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YALE’S PARIS EXHIBIT,
A New Color-Tester—The Geological
Department.
Yale is taking no part as a Univer-
sity in the Paris exhibit, which began
April 15. Last Fall the question of ex-
hibition was considered in the Corpora-
tion and the decision was made against
it. Two of the departments, however,
the Geological and Psychological, have
exhibits at the Exposition, and are bear-
ing the expenses themselves.
The exhibit made by the Geological
Department, which was shipped to Paris
last November and received in good
order there, is intended to show the
methods used at Yale in the study of
Geology. It is divided into two parts,
the first consisting of illustrations of
C. W. MERRIAM of Yale Debating Team.
specimens and the mode of installation
in the Museum, and the second showing’
‘the restoration of American vertebrate
animals, made by the late Professor
Othniel C. Marsh. Owing to the great
danger of losing them entirely, in the
tremendous rush of breaking up when
the Exposition ends, none of the speci-
mens of the Museum were sent.
The photographs, which are mounted
on cards, 22 by 28, were taken with
great care and give a good idea of the
originals. The first division contains
fifteen pictures on these subjects: groups
of fossil silicious sponges from the
Lower Silurian of Kentucky; fossil
corals from the Paleozoic rocks of the
United States; fossil crinoids from the
Carboniferous rocks of the United
States; a slab of fossil crinoids from
the lower rocks of Indiana, showing
the distribution of life over a small
area of the sea-bottom; a slab of fossil
crinoids from the Lower Carboniferous
of Indiana; a large slab from the Cre-
taceous rocks of Kansas, containing
more than 200 individuals of the
Uintacrinus socialis; a group of trilo-
bites, illustrating development, embryol-
ogy, structure and variety of form, from
the Paleozoic formations of the United
States; groups of Paleozoic bryozoa
and brachiopoda from the United States,
showing development and internal struc-
ture; a group of trunks of Mesozoic
cycads, showing leaf scars, buds,
branches, fruits and flowers, from .the
region of the Black Hills; a Cycadeo-
idea Marshiana, showing a specimen of
branching trunk from the Jurassic of
the Black Hills; the trunk of a Cyca-
deoidea Wieland with its numerous seed-
bearing fruits and fruit bases, from the
Jurassic of the Black Hills; a Cyca-
deoidea, showing the trunk in early fruit-
ing stage and bearing an apical series
of embryonic fronds, from the Jurassic -
of the Black Hills; a specimen of the
Rhamphorhynchus phyllurus, a flying
reptile from the Jurassic of Bavaria,
Germany, and a skull of a Triceratops
prorsus, an herbivorous dinosaurian
reptile from the upper Cretaceous of
Wyoming
The second division consists of four-
teen illustrations showing the restora-
tion of the following subjects: Anchisau-
rus colurus a carnivorous dinosaur-
ian reptile from the Triassic of Con-
necticut; Ceratosaurus nasicornis, a
carnivorous reptile from the Upper
Jurassic of the Colorado; Stegosaurus
ungulatus, an herbivorous dinosaurian
reptile from the Upper Jurassic of
Wyoming; Brontosaurus excelsus, an
herbivorous dinosaurian reptile from the |
Upper Jurassic of Wyoming; Triceratops
prorsus, an herbivorous dinosaurian
reptile from the Upper Cretaceous of
Wyoming; Hesperornis regalis, an
aquatic bird, with teeth, from the Cre-
taceous of Kansas; Ichthyornis dispar,
and Ichthyornis victor, small toothed
birds from the Cretaceous of Kansas;
Dinoceras mirabile, an ungulate mammal
from the Eocene Tertiary of Wyoming;
Brontops robustus, a large ungulate
mammal from the Miocene Tertiary of
Dakota.
The exhibit includes also, examples
of the models used for instruction in
Geology in the Sheffield Scientific
School, which will be sent to the Jardin
des Plantes in Paris, at the close of the
Exposition. One of the most striking
features of this part of the exhibit will
be the model, made to life size, of a
Stylonurus lacoanus, a giant arthropod
from the Upper Devonian of the United
States, which has been prepared by Prof.
Charles E. Beecher of the Museum.
This model will go to the British Mu-
seum in London at the close of the
Exposition.
The Psychological Department ex-
hibits Dr. E. W. Scripture’s color-tester,
in the Section for Marine Transportation
and in the Department of Liberal Arts.
