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ALUMNI BANQUETS.
Dr. Depew Presides at Washington—
President Hadiey at Buffalo,
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The annual banquet of the Yale
Alumni Association of Washington was
held Friday evening, March 9, in the
new hall of the Raleigh Hotel. Hon.
Chauncey M. Depew, President of the
Association, presided, and introduced
the chief guest of the evening, Presi-
dent Arthur T. Hadley, to the alumni.
President Hadley spoke at length of the
plans of Yale for the new buildings, of
athletics and of the modern conception
of a collegiate education. At the close
of his address the President was en-
thusiastically cheered.
The banquet seemed, as remarked by
one of those present, a good deal like
a celebration of the Class of Fifty-Six,
for there were speeches by Justices
Brewer and Brown and Senator Depew,
and a claim was put forth by the latter
that President Hadley himself was a
member :of that Class, being born the
year they were Seniors.
The other invited guest, Professor
Moses of the University of California,
just appointed as the last member of
the Philippine Commission, of which
Judge Taft, Yale ’78, was the first mem-
ber, made a claim to be a grandchild
of Yale since the present University
of California was begun by a sturdy
Yale graduate in the early years of the
State:
Senator Hawley and Ellis H. Roberts,
Class of Fifty, spoke eloquently, and
Justice Hagner, President of the Alumni
Association of Princeton, spoke grace-
fully and cordially for that friendly
rival of the older New England Uni-
versities. The old songs were sung
admirably. The hall, the finest for such
occasions in the city, with the profusion
~ floral decoration, made a_ spectacle
wv
of unusual beauty.
The Yale men present were: Chas. B.
Ball/8o.S. ; G.. Wie Baird; 63> «Ge 0G.
Bentley; 96; Hone: De. J... Brewer 59;
Hon. Henry B. Brown, ’56; ‘}
EB: Wid Cady, '725...dMiun
Yeu Chunge, ’84; Edwards Clark, ’56;
Hon. Chauncey M. Depew, ’56; Rev.
John L. Ewell, ’65; Maj. G. E. Bush-
nellj:’76;. E. «Mi “Gallaudet, :.95:d40hn: ;
Henry S. Graves, ’92; M. A. Guinnip,
Gao.) Gyrus Hall’ s2; Hen. Joseph
R. Hawley, ’86 Hon.; James H. Hay-
den; (87:8. >. Be: At Bld’ 735: Gertis:.J.
Hillyer, ’50; Wallace W. Hite, ’78; W.
Ai dtoldert, 2703: He WesHoyt; 785. Geo.
HesGurty} shi Qy ‘Perrin, 3903: Phos.-L,
McClung, ’92;:°Wm:-A: Malloy; Wm.
Borns; (873
H.: Morse, ’673:. Bio Ws Parker; 96}.-E:
A. Pratt, ’58; Rev. E. K. Rawson, ’68;
Plt¢-sdHxy: Roberta: ?ge8 : oc Ehess<- 4A;
Shenaud, ex-’98; Jno. K. Stauffer, ’95;
Wo Go Whittemore;: 2553... Rev. -E
Whittlesey, ’42; George P. Whittlesey,
ex-'78; Walter D. Wilcox, 793; Guer-
don H. Wilcox, ex-’95; H. K. Willard,
"79; Andrew Wilson, *92; F. J. Wood-
man,76>: Kwai Young, 845. GR:
aman, (675° Te: W.ieLyman ;..Gol. CG. J.
Paths s? Gov: Ge -Brady,i°74 :«. and
J. H. Jenning, 845.3; President Arthur
T-Hadley; '76:;
The Buffalo Meeting.
The annual banquet of the Yale
Alumni Association of Buffalo, N. Y.
was held at the Buffalo Club, Buffalo,
THE
ACADEMIC SLOUCH,
(Reference being to a hat), has
a Style of its own, no mat-
ter what its hues and age.
That is true of most any-
thing a College man puts
on his head. So many
College men wear Knox
Hats
WALA ALON
Tuesday evening, March 13, Wilham E.
Foster, ’60, presiding. Besides Presi-
dent Hadley, who was the guest of
honor and made the principal speech of
the evening, there were speeches by H.
S Durand, ’81; Thomas H. Penney, ’87;
Rev. Frank S. Fitch, ’73 T.S.; George
E. Matthews, 777; Dr. M. D. Mann, ’67;
Sheldon T. Viele ’68; Ansley Wilcox,
‘74: Rev. G. B. Richards, °88 S.; and
C. W. Goodyear and George Urban,
Jr., who were introduced as the “fathers-
in-law” of the University, not graduates
themselves, but having sons who were.
