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429. aa ~ -_ SUBSCRIPTION, - $3.00 PER YEAR. Foreign Postage, 40 cents per year. PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. Single copies, ten cents each. For rates for papers in quantity, address the office. All orders for papers should be paid for in advance. Checks, drafts and orders should be made payable to the Yale Alumni Weekly. All correspondence should be addressed,— Yale Alumni Weekly, New Haven, Conn. The office is at 1016 Chapel Street. ADVISORY BOARD. WILLIAM W. SKIDDY, ’655S.,.......-- New York. C. Purpy LINDSLEY, ’75 S., .......-- New Haven. WALTER CAMP, '80, ....+-++200+- -s... New Haven. WILLIAM G, DAGGETT, 80, ........- New Haven. JAMES R,. SHEFFIELD, '87,....++++++- New York, JOHN A, HARTWELL, ’89 S.,...+..-++ New York. LEWIS: 5, WELCH, G0) -s caseaoeepes > New Haven. EDWARD VAN INGEN, ’OI S.,.......-- New York. PIERRE JAVS°O2,: 5. 0... sags ceceace> New York. EDITOR. Lewis S. WELCH, ’89. ASSOCIATE EDITOR. WALTER CAMP, ’80, ASSISTANT EDITOR. E, J. THOMPSON, Sp. ASSISTANT BUSINESS MANAGER. BURNETT GOODWIN, ’99 5. oo —— Entered as second class matier at New Haven PEO: New Haven, Conn., AuGcust, 1900. It must constantly be borne in mind that the training of the free citizen is not so much a development of certain lines of knowledge as a development of certain essential qualities of charac- ter and habits of action. Courage, dis- cipline and loftiness of purpose are the things really necessary for maintaining a free government.—President Hadley in August Atlantic. <> ee THE NEXT PAPER. The August isstie of the WEEKLY is intended to divide about evenly the time between the Commencement issue, which closes the record of the College year, and the September issue, which is a pre- face to the record of another year. The next issue of the WEEKLY will appear a few days before the opening of College. ¢ > Rp, AR cht MONEY FOR DEBATE. The gift to Yale of $5,000 for debate, by Mr. John W. Hendrie, Yale ’51, adds one to a long list of generous bene- factions from this loyal Yale man. It will attract a great deal of attention and result in immense satisfaction to the friends of Yale. It recognizes a very great need, and will result we have no doubt, when its form is finally fixed, in some very effective method of making Yale a better training place for platform service. SEER ac eae THE LOCATION OF SOUTH MIDDLE. According to a newspaper interview, a suggestion has been made by Mr. Wal- lace Bruce, of the Class of Sixty-Seven, favoring the retention of South Middle, but also sanctioning the scheme of trans- planting it to the new Campus. We re- call the very sturdy defense of the build- ing which Mr. Bruce made at one of the Commencement dinners and with what enthusiasm it was met. In this recol- lection, we are all the more surprised that Mr. Bruce could think of such a thing as transplanting South Middle, of Yale College, of the old Yale Campus, of the Brick Row, of the original and hallowed square, to some ~. modern, frontier post of University growth. Why, pray, should South Middle, of all things on the Campus, be evicted? It belongs there. Its title is clear. It has helped for nearly 150 years to make the Campus, by the life which it has shel- YALE ALUMNI WEEKLY YALE ALUMNI WHEHEAKRLY tered and by the memories which it has held. It seems to us a contradiction in terms to save South Middle by trans- planting it. As well think of preserving the New Haven Green by exchanging it for a plot of land in the outskirts of the city. South Middle is a great part of Yale and belongs where it always has been. 0m JOIN AN ALUMNI ASSOCIATION. The men who went out of the various departments of Yale this year ought to make it their first duty on settling in their business or in their professional work, even though they are locating themselves for only a year or two, to communicate with the secretary of the alumni association in whose dis- trict they find themselves, and to join that association at once. It will do them good; it will do Yale good. It is an inexpensive step and ought not to be omitted by any loyal Yale gradu- ate. In case any are at a loss to know the address of the secretary of the asso- ciation which they wish to join, they are invited to communicate with this office. It will be a pleasure to supply them with any information in our possession. Ge. An ge AN IDEAL PROFESSOR. William Garrott Brown writes for the June number of the Harvard Grad- uate Magazine, under the title, “An Op- portunity,’ an article on the possibili- ties of the new professorship of govern- ment, established at Harvard by gift of the late Dorman B. Eaton. Speaking of the department of history and _ politics, he says: “At Harvard, as at other American and German universities, the scientific motive and method are now completely in the ascendant in those departments. The search for origins, the laboratory devices for collecting and handling ma- terial, the rigid adherence to such con- clusions as can be drawn from careftilly verified facts, the distrust and disuse of conjecture, sympathy, imagination— these characteristics of purely scientific inquiry are