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Vou IX. No. 29: ‘NEW HAVEN, CONN., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 1900.
Copyright, 1900,
by Yale Alumni Weekly.
- Price 10 Cents.
A CONFERENCE OF IMPORTANCE,
Leaders in Student Religion in the
East Meet at Yale.
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4 ‘rom Thursday night of last week
to” Sunday night of this week, Dwight
Hall at Yale has had a series of meet-
ings, which -have not attracted a great
deal of ‘public notice, but which were
at least as important as any meet-
ings the Yale Campus sees from “Rush”
night to the Commencement cold lunch.
Not that there was anything very start-
ling done; or anything very unusual at-
tempted. @Seventy-six. delegates from
forty-six different institutions of higher
learning in New England, New York
and Pennsylvania, had come together for
the annual intercollegiate conference of
college Y. M. C. A. presidents and ofh-
cers. They have been doing it for the
last nine or ten years; more or less, and
there are other such conferences in the
country at about this time of year, one
covering the middle West, one the far
West, one the South. Pennsylvania has
one all to herself also.
The program of the meetings, printed
farther on, shows papers and discussions
very tech*scal, considering all kinds
of ways and means of religious work-
manship; as, how to improve the
courses ‘in Bible study or how to fur-
ther interest the student body in for-
eign missions, and the carrying out of
the latter day campaign for “the evange-
lization of the world in this generation” ;
or what kind of a talk is most effective
at a preparatory school, when a deputa-
tion, as they call these ambassadors, try
to give some facts about the real life
and the sound life of the college. One
would not much want to attend all the
meetings unless he were in the work
himself and wanted to get some practi-
cal advice for it. 2
But you would not have gone by a
group of these men, without stopping
twice to look at them’; and you would not
talk with any of them very long, without
growing thoughtful and cheerful over
the sane, effective growing work that is
being done in the present day and
generation in making strong the prin-
ciples of Christian manhood in the
picked class of educated young Ameri-
cans. Here is a fair symptom, and
a thought-provoking one, of the or-
ganized college Christianity of to-day.
It reveals, in the presence of so many
delegates and the general officers, like
Mr. Mott, whose hand is upon the work
the country over, the most business-like
cooperation. Notes are compared on
the trial of this or that plan; cam-
paigns laid out on still broader lines
with the inspiration for their execution
that is found in the support of men
who have already accomplished much,
and everything looked at from the stand-
point of what can be made effective.
Mistakes of this school or that college
are corrected, as well as new ideas given.
It is scientific work, and it is doubtful
if any kind of religious work in the
country is receiving such thoughtful and
intelligent and broad-minded attention
as this work among collegians.
Its strategic advantage seems to have
been recognized only in late years, but
since then there has been done such work
as to make even those people, who rely
largely on the worst papers for their in-
formation, to look almost as often at the
things college students do to make bet-
ter places out of the towns their col-
lege is placed in, as they used to at
the things they have been supposed to do.
to make those places unliveable.
The men who came to this last confer-
ence represented eighty-four active stu-
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institutions of learning having an enroll- -
ment of nearly thirty thousand students.
Of this enrollment, twenty-five per cent.
are now members of these associations,
which shows a gain over former years,
and an average, when all the different
institutions are considered, which is quite
remarkable. Twenty-five per cent. is a
good deal less than half the figure for
Yale, but the conditions of some of these
institutions are totally different * from
those obtaining here. Of the members
of these associations, more than two
thousand are hard at work in that form
of intelligent religious self-improvement,
known among collegiate workers as “de-
votional Bible Study.”
The presence of the delegate from
West Point was an interesting thing. It ,
is the first time a cadet has ever been ex-
cused to attend one of these conventions.
Last year the President had to take his
furlough in order to be present. Sim-
ple experience has made the army show
such favor. Not only the record of the
West Point Association itself, but such
work as the Y. M. C. A. did among
the camps in the last war, seems to have
counted very strongly in the official
estimate of the value of this organization.
One of the Princeton delegates, by the
way, Mr. Gardiner, who is .to be the
General Secretary of the Princeton Y.
M. C. A., next year, enlisted in the last
war and was with the troops at Chicka-
mauga, and himself drew up the consti-
tution which was adopted for the man-
agement of all the Y. M. C. A. tents and
quarters through the camp.
