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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
YALE Law SCHOOL
For circulars and other information
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Prof. FRANCIS WAYLAND,
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