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302 TAB = ALUMNI W EEK LY YALE ALUMNI WEEKLY SUBSCRIPTION, - $3.00 PER YEAR. Foreign Postage, 4o cents per year. PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. Single copies, ten cents each For rates for papers in quantity, address the office. All orders for papers should paid for in advance Checks, drafts and orders should be made payable to the Yale Alumni Weekly. All correspondence should be addressed,— Yale Alumni Weekly, New Haven, Conn. The office is at Room 6, White Hall. ADVISORY BOARD. WILLIAM W., SKIDDY, '655.,..... .eee- New York. ee PURGY LANDSLEY, "75 5.,.cc06 cus. New Haven. AW ALTER CAMP, “80; cd... cies es New Haven. WILLIAM G. DAGGETT, °80,....0..... New Haven. JaMES R. SHEFFIELD, '87,........+++ New York. JouN A. HARTWELL, "89 S.,..06..0- .«~New York, Peawic. 5: SV LCH. WOd, . sk cnnekieetnka New Haven EDWARD VAN INGEN, ’91S.,....cceees New York. ELBRRE TAY, "62, ccccecvcnes PES. OR . «New York. EDITOR. 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., MAy 2, 1900. TICKETS FOR BASEBALL GAMES. Announcement will be made in a week or two. of ways for alumni to secure tickets for the baseball game with Princeton to be played in New Haven on June 2d. We beg to say that the tickets for both the Princeton game at New Haven and the Harvard game at New Haven are to be secured for all Yale alumni through the ALUMNI WEEKLY. <i, Lie. Se AED. 228 SILENT GRADUATES. Those who do not answer the requests of their class secretaries and committees for information coristitute, just at this time, a very trying class. Most of them know not the trouble they are. We could wish them nothing worse than that they should some day be class secretaries and class committee men and should have the task of getting information from silent people. —_——__+4¢_____- COMPLETING A GOOD WORK. Last November a radical change was made in the management of Yale ath- letics, which, while confined formally to the financial end of college sport, promised to have most important bear- ing on its general development and con- trol. An absolutely necessary part of this program was the raising of the debt on the Field, which meant collecting about $10,000, so that the Field might become a part of the University plant and the Field Treasurer be a University officer. Everything but this part of the program has now been accomplished. Some presentation of this .subject has already been made to a number of Yale graduates and the result has. been the. contribution of a considerable sum of money towards this end. The main part of the sum yet remains, however, to be raised, and we are informed that the mat- ter will be set forth properly in a short time, to those alumni who have not yet contributed to this purpose. We hope that this second statement will be met with the response to which it is en- titled. It is most important that this work be finished at an early date. Yale athletics are receiving a more intelligent and systematic handling than ever be- fore. The changes which have been put into effect must be made permanent. A Mistake Corrected, In a book called “The Early Renais- sance’ I quoted on page 63 the following passage from Canon Mozley’s Sermons ascribing it to him: “The beauty is just as much a part of nature as the use; they are only dif- ferent aspects of the self-same facts, the usefulness on the one side is on the other beauty. The colors of the land- scape, the tints of Spring and Autumn, the lines of twilight 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 picture.” A friendly critic in the March number of the Coming Age inadvertently attrib- utes the above passage to myself; and in last week’s YALE ALUMNI WEEKLY, this error is copied in an extract from that criticism. I thought it worth while to correct the mistake, since, as much as I should like to have written such noble words, I cannot claim their ~ authorship. James Mason Hoppin. a Honor System at Law School. At a mass meeting of the students of the Law School, held April 24, to con- sider the adoption of the honor system ii examinations, an informal vote re- sulted almost unanimously in favor of the system. The committee appointed has sgen every member and secured his vote. Sy AT et Footbali Dates. Manager Robert B. Hixon, 1901, has announced that the Yale-Princeton foot- ball game will be held at Princeton, November 17, and the Yale-Harvard game at New Haven, November 24. soon ee eee ire a er nt Athletic Calendar. NEW HAVEN EVENTS. Wednesday, May 2—Yale vs. Brown, baseball game. Saturday, May 5—Yale vs. California, track meet at the Field. | Wednesday, May 9—Yale vs. Dart- mouth, baseball game. Golf match with the Orford Golf Club. Saturday, May 12—Freshmen vs. Har- vard Freshmen, baseball game; Spring regatta at New Haven. OUTSIDE NEW HAVEN. Thursday, May 3—Freshmen vs. Betts Academy, baseball game at Stamford. Saturday, May 5—Yale vs. Columbia, baseball game at New York; Yale vs. Annapolis, boat race on River Severn; golf match with Agawan Hunt Club, at Providence. Wednesday, May 9—Law School vs. Holy Cross, baseball game at Worcester. Thursday, May 