Yale University - Sheffield Scientific School Yearbook (New Haven, CT)

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ACTIVITIES AND PUBLICATIONS 269 To meet the special needs of Episcopal students, the Berkeley As- sociation, with the Rev. Grant Noble, has been contributing to the spiritual and intellectual life of the University. Corporate Commun- ion services twice a week are held in Dwight Memorial Chapel. Sunday evenings, Grant Noble, who is known as a friend and coun- selor by dozens of students, entertains groups in his home to hear prominent clergymen and laymen in the Church. Weekly study groups are conducted by him during the winter, and a spring re- treat for three days has significantly wound these up. With the Berkeley Association, as with Dwight Hall, the most important in- fluence is in the personal contact of man with man and especially with Grant Noble, who meets you on the football field, in his home, and in your room. Catholic students have been guided by Father T. Lawrason Riggs, ,IO, during their four years here. Frederick Chute is president of the Catholic Club this year, with McCabe, vice-president, Sullivan, treas- urer, and McGovern, secretary. A yearly series of instruction groups in Father Riggs, home, accompanied by occasional lectures, have taught the convictions of the Catholic faith. Services during Lent and regular corporate Communion keep men close to the Church in worship. Last year, through the interest of Iewish alumni and of the Uni- versity administration, Iewish students were furnished with their own opportunity for religious expression. Dr. lsaac Rabinowitz was called to form a group which would dovetail with the general reli- gious work on the campus, but which would make available special attention to Iewish religion. Mr. Irving Goleman has taken Dr. Rabinowitz, place this year, as the latter is away on a Research Council Fellowship. Mr. Goleman, a graduate of the University of California, was associate professor of English at Iames Millikin University in Illinois. A broad program of individual advice and guidance for Freshmen and Sophomores is carried on by Mr. Gole- man, with the assistance of many Seniors. A series of five general University lectures on Iewish and related subjects, given by men of national prominence, was opened by President Angell this fall. Dis- cussion groups meet every two weeks, one on modern Iewish prob- lems and the other, a most popular one, a vocational guidance course. Samuel Board, personnel expert from New York, stimulated much response at his talk. Significant of the friendly spirit between all religious groups on the campus was the Iewish-Christian Conference of three days, held

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268 CLASS OF NINETEEN THIRTY-FIVE S. AND E. As Iuniors, we began to feel the burden of responsibility and to do for others what had before been furnished us gratis. Prominent in the yearls activities were Vickrey and Russ, who became vice-presi- dent for Sheff. A growing concern about the intercollegiate aspects of student Christian work led to the emergence in October of Senior year of a movement in New England which brought integrally to- gether all the groups, men or women, college or denominational, working for a religious emphasis among students. More vivid for Yale was the banquet for foreign students, in April, IQ34, with over three hundred American and foreign students from all parts of New Members of Dwiglzl Hall. England and also New York in attendance. Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick in a keynote speech pointed to the hellishness of war and the promise of reconciliation to be found in such an international gathering. This year has found us with much clearer ideas about religious and social beliefs and a conviction of the worth-whileness of reli- gion to students. Taken as one essential phase of man's make-up, along with scientific and historical knowledge and a code of ethics, the spiritual can furnish a balance and driving motive power to his life. The program is emphasizing this personal character of faith, through much man-to-man contact. The influence of Dwight Hall's secretaries has been most constant and powerful in this respect. E. Fay Campbell, '18, the general secretary, who is on a year's leave of absence, is replaced by Donald Stevenson, 725.

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270 CLASS OF NINETEEN THIRTY-FIVE S. AND E. in the spring of Iunior year. Twenty-five students-from the Catho- lic, Protestant, and Iewish faiths-gathered to listen to a U-Table discussion between prominent leaders of each faith. Dean Weigle of the Yale Divinity School presided and within an hour the roots of difference and prejudice between the groups were laid out and thor- oughly examined. Each faith expressed strongly and definitely its convictions, but it was found that personal prejudice could be sepa- rated from religious differences. In this cooperative spirit the reli- gious groups are continuing to make a noticeably growing impact on students' lives, furnishing elements of morality and spiritual in- sight without which a fully creative and balanced life would seem to be impossible. GLEE CLUB Singing, in all of its various forms and manifestations, has been the traditional privilege and habit of Yale men for generations. VVhenever two or three are gathered together, voices inevitably rise and, in some cases, blend, in praise of Mother Yale and the exploits of her sons. As a result of this tendency the Glee Club was founded. Although over one hundred twenty years old, the Cvlee Club has enjoyed its period of greatest prosperity during the past decade, due to the efforts, patience, and personality of the director, Marshall Bartholomew, '07 S., to whom we bow in appreciation and affec- tion. Coach, critic, leader, teacher, and chaperon all in one, Barty Vallee? szooges.