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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., APRIL 11, 1900.
A DEPARTMENT OF ORATORY.
President Schurman of Cornell has
said of a Department of Oratory that it
is one “without which no American
university can be considered complete.”
Cornell has acted on this principle. A
recent number of the Alumni News
sketches very interestingly the history
of the department there, showing its
growth, the very sound principles on
which it is conducted, and its influence
on the men. Over two hundred are
now in the various courses, and the
value of the training which it gives is
shown whenever there is general com-
petition calling out the best public speak-
ing of the University. The main
courses, and those which have been
longest established, are those of Oratory
and Public Speaking. These include
study of the masters and masterpieces
of oratory. They are conducted on the
principle that “there can be no right
speaking without right thinking and that
right thinking can best be promoted
by increasing the powers of reasoning
and observation. Especially is stress
laid on originality in the interpretation
of thought and emotion. Imitation
finds no place in the system and elocu-
tionary theories are but little followed.”
A single building, White Hall, is the
center of the various departments of
- activity in public speaking. In this
building the different debating societies
have their meetings. One of the rooms
is called the Hall of Oratory. Here
are hung the portraits of great orators,
as well as of students of the University
who have distinguished themselves in
Cornell public speaking.
Yale must develop some more definite
and comprehensive system very soon,
or in this almost prime essential for
‘citizenship training it will fall behind a
great many other institutions, which al-
ready have their departments of this
kind. Whatever is said on this subject
does not involve any criticism of such
training in speaking as is now given.
Everyone knows that there is very little
of such training, and that it makes no
- impression on any appreciable number of
students. It is crowded into such a
short time, and crowded on men who
have had so little idea of the subject be-
fore, that when the public test comes,
the effect of it appears in various stage
motions, which seem to have been an-
™hrst:
nexed to the speaker at certain passages
in his oration, and concerning whose
propriety or meaning he apparently has
no idea. It is often urged that it is
difficult to secure sufficient instruction
of the highest kind in this line, as it
verges so easily into the superficial and
the declamatory. This is, of course,
no sufficient reason for omitting some-
thing which is so indispensable. May
Yale not be much longer without a
broad, thorough course in public speak-
ing. A very good argument can be
made for making some of it compulsory.
THE LAST SPEAKING CONTEST.
On the whole there was considerable
good speaking,—for Yale—at College
Street Hall last Friday afternoon. The
change of place is good, the speakers
appearing much less lonely in the more
compact hall. Let the hours now change
to evening, as it doubtless will, another
year, and their will be a still further
improvement. The people who _lis-
tened were very much interested in the
good things said and the good saying
of them. ‘The attraction of the orator
is just as strong as ever. When all
the speaking is at a good level, and
some of it goes far up towards real
oratory, any hall will be full.
But six speakers are enough. Eight
makes quite a pull on the most inter-
ested. And there must bea better way of
selecting them. A long list of possibles,
as in. debate, may be well selected at
Some members of the Faculty are
already considering this change. These
in turn could speak for places on the
final list. There must be the judging
of a man as a speaker, before. he is
allowed a place at the contest.
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Of the TenEyck speakers this year,
two came from Connecticut, and one -
only of these from New Haven. Of
the other six, there was one each from
Iowa, New York, North Carolina,
Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and the
District Of Cohwmbia: That is a‘ fair
illustration of the distribution of a
representative Yale crowd.
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UNIVERSITY LITERATURE,
The New
‘¢ Princeton Alumni
W eekly.’”’
The first number of the Princeton
Alumni Weekly appeared Saturday,
April 7. Mr. Jesse Lynch Williams is
the new editor, as has already been
announced, and the paper has_ been
transferred from the hands of the Daily
Princetonian to the Princeton Publish-
ing Co., a corporation whose share-
holders are Princeton men. John D.
Davis is President; James W. Alexan-
der, Vice-President, and George W.
Burley, Secretary and Treasurer. Mr.
Williams, the editor, who was a Prince-
ton graduate of ’92, is assisted by Frank
L. Janeway of the present Junior class
at Princeton, who is called undergradu-
ate editor, and John L. Rogers, also
of the Junior class, who is business
manager. An _ executive committee,
apparently to act with the editor for the
Company, is made up of M. Taylor Pyne,
James W. Alexander, Charles Scribner,
Robert Bridges, C. C. Cuyler and Frank
Presbrey.
