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YALE ALUMNI WHEHEKLY assistance possible, by letter or in per- son, in regard to expenses, rooms, pri- vate and university instruction, and so on, in my capacity of president, or “Patriarch,” of the Colony, to which of- fice I have just been chosen. pis Membership in the Colony is coinci- dent with American citizenship, and residence in Gottingen; and there are no compulsory dues, it being the sole ob- ject of the Colony to be mutually help- ful in an informal manner. Very respectfully yours, EARLE R. HeEpRICH, Michigan, A.B., 18096. Harvard, A.M., 1808. i> i ae Hospital Appointments. Three Seniors of the Yale Medical School won New York hospital appoint- ments in the annual open examinations in New York last week. They were: Wesley G. Vincent, Yale ’96, first ap- pointment in the Posf Graduate Hospi- tal; William J. Maroney, first appoint- ment in St. Vincent’s Hospital, and Rob- ert G. Tracy, third appointment in the Post Graduate Hospital. ov. For Scientific Men at Paris. The first bulletin of the newly formed International Association for the Ad- vancement of Science, Arts and Educa- tion will be published shortly, giving information concerning the first assem- bly of the Association in Paris during the Exposition the coming Summer. Among the conveniences offered to the members who will attend the assembly is a central office where there will be kept a register of the names and ad- dresses of the scientific men of all nations, who are visiting the Exposition. The Association will furnish trained and skilled guides for the city and Ex- position grounds, and, as far as possi- ble, assist its members in securing lodg- ing and meals during their stay in Paris. The Yale members of the General Com- mittee of the Association are Director Russell H. Chittenden of the Scientific School, Professor Bernadotte Perrin, Prof. Charles E. Beecher and Dr. E. W. Scripture. »- we < a Bethany Graduate Club Formed. The graduates and former instructors of Bethany College, Lirdsborg, Kan., who are now at Yale, lately met and formally organized the Bethany Gradu- ate Club of Yale University. Dr. Granville was elected President, Dr. Westlund, Treasurer, and Mr. Thorsten- berg, Secretary. By-laws were and a general plan worked out, the main ob- ject of the Club being to attract grad- uate students to Yale from Bethany Col- lege and other Western institutions of learning. It was decided to send the YaLE ALUMNI WEEKLY to the reading room of Bethany College, and corres- pondents were chosen to send short arti- cles occasionally from Yale to school papers in the West. The President of the Club is already. in correspondence with several college graduates who con- template commencing a graduate course at Yale in the Fall. Rev. C: A. Swens- son, Ph.D., President of Bethany Col- lege, was elected an honorary member of the Club. President Swensson has done a great deal to influence young men to take graduate courses at Yale. The Late Arthur W. Lovell, °99. The funeral services of the late Arthur W. Lovell, ’99, were held in St. Paul’s Pro-Cathedral, Los Angeles, Cal., on April 14. They were conducted by the Rev. C. E. Spalding, the rector. The burial was in Rosedale Cemetery, Los Angeles. Up to within a month of his death, Mr. Lovell was in Redlands, Cal. a went to Los Angeles, where he ied. Ln 2 ~~ oy At a meeting of the students of the Law School, which will be held in a short time, a move will be made to put the examinations there on the honor basis. A preliminary canvass shows that a ma- jority of the men are for the honor system, and it is probable that the change from the old way will be made. “ROYSTER DOYSTER,” Points About This Vear’s Production of the Graduate Students. On Wednesday evening, May 2, in the College Street Hall, the graduate students of Yale University will pre- sent the earliest known English comedy, Royster Doyster. Members of the Uni- versity who were here two years ago recall with delight a performance by the students in English of Beaumont and Fletcher’s comedy, The Knight of the Burning Pestle. At that time an at- tempt was made to produce the play with as much adherence to the old Elizabethan conventions as a modern production would allow. This was probably the - first attempt at Yale faithfully to re- vive an early dramatic form and to un- derstand exactly what it meant to the audience of its day. So successful was the entire performance, that the students have ever since desired to continue the good work thus begun. Royster Doyster was written by Nicholas Udall of Eton, and is known to have been acted before 1551. In re- viving this oldest of English comedies, the actors will follow the old tradition so far as known. The play at its first production had the simplest kind of stage setting. Painted scenery, footlights, and curtain were unknown. This sim- plicity will prevail in the present re- vival. The costumes, too, will be as his- torically accurate as possible. The humor of this old play is as crude as the rhyming couplets in which it is composed. The fun is boisterous and good-natured—typically English. The author says of his play: “Our comedie or enterlude, which we intende to play Is named Royster Doyster in-deede, Which against the vayne-glorious doth inuey Whose humour the roysting sort con- tinually doth feede.” This underlying idea of making game of a clownish fellow is almost as old as comedy itself. and is the same generi- cally as that of Sheridan’s Rivals, which Jefferson’s acting has refined quite out of itself. In reviving the play and in striv- ing to bring out the author’s intent, it has seemed to the actors that this old comedy is quite as diverting as most of the dramatic material with which peo- ple try to amuse themselves to-day. The programs for the performance read as follows: This Night, being Wednefday, the; Second of Maye, mpcccc, is Shewn a Comedie, both Pithy and Pleafaunt, Intituled Royster Doyster The Comedie is Made by N. Udall and Acted by the Graduate Students of Yale Uniuerfitie The Play to Begin at a Quarter paft Eight The Names of the Speakers and Actors tn this Comedie Ralph Royfter Doyfter, a fond and uayne-glorious block r. Hargrove Then Mathew Merrygreek, needie and naughtie, a wag Mr. Richards Gawyn Goodluck, a rich merchant who fareth into foreign parts, betrothed to Dame Cuftance r. Fenton Sym