New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-02-03
AMONG THE COLLEGES.
ATHLETICS VS.. STUDY AT YALE.
THE QUESTION DISCUSSED - FOSSILS AT THE
PEABODY MusEuM-LAw SCHOOL
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personal.
New-Haven, Conn, Feb. (speciall.-sone Oh uis
older Yale men in New Havcn, and some VINO are loV
so old Also express the belief that college athetos
have usurped their proper sphere, and occupy 'oo
large a place in the life Of the college world as
whole and Yales world particularly. both oil ana on
the campus Perhaps the most pronounced eApreSsor
of this belief IS John A. Porter. OF Hartford, one OF
the most gifted and popular Of Halc's alumni IN Con
neciicut Mr.. Porter has publicly asked why IL is
that at alumni meetings all the country speeches.
are asked from the captains Of the different athletic
teams while the editors OF papers and the leaders
of the social life of the college are generally ignored
Certain members of the alumni, known as book
worms insist that there Is q great deal more IN
terest expressed by undergraduates In athletic sports
than In literary work. In reply 10 this the supporters
of athletics ma ntain that physical development quite
as important intellectual development ana that the
latter is Of very little consequence when unsupported
by the former. As clncher, they point to the con
coded fact that the intellectual life and standard
at Yale has advanced rapidly during the last ten years
and particularly since President Dwight became the
responsible head of Yales affairs. Perhaps the most
important and emphatic contradiction OF the theory
that athletics are considered before intellect al iae
IS the randi growth and increasing Of facilities for
advanced study To-day l08 men are pursuing posi-
graduate studies-double the number so engaged U"o
years ago, and than Three times more thah Vooh
these courses three years ago. This year the s''-
uate number OF students in philosophy ID l"eH.-'""'
larger class than any other American university can
show In the graduate English course, in physics and
chemistry In mathematics, philooGy, geology ana HIS
tory law medicine and divinity the classes are large
and ihey include who noted Tor atheuC powers
and brilliant brains. Men of Yale so sltnaIeu t'"V
they are intimately acquainted with every dctaii OIL
Yales private life say there is no danger OF laleS
intellectual life being injured by tine degree OF at
tenton now bestowed on athletic sports and physical
development.
An examination of the records at Yale shows that
the total cost Of all college buildings in use To-Day Is
q trife over s. 100000. Battell Chapel cost S-oO'-
OOO osborne Hal $500 900, Chittenden Library $780,
600, Lawrence Hall 100000 West Divinity Han
100000 East Divinity Hall $4,000, Farnan Hall
sl27 ooO Durfee 100000, and Shelf Hall SloO'ooo'
The other buildings were less expensive
President Tliney Of the Baseball Association, has
engaged Jack Horner, a famous pitcher and umpire
TO coach the nine during the coming season. lie De-
gan work yesterday, and Will for the present devote
all his time 10 coaching men for the pitchers box
The management of the Yale Athletic Association
has received an invitation from the Berkeley Athieuo
Association OF New-YOrk TO enter lightweight tug
ofwar team TO contest at the Berkeley Atlieuc SmD
gymnasium ON February The entries aIe confined
10 invited teams, and only the first eight enteS VIII
Charles Sheriff. 80, Yale's champion shordistance
runner, has begun training with the athletic Tam am
having at last yielded TO the pressure Drought W Oc
upon him by undergraduates and alumni. .
Co-educaIon may yet be seen at Yale. Professor
tended by several young ladies, and during the last
week a number have attended Professor summers
lectures on political economy: Co.,, . VII, ;,
The annual dinner of the Exeter Club at 1ale VIII
take place next Wednesday evening professor q; ~
Wentworth will represent Exeter here and T. Traiod
will do the at Harvard. -
Hawaiian club has been formed, composed OF an
the members of the university rom tle odIu"ion
Islands. 49, ., "a,
Students from Southern states have formed the
Southern Club, with officers as follows Presuent
J. g. Kearns of North Carolina; viceprcsident. j.: u
Estll, of Tennessee; secretary; w. A. fy Oh hem
lucky, There is talk OF uniting the southern
ClnbsAof Harvard, Princeton and Yale into solld
fraternity. The Yale club proposes to follow closely
I'm the footsteps of Harvard's southern Club. -
The Yale Navy is in need of $1,000 to make up lhe
90 600 that must be paid for new steam launch
Ii is proposed TO raise the money among uie uiuSI
graduates if possible, but contribution from tAe
alumni would be most thankfully receives 400, % i'm
nortant work has been done in the Peabody Museum
In the Identification and classifying OF the fossils W
are beng constantly received from the west. Sohe
cxceedinrly remarkable finds have been received ana
il Professor Marsh ready to inform inc pupnO
concerning them. decided sensation woula probably
". K townsend, professor OF admiralty luf,s-
nrudence in the Law School, has been selected 10 TAKE
the late Professor Johnson Platts clas1 ~ s' WaV
;nd Will lecture on constitutional law. Professor
Townscnd is one of the most successful LAWYERS III
Connecticut. and as an instructor nc fI The most
cordial friendship for him and no one ever !1 i.s
TOO busy to lend helping hand over hara plaCcSS
sDillys Townsend, his older friends fanIariN cS
lin IL nonuar among all who know MN, ana MS dc
onaintance is probably as great as ViaV Vi any "a
Yale's famous alumni. - . Al, po, 7 IT
r,bsmberIain d. D. will lecture before the students o.
9Dnty set TO Music" DR.. Chamberlain was srauu@'o"
from Yale in 1868 in high standing. .,,,sod 60
AZ last the Sheffield freshmen have concuueu ~
rrrcbase canes for Washin gtoEs Birthday. ProOaDS
Few of the oid-time Dangers" will appear however