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NEw HAVEN, CONN., MARCH 21, 1900.
REFORM THE TENEYCK.
The suggestion to change the time
of the TenEyck speaking to evening
and the place of it to College Street Hall,
is one worthy of most serious considera-
tion. The speaking hardly ought to be
continued under present conditions.
The smallness of the attendance is pa-
thetic and is a severe reflection either on
the speaking itself, or the system of
training for it, or the interest of the
College in public speaking.
We think it includes them all in its
condemnation and that the situation is
a most serious one for a college which
holds as its special work the training
of American citizens. The speeches at
the TenEyck are generally badly de-
livered and often the presentation is .
horrible. Academies and public schools
would blush at some of the work done
on the platform of Battell Chapel. A
public speaker who showed any trace of
the symptoms freely exhibited there
would be hooted off the stump by any
political audience, while his talk in a
legislative hall would have less effect
than a well managed phonograph. Yale
must give much more and much better
training for all before the few who win
TenEyck premiums can be relied on to
show much excellence.
As to the general interest, it would
greatly increase with more attention to
the matter by the Corporation as a part
of the curriculum. Results in the way
of real oratory would then appear.
is the only way to get general interest.
If the College honor of public speak-
ing is not as well rewarded as for-
merly, we must look to the reason for
failure to appreciate it, and not rest
with a general charge against the stu-
dent body.
That the method of conducting the
exercises could be improved on is quite
possible. That the method of selecting
the winners is without reasonableness is
perfectly clear. Any member of the
Faculty can vote on who 1s the best
orator! How ridiculous! When the
professor of English Literature is called
upon to test the scientific student’s in-
vestigations of the perhalides of the
alkali metals, or the head of the De-
partment of Rhetoric judges papers on
“Least Squares,” the present method of
determining the best TenEyck speaker
may seem rational,
That -
W AZaE ) AiU MNS
THE YALE FOREST SCHOOL.
One clear step forward has been made
by the new administration in the con-
summation of the plans for a School of
Forestry. The Pinchot family -have
placed Yale under a debt of great grati-
tude to them for coming forward, just
at the time when their assistance was
needed to make this step possible. Mr.
Gifford Pinchot, the forester of the
United States, has thus, with the cooper-
ation of other members of his family,
still further advanced a work of great
importance to this nation, in which he
himself has been a pioneer and a strong
leader. The man chosen for the head
of the department has been well trained
in both theory and practice. Mr. Graves
is the man next to Mr. Pinchot, in the
administration of the Division of For-
estry, and is in all ways an addition of
much value to the teaching staff of the
University.
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SOUTH MIDDLE.
The last word from the administration
in regard to the preservation of South
Middle is the best word of all. In a
speech at Buffalo, of which a part is
printed elsewhere, President Hadley said
that he should vote for the preservation
of South Middle as long as the bricks
and mortar could hold together. That
will be a good long time, especially if
proper care is taken in the way of re-
pairs. Now, the Corporation ought to
vote to put back that old roof, and then
we would have a fine old memorial.
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Much “news” of Yale is startling and
entirely unknown to those who are
making it. The Chicago Record prints
the following New Haven Dispatch:
“The Yale Faculty has ‘consented to
the petition of the Junior class asking
for the abolition of the Sophomore
Society.” Other papers tell us the Sopho-
more societies are existing under the ban
of the Faculty and as being officially un-
known to that body, which formally
recognized them eleven years ago. In
the discussion of what Professor Sum-
ner did not say to his class about mar-
riage the assumption is made with con-
fidence in one paper that the eminent
societologist is a woman-hating bache-
lor. These are items picked from the
exchange table in a few minutes reading.
They can be multiplied indefinitely.
When the “news” is not of things that
are susceptible of plain denial by the
records, and matters are treated in which
opinion enters, one is wearied chasing
error for ever so short a way. When
W Eee y
it is seen how far from the facts are
many public prints when treating of mat-
ters of which one has knowledge, he
becomes most suspicious of the con-
tents of all the other columns and won-
ders where an accurate record may be
found.
a Cy enn nae
The graduate and Faculty authorities
on athletics at Columbia University are
to be most highly commended for the
courage with which they have attacked
a very uncomfortable fact and the frank-
ness which they have shown in regard
to it. An official statement that the
eleven of Columbia University, which
made such a brilliant record last Fall,
was not an amateur eleven, is a very
unpleasant anti-climax, but Columbia
University, through its graduates and
undergraduates and officers, faces the
situation manfully and with a spirit
which promises well for the standard of
sport in that institution in the future.