Surefby, feruant to Gawyn Goodluck Mr. Hathaway Triftram Truftie, a citizen, friend to Gawyn Goodluck Mr. Neal Tom Trupenie, a young boy who ferueth Dame Cuftance Mr. Tinker A Scriuener Mr. Whitman - Dobinet Doughtie Two muficians Mr. Hathaway : feruants to : Harpax Royfter Doyfter Mr. Whitman Mr. Shearin Two more muficians, likewife ; feruants of Royfter Doyfter Mr. Van Name Dame Cuftance, the rich widow, befpoken in marriage by Gawyn Goodluck Miftrefs Kellum Margerie Mumblecruft, her old nurfe Miftrefs Hubbell Tibet dicate Thefe be alfo fer- Miftrefs Wright uants to e Annot Alyface Dame Cuftance Miftrefs U fford Time, 1550. Scene, England; a place near the houfe of Dame Cuftance. GOD SAUE THE NOBLE UNIUERSITIE. The expenses of the former play were covered by private subscriptions. It has seemed best this year to attach a small price to the tickets. Of these there will be no public sale. Applications for tickets, together with the price (fifty- cents) should be sent to Mrs. Charles Gould Morris, 136 Canner St., who has had the entire production in hand. As to Agitation. [Ray Morris in Yale Lit.] It once chanced that an Irritable Man passed an edifice from which the masons were carelessly dropping fragments of mortar. Now this man was Public Spirited, and he shouted so loudly to the workmen to Mind their Work that the masons turned at once to look, thinking it would be a Fire, or a least a Dog Fight, and let slip a Gargoyle, which killed a Number of Bystanders. At this, another Public Spirited Man, of the Conservative type, spoke a few quiet words to the Boss, who at once caused Things to be put across the sidewalk, to warn the Public. There is a point of very practical application in this flippant parable. There are two immensely important things which your writer of caustic communications should consider, before ordering Rumour to take the road; first, whether the abuse in question is an abuse, and second, whether this method of reforming it will. serve to reform. This sounds tautological, but it is never- theless pertinent. If his first premise is unsound, his stinging satires will create an impression wholly false in the outside world, and in the college world they will create considerable amusement in the cultured part of the community that reads the front page of the News for art’s sake. If, on the other hand, the abuse treated of really exists, the chances are extremely good that the method chosen to thrust it in the face of the public will promptly antagonize the pub- lic to its best interest, on the well- worn principle that leading is usually more effective than driving, as a means of getting animals and people where one wishes them to go. Much has been said about the mis- representation which the college has re- ceived at the hands of the undergradu- ate newspaper representatives, who are considering revenue only. This, how- ever, is the common experience of all men and institutions, and as a natural - result of this fact a newspaper notice, at first hand, excites far less sympa- thetic belief than one which is reprinted from the organ of the undergraduates themselves. The chronic objecter is vested with much more power for mak- ing trouble than he is with power to remedy defects, and to him is respect- fully proffered the advice which the min- ister gave to David Balfour when the boy was about to leave home and go out into the world. Said Mr. Camp- bell, “Be soople, Davie, about things immaterial.” - wy ee Oo French Books for Library. Mr. Arthur Power Lord, Yale ’93, Ph.D. 1899, who is at present in Paris making a study of modern European his- tory, and particularly French history, in the time of Richelieu, is devoting much attention to the development of the Yale University Library, with particular refer- ence to filling gaps in the department of modern French history. Besides acting as the agent for the library in the pur- chase, with University funds, of neces- sary books for different departments, he has generously promised to give the Uni- versity such books as will make the de- - partment of French history complete. — To this end measures have been taken to ~ give Mr. Lord all necessary data and he — is engaging in the work with great energy. He is paying particular atten- tion to collections of documentary ma- — terial and the writings of men, contem- porary with the historical events which they describe, for three centuries previ- ous to the French Revolution. Englishmen Win Chess Match The second International Cable Chess match, April 20 and 21, between Oxford and Cambridge on one side, and Yale, Harvard, Princeton and Columbia on the other, was won by the Englishmen, by the score of four and one-half games to one and one-half. The Americans played from the rooms of the Knickerbocker Athletic Club in New York and their op- ponents in White Hall Court, London. Only one game was won outright by the Americans, that being by Hopkins of Columbia, who beat Soddy of Oxford in thirty-two moves. Rice of Harvard did the best work for the Americans, draw- ing with Tattersall three times. L. A. Cook, Yale 1900, fell much below his game in last year’s match and lost all his matches. Anstell, Yale 1901 L.S., missed several good opportunities to win his games. wv ~~ ow Prof. Lounsbury’s Condition. Prof. Thomas R. Lounsbury is still unable to leave his house and may not be able to take up his classes before this college year ends. He has been suffer- ing for more than a month with ab- scesses in the ear, which have necessi- tated a number of operations. Glover Beardsley, 1903, whose eye was injured by a pen point April 4, and who has been under treatment ever since in New York, returned on Monday of this week to College. He is apparently fully recovered. 3 meal Ae MARK é CLUETT, PEABODY & C2 Full Dress Shirts —teady to put on —they're of faultless fit —the bosoms never bulge —the finest garments possible to produce At Your Furnisher or Clothier @ CI UETT, PEABODY & CO. : Makers Isaac Qalker & Son Importers = Finest Cloths Rerseys Cheviots Shetlands Vicunas Meltons Worsteds - Cassmeres ~ Gest soth Street New York is +.) akers of Men’s Clothes... Specialties Shooting Aik Driving Golf laistcoats sheds Knickerbocker Breeches fancy Rade Qaistcoats Hunting : Yachting Suits Club and Society Lnsignias ve > oe os oe oe ets *, at You are cordially invited to inspect our stock which is now complete.
