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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.
BURNETT GOODWIN, ’99 S.
Entered as second class matter at New Haven P. O.
NEW HAVEN, CoNnn., JULY, 1900.
THE NEXT WEEKLY.
The next issue of the paper and the -
last of the current volume is the August
or Midsummer issue, which will be out
August 15. The first volume of the next
year will begin with the September issue,
which is published just before College
opens in September. )
The last weekly edition of this paper
was on June 20. Not all subscribers are
yet accustomed to the schedule. The
weekly issues begin with first college
~ week in October and run up to Com-
mencement. Then begin the monthly
issues.
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THE CONDITION OF THE FUND.
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On the whole, Yale men are not en-™*
thusiastic over the present condition of
the Bi-centennial Fund. They feel even
less enthusiastic when they realize that
the canvass has been managed with
great energy and zeal and thoroughness.
A million dollars is a great deal of
money to have on hand -even prospec-
tively, but this sum and the time and
effort required to advance it thus far,
taken in relation to the need of Yale,
and then compared with what other in-
situtions are doing, is certainly noth-
ing to make anyone particularly happy.
If a particularly energetic canvass in a
few places and a few large gifts were
eliminated, the total would be unpleas-
antly small.
This condition of things simply must
not continue, and it behooves Yale
men everywhere to seriously ask them-
selves why it has been thus and how
it tidy ¢éasé “to pe tuus. ‘It is’ the
serious business of every individual in-
terested in Yale abd: until this /fs
realized the fund will still lag. If
there is any circumstance in Yale or
Yale affairs which any alumnus sees to
be a handicap and which he cannot
correct himself, or through his friends,
then he ought to take the case to head-
quarters and test it by such facts and
plans as are there, and there only,
known. Write directly to the officers of
the University. We print this without
their knowledge but we know that it is
in accord with their wishes. We believe
it is the principle of the administration
to have the fullest understanding between
the management of Yale and her sons
and her friends. It seems to us the Yale
way of doing things, namely, to work
out our doubts, to thresh out our criti-
cisms, among ourselves, and so under-
stand each other and codperate with
unity and without division of sentiment
or feeling.
Two or three conditions seem to
us to withhold for the present contribu-
tions which ordinarily would freely
come to Yale at such an important point
in her history. As the old order changed
for the new, there was doubt in men’s
minds as to what the new order was
and where it would lead. There has
been time to demonstrate which way
Yale was tending. It seems to us that
the season for doubt or hesitation on
this score has passed. The Hadley Ad-
ministration, as it appears to us, has
devoted itself to saving the best of old
Yale and moving ahead on lines of de-
velopment consistent with Yale’s already
established character. :
In the second place, the lack of en-
thusiasm in this Yale enterprise is said
to have been somewhat due to the agi-
tation over the society system. It is
- impossible to say how much it has acted,
but any known cause of criticism of this
sort is a handicap, especially where there
has been such-a general agreement that
social conditions have not been as they
ought to be. The reform has been mov-
ing slowly, but it seems to us that it is
now clear that the old evil will be eradi-
cated. The near future; we firmly be-
lieve, will see the societies of the Aca-
demic Department ordered for the good
of the greatest number and so as to give
equal opportunity. to all. We believe,
and we find nowhere a disagreement
with this stand, that practically all the
necessary time for the right kind of
change has been taken and that the Aca-
demic year 1900-1901 must not and can-
not move far without seeing the change
completed.
Another point has been considered.
Not a few men believe that Yale’s athle-
tic reverses have had a good deal to
do with the delay in bringing forward
this Bi-centennial fund to its proper
proportions. This is not the superficial
reasoning that it may seem. The
WEEKLY’S position on athletics has been
stated often. We believe them to be an
index of the strength and the health of
the community life of Yale. . When Yale
does not bring out a team or a crew which
is what such a university as Yale can
produce at her best, she shows that
things are not working together quite
as well as they ought to be. But as to
this point, as well as to the other two,
it seems to us that the cloud is lifting.
The Class of 1900 graduated after mak-
in its Senior year a great effort to return
Yale to her rightful place. The effort
was only partially successful, as far as
results for the year went, but anyone
who cannot agree with us that the con-
dition of Yale athletics is much sounder
and promises much better for the fu-
ture to-day than twelve months ago,
seems to us to overlook very patent
facts. The undergraduates fully realize
that the responsibility is theirs. They
have shouldered that responsibility, and
are ready to take it up with increased
spirit and force another year. At the
same time they have so arranged their
system that they can get at their re-
sources better than they could before.
We are very hopeful on this point.
Next year, with every Yale man, on
the Campus and off the Campus, feeling
his individual responsibility and then act-
ing up to it, will be a great year for
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THE CREW.
It does not seem that there ever was
a victory over which Yale could rejoice
with such satisfaction as that at New
London. This is said with due regard
to the accident by which Har-
vard lost her splendid captain and her
stoke just on the eve of the contest.
That captain, by the way, could hardly
have proved the quality of his leader-
ship so well as by leaving a crew, after
he was taken out of it, which could
row such a race as did Harvard on the
28th. That Harding, the substitute
stroke, should have rowed himself into
a helpless condition, certainly is no
eround for criticising Captain Higginson
for putting him there or for criticising
Harding or for criticising anybody. Ifa
man has stich a spirit that he is willing
to take a good chance of dying, when he
decides that it is tied to the only chance
for victory, he is one who must be left
alone to work out a glorious victory
or such a glorious defeat as he suffered
on Thursday. It was more than a usual
victory to win against such men as Har-
vard’s.