1ro—Freshmen vs. Hotchkiss, baseball game at Lakeville. Friday, May 11—Yale vs. Andover, baseball game at Andover. Saturday, May 12—Yale vs. Brown, baseball game at Providence; Law School vs. Trinity College at Hartford; Yale vs. Harvard, dual track meet at Cambridge. ypwwe a MeLaughlin and Townsend Prizes. Twenty-three essays were submitted in the competition for the McLaughlin and Townsend prizes for English com- position in the Freshman class, which is about four times as many as from the Class of 1901, and nearly three as many as from the Class of 1902; The number written on the different subjects were: “The Spanish Armada,” 10; “Childe Harold,” 7; . “Hawthorne at Salem,” 6. Henry Ide Root, New Haven, Conn., won the first McLaughlin Memorial Prize for an essay on “The Spanish Armada,” and Donald Kent Johnston, New York City, won second McLaughlin Memorial Prize for an essay on “Hawthorne at Salem.” The Winston Trowbridge Townsend - prizes were awarded to Nathaniel Havi- land Cobb, Danville, Vt., essay, “Haw- thorne at Salem”; Lawrence Augustts Howard, Hartford, Conn., essay, “The Spanish Armada,” and Donald Bradford McLane, New Haven, Conn., essay, “Childe Harold’: . [Continued from page 299.]| Yale, best adapted to give every man a chance, and finally select the best men for the highest honors. Class societies, when large enough, will engender and develop class spirit. This pyramid system will, at the same time, give more men an opportunity to meet the men in the classes above and ’ below them. Under this system the selection of a large number for Sophomore year and a comparatively large number in Junior year will render preparatory school pulls and family influence of less account in the selection of men, and place society honors more on a basis of merit. The formation of cliques in the early part of the College course will no longer be fostered. The fraternities will be greatly strengthened by their extension over Sophomore year. Being the first socie- ties men join in College, they will natur- ally command loyalty and support. It will also give the men a longer mem- bership in the fraternities, thus strength- ening fraternal spirit. This strengthen- ing of the fraternities is a great advan- tage to the College, as the largest num- ber of men are given the opportunity of membership in strong and established societies. The pyramid system can be established with better results and less friction by the extension of the fraternities over Sophomore year and the transposition of the present Sophomore societies to Junior year, because it more nearly re- tains the present numbers in the socie- ties and because the houses of the Junior fraternities are especially adapted to accommodate the larger numbers necessary for Sophomore year. 3 Inasmuch as the workings: of the pres- ent system have so developed as to be injurious to the welfare and best inter- ests of the College, we consider that the proposed system with its many and obvious advantages is most desirable, that it can easily and readily be put into effect, and finally, that it will promote and foster that true spirit of democracy which has been characteristic of Yale in the past. Signed, JessE D Dana, James P. LOMBARD, E.. A. Park; PS WALCOTT, Maurice P. GOouLp, EuGENE W. ONG. A meeting of the petitioners is called for Wednesday evening, May 5, at 6.45 in Ai Osborn Hall, to take action upon this report. 3 The above circular was distributed on Wednesday morning to the petitioners. THE OUTLOOK. As the WEEKLY goes to press the prospect is very bright that the long labors of strong and zealous commit- tees will be endorsed by all the various parties at interest and the work of the social reorganization of Yale become in a fortnight an accomplished fact. Final action of the Sophomore socie- ties can not be taken until Friday night of this week, and the final action of the Junior societies can not be taken until next Tuesday night. Golf Team Wins Match. The Yale Golf Team defeated the Brooklawn Country Club, over the links of the latter, at Bridgeport, Conn., Saturday, April 28, by the score of 32 to 5.. The playing showed marked improvement over the match with Hart- ford the week previous, especially on the putting greens. The feature of the match was the playing of T. L. Cheney, 1901, who lowered the record for the course by one stroke, completing the eighteen holes in 81. This team represented Yale: T. M. Robertson, 1901; T. L. Cheney, 1901; E. M. Byers, 1901; C. Hitchcock, 1903; C. D. Barnes, 1902; A. T. Dwight, 1900; P. Cheney, 1901; G. H. Hull, 1902, and S. O. VanderPoole, 1903. The eighth annual tournament of the Yale Interscholastic Tennis Association will be held on the courts of the New Haven Lawn Club, Saturday, May 5. No player will be allowed to compete in the tournament, unless he is a member of a school belonging to the Association, or is preparing for College under q private tutor. The winner of the tourna- ment will be allowed to enter the na- tional interscholastic tournament, held at Newport during the weeks of the open tournament. 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