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YALE ALUMNI WEEKLY
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ie yas Alumni Weekly, New Haven, Conn.
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ADVISORY BOARD.
WILLIAM W. SKIDDY, ’655S.,..... Mes sete YOrk,
C. Purpy LINDSLEY, ’75 S.,..... .... New Haven.
WALTER CAMP. BO ie.cds fsenG 8% ..New Haven.
WILLIAM G. DAGGETT, ’80,.......... New Haven.
JAMES R. SHEFFIELD, '87,....0..++++ New York.
Joun A. HARTWELL, ’89 S.,.....00+. ..New York,
Vjmwrs 6. WF BEC Os os ees cece nee New Haven.
EDWARD VAN INGEN, "91 S.,....ceceee New York.
PreRre: JAY, aj. seveccews Fitutiwet .New York.
EDITOR.
LEwis S. WELCH, ’89.
ASSOCIATE EDITOR.
WALTER CAMP, ’80.
ASSISTANT EDITOR.
E. J. THoMmpPsoN, Sp.
NEWS EDITOR.
PRESTON KUMLER, 1900
ASSISTANT BUSINESS MANAGER.
BURNETT GOODWIN, ’g9 S.
Entered as second class matter at New Haven P. O.
NEW HAVEN, CONN., MARCH 7, 1900.
Persons desiring to insert notices in
or send information to the WEEKLY, are
reminded that it 1s desirable to have
all such matter. in the office as far in
advance of the day of publication as
possible. Most of such material should
reach the WrEKty office by Friday.
While some matter can be handled on
Monday, it 1s much better to have tt
earlier.
THE NEWS.
The intelligent conduct of the Yale
News is a source of concern to every
good Yale man. It is a pleasure to
print a brief review, prepared at our
request by Mr. Adams, the retiring
Chairman of the News board, which
shows that further improvements have
been made in the method of the conduct
of the paper. A more intelligent sys-
tem of competition has been prepared,
and more responsibility and more work
has been placed on the editors. In no
direction could improvements be more
welcome. The competition for the Yale
News has always been on an exceed-
ingly fair basis and its tests have been
thoroughly journalistic. The speaker
from the Harvard Crimson at the News
banquet, called attention to what he be-
lieved to be the superiority of the Yale
system in this respect. At the same
time, it has been a most burdensome
task for the competitors, full of work
which did no good in itself, and which
simply made additional labor for the
editors and increased the chances for
error. Its demand on the time of the
competitor was enormous. Men went
to the Infirmary or home, or were
dropped from their class under its strain.
Many men of distinct ability in college
newspaper work were debarred, because
they knew it was not worth the while
to pay such an enormous price. Any-
thing which makes the amount of work
reasonable, raises the quality of the
work, and invites the men who wish to
make the most in every way of their
college course to the competition, is
much to: be welcomed.
On the other side, namely, that of the
work of the editors, the improvement
is quite as welcome. The standard of
the News editorial board in point of
brains and character has always been
good. Their names, however, in the
WALES: ALU MINE
past, have often been at the head of a
paper, whose contents, outside, perhaps,
of the editorial page, carried with them
no compliment to any member of the
editorial board. Mistakes were repro-
duced from the newspapers in a late at- —
tempt to catch up with the procession
of news. Matters of great interest were
passed by altogether, because the con-
tributors didn’t happen to put them in.
College events of great importance were
covered in the most indifferent manner
when experts were on the staff, who
might have produced the most interest-
ing articles.
We commend most Sincerely the im-
provements that have been made and
we hope the future has a great deal
more in store in this line. We look
forward to the time when the Yale
News can be made up practically en-
tirely by its editors, who will consider
work upon it as involving just as much
responsibility to the college and as per-
formed quite as clearly in the college eye
as the work on any athletic organization
which wears the colors of Yale. We
look for the time when actual experi-
ence on the paper is a great education
for those who are fortunate enough to
make the Board. We look forward to
the time when the editors in council
or through their chief, shall hold them-
selves as spokesmen and guides of col-
lege policy in all branches of college
life.