all exhibited in our class- rooms and seminaries of history and poli- tics. The professors of those subjects try to treat them as the botanist or the physicist treats his: they make no ap- peal to students, no demands upon them, that are essentially different from the ap- peal and the demands of science.” And this is his ideal for the new chair: “A professor chosen for his power and breadth of mind, and not for any exhi- bition of mere intelligent industry, for his capacity of ample thought and his gift of expression, and then manumitted from the slavery that comes of judging professorial work by too quantitative a test, might, I conceive, fill a place here long and unhappily vacant. He would surely find among the student body ears eager for his larger words, eyes that are ever ready to flash and glow with “the light that never was, on. sea or land.” He would have for his theme quite the most stupendous fact and problem of modern civilization, and for his hearers an exceptional body of American youth. Working along the lines of our present endeavor, he could scarcely hope to do more than guide a few into special in- quiries and train the rest into a matter- of-fact way of looking at history and at public questions. Attempting a larger treatment of his subject and a more human attitude towards them, he might indeed fail altogether, for this is not work for commonplace men or a hope- ful enterprise for any sodden industry. But he might also ennoble his subject;. he might become to his hearers a voice like those Matthew Arnold heard at Ox- ford,—the voice of the stately traditions of a great university, stirring to patriotic ardors ‘the free spirit of young Ameri- cans; he might make to them what seems a fairer return than any with which the University now compensates them for so many hours of their golden youth.” The ideal is not too high for the occupant of such a chair. And it is not only in history and politics that such teachers should be sought. They make a college or a university. Without such men, whatever else the place has, it is poor. SELF HELP AT YALE. If anyone has been troubled by stories of the growing “domination” of rich men at Yale, we beg leave to refer him to the extract from the report of Henry P. Wright, Dean of the Academic Faculty, printed elsewhere in this issue. Prof. Wright speaks on the authority of most close observation and with testi- mony of facts and figures in his sup- port. What he says of the College is equally true of the other great under- graduate course of the Scientific School. The appointment of Mr. Cornelius P. Kitchel, Yale ’97, to a new position, whose principal work will be to organize and to make available all the opportuni- ties for self-help for students at Yale, is an official recognition of the import- ance attached by Yale to the attend- ance of students who have the spirit and the energy to work their own way, and also indicates how large that class has become. a ee The Yale Education. The Ailantic Monthly continues its matter of special interest to university men by its leading article for August from President Arthur T. Hadley, on “Political Education.” Extracts from it are given elsewhere. It presents a very broad platform for college teaching and shows the responsibility of such an in- stitution as Yale to her country in a clearer and more impressive way than we have ever seen it stated before. In the educational number of the Jn- dependent Professor John C. Schwab of Yale writes on the future of this Uni- versity. He is optimistic and liberal... He looks for greater things to be done by the Yalé of the future than the Yale of the past could have accomplished, but counts it necessary to that end that the good ways of “old Yale’ shall not be lost. He lays particular emphasis on the necessity of common interests among the students which shall call out the best that is in them in devotion to some cause that is not so much for their indi- vidual advancement as for the common good. a a Preachers in Batiell Chapel. The supply of the College pulpit for the coming year will be in charge of a committee consisting of President Had- ley and Rev. Dr. Palmer (representing the Corporation), and Prof. Seymour and Dean Wright (representing the Col- lege Church). Mr. Stokes has been chosen Clerk of the Committee. Dr. Taylor Leaves. Dr. Robert L. Taylor, who has been connected with the French Department at Yale for the past six years, resigned his position this Commencement, and accepted an appointment as Assistant Professor of Romance Languages at Dartmouth. Professor Taylor was at the High School for a number of years before he came to Yale. | a es Dr. Henry Wade Rogers. Dr. Henry Wade Rogers, formerly President of the Northwestern Univer- sity has been appointed lecturer on Equity and Contracts in the Yale Law School and will begin his work in the School with the beginning of the Fall term. Dr. Rogers resigned from the Northwestern University early in June. Before his connection with Northwest- ern he was Dean of the Law Depart- ment of the University of Michigan. Pe gh 9 Ti Increase of the Library. 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