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prize is for the one “who shall write
and pronounce the best oration,” that
the prize was given to one whose piece
and certainly his pronounciation was
far inferior to others, but he had a sub-
ject which was popular and sentiment
in that case, in my opinion, influenced
the decision, and when I gave my opin-
ion to one of the Faculty, he said, “I
agree with you.” * * *
New Haven, April 16, 1900.
[That sentiment may at times affect
the decision of a large body of men,
whose selection for the work of judging
is a pure accident of circumstance, is
quite conceivable. Though, it did not
operate this year, the point is one of
many to bear in mind in considering the
present method of judging the TenEyck
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Chicago’s Two Million Dollar
Gift.
[President Harper in last University Record.]
As has already been announced, the
two millions of dollars needed to meet
the requirements of Mr. Rockefeller’s
proposition made in October, 1895, have
been secured. The details of this work
have in large measure been made
known to the public. A study of the
facts connected with the effort to secure
these gifts and of the gifts themselves
leads me to make the following state-
ments:
1. The gifts have come from more
than four hundred different persons and
have varied in amount from one dollar
to more than a million;
2. The total amount if calculated upon
an ordinary basis would be nearly two
and one half millions instead of two mil-
lions, for in many cases in order to fix
an actual cash value upon a gift the
amount was estimated at much less than
the real value. As an example of this
I may cite the Gurley Palzontological
Collection, the value of which is at least
$125,000, although it is estimated in the
Two Million Dollar Fund as $50,000.
3. Incredible though it may seem to
be, 90 per cent. of the subscriptions in
amount, as well as 9o per cent. in num-
ber have come unsolicited. In nine cases
out of ten the contributor has himself
taken the initiative in making the gift.
4. There is a profound interest felt
in the University on the part of men and
women from whom such interest might -
not be expected. The desire to render
assistance in an enterprise, the success of
which seems assured, has been expressed
by many, and strangely enough the fact
that Mr. Rockefeller has given so much
money to the University has not in these
cases led to the feeling that their assist-
ance was not needed.
5. The desire has become strong on
the part of those who give sums of any
considerable size that their names shall
not be made public, and the reason given
in each case is the same—the fear that
those giving will be overwhelmed with
requests from the world at large. In
its earlier history, we did not meet this
feeling, but the experience of some of
our earlier patrons have led them to ask
for the withholding of their names at
the present time.
6. In submitting the gifts that have
been made for the consideration of Mr.
Rockefeller, in order that after such con-
sideration they might be duplicated in
accordance with the terms of the ar-
rangement, we have found Mr. Rocke-
feller and his representatives at all times
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means leave it alone.
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willing to meet the University in the
most liberal way, and while in every case
the arrangement has been made upon a
cash valuation, in many cases there have
been special adjustments of terms, to
meet the demands of the case.
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The Northfield Conference.
The handbook of the Northfield Stu-
dent Conference, to be held from June
29 to July 8, has just been issued. It
gives a brief outline of the object and
plans of the conference this year. The
general scheme for meetings will be the
same as in previous years, the mornings
and evenings being used for religious
work, and the afternoons for recrea-
tion. This year even greater stress will
be laid upon the department of Bible
Study, one hour every morning being
the time set aside for it. Four courses
will be taught simultaneously, with the
object of preparing leaders for each of
the college classes. Henry B. Wright,
Yale, ’98, will have charge of the Fresh-
man course; Prof. Edward I. Bosworth,
Yale ’83, of Oberlin College, of the
Sophomore course; Mr. T. H. P. Sailer,
University of Pennsylvania, of the
Junior course; Mr. William D. Murray,
Yale ’80, will conduct a less advanced
course for beginners in the study of
the Bible. There will be a memorial
service to the late Dr. Dwight Moody,
which it is hoped to make one long to
be remembered.
The list of speakers for the year in-
cludes Bishop J. H. Vincent, Rev. Wil-
liam R. Richards, Yale ’75, and Rev.
Reuben Torrey, Yale 775; Rev. C. E.
Jefferson, Prof. Dyson Hague of
Wycliffe College, Toronto, and Mr.
Robert E. Speer. Yale’s Northfield
Committee this year is:
From t900—D. B. Casler, W. S. Cof-
fin, M. Mills, E. A. Park, R. M. Patter-
son, W. B. Seabury, T. W. Swan; from
1900 S.—O. H. Schell, H. Brown, J.
E. Wheeler; from 1901—E. B. Adams,
SL? Coy, RAR Edwatds:'P. D. Moody,
A. H. Richardson, R. V. Spencer, J. H.
Wear; from rtoor1 S.—W. M. Clark, J.
F. Ferry, W. M. Fincke, A. Gard, B.
W. Kunkel; from 1902—W. S. Garnsey,
Jr, R. GG. Guernsey, GW." Hitner,; °C.
Gould, A. C. Ludington, W. F. Roberts,
F. H. Sincerbeaux, E. A. Stebbins, P.
G. White; from 1902 S.—G. W. Butts,
Jr., R. Kingsley, D. S. Norton; from
1903—G. B. Chadwick, H. T. Clark, J.
M. Dreisbach, A. Fox, F. W. Moore,
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Professor James Mason Hoppin.
[Wm, Ordway Partridge in the Coming Age.]
The last quiet years of this sane and
beautiful life are to be given to the com-
pletion of his unpublished essays and
books, so that the world will eventually
be the richer for this cessation of daily
work. Art to him is no abstraction.
He cries out against the theory that art
exists solely in the mind, and that there
is no intrinsic beauty in natural objects.
