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254 YATH ALUMNI De YALE ALUMNI WEEKLY SUBSCRIPTION, - $3.00 PER YEAR, Foreign Postage, 40 cents per year. PAYABLE IN ADVANCE, Single copies, ten cents each. For rates for papers in quantity, address the office. All orders for papers should be paid for in advance Checks, drafts and orders should be made payable to the Yale Alumni Weekly. All correspondence should be addressed,— Yale Alumni Weekly, New Haven, Conn, The office is at Room 6, White Hall. ADVISORY BOARD. WIELIAM W. SKIDDY, ’65S.,.....-.... New York. Py EepyY LINDSLEY,: 75 tise ones a 00s New Haven. WasrTee: CAMP, - 20; chsh okashensccakea New Haven. WILLIAM G. DAGGETT, "80,.......... New Haven. JAMES R, SHEFFIELD, '87,.........+¢ New York, JouNn A. HARTWELL, '89S.,.....00.-+ New York, Sires 5; WELCH, SO: crcicdeisndeaned New Haven. EDWARD VAN INGEN, ’91S.,....seee0- New York, RRR G TAY, 9d, .s0cbupanc es AS ae New York. EDITOR. Lewis S. WELCH, ’89. ASSOCIATE EDITOR. WALTER CAMP, ’80. ASSISTANT EDITOR. E. J. THOMPSON, Sp. NEWS EDITOR. PRESTON KUMLER, 1900 © ASSISTANT BUSINESS MANAGER. BuRNETT GOODWIN, ’99 S. Entered as second class matter at New Haven P. O. NEw HAVEN, CONN., MARCH 28, 1900. THE NEW ELECTIVES. The space this week is very largely given up to news about the elective courses. There is nothing more vital at any time, and there is nothing more interesting at Yale at this particular time. tion has laid out for itself is being done with energy and with many results al- ready appearing. These changes are significant, as indicating the controlling motive in the Yale policy of education for the new century. It is plain that much has already been added to make the education at Yale, from any stand- point, more valuable. It is also plain that more system is appearing. The end is not yet, but the course is beginning to appear. fost SEES MERE SS Ea Tk THE TENEYCK. The authorities have consented to a change of the TenEyck speaking from Battell Chapel to College Street Hall, but they retain the speaking in the after- noon. The change is to be welcomed, as indicating a desire to do something to redeem this most important event from the condition into which it had fallen. It gives hope that more effective meas- ures may be taken in the future. nah pe A marked change in the elective sys- tem is most properly attended by such an excellent and helpful talk as Presi- dent Hadley gave to the Freshman class in regard to their choices for Sophomore year. In fact, such a ‘talk is in order for every class. With help of this kind, the dangers that some fear from the freer opening of the course will be largely averted. Those who read the report of the talk, given elsewhere, will notice a significant emphasis placed on the study of classics. -—_———___—_—__}>@___——_- Yale is to have a post office of her own. This is to be undoubtedly a con- venience and advantage to the whole College community, and the Treasury Department is to be commended for this attention to the practical needs of the University. Gem. Plans were made for the formation this week of an organization of the The work which the Administra- . Connecticut Alumni of the Yale Divinity School, and the report of the meeting will be made in another issue of the paper. This is a move of no little im- portance to the School and to Yale. We watch for its results with much interest. —_e > CURRENT YALE LITERATURE. ‘Boys and Men.” -eview of Mr. Holbrook’s novel of Yale life, Aeritien by Professor Charlton M. Lewis for the Yale News, and reproduced by permission. ] College life could not be fully de- scribed in a single book, nor perhaps in a whole library. It consists not only of the life that a thousand or more men lead together, indoors and out, and in the eye of the multitude, but also of the inner life that each one of the thou- sand leads alone. Most of the stories that profess to tell of college life tell only of the life of the crowd; and most of them treat even that as if it were all a farce. College is described as the place where we laugh and sing and drink and seek whatever pleasing perdition the writer thinks he can make most amusing; and the credulous out- sider reads the ridiculous nonsense, and thinks we are all going the primrose way to the everlasting bonfire. Mr. Holbrook has happily chosen to give us a very different kind of picture. He does not overlook the farcical aspect of things—witness the delightfully re- prehensible chapter in which Uncle Toby acts as the angel of peace—but he sees the community life as something de- serving serious study, and he sees that the individual life is an integral part of his subject, too. College is not only the place where a man is found out by others; it is the place where he finds himself. The strength ‘of “Boys ‘and Men” is largely in its thoughtful repre- sentation of the development of boyhood into manhood; it is to most other books of the sort as the kinetoscope is to the kaleidoscope; and there is al- ways a healthy picture of the college at large in the background. The construction of the plot is excel- lent. At the start there is some con- fusion, owing to the too rapid introduc- tion of a dozen or more characters, and it is a little hard to keep one’s attention properly focused; but the beginnings of college life are so cleverly described that the reader’s interest does not suffer, and the leading dramatis personae emerge from the confusion in due time. In only one instance is the reader inclined to find fault with the author’s develop- ment of his material. One of the heroes shows at the end of the story some peculiar traits of character which take the incautious reader by surprise; they are important in the working out of the solution, and