As for the West Point chapter, to call
it by that name, it includes practically
everybody in the Academy. An exam-
ple of the way these men do their work
was given by this West Point Associa-
tion last Fall, when they secured from
all the principal colleges, prompt and
accurate reports, with a plotted dia-
gram, of all the football matches each
week. This made the Y. M. C. A. head-
quarters thegplace to get reliable foot-
ball news. | i
While the delegates were in New Ha-
ven they were entertained at Yale’s active
headquarters, Yale Hall. It was a great
night-for the main freauenters of the
Hall and esiecif ify iat youthful por-
tion of them. There was lots of good
singing and talking, but’ probably what
was most impressive to the youth was
the chance to get right next to a man
like McCracken of Pennsylvania and
wonder at him and ask questions. The
attention of the visiting collegians was
not entirely restricted to Yale Hall, for
some of the young men who make use
of it and join the Yale men in making
it the center of good influence in that
part of the town, invited the delegates
to their social headquarters, the “Sil-
ver Toned Social Club,’ where there
are most interesting things to see and
where everything was ordered in a most
admirable way.
The program of the week follows:
oe THE PROGRAM.
Thursday, April 12—7.30 Pp. m., De-
votional. 8 Pp m., “Student Associa-
tion Field’ of the East,” by Harry W.
Hicks.
Friday, April 13—9 A. m., Devotional,
and introduction of delegates. 9.30,
“Qualifications and Preparation of the
President,’ by.E. C. Jenkins. 10.15,
“Work and Relationships of the Presi-
dent,” by F. B. Edwards, Williams.
Ir A. M., “The General Secretary, his
Field, Qualifications, Work and Rela-
tionships,” by Henry B. Wright, Yale.
2.30 P. M., Distinguishing Characteris-
tics of the Student Association,’ by H.
3.30 P.M., “Mission
Study,’ by F. M. Gilbert. 4.30 P. M.,
“Publications,” by H. W. Hicks. 7.30
.P. M., Devotional. 8 p. m., “Bible Study
dent associations in colleges and other’ ™ Department,” by H. W. Hicks.
-Cline, Wesleyan;
Saturday, April 14—9 A. M., Devo-
tional. 9.45, “The Northfield Confer-
ence’) by @=B..o Pe. Andersen” -t0ms;
“Deputation Work in Preparatory
Schools,” by George Gleason. 2.30, P. M.,
“Mission Study,” by F. P. Turner. 3.30
p. M., “Records and Reports,” by Henry
White. 4 p. mM, “The Intercollegian,”
by H. W. Hicks. 7 Pp. M., The Finances
of the Student Association,” by F. C
Parker, Brown.
Hall.
Sunday, April 15—9.30 A. M., “The
Spiritual Life of the President, by
George Gleason,” 2.30 Pp. M., “A Spirit-
ual Awakening,” by John R. Mott. 7.30
Pp, M., “Policy for the Year,’ by John
R. Mott.
THE DELEGATES.
The list of delegates follows: T. S.
F. H. Bogart, Uni-
versity of Maine; E. E. Ventres, Colby
College; E. A. Wells, Johns Hopkins;
N. § Elderkin, tr. (Amherst: 1° x.
Lawton, Boston University College
Liberal Arts; Orville Chadwell, Boston
University School of Medicine; Herbert
Phinney, J. P. Catlin, Mass. Ins. of Tech-
nology; C. F. Shaw, H. H. Morse and
E. €. Carter Piarvard: “J, Pf. Coleman,
Mt. Hermon School; W. C. Godden,
Mt. Hermon School; F. T. Dillingham,
Worcester Polytechnic Institute; H. M.
Craig, Centenary Collegiate Institute ;
H. S. Van Woert, Rutgers; F. L. Jane-
way and O. F. Gardiner, Princeton; H.
N. Jordan, Alfred University; E.
Tucker and E. T. Flanders, Hartwick
Seminary; B. R. Andrews, Cornell; F.
C. Heckel, Un. and Bel. Hos. Med. Col-
lege; J. F. Rice, College of Physicians
and Surgeons; E. R. Hildreth, Cornell
Medical College; A. Britt, Columbia;
H. B. Fernald, New York University ;
O. D. Esten, University of Rochester ;
Frieser Metzger, Union College; J. L.
Chapman, Jr., Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute; C. H. Burnett, U. S. Military
Acatemy? FC. MeCracken= i &.
Wood, W. F. Thatcher, J. E. Barnard,
E. W. Kriebel, T. S. Evans and F. Weit-
zel, University of Pennsylvania; C. H.
Drown, University of Vermont; R. E.
Clark, C. B. Fernald and F. C. Parker,
Brown; E. W. Dow, Dartmouth; J. E.
Wilson, Bates; E. T. Ware, Union
Theological Seminary; F. B. Edwards,
Williams; J. E. Parker, Middlebury;
J. L. Hyde, Blair Presbyterian Acad-
emy; J. G. Brinckerhoff, College of the
City of New York; W.-C. Bates and C.