Ste 3 desde PE Oe
YALE ARCHITECTURE.
Elsewhere in this issue is printed a
sharp criticism of the new building
plans of Yale. We believe in giving
free range to a discussion of this na-
ture, for.-there 1s; no: danger: that: it
will result disadvantageously to the
University. Unlike the discussion of
Sophomore’ Societies, the arguments
will not develop prejudices and partisan
feelings, but will help to make the mat-
ter better understood, and to bring the
object and method of the University
more directly to all Yale men. Such a
matter of University policy as the plan
and style of these buildings should stand
freest discussion. We do not mean that
we would print everything that was of-
fered on them, by any means. Limita-
tion of space and proper regard for our
readers, would force us to decline many
contributions.
It was last Spring that the Committee
on Bi-centennial Building plans, with
_ the full approval of the Corporation, in-
vited a competition of some of the lead-
ing architects of the country. Among
the architects thus invited were those
who have done the most work and best
work for the University in the past.
The Committee made choice of archi-
tects on the basis of this competition.
They made the choice which they did,
not because of the style, but be-
because of the simplicity of the plans
and their adaptation to existing needs.
It is, we believe, no violation of con-
fidence to say that the plans of those
architects who have done the _ best
work for the University in the past
were in the same style as the design
actually chosen.
Over the outcome of such a competi-
tion, there is always pleasure in some
quarters and disappointment in others.
Expression of pleastire over the selec-
tion of Messrs. Carrére & Hastings as
architects, which involves the choice of.
classical forms, since these men wse
nothing else in their building, have been
widespread. It is further considered a
reasonable cause for further gratification
on the part of the authorities, that those
who know most about the construction
of large buildings under modern con-
ditions, are warmest in their praise and
their congratulations.
W EEK LY
In his speech at the Orange Alumni
Banquet, part of which is quoted in this
issue of the paper, President Hadley
called attention to one move forward
in the way. of bringing together different
departments of the University. If we
are not mistaken, it is the first evidence
of the development under the new
regime which has yet been offered. It
is the Theological Department, reputed
to be, as President Hadley said, the
most conservative of all; ‘that. has ar-
ranged a course of study ‘which holds
forth as one of the advantages to the
Yale Divinity students, the opportunity
of studying Anthropology and _ the
Science of Society with Professor Sum-
ner.” The President also referred to
the new department which is in process
of preparation—that of Forestry,—which
he said is to “utilize not merely the
technical instruction which some of our
Yale graduates have so well qualified
themselves to give, but the resources of
the University in the teaching of physi-
cal geography and geology and eco-
nomics, and the various allied sciences
which go to make up the work of suc-
cessful forest demonstration.”
sopaabinct Lig pp tl es
Elsewhere is printed an announcement
of the forthcoming banquet of the An-
dover alumni. The list of speakers is
certainly a remarkable tribute to the
character of the students and alumni of
the school.
CURRENT YALE LITERATURE.
Collier's Weekly announced an espe-
cially interesting innovation inthe de-
partment conducted by Mr. Walter
Camp, Yale ’80, under the head of
“Sport, Travel and Adventure.” A
series of articles, copiously illustrated,
descriptive of strange and original ex-
periences in hunting, exploration and
travel, at home and abroad, will be pub-
lished during the Spring and Summer.
An edition of Thackeray’s “English
Humorists,” by William Lyon Phelps,
Assistant Professor of English Litera-
ture at Yale, will soon appear from the
press of Henry Holt & Co. It will have
an extensive introduction with fuller
notes than have ever been published.
The work is intended for both the
general reader and for use in the class
room.
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President Hadley at Orange.
The following is from the address of
President Hadley at the Essex County
Alumni Association banquet at Orange,
NUcy Fiiday, “Maren. 12:
President Hadley said in part:
“This is by no means the first time
that it has been my privilege to visit the
Orange alumni, and I hope it will be
by no means the last. The loyalty of
the various alumni associations in New
Jersey to their alma mater has become
proverbial. In that State, which Judge
Howland describes, with that felicity of
Scriptural language acquired from long
association with clerical members of the
Corporation as “the land beyond the
Jordan, wherein dwell the Hittites, the
Moabites and the Mosquitobites,” Yale
men and Yale interests are always sure
of finding a strong welcome.”