one feels that they ought to have been more clearly disclosed in the earlier chapters. Still, no one will quarrel with the author over any of his male characters. They are all plausible, and not a few of them impress us as actual. Our favorite, though, is not either of the two heroes, but the mer- curial and altogether lovable “Billy,” and every one will wish there were more of him. The heroine—for such persons, it seems, are. found even in college stories —is not so easy to accept. She has charm, and is as interesting as the knotty problem that she sets for her lovers to solve; but are such nice girls so very liberal with their confidences? she has told her brother all about the German nobleman who twice proposed to her, and all about her distress at his desperate unhappiness, it is a distinct relief to read, when she is chatting with two of her brother’s classmates, that she “avoids any mention of Graf von Hohenhausen or others who had paid her court.” All this suggests that the author’s eye was on the Yale Campus when the book was written, and that it is only the male heart that can be studied there to advantage. Such an impression fades, however, if we turn from the leading lady to the ingenue, who is thoroughly convincing; and who, by the way, is convinced in just the way the reader wishes her to be. But it is the picture of what we have called the community life of college that will arouse most interest, and most discussion. Is it true? Is it fair? These questions would be easier to answer in a volume than in a paragraph. Of course the book does not attempt to After - W HK LY be complete, but within its limits it seems to us to give a typical picture of Yale life. Each reader will doubtless find some matters of detail that will surprise him. We were not aware, for example, that Yale men were in the habit of calling one another “chaps”; but that is probably because we did not observe their habits in the early Nine- ties, and it is a trifle, anyhow. The important things are pictured faithfully. If the muss of college politics is a little too much in the foreground, at any rate the good men are judiciously repre- sented as keeping their hands clean; and if the author’s comments are sometimes a trifle too pessimistic, his story and his characters eloquently refute him. No- body will think the book absolutely cor- rect, for the subject is one on which no two men absolutely agree; but no- body will think it very far wrong. Moreover, nobody will regret reading it, and nobody, for a long time at least, will do the thing better. we ee Dr. Pomeroy for Law School, Dr. John Norton Pomeroy, Yale ’87, has been appointed to take the courses in Equity in the Law School, of the late Professor E. J. Phelps. He will be- gin work about April 1. Dr. Pomeroy was born in Orange, N. J., in 1866 and prepared for College at the Boys’ High School in San Fran- cisco, Cal. During his course at Yale he was Chairman of the Literary Maga- gine, and a member of Phi Beta Kappa. After a year of post graduate work in political science here, he went to the Columbia Law School and studied two years, becoming in that time an editor of the Columbia Law Times. Before completing his course, however, he re- moved to San Francisco and was ad- mitted to the bar. In 1891 the Univer- sity of California gave him the de- gree of LL.B. Until 1898 Dr. Pomeroy practiced law in San Francisco with his brother, but in that year he settled in Washington, D. C., where he had a course of lectures in the Washington and Lee University. Within the last ten years he has edited and revised the fol- lowing books written by his father: “Pomeroy’s Jurisprudence,’ “Pomeroy’s Code Remedies” and “Pomeroy’s Speci- fic Performance of Contracts.” AR University Club Elections, — At the annual meeting of the Univer- sity Club of New York, held Saturday evening, March 17, the following officers were chosen: For Council—To serve until March, 1904, James W. Alexander, Otto. -T;: Bannard, Yale 76; T. Frank Brownell; Henry E. Howland, Yale ’54; B. Aymar Sands. For Committee on Admissions—To serve until March, 1903, William K. Draper; Edward C. Henderson; Fran- cis C. Huntington; William A. Meikle- ham; A. René Moén, Yale ’89S.; A. Henry Mosle, ’89; Arthur P. Sturgis. The Treasurer’s report showed a cash surplus for the year of $56,403. The total membership is now 2,973. a Graduates Club Notes, A proposition recently made to in- crease the dues of the resident mem- bership of the Graduates Club of New Haven, from $20 to $30 per annum, with a view to a change of the Club to larger and more expensive quarters, has been unfavorably acted upon. Arrangements have recently been made for serving grill room dishes during the day and evening. Mr. Edward Cary, editor of the New York Times, and member of the Exec- utive Committee of the National Civil Service Reform League, spoke to the members of the Club, Saturday evening, March 17th, on the subject: “The Fu- ture of Civil Service Reform.” A Harvard’s new launch “John Har- vard,” which is to replace the “Frank Thomson” destroyed by fire last Decem- ber, is almost ready for delivery. She will be one foot longer than the old boat. r contract speed is 14.5 knots an hour, but it is hoped she may be faster than that. YALE Law SCHOOL. For circulars and other information apply to Prof. FRANCIS WAYLAND, Dean. LEE SEE E EFSF FESS FEF FFFEFESHEFOFEEE FFE EEE EHH HT © 7 PROPERTY } is most valuable where it is best pro- tected by law. This is what makes so valuable a policy in the Ooo Ooo Massachusetts laws protect the policy-holder. Some interesting literature, includ- ing the forty-eighth annual statement, sent on application to | + HENRY M. 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