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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.”
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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.
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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.
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