“An alumni association, properly un-
derstood, is not merely a means for hav-
ing a dinner once a year, though it may
sometimes degenerate into this. It is
a means of keeping alive the spirit
which has formed so valuable a part of
our education in college life, and of
manifesting it to the world for what it
is. I believe that in the future, as we
have time to develop new methods of
organization, alumni associations will
count for more than they do to-day;
that they will not be mere meeting
places to eat and drink and listen to
speeches, but that they will be centers
of influence which take charge of the
interests of Yale in different parts of
the country, by conducting entrance
examinations, by giving information to
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THE QUESTION OF VALUE.
When a man selects an article of
wearing apparel from a number costing
two or more prices and of different
qualities, he selects the best; and in this
his judgment is good because he takes
a long look ahead and the question of
future value and durability is foremost
in his mind.
If this simple principle should be fol-
lowed out when many of our business
men seek to invest their money, there
would be certain prosperity and few if
any disappointments. Present value and
future durability are the things to be
first considered in nearly every business
transaction, whether the articles pur-
chased are to be worn or kept in a safe.
Many men invest their incomes in
mines, some in lumber lands, some in
orange groves, some purchase stock in
industrial enterprises or become silent
partners in business firms, and some in-
vest in ships that battle with the ele-
ments at sea, while others have faith in
promising corner lots; but all make their
ventures with an abundance of hope.
Some of these are sticcessful, but fail-
ures oft outnumber successes and the
words of the sacred proverb—“hope de-
ferred maketh the heart sick,’ are again
proved true.
A financial institution of the magni-
tude of The Mutual Life Insurance
Company of New York, that: has been
able to withstand the pressure of many
financial crises and panics; a company
that has been ‘“‘tried in the fire,’ pro-
vides the best means for the safe invest-
ment of one’s money. Such a choice
will, in the long run, far excel the most
promising speculative business enter-
prise. The mine may fail to yield its
paying ores; the crop may prove short
and disastrous; the corner lot may eat
itself up in interest and taxes, or the
sea may swallow up the vessel; but the
policy will endure and produce value
for the investor. See to it that you be-
come a member of this great institution.
YALE Law SCHOOL.
For circulars and other information
apply. to
Prof. FRANCIS WAYLAND,
Dean.
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intending students, and by furnishing a
means, in a variety of ways, of inter-
change of ideas between the university
which they represent and the wider pub-
lic with which they come in contact.
No small amount of the recent success
of Princeton has been due to the energy
and efficiency with which her associa-
tions have been managed as serious
parts of the college organism; and what-
ever Princeton men can do, Yale men
should be able to do in at least equal
measure.
ALUMNI AND ATHLETICS.
“When we grasp this idea of the
character of the alumni as not only an
integral part of university life, but as
the great body in which that life is
exemplified, a great many things which
otherwise seem wrong fall into their
right places. Take the matter of inter-
collegiate athletics. If we consider
these things from the standpoint of the
student only, they represent in many
cases a great waste of time, strength and
money, and their effect in stimulating
physical development throughout the
student body, while doubtless beneficial,
sometimes seems to cold-blooded critics
hardly to warrant this expense. But
when we regard them as a center about
which college sentiment and college en-
thusiasm cluster themselves, we begin
to see something which is perhaps their
highest function, and which gives them
a beneficial character which the critic
hardly realizes. The game or race
which brings together the graduate ol
fifty years standing and the young boy
who is just preparing for college, gives
to that union between past and present
which a university symbolizes not only
a visible and tangible means of expres-
sion, but an intense enjoyment—irra-
tionally intense, if you will—that keeps
it alive and makes it grow and enables
it to be used for other purposes of
character building remote from _ the
game itself. And just because of this
widespread moral influence the problem
of straight and honorable. athletics has