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CURRENT YALE LITERATURE,
‘Boys and Men.”
“Boys and Men,” the new novel of
College—and particularly Yale-life, by
Mr. Richard Holbrook was published
last Saturday by Charles Scribner’s Sons.
It has been received at New Haven with
a great deal of interest and its first re-
ception is distinctively favorable. <A
review of the book by a member of the
English Department will appear in the
next issue of the WEEKLY.
New Edition of Prof. Phelps’s
Map.
The first edition of the literary map
of England, published last month by
Assistant Professor William Lyon
Phelps, through the press of Ginn Co.,
has been exhausted and a new edition
is being produced. The new edition con-
tains twenty-five additional names of
towns connected with the literary history
of England, and is sold for 10 cents.
It may be had at the Yale Coop.
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A State of Things.
[U. of M. Daily.)
The muddy pond of senior law politics
is now agitated by the breeze of the
approaching valedictorian election. It is
said that “Charon” Conlon is oiling up
the joints of his machine to ferry over
some loyal heeler to the promised land.
It is also added that his political timber
has all been consumed or else dampened
in the previous voyages of his ship so
that now he cannot blow up sufficient
fire to start its walking beam. “Com-
munications’ are rife and some start-
ling disclosures are expected in a few
days.
GAVE TI
This plate is the reproduction of a tablet recently placed in the Chapel at West Point by the mem-
bers of the New York State Society Daughters of the Revolution. It is at the suggestion of officers and
at the strong request of others much interested that the tablet is reproduced here. The feeling back of .
the request was that Yale’s list in the last war was so lon
; \ g that her share in such a memorial is a great
ones The regent of the New York State'Society is Mrs. Charles Francis Roe, mother of the late Stephen
ogert Roe, 95S. Mrs. Roe has taken mnch interest in matters connected with the late war ; she built a
memorial, it will be remembered, to her son, in the form of an Asylum for Orphan Cuban Children at
Pinar del-Rio,
SS —_———EE
GENTEEL POVERTY.
Of all kinds of poverty this is, in some
respects, the most pitiable. The families
of laborers and mechanics, left to care
for themselves by the death of their
natural supporters, having no false pride
with reference to honest labor, quickly
accommodate themselves to their
changed conditions, and one and all, of
any age, seek some kind of employment.
Boys and girls, young and old, become
contributors to the support of the family,
and often by their heroic efforts and
practical good sense advance the inter-
ests of the family almost as well as the
departed head.
How different is the case with many
families moving in a little higher social
rank, when left to care for themselves.
Many fathers of no private income, but
deriving good incomes from salaries,
professions, or business, die and leave
almost helpless families, who have not
been accustomed to any kind of labor,
who are not willing to be occupied in
manual toil, and who are altogether
unpractical. They are left with the most
meagre support, and, in their false pride,
the effort to keep up appearances leads
to an uneasy and unhappy life.
Generous living may be justified by
generous income, but, considering the
uncertainties of life, he is actuated by
mistaken kindness who does not train his
family in prudence and economy, illus-
trated by his own example. Economy
is associated with meanness only in the
thoughts of narrow-minded people. The
most prosperous and prominent men in
every department of life have not been
ashamed to acknowledge close economy
of time and money; but, nothwithstand-
ing all these precautions and provisions
for the welfare of others, unless a man
has a large private income, like the man
who has many ships and becomes his
own underwriter, no man, however gen-
erous his salary or yearly income, can
afford to leave his family without the
generous protection of Life Insurance.
Let economy be inculcated, let practi-
cal views of life be instilled, let the boys
as they become of sufficient age, be pre-
pared for positions of life, and last, but
not least, let the natural supporter of the
family secure such insurance in The
Mutual Life Insurance Company of New
York.
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