This invention of Dr. Scripture con-
sists of a new test for color-blindness
to be used in examining candidates for
the railway and marine service. -The
usual Holgren wool test having been
prove many times to be unreliable, the
new test proceeds on an entirely different
principle, copying as closely as possible
the signal lights as the eye sees them
under varying conditions of distance,
brightness and fog. The tester has a
disc carrying colored glasses, mainly red,
green and clear, which pass behind three
windows with clear, medium smoke and
dark smoke glasses. Placed in front of
a specially arranged semaphore lantern,
it shows three colors at a time and the
names of these three colors are de-
manded of the person tested. By turn-
ing the disc, the various colors are
shown in just those combinations that
puzzle the color-defective, requiring of
him just the judgments he must make
as a pilot ora: railroad: *man. It is
claimed for the device that it infallibly
discovers to the examiner the color-
blindness of the candidate, and takes only
a few minutes to do it.
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Athletocracy.
[Harvard Graduate Magazine.]
If the motive for playing on the team,
or for coaching, be the expectation of
getting for the rest of one’s life a great
batch of the best tickets to the great
games, then we had better wipe out the
present system and start afresh. In all
these matters, the man who sets his
personal gain first does not worthily
represent the College. Were this prac-
tice to go on, we should have an heredi-
tary class of ticket-grabbers. Already,
among the undergraduates are the sons
of men who played on the Eleven and
Fifteen in old days; why not constitute
them a second class of priviliged per-
sons? Presently, grandsons will begin
to appear, and then think how puzzled
the Athletic Manager will be to decide
whether a grandson through the female
line will be entitled to as many tickets
as a grandnephew through the male!
some disinterested athletocrat would
doubtless insist that tickets ought to be
given to all descendants of captains and
head coaches, and so an inner circle of
more select athletocrats would come to
be formed. :
It ought to be easy to apportion tickets
fairly. First, abolish the custom of giv-
ing large batches to old players and old
coaches. Such men ought to take their
place with the rest of the alumni, and
not to be regarded through life as a
privileged class. Next, the number of
tickets allotted to actual players and
coaches ought to be limited. In old
times, two apiece was thought liberal:
certainly four wotld be generous. And
would it not be well to make it a little
more of an honor to receive tickets?
Are not 52 Freshmen rather too many,
even in these days of expansion?
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In the natural aa of evolution, |’
Fred: What do the war correspond-
ents do when there isn’t any fighting?
Tom: Make the news conflict gener-
ally.—Yale Record.
“Nothing but the Best.”
‘With the progress of mankind during the nine-
teenth century there has come a habit of close and
incisive thinking, such as was common only among the
educated few in earlier times. The printing press has
brought the thoughts of these few to the minds of the
many, and the complex requirements of modern civiliza-
tion have sharpened men’s perceptions and quickened
their mental processes until ideas of the first grade have
come to be the common property of the multitude.
Among the philosophical deductions that have only
recently been adopted by intelligent people generally, is
the perception of. the truth that only an inferior man
And
perhaps the most concise and clear expression of this
can be contented with inferiority in anything.
thought is the maxim often heard now-a-days, ‘ Nothing
but the best is good enough.”
In other words, the modern man has come to such
an understanding of the possibilities which this life offers
to him, that he refuses to content himself with a partial
enjoyment of them. And the greater his self respect,
the more strenuously will he insist upon all his posses-
sions being of the best which he can possibly obtain.
In certain things especially, this general sentiment,
which is cherished by most intelligent persons, is clearly
perceived to be a duty, for in regard to these, no possi-
ble doubt can be entertained without vitiating the whole
object in having them. A familiar example is the rope
that holds the scaffold on which a workman stands. If
it be of inferior quality there might better be no rope,
for then the workman would not risk his life.
Closely akin to this, and certainly of equal impor-
tance, is the matter of life insurance. It may be said
to be the rope that holds the scaffold on which a man
must, perforce, entrust his loved ones when he can no
longer support them by his own strength. If it be of
inferior, or even of doubtful character, the whole object
of providing it is brought to naught, and there remains
always the possibility and even the probability that it
would have been better not to have insured at all.
So far as anything on earth can be said to be abso-
lutely secure against any possibility of accident or failure,
the protection given by The Mutual Life of New York
is perfect. No contingency that can be imagined
within the bounds of human reason, will ever prevent
this company from standing ready to fulfill its obliga-
tions. There is no peradventure and no possibility of
doubt in the contract, and so far as the highest human
skill can avail to reach perfection it is perfect. _ Certainly
insurance in The Mutual Life of New York is the best
that can be had on earth, and in insurance above all
other earthly things it is true that ‘“‘Only the best is
good enough.”