Jesse C. Dann, ’88S., read a poem by
Robert Cameron Rogers, ’83, entitled “A
Drama-Dream,” descriptive of an im-
aginary sea fight between the Cruiser
Yale, commanded by ex-President
Dwight and manned by President Had-
ley, and a Spanish fleet under Weyler.
YALE DEMOCRACY AND THE SOPHOMORE
SOCIETIES.
President Hadley spoke in part as
follows:
“The third characteristic of Yale that
I shall bring out is that of democracy.
Now here again I do not mean by de-
mocracy, communism, equality. People
are not equal and no amount of words
will make them so; and an ideal of de-
mocracy that is bound up with an abso-
lute theoretical equality of any kind, and
attempts to realize it, is a very precarious
one because it keeps running up against
facts that are too strong for it. What
we mean by democracy is that every-
body should have an interest in the vital
interests of the whole; that everyone
should have a fair show to become in
his way part of a community, part of a
public spirit and public life and should
feel not only that he is part of that- life,
but that his share in that life is the
greatest thing that he possesses and en-
jOys.
“The very influences which seemed to
militate against Yale democracy, and
which we are fighting hardest now, do
but give evidence of the vitality of the
underlying democratic ideas. Take the
Sophomore Society difficulty. for in-
stance. Things are bad in a great many
ways about the Sophomore Society sys-
tem at present. They are by no means
hopelessly bad when it has become a
matter of vital concern to everyone to
set them right and when the work of
graduates and undergraduates is gradu-
ally being focussed on a point where I
am confident that it will set them right.
Things are bad, things have lost the
democratic spirit in a college where a
man, finding that he has become a part
of the social life, accepts it, becomes a
specialist, retires into his shell and ceases
to be part of the general life of the
place. Thank God, we are as far from
that as we ever have been. It does not
militate against the existence of true
democracy to have to fight for it. In
fact, that is the condition of a. de-
mocracy; that you should keep fighting
for it, and these struggles are but the
evidence of the vitality of the old spirit
under conditions which are adverse at
present; but we triumphed over equally
bad. things in the past and I believe we
shall do so to-day.”
THE WORK FOR GRADUATES. -
“Now, what is it that the graduates of
Yale are doing and can do in the main-
tenance of these qualities that I have
described? In the first place, by their
presence throughout the country, by the
testimony of their life and their work,
they are bringing to Yale, students from
all parts of the country, bringing us
material. Itis not only vitally important
for those men to have a national educa-
tion, but the only means of having a
national education is to get those men
from everywhere. You know the story
about the man who had the moose? I
hope some of you do not. At any rate,
I will venture to tell it. There was a
man who had a moose on exhibition. He
charged 25 cents apiece for individuals
and 50 cents for families. Now, there
was a man who came along with eleven
children and he wanted a 50-cent ticket.
The man said: “Are all those your child-
ren?” The other man said “Yes, they’re
all my children.” “Come right in,” said
the owner of the moose. “Don’t pay a
cent. It is quite as important for my
moose to see your family as it is for
your family to see my moose.”
The alumni association can, through-
out the country, enable our moose at
Yale to see the large and growing fami-
lies that are now contained within the
That is the essence of democracy.
VW Eh
borders of the United States. And, in
the second place, they can, by being
wide-awake with new ideas, which they
get in all places and parts of the country,
keep Yale up to the needs of the times.
The inspiration furnished by a Yale man
at the head of the Forestry Department
of the Government is on the very point
of being realized by the establishment of
a forest school at Yale, which will be
more liberally endowed in proportion to
its needs than any other department of
the University. I hope now—though I
do not see the endowment—that the in-
spiration of having a Yale man at the
head: of the Philippine Commission will,
in due time, lead to the similar develop-
ment of, first, the idea and then the
endowment, for if you really have the
idea, money follows—into an endowment
of a department of colonial government.
And so on all along the line. The Yale
men everywhere, by keeping their eyes
open and their minds open, can keep the
heart of Yale open, ready to take ad-
vantage of the new opportunities that
are coming on from year to year and
from day to day.
“So much for our national character
and for what you can do for it. And
now with regard to the conservative
character. You by your contact with
the Yale men of the undergraduate and
professional school world, are a conser-
vative force of immense importance. A
body that shifts from year to year, a
student body that has no past and no
future, even a body of students and in-
structors living within themselves, are
liable to be blown about by every wind
of doctrine. It is because of the active
connection between students and alumni
that there is a permanence, a stability
in the sentiment of the college, which
enables us to go through the changes that
have already taken place and the greater
changes that must take place in the im-
mediate future, without undermining the
bonds of discipline and the force of pub-
lic sentiment. Whatever brings gradu-
ates and undergraduates together, substi-
tutes a force with 60 years of life back
of it for one with the 4 or 6 years of
student life only.”
