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EDITOR.
Lewis S. WELCH, ’89.
ASSOCIATE EDITOR.
WALTER CAmp, ’80,
ASSISTANT EDITOR.
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NEWS EDITOR.
PRESTON KUMLER, 1900.
ASSISTANT BUSINESS MANAGER.
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NEW HAVEN, CONN., May 380, 1900
TIME OF THIS ISSUE.
The current issue of the YALE ALUMNI
WEEKLY goes into the mails on Friday,
instead of on Wednesday. The decision
to postpone publication forty-eight hours
this week’ is an extraordinary one, con-
trary to all our precedent, and one not
likely to be duplicated in years. It
seemed wise, however, in view of a
combination of special circumstances at
the printing house and the late arrival
of certain’ important news, illustrations
and announcements necessary of satis-
factory record in this issue.. We return
to our regular schedule to the day and
to the hour next week, and again ask
subscribers to remind us of the slightest
irregularity in the receipt of their paper.
This week’s paper should reach all just
forty-eight hours after the regular time.
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RULES OF DISCIPLINE IN THE
SCIENTIFIC SCHVOL.
The modification of rules of discipline.
in the Scientific School, whose main
points were announced in a_ recent
issue, is’one on which the School and
its friends ought to be congratulated.
While it; is not a very great change, it
does remove what was a stumbling block
to:the successful operation of the School
government. ‘The old rule, that a con-
dition in a single subject, no matter
how excellent might be-a man’s record
in all other subjects, or how good his
record of attendance, or how well he
deported himself generally, should keep
him from an athletic team or editorial
board, or a musical organization, was
not in accord with the general spirit
of the School..>When that rule was
adopted in a general change of rules
two years ago, it was thought that the
danger line had been found in this rec-
ord.of conditions, and that a man should
be restrained from everything but study
aS soon as he crossed it. Experience,
however, proved that it was not neces-
sarily the danger line, and that this
restraint of men, in other ways _per-
fectly-qualified for participation in Unj-
versity athletics, was creating in the un-
dergradute mind.and in the minds of a
good many friends of the School, a feel-
ing that the School was discriminating
against athletics. This was never the
intention of the rule, of course, and
never has been the dominant spirit of
the School’s government. It believes in
the wholesome effect of rational athletics
and has always sought to encourage
them. To have any other impression
created among a large number of men
was to give the School a false posi-
tion. |
The intent of the School from the first,
to find only that reasonable point at
which, for man’s own good, he must be
restrained from other than work upon
his studies, is demonstrated in the new
rule. When a man is actually in dan-
ger—and the Scientific School watches
its men very carefully and knows when
they are in danger from week to week
—he is called off. That is fair, and is,
in our opinion, a more reasonable rule
than that now in the Academic Depart-
ment. We at one time felt that a 2.25
mark was a practical preventive of
trouble, but have given up that idea.
~The Scientific School has been con-
sidering this change for months and took
the step only after very thorough con-
sideration, and the feeling that on gen-
eral principles it was the right move.
We believe it has done well.
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PRINCETON’S VICTORY IN DEBATE.
The report of the Princeton: debate
printed two weeks ago, in the news
columns of the ALUMNI WEEKLY, has
been much criticised by Yale men as
leaving the impression that Yale did not
accept the decision in her traditional
spirit, but was trying to make excuses
for a fair and square defeat. That such
an impression was left in any mind is
a sufficient proof that the article was
not properly prepared for publication,
but required more careful editing. We
freely admit, in rereading it in the light
of these criticisms, that it contained
certain phrases that it ought not to. have
contained, :
On our mind the report gave the.im-
pression which we expressed at the time,
to wit, that Yale seemed to have
stronger arguments, but not to use them
in a way to carry conviction. It recalled
to our mind football teams, which have
seemed stronger than their’ opponens,
but have not been able to push the ball
PROFESSOR MOSES C. WHITE.
Made Emeritus Professor of Pathology
in the Medical School.
over the line. The affirmative must
make a touchdown. If they lack the hard
drive at the critical. moment, or are
misled by clever- tactics and dissipate
their strength, that is-their fault and
counts for their opponent. And we re-
peat that we consider that Yale was well
beaten and that Princeton has our sin-
cere congratulations on her victory. We
regret that anything has appeared in any
part of the paper ‘that: left™in- any
minds a different impression as to Yale’s
feeling in the matter.
As the same time we do not intend to
give up analyzing debates and trying
to show their interesting news features.
There is a great deal of foolish sensi-
tiveness in these matters that ought not
to be regarded.
YALE ATHLETICS.
Three defeats in one day recently made
Yale men most unhappy and most dis-
satisfied. The Yale News considered the
matter in a very healthy and well con-
sidered editorial, manly in its tone and
much to the point. Here are one or
two sentences from it:
“There must be more spirit and enthu-
siasm and unselfish work. Personal
feelings must be sacrificed for the in-
terests of the University. There is too
much of that blasé and indifferent feel-
ing after a man has once won his ‘Y.’
A Y should stand as an obligation
for future work as well as a reward for
past work—which it generally does now,
but not always, as should be the case.
Hopeless indeed are the efforts of a cap-
tain when the men under him do ‘not
work with their whole heart and soul.
In short, what is most needed is unsel-
fish. loyalty.”
It would not be a bad idea to frame
some such sentiments as these, put
them over training tables and also in
places where those who are not athletes
foregather, such as the Commons, society
halls and Dwight Hall rooms. There
has been a backsliding since last Fall,
when the University reached the high
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