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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.”
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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.
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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.
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