The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-06-08
YALE CREW ON THE BRINY
THEIR DEPARTURE FROM NEW
YORK SATURDAY.

A Large and Enthusiastic Yale Crowd on
Hand at the Departure From New York
A Notable Address--Yale Law School
Senior Glass Book--A Few Words About
Yale's Old Chapel and Its Impending
Doom-The Seniors Petition to Yale
Other Notes.
Amid the loud cheering of a large
crowd of their friends and friends of
Yale both alumni and undergraduates
of whom large number had gone to
New York for the purpose, the Yale
crew set sail for the scene of glorious
victory or hardly contested defeat on
the steamer City of Berlin last Satur-
day morning at II o'clock.
The pier was crowded with Yale peo-
pie for some time before the steamer
left her dock and all remained quiet
until the boat steamed out and then
cheer after cheer was waited after the
brawny athletes until they were out of
hearing.
iiC lilSlliDClS VI Tic CIGN Will bOp
Cook, who has done so much to get
them in a shape to win, We're gathered
together on pile of steamer chairs on
the upper deck. They were not noticed
for some time by the crowd, but when
they We're finally seen then the enthu-
siasm broke forth. Then the people on
board responded with the Yale cheer
and the crew waved handkerchiefs.
Several members of the glee club We're
present on the pier and they struck up
Here's to Good Old Yale"
George Adee, the old coach, was
present and gave some final advice to
the crew. Ex-Secretary of the Navy
Whitney, an old Yale man, was pres
ent and joined in the enthusiasm.
The shells and oars were shipped to
New York on Thursday and were Sc
curely dashed to the deck-house aft of
the City of Berlin. The boats We're
wrapped in canvas one above the other,
the practice shell being on top. The
outriggers had been removed and with
the oars and other equipments were
boxed and slowed away in the hold of
the steamer.
The regatta at Henley will begin on
July Z, which will give the crew three
full weeks after their arrival to get into
condition. They will train under great
er advantages than usual, for the ex-
atninations are over and they will have
nothing to do but to perfect their row.
ing. At New London the men have
never had more than one week free
from the care of studies and examina-
TONS The stroke will not vary much
from that used for years at New Lon
don, but owing to the short course will
be quickened trife. Captain Tread
way thinks that the crew would be fully
fit when the race is called and that
there will be no excuses for defeat.
The London Truth commenting upon
the Henley prospects, says: Neither
the London nor the Thames club IS like
ly to have a first class crew this year.
The old men have passed away and
there are none to take their places.
Leander seems to be relying upon Cam
bridge to strengthen it's crew; but the
Cambridge races are not until the tenth,
and the men rowing in them will be of
no avail until the middle of June. The
old oarsmen won't have had much
training, and it does not look as If Yale
will have such a combine against her
as her presence demands. Rumor says
she has a very strong crew, and, in
deed, it is not likely she would come I'M
less she had good chance of winning. +"
THE OLD CHAPEL.
The New York Evening Post re-
marks regarding the old chapel:
whether or not at the next meeting of
the Yale corporation the decision will
I, 10 no oil ab 40 Al
Immediately, it's seems certain that it's
tenure of life cannot be more than
another year, and probably both it and
the Lyceum will fall together The
structure is seventy-four years old hay
ing been finished in 1924, and it served
as chapel for fifty-tWo years up to the
time Of the dedication of Battell chap
ell in 1876-the Lyceum, originally built
for chapel, having been used as such
for sixty-one years before 1924. The at
tic of the old chapel served for num-
Der of years for the college library until
the latter removed to the library build
ing built in 1S47.
Every college class for almost two
generations previous to 1874 has its
special and generalized memories of the
old chapel. One of the most antique is
the stanza which satirized the long
prayers of President Day:
"Day's prayers they are delightful,
They last from noon till nightfall,
And when to pray Days once begun,
Day never ends till day is done"
And coupled with it is the poetical
satire on the Christmas anthem" pen
ned quarter of a century ago for the
Yale Courant which joked the vener-
able music out of the choir, where it had
been sung on the Sunday nearest
Christmas for some forty years. Along
with these go long category of stu
dent pranks, the sacrilegious invasion
of the chapel O nights, the release of
cats, dogs and chickens during service,
and incidents of more genuine humor.
Among the more classic of the latter
is the story of the visiting preacher
who, on an April Sunday delivered q
sermon on the beauties of the opening
spring while fierce snow-storm beat
+ against the ancient windows and every
student drew his coat collar over his
F head and went into simulated chills; or
I that other story Of the Brooklyn pastor
who aroused and unspiritual burst of
laughter by telling the students that
they must sometimes conquer sin by
subtlety like the Arctic hunter of the
Lpolar bear who fed the creature on
Ewhalebone coiled in frozen blubber