SOUTH MIDDLE AND THE FENCE.
“Tn connection with the keeping up of
old conservative ways, I hope that we
may keep as far as possible the old cus-
toms and. old buildings. Your presi-
dent’s friends, the clerical members of
the Corporation, are an iconoclastic set.
They want to take down old buildings,
but I think we are going to be able to
preserve South Middle as long as its
old walls will hold it up and we are
going to have a good fence, too, not
in the old place. JI was sorry to see the
old fence go from the old place, but,
after all, New Haven is getting to be so
large a city that it is best for the college
to live on the inside, on the whole, in-
stead of the outside; it avoids contact
between the College and New Haven,
which probably isn’t good for New
Haven and certainly isn’t good for the
College.
“Yale democracy is not so frail a thing
that it is dependent upon having its
fence placed in one particular position.
But we are going to have, before the
Bi-centennial, and when we have once
got the question of grades on the Cam-
pus settled, a new fence, with three good
round rails and square tops on the posts,
of the kind on which Mr. Viele and Mr.
Foster and I were educated, and which
will bind the graduate of the future with
the graduate of the past by one more
visible symbol. And so in other ways.
There is no need of going into them all.
Now, further, the graduates can help
the spirit of democracy in the first place
_ by all the ways in which they helped the ~
spirit of conservatism. It is sometimes
thought that democracy and conserva-
tism are antagonistic, but it is not so.
there never was a falser conception.
A TRIBUTE TO PROFESSOR PHELPS.
“Tt would be wrong to close any speech
this week without some mention of the
great man who has just gone away from
us. Edward John Phelps was the last
of the men in public life who had been
actively engaged in our historic national
affairs in the days of Webster and Clay
and Calhoun. His passing away is the
passing away of an age .of history. It
is more than this, for he brought into
the affairs of the present, right knowl-
edge derived from the experience of the
past; he brought into the affairs of the
country an experience derived from con-
tact with other countries; he brought
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home to his friends, by ever-ready coun-
sel, the treasures of a wisdom which
hardly knew bounds either of country or
of century. Gentlemen, it is fitting that
we drink a silent toast to the memory of
Edward John Phelps.”
The election of officers resulted as
follows: President, Hon. Wilson S.
Bissell, 69; Vice-President, William A.
Rogers, ’74 S.; Secretary and Treasurer,
Kneeland Ball, ’96; Executive Commit-
tee, Edward B. Guthrie, ’71; Carl T.
Chester, 75; George E. Matthews, °77.
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The Columbia Football Eleven.
The Columbia Spectator published on
March 16 two letters from the Faculty
Committees on Athletics in regard to
the management of the football team of
Columbia last Fall. hese letters re-
ported an examination of the books of
the manager and of his conduct of the
office, which showed that, in the opinion
of the Committee, he had been untruthful
toward the committee in the matter of
certain payments made to members of
the football eleven, to cover tuition,
board or other expenses. The motive of
covering up the work of paying members
of the football team, explains, in the
opinion of the Committee, all the irregu-
larities in the accounts of the manager.
The Committee’s letter severely con-
demns the attitude of the manager, who,
the Committee reports, has severed his
connection with the University.
The Spectator comments on the letters
as follows:
“In another column we publish two
letters from the Faculty Committee on
Athletics. At first we hesitated to pub-
lish these merely from an unwillingness
to exploit so unfortunate and deplorable
an affair, but after due deliberation we
decided that, in justification of the atti-
tude of Columbia as regards purity in
athletics, we had best make the facts
public. We are sure it is the true senti-
ment of every Columbia man, that it is
preferable to be beaten in football or
any other branch of sport by our weakest
opponent rather than have a successful
team at the slightest sacrifice of our
athletic honor.” |
An investigation, it will be remem-
bered, was made during the football sea-
son by the Faculty Committee on Ath-
letics, but at that time the Committee
were convinced, from what they could
learn from the records, that eyery mem-
ber of the team except Gilchrist, who
was forbidden to play, was a bona fide
student. The revival of the rumors,
coupled with reports of dishonesty on
the part of the manager, induced another
investigation by the Faculty Commit-
tee through the Graduate Advisory Com-
mittee, with the result as given above.
PS A RE
Janitor “Sam” Brown Dead.
Janitor Samuel J. Brown of Durfee
Hall died in New Haven, Friday, March
He was fifty-six
years of age and had been janitor of
Durfee for twelve years. Before being
appointed to Durfee, he had for four
years been janitor of North. He was for
a long time janitor of one of the Junior
Society halls.