Fe declares art to be the interpretation
of the significance and perfection of
nature. He would not have you think
of nature only for scientific and ptacti-
cal uses, but he would have you see in
it two revelations, “that of use and that
of beauty.” Listen to this: “The beauty
is just as much a part of nature as the
use; they are only different aspects of
the self-same facts, the usefulness on
one side is on the other beauty. The
colors of the landscape, the tints of
Spring and Autumn, the lines of twi-—
light and the dawn, all that might seem
the superfluity of nature, are only her
most necessary operations under another
view; her ornament is another aspect of
her work; and, in the act of laboring
as a machine, she also sleeps as a pic-
ture.”
He sees the use of Mercury as a mes-
-senger of the gods, but this is not all
he sees. In describing the Hermes at
Olympia, he notes the “sweetness of ex-
pression that lights up the face, and
that quiet look into futurity which is
linked with a benignity that seems to
express a consciousness of present care
and duty.” He sees that his feet have
Medes He Beets that the use of
eauty is to make us free men
that the Greek held very a pels
Professor Hoppin has endeavored to
make art a recognized factor of our in-
tellectual life, as it has been in Germany
since the days of Goethe and Lessing.
We “Just Growed’”’
Like Topsy. We really did not expect our
customers to force us so soon to a new
large store.
But they did.
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Spanish Plays for the Library.
The University Library has recently
obtained an interesting collection of
forty-five volumes of old Spanish plays,
the earliest of which dates back 250 years,
at the sale of the library of the late
Augustin Daly. The plays were written
chiefly in Madrid, Valencia and Bar-
celonia, the work being entitled ‘“Colec-
cion de Comedias.”
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Change in Academic Law
. Course,
A change in one of the law courses
open to Academic Seniors during the
coming year has been announced. The
course intended for those who wish to be-
gin the professional study of law were at
first limited to three hours a week. It
has been lengthened to five hours a
week, and Professor S. E. Baldwin and
-W. K. Townsend have been added to
the list of instructors. The additional
instruction will cover American law,
Agency and Wills, by the former, and
Evidence and the Law of Common Car-
rier, by the latter.
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The WYale-Princeton Debate.—
Thacher Prize Awarded.
In the Yale-Princeton debate, to be
held in Alexander Hall, Princeton, May
8, Yale will support the affirmative side
of the subject: “Resolved, That the
Hay-Pauncefote treaty should be rati-
fied as originally submitted to the Sen-
ate.” The Yale team, which was
chosen Monday night, April 23, is:
Mason Trowbridge, 1902, Chicago; F.
A. Lord, Yale ’98, and 1900 L.S., New
York, and C. W. Merriman, 1901 T.S.,
Springefield, Mass.
The Thatcher Prize of seventy-five
dollars for the best work done in the
trial debate was awarded to Mason
Trowbridge, 1902, of Chicago.
The men who will represent Princeton
are Joseph Hall Hill, 1900; Joseph
Addison Jones, 1900, and Robert Ser-
vice Steen, 1901. Yale has submitted a
list on nine men to act as judges, indi-
cating order of preference.
—_____+0¢-___—
Hampton Institute, of which H. B.
Frissell, Yale 74, is Principal, has is-
sued its invitations for its thirty-second
anniversary exercises, to be held on
Thursday, April 26, at the Gymnasium.
The exercises are preceded by a con-
ference, April 25, on the subject of
Southern Education, in which Hon. J.
. M. Curry, Mr. Walter Page, Mr.
Booker T. Washington and Prof. J. M.
Lindsay of the University of Pennsyl-
vania, take part.
When they stopped the machinery and
dragged the crumpled workman out
from between the wheels, they feared he
was finished.
However, he opened his eyes, and
spoke in a-faint, far-away voice.
“You kin say wot you please,” said
he, “but as fer me, this traveling in cog
ain’t the game they make it out to be.”
—Princeton Tiger.
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Vardon Clubs.
The “ Vardon”’ clubs are the exact dupli-
cates of the set of clubs with which Mr.
Vardon has three times won the open cham-
pionship of the world, and consist of the
following clubs: Driver, Cleek, Light-iron,
Mashie-iron, Mashie, Driving Mashie, Brassie,
Mid-iron, Putting Cleek, Driving-iron,
Twisted-neck Putter.
Of these clubs the probabilities are that he
will use only the Driver, Brassie, Cleek, Mid-
iron, Light-iron and Putting Cleek, although
he may require every club in his bag under
various conditions which may arise during
the course of the match. We do, however,
make a Driver and Brassie with a little
larger head. Mr. Vardon himself uses a very
small head in both Driver and Brassie, but
the ordinary player may prefer a little larger
head, so we have made the same style exactly,
increasing the size of it slightly, a thing
which Mr. Vardon most cordially approves
of.
A. G. Spalding & Bros.
New York. Chicago. Denver.
Wale’s First Endowment.
An article printed recently in the
Windham County Transcript, recalls
Yale’s first endowment, nearly 200 years
ago, when James Fiske of Plainfield,
County of New London, Conn., gave his
farm of about 635 acres to the newly
founded Collegiate School, as the words
of the original deed have it, “in con-
sideration of the promising and encour-
agement of learning and good Litera-
ture.” The deed is preserved in Kil-
lingly, Conn.,-town records. The trus-
tees of the School later exchanged the
property for land in another portion of
the State, but the name “college farm
still clings to the original, though shift-
ing county and town lines have moved
it from New London County into Wind-
ham County, and from the town 0!
Plainfield into East Putnam.
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The Faculty of the Yale Medical
School have prohibited the publication
of a class book this year because it was
found that those Seniors engaged in out
side enterprises, which took a great
deal of time, were met with almost
insurmountable obstacles when the time
for final examinations came.