It was as keen a disappointment to
Yale as to Harvard that the original
order of the boat was disturbed by the
accident to Higginson, which prevented
trying out under perfect conditions the
claims of these two ideal crews. But
Harvard has not considered that in ac-
cepting the decision of the race and Yale
thoroughly appreciates the spirit shown
in the extract from the Harvard Bulle-
tin printed elsewhere. Yale men, on the
other hand, realize that, because so much
credit is due the Harvard Crew and the
Harvard system, which met the emerg-
ency as it did, no less is due the Crew
which, all things being taken into ac-
count, rowed perhaps the best race ever
pulled with blue oars.
The WEEKLY expressed, in the last
issue before the race, the debt which it
considers Yale under to Dr. Gallaudet
and the loyal gratitude due to Captain
Allen. This would have been the same
in defeat and so we took the occasion to
say it before the issue was decided. It
is a great satisfaction to have it made
so plain in victory. It is not necessary
to say anything more, we believe, to
make these men know how grateful Yale
is to them.
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MR. ROBINSON.
Yale athletes have said goodby to their
trainer, Mr. James Robinson, with sin-
cere regret. He has been very faithful
and very successful in his work with the
Eleven, the Track Team and the Nine,
and has brought them to their contests
quite invariably in excellent condition.
He has quietly done his work and has
carefully avoided interfering with the
work, and the responsibility of others.
We wish him a very happy time as he
returns to his old home at Princeton
and assure him that the good will of
Yale men follows him there.
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THE WILBUR BACON CREW
PICTURE.
It is appropriate that in the year of
perhaps the greatest contest Yale and
Harvard ever rowed, a great crew of
the first days of rowing should be re-
called. Mr. Tuttle’s gift to the Trophy
room of the Yale Gymnasium places a
very valuable record in possession of
Yale and is very much appreciated. It
was by Mr. Tuttle’s kindness that the
WEEKLY has been able to reproduce the
picture in this issue. Mr. Scranton’s
memorial to Wilbur Bacon, printed else-
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Prof. FRANCIS WAYLAND,
Dean.
“PRR STRENUOUS LIFE.”
Hardly any phrase of a public speaker
or writer, written within the past few
years has attracted more attention or
been more quoted than Governor Roose-
velt’s allusion to “the strenuous life.”
It almost sounds as if he had been select-
ing a name for an insurance company.
But, while the three words would not
be accepted as a happy title for a life
insurance company, there is no doubt
that they define most aptly the manner
of living of the average, ambitious
American citizen. The truth of this is
recognized at a glance by every man
who is striving for sticcess in business,
or in any of the professions. There’ is
no longer any hope of success for the
man who “takes things easy.” It might
almost be said that there is no room
for him in the crowd of eager hustlers
who throng every avenue to success in
the modern business world.
Deplore it or not, as we may, we are
forced to acknowledge that we must live
the strenuous life in order to maintain
our place among our fellows. The
faculties must necessarily be kept always
on the alert. The body must be always
“in condition.” The mental attitude
must always correspond to the physical
pose of the athlete in action.
This intensity of effort, while it has
come to be recognized as a necessity of
modern life is full of danger. The
athlete who keeps always at the highest
pitch of physical condition realizes that
he is constantly in danger of breaking
down. The bow that is kept strung at
its utmost tension is likely to snap. And
the business man whose every ounce of
energy is constantly needed for the pro-
per prosecution of his affairs must realize
the necessity of doing away with all
needless anxiety lest he overtax himself in
some direction in which he cannot look
for any adequate return for his exertion.
He is like a man who is forced to guard
a citadel depending on his own vigilance
alone. If he can secure one point of the
fortifications so absolutely that it needs
no further attention from him, he can
devote his entire energy to the other
points with more effectiveness, and less
fear of some fatal oversight.
It is therefore the man who lives the
most strenuous life, who most needs the
relief from anxiety which comes only
from the possession of a policy of life
insurance in some company whose se-
curity is absolute, and beyond the neces-
sity of an apprehensive investigation.
Let such a man be insured in the
“Grand Old Mutual,’ and he can face
with equanimity the breaking down
which must inevitably come sooner or
later. Nay, more than that. Being re-
lieved of all anxiety as to the future of
his loved ones, he may make his life
the more strenuous with less danger of
a break-down, and thus find himself
more efficient by far in the constant
struggle which the strenuous life in-
volves.
The Mutual Life of New York by
reason of its own magnificently success-
ful career is the logical organization to
which the successful man turns as the
one in which he would place the future
guardianship of his family.
Please mention the paper in doing
business with advertisers.
where in this number, shows the younger
generation their debt to one of the
leaders of an early day.
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The President’s report for the year,
given very wisely at Commencement, is
unusually full of thought-provoking
matter. It is direct and frank. Every
graduate ought to read it all. A good
deal of it is reprinted in this issue.
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The friends of the Law School saw
enough of the new building to feel very
well satisfied. as to the School’s home.
All approve the name of Hendrie Hall.
The only cause of regret was the ab-
sence of the man whose frequent gen-
erosity has made the building possible.
Mr. Hendrie’s health did not permit him
to leave his home at Sound Beach. It
has, however, improved of late—a fact
for which many Yale men will be grate-
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