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NEW HAVEN, Conn., May 16, 1900.
BASEBALL TICKETS.
Alumni desiring to attend the Yale-
Princeton game to be played in New
Haven the afternoon of June 2, can se-
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after Saturday of this week, from the
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will be received up to Monday, May 28.
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advised to indicate some point in New
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They will be kept in the office of the
WEEKLY at the ticket holder’s risk.
NEW TACTICS IN DEBATE.
The account in another column tells
the story of Yale’s debating defeat at
the hands of Princeton. Because new
and interesting tactics are there plainly
recorded, no one will infer that there
is any disposition to accept the decision
ungraciously. Yale was well beaten and
we have only congratulations for Prince-
ton. If any will say that a disposition
to evade arguments and reiterate origi-
nal contentions, already disproved, is
not one to promote in intercollegiate
debates, the answer should be that the
way to stamp it out is to show on the
platform its weakness, by a much more
convincing statement of logic and truth:
What, pray, is the end of skill in debate
but to make men able to present the
truth in such a way that all shall recog-
nize it? Truth is ever in conflict with
error, and if error wins—we do not say
that it did win last week at Princeton—
then those who guard the truth have
only to reproach themselves. Our cor-
respondent, a most careful observer,
evidently thinks that Princeton, weaker
in argument, won by a sharp game.
All the more does it behoove Yale to
see to it that she shall never again fail
to make full use of her strength.
We congratulate Yale on doing as
well as she did on the traditional lines
of debate. She showed that her men
had been splendidly handled and had
done excellent work.
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SOPHOMORE SOCIETY REFORM.
As the WEEKLY goes to press, the
news is received that one of the Sopho-
more societies has definitely rejected the
plan of society reform, proposed by the
conference committee. The general cir-
culation of the news makes its repro-
duction here proper. The news is a
disappointing surprise to the general
Yale public. The scheme of reform had
already gone through the petitioners of
the Senior Class and one of the Sopho-
more societies. The action above re-
corded changes the present aspect of
affairs, but leaves the promise of a
genuine and substantial reform in the
near future. That change is bound to
come.
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ABOLITION OF “*THERMOPYL4.’?
The action of the Faculty recorded
elsewhere, forbidding the function known
as Thermopyle, in connection with the
Omega Lambda Chi celebration, which
occurs on the Monday evening at the
end of May, is one to be very heartily
approved. The principle of action is
stated elsewhere and we believe it to be
eminently sound. If all Faculty action
were taken on this line, the students
would have nothing to complain of in
the way of forbidden privileges, the Col-
lege would not loose good traditions
and the cause of order would still be
maintained. If Thermopyle were al-
lowed to go a few years longer with the
present big classes, the Freshman Class_
would some year finish the celebration
minus one or more members. A seri-
ous and fatal injury is apt to come. A
rough-and-tumble fight of that sort is
not a wise thing between undergraduates
of an Academic Department of 1,200
men or more.
At the same time, the Omega Lambda
Chi procession is all the more necessary
in a big college. It is one more oc-
casion of bringing everybody together.
To retain this celebration by cutting off
an objectionable feature, which was not
a traditional part of it, was a very wise
act of the Faculty, and is much better
than to wait until it had gotten worse
and then abolish the whole thing, on
the principle which has apparently been
followed on some occasions in Faculty
government.
There is a lesson in this for the re-
sponsible portion of the student body.
The men of influence in the upper classes
ought to watch these valuable customs
and prevent their misdirection or abuse.
Instead of preventing them from going
the wrong way, the average upper class-
nian encourages every chance for a row.
Freshmen are urged on to all kinds of
foolishness, and it is not strange that
they respond. The Junior Society ini-
tiations became dangerous and_ re-
quired the interference of the Faculty.
All customs seem to be given the
strength of tradition very easily with
us. They have only to appear a year
er two, when men cry “Hands off!
This is ancient and holy!” Let the stu-
dents acquaint themselves with the facts
and more distinctly govern themselves
in all these matters. ,
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Dr. Chauncey M. Depew will serve
for six more years as a Fellow of Yale.
This pleasant fact may already be re-
corded, for there is not even a nomina-
tion against him.
Yale won the golf tournament from
Princeton and Columbia on Saturday,
May 12. A detailed score will appear
in the next issue of the paper.
PRINCETON WON DEBATE.
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he claimed that the Hay-Pauncefote
treaty would fail to gain its own ends;
first, because the neutrality zone
should be twenty-five miles instead of
three, secondly, because other nations
are not prevented from building forti-
fications outside the three mile limit,
and, thirdly, because there is no ade-
quate proyision made for enforcing its
newtrality.
MR. TROWBRIDGE'S ARGUMENT.
Mason ‘Trowbridge, 19027 at once
answered these objections, saying that
three miles extends to the high seas,
and beyond that two nations may not
neutralize; secondly, that as for building
fortifications, the Central American na-
tions were not powerful enough to un-
dertake them, England and the United
States could not, under the Clayton-
Bulwer compart, and we would enforce
the Monroe doctrine against any other
nation; thirdly, that the agreement of
England and the United States to neu-
tralize the canal is the most efficient
euarantee possible of its enforcement.
Princeton did not attempt to meet
these answers, but dropped the points
until she reasserted them in her last
rebuttal. Mr. Trowbridge then showed
that the negative, in asking for any
other protection of the canal than that
granted, must be asking for the right
to fortify; but fortification means great
danger that. an enemy may close the
canal. Neutralization, however, was in
accord with our historic policy and was
in accord with the wisest statesmanship.
ANOTHER DISCLAIMER BY PRINCETON.
Joseph A. Jones, 1900, again dis-
claimed any intention on Princeton's
part to argue for fortifications and
charged Yale with manufacturing nega-
tive arguments instead of meeting the
ones presented. He then insisted that
England would consent to any other
modification we might desire of the
Clayton-Bulwer treaty. After arguing
this point, he maintained that the United
States should have the right to abso-
lutely control the canal for the sake of
self-defense. In Mr. Stein’s opening re-
buttal for Princeton it was contended
that we must have the right to fortify,
if we choose. Mr. Trowbridge, in rebutt-
ing for Yale, said that it was impossible
to pin Princeton down to any definitive
position. He quoted a number of
phrases used bv Princeton, which, if
they meant anything, he said, meant for-
tification, while in the next breath
Princeton would deny that they were
arguing for fortification. He asked
Princeton to state what she did stand
for. He then argued that we did not
want to induce England to get rid of
the Clayton-Bulwer treaty, for that is
a bulwark of the Monroe doctrine.
Mr. Hill said that what Princeton
wanted was not fortification, but the
right to blow up the canal in case our
fleets should be annihilated.
In answer to this Mr. Lord replied
that in any such case the enemy could
play such havoc with our coast towns
that the canal would be of no use to
them. Princeton had argued for the
‘right to fortify, but refused to argue
for the value of fortifying. If neutra-
lization was rejected, the only alterna-
tive was fortification, if the canal was to
be defended. But neutralization was
the only safe defense. :
ASSURANCE IN CLOSING.
In closing for Princeton Mr. Jones
showed great assurance in reaffirming
all the points Princeton had made, al-
though they had been totally unable to
meet Yale’s answers to them. His most
emphatic assertion was that argued by
their first speaker, that no canal would
ever be built under the Hay-Pauncefote
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