete the list of the Fresh-
man first division published in the
WEEKLY, Jan. 31, these names should
be added: Bradford Webster, Water-
bury, Conn.; Howard S. White, Water-
bury, Conn., and Orion J. Willis, Man-
chester, Tenn.
KNOX Spring Hats Are Ready.
W HMKLY
Yale-Princeton Hockey.
The Yale Hockey team defeated the
Princeton team for the second time in
the intercollegiate hockey series, at the
Clermont Avenue Rink, Brooklyn,
March 3. The score was 5 to 1. The
game was fast, and hard fought
throughout both halves, and, while the
Princeton team was clearly outplayed,
the score would have been considerably
closer had it not been for Smith’s excel-
lent defense - of Yale’ s goal-= Vale
scored twice in the first half, both goals
being shot by Bronson. In the second
half Bronson made the other three of
Yale’s goals and Poe made Princeton’s
only score.
The teams lined up as follows: Yale—
Goal, Smith; point, Brock; coverpoint,
Coxe; forwards, Bronson, Inman,
Campbell, and Walworth; Princeton—
Goal, Paull; point, Ford; coverpoint,
Little; forwards, Ogden, Homans, Alex-
ander and Poe.
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Harvard Athletic Association,
In order to further reduce the cost of
membership in the two boat clubs and
the price of admission for the students,
to the various athletic contests held in
Cambridge, it has been decided by the
Athletic Association at Harvard, to
issue tickets for $5.00, entitling the hold-
er to the following privileges: 1. Mem-
bership in either the Weld or Newell
Boat Clubs; 2. Admission to all foot-
ball games in Cambridge, including
those with Yale and Pennsylvania; 3.
Admission to all baseball games in
Cambridge, including those with Yale
and Princeton and Pennsylvania; 4.
Admission to all track games in Cam-
bridge, including those with Yale; 5.
Preference in the choice of seats on the
observation train at New London.
The advantages thus given to Har-
vard men are great, but it means that
the receipts for Yale-Harvard games
held in Cambridge are going to be
greatly reduced, while the receipts from
such games held in New Haven remain
as before. The Baseball Association of-
ficers of the two universities will meet
in a week or two to complete plans for
three games, and the matter will, no
eee be adjusted with satisfaction to
all.
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The Yale Idea in Architecture.
To the Edtior of YALE ALUMNI WEEKLY:
Sir: The plans of the proposed new
University buildings which you pub-
lished last week come as a comforting
reassurance to us, the elder brothers in
the great fellowship of sons of Yale,
reminding us that while the men in con-
trol of our beloved University may
change, yet the time-honored habits of
thought and of action remain as our
inalienable heritage.
The custom which these most costly
buildings will beautifully illustrate is of
course that unique practice which
reached an almost perfect recognition
under the last administration, of making
in every new building not merely a
complete departure from all precedents
established for academic structures, but
a striking contrast with every other
building of the University.
The noble and uplifting purpose of
this scheme now so well established, is
clearly to make our alma mater educa-
tional in her outer garments as well as
at her stout heart—to broider upon the
hem of her flowing gown the history of
architecture, so that the youth of the
land may see before them daily the
curious specimens of a vast museum
of styles from every land and age, not
arranged with a stiff and formal beauty,
but set side by side in a way to impress
the most phlegmatic with a sense of
novelty. With a sturdy refusal to blink
at unpleasant facts, the rulers of Yale
have recognized that there have been
many unlovely styles of building, and
that there will be many more, and have
included, with astonishing success, rep-
resentatives of most of the atrocious
styles of the past, and, let us hope, of
all of those of the future.
We generally talk QUALITY ;
this time it’s PRICES. But
the QUALITY is still there.
We are going to move,
you know, and NOW you
can get QUALITY at the
price of “ Truck.”
CHASE & CO.,
New Haven House Block.
| Henry Heath Hats.
What a beautiful example are the pro-
posed buildings of this careful plan!
Utterly unlike anything now included in
the collection, they belong to what may
almost be called the basest period of
French architecture and are inseparably
connected with that court life which the
Revolution so justly destroyed, and
which is so immeasurably remote from
our Yale ideals. With the help of this
unexpected stimulus to the imagina-
tion, I can see the guiding purpose car-
ried on through the years, with a
Chinese pagoda smiling across Col-
lege street at this Louis Seize palace,
while on the High street side of the
new quadrangle, will rise a thirty story
steel dormitory, representing the present
advancemient of the fine arts in New
York. Some worthy successor of the
deceased builder of the old Tombs will
doubtless be employed to build a bright
and cheerful hall after the manner of the
Hali of Columns at Karnak; while
opposite Battell Chapel will rise an
Aztec teocalli.
But, Mr. Editor, this is a time for
action, not for words; for subscriptions,
not for sentiment, because the hour is
ripe for perpetuating these truly remark-
able designs.
The influence of Vanderbilt Hall,
with its adherence to tradition and re-
gard for beauty and its purpose, has been
steadily undermining the settled habits
of thought of those Yale men, young
and old, who have seen that noble
building; and there is now a large party
in the University ready to abandon the
custom of change and to welcome a
series of buildings which should be
under similar limitations as to design,
and which should always suggest the
still air of delightful studies. The dis-
content of this well meaning but mis-
taken class over this new splendor of
Parisian gorgeousness is growing; and
if it is not checked soon by the breaking
of ground for building it may grow into
a storm of protest. If delay should
unhappily be permitted, perhaps some
such tiresome and decadent person as
Mr. Cady Eaton, who has had the
effrontery to suggest that Osborn Hall
does not very vividly suggest its
scholastic purpose, will rise and urge
that these magnificent buildings will be
out of harmony with their surroundings.
entirely devoid of academic character.
and base in detail; and who, Mr. Editor.
will be able to contradict him? |
HENRY SELDEN BAcon.
Rochester, N. Y., February 9, 1900.
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The Harvard Bulletin publishes a
table giving the official report of the ill-
ness in Harvard University during the
year 1898-99. The report shows a de-
crease in contagious diseases and in-
juries, and attributes the decrease in the
latter case to the “more intelligent
management of athletics.” The total
number of cases were 2,705.