Clark, Mohegan Lake School; H. D.
Evans, Bowdoin; E. C. Miller, Colgate ;
R. A. Waite, Syracuse; M. Mills, P.
D. Moody, J. F. Ferry, R. H. Edwards,
Yale.
State Secretaries—F. S. Goodman,
New York; E. T. Bates, Connecticut.
State College Secretaries—E. C. Jen-
kins, Syracuse University# E. D. Soper,
Harrisburg.
Intercollegiate Secretggies — W.. C.
Pickersgill, Boston; W. Georgi,
New York; R. G. Hoopei* Philadelphia.
Speakers and Secretaries—H.. W.
Hicks, H. B. Wright, H. P. Andersen,
F. P. Turner, G. Gleason, J. R. Mott,
R. €. Morse, H:* White, F.. C.° Parker,
E, GCG. Jenkins, -F. Mi. Gilbert.”.
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By Sk:
Sophomore Class Government,
Beginning with the first term of Col-
lege next Fall, the government of the
Academic Sophomore class will be in
the hands of the Dean and Registrar of
as in former years. The change was
the College instead of a class committee,
made necessary hy the introduction of
the elective system in the class, and does
not imply dissatisfaction with the old
method. The three. upper classes are
thus to be governed from the Dean’s
office.
8 p. M, Visit to Yale
YALE CREW TRAINING,
Bad Weather Hampers but Does Not.
Siop Progress.
The Yale crews began their work on
the harbor again, April 16, after a rest
of four days—a portion of the Easter
recess. More than half the training
time for the race with Harvard at New
London, June 28, has now gone by, and,
as the first two boats are beginning to
take shape, it is possible to speak more
definitely of the material for ,the final
eight.
The plan, outlined in these columns
when training began in January, to bring
out more men for places in the boat, al-
though managed with great care, failed
to do all that was expected of it, and
the picking of the sixteen best men was
an easier matter than it should have
been. While not producing any material
fit for the first boat, the new plan did
give a large number of men the benefit
of several weeks’ coaching, who being
thus interested and helped, may come out ©
next year and go to the front. Both
Captain Allen and Dr; Gallaudet feel
that the system is on the right lines,
however, and that another year’s trial
will show greater results.
The first and second boats were picked
about a week ago, and almost every
rowing day since that time has been a
new combination tried in both of them.
In the first boat the only veterans who
have rowed regularly were Captain
Allen at No. 6 and Wickes, the No. 2
of the Crews of 1898 and 1899, who has
been tried at various places in the boat,
including stroke. Williams, the stroke,
and Niedecken, the No. 7 of last year,
have both been in the second boat a
part of the time. Williams is at present
stroking the latter boat. Holt, the bow
oar, and Warmoth, the stroke of last
year’s Freshman Crew, Williams and
Cameron have been tried at stroke in.
the first boat. Blagden also of the last
Freshmen Crew—No. 7—has been at
that slide in the first boat for a few
days and is doing good work, Niedecken
having been moved back to Griswold’s
place at No. 3. The Crew rowed in
this order the last day of the term:
Bow—Atkinson, I901; 2, Cameron,
1900; 3, Niedecken, 1900; 4, Wickes,
1900; 5, Auchincloss, 1901; 6, Captain
Allen, 1900; stroke, Warmoth, 1902, a
combination averaging somewhat lighter
than the usual Yale crew, perhaps 168
pounds. On the same day the Second
Crew rowed as follows: Bow, Minor,
1900; 2, Mitchell, 1900; 3, Holt, 1902;
4 ,Kunzig, 1902; 5, Newport, 1901; 6,
Brock, 1900; 7, Hooker, 1902; stroke,
Williams, 1900. F. G. Brown, Igot, is
not a candidate for the Crew this year,
his duties as football captain taking all
the time he has to spare. He has been
appointed permanent coach of the Fresh-
men Crew.
Worse weather for eight rowing has
scarcely ever been known at the har-.
bor. A strong breeze, sometimes a gale,
every afternoon has made the water
outside the lower bridge impossible for
even a barge. Only once during the
month that the crews have been on the
harbor before the Easter recess, did they
venture into the harbor proper. Even
the river was so choppy that its best
stretches could not be used, the only
spot available being a short section in
the lee of the coal docks, where most
of thé training has been done. In spite
of the bad weather, however, good pro-
gress has been made in the points of the
stroke that are taught at this time of
the year. A shell was used for the first
time this year, Saturday, April 7, with
the stroke at 24, and though the water
was rough the men kept it well on its
bottom and pulled the stroke well
through.