The Weekly bears out in its appear-
ance many of the things which one might
expect from its new editorship. It is
original and artistic in form, finished
in its typographical appearance, and
very well and very readably done, from
the editorial standpoint, from beginning”
to end. There was not any type at the
Princeton printers’ that satisfied the
management, so it is said, as late as
Tuesday of last week; and between that
time and Saturday, a special font (Cas-
lon, II point) came from the founders
and was set up for the paper.
The form is that of a magazine with
a cover. There are some excellent
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things in the prospectus and in the
opening number about the place of an
Alumni Weekly. It is plainly said that
the ignorance of the average Prince-
ton graduate about his Alma Mater is
shameful, even when he has a great deal
of enthusiasm. This is true of not a
few other graduates. It was only a
year or two ago that the spokesman
for a Yale class which had been thirty
years out of College, went into Alumni
Hall and protested that the University
kept its sons so ignorant of what it was
doing. This critic had had several op-
portunities to try the source of informa-
tion supplied by this paper, but he was
one of a great many who had not found
time for any such publication.
Mr. Holbrook’s Story.
The Literary World (Boston) gives
its readers this information as_ to
Richard Holbrook’s “Boys and Men”:
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Richard Hokbrook (sic). Large 16 mo
(sic). Pp. 277 (sic). Charles Scribner’s
Sons.
“A novel in thirty-one chapters, which
is more true and vivid in its delineations
of college and manners than it is re-
fined in atmosphere or uplifting in influ-
ence. It does not leave a pleasant taste
in the mouth.”
~ The Boston Journal is more cheerful:
“Boys and Men,” it says, “ is a remark-
able book in many respects. In the first
place, although a Yale book, it is not
bound in blue. Secondly, it has a very
clumsy title. Thirdly, it is the peer of
any college story ever written. The
only indelible Yale feature of the book
is the regularity with which the athletes
from New Haven, whether the scene
be New London or Springfield, triumph
over the athletes from Cambridge. ‘This
is the strain in the story that will appeal
strongly and in an especial manner to
Yale men. Surely no Harvard man
could stand it for a minute, even though
he should know right well that it is all
fiction. However, ‘Boys and Men,’ as
it may be called for short, is a story
that Yale men, at least, should welcome
heartily and be proud of. It is a pleas-
ure to repeat that ‘Boys and Men’ is a
college story that will be hard to sur-
pass. But are Yale men taught to write —
“honour” and ‘neighbour,’ and = so
forth P”
Rev. Edward Mortimer Chapman, ’84,
has an article in the April number of
the New England Magazine, on the sub-
ject of “American History and English
Historians.” ;
Other Notes.
Ex-President Cleveland’s two ad-
dresses on the “Independence of the
Executive” at Princeton, April 9 and Io,
will appear in authoritative form only
in the June and July issues of the
Atlantic Monthly.
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For American Students at
Oxford.
Realizing how difficult it is for an
American, contemplating study abroad,
to find out the conditions of study that
prevail at Oxford, the American stu-
dents of the University (about twenty-
- five, have organized the American Club
of Oxford, for the purpose (1) of put-
ting definite and pertinent information
with regard to Oxford at the service of
the intending student, and (2) of be-
coming sufficiently well-informed to ad-
vance any project on foot for adapting
Oxford conditions to the needs of the
American members of the University.
To accomplish the first object, which is
of more immediate concern, the Club in-
tends to print a circular in which it will
try to anticipate the questions likely to
be asked about the Oxford University
system in general, the opportunities and
conditions of study in the University,
and the advisability of connecting one’s
self with one of the colleges.
culty of obtaining precise information
about graduate study from a University
which concerns itself primarily with
undergraduate work, will make the com-
pilation of facts for the circular a matter
of some time; yet it is expected that
the circular will be ready in the Spring.
If possible, it will be made to include
Cambridge as well as Oxford, but it is
doubtful if this can be done during the
present year.
The officers of the Club are: President,
_ George S. Bowdoin,
The diffi- -
H. A. Overstreet, B.A., University of
California, Balliol College; Vice-Presi-
dent, S. S. Seward, Jr., A.M. Columbia
University, Exeter College; Secretary
and Treasurer, R. S. Huidekoper, A.B.
Harvard University, Trinity College.
These men will be glad to answer any
correspondence addressed to them. In-
formation may also be obtained from the
Club’s Honorary Advisers: Louis Dyer,
of Balliol College, A.B. Harvard, M.A.
Oxon; and F. C. 8S. Schiller, of Corpus
Christi College, M.A. Oxon, formerly
instructor in Cornell University.
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