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YALE AND NEW HAVEN.
The Evening Leader recently printed
with a good deal of flourish an
article purporting to indicate an ani-
mosity on the part of the financial
management of Yale University
towards the business portion of New
Haven. The incident suggesting the
publication was the attempt now be-
ing made to compel Yale to pay taxes
on a certain part of its property. In
the article it was said that only a few
years ago a very large sum was
placed in local securities, but that
this had been slowly withdrawn un-
til the amount of Yale money loaned
hereabouts was very small. It was
intimated that the feeling between
New Haven and Yale was not im-
proved by such a policy as Yale was
alleged to be pursuing, and that the
outcome of the attempt to tax Yale
depended not a little on the strength
of this local prejudice against the
University. Like most articles of its
kind, the further it proceeded the
less justification there seemed for the
head lines and the introduction. It
was finally frankly admitted that the
reduction by Yale of New Haven in-
vestments from $800,000 a few years
ago to !ess than $200,000 at present
(to quote. the figures of the Leader)
was simply due to the desire of the
University to get a higher rate of in-
terest than New Haven borrowers
would pay. The Register has taken
up the cudgels for Yale and declares
the attack an unworthy one, and sim-
ply a part of the effort to create ill
will toward Yale. It asks only to
have Yale left alone.
We are not disturbed over the agi-
tation. If it did not confess its own
weakness it would still be far from
formidable. At the same time, we
must admit that it suggests a point
in Yale’s policy which is not well
eared for, in our humble _ opinion.
Yale and New Haven are not close
enough together. There is every rea-
son why the feeling between them
should be one of mutual good will at
the least, if not of enthusiastic de-
votion to each other’s interests. Any-
body can see, that, on the one hand,
H. K. SmrrnH, °98.,
YALE
it is of the greatest advaniage to
any community to have located in it
such an institution as Yale, and, on
the other nand, that the University is
very much hampered if it does not
enjoy the good-will and receive the
co-operation of the municipality in all
its efforts to improve its plant and
equipment. The interests are so dis-
tinctly mutual that it seems a pity
that the feeling is not more strong.
We do not mean that there is ill-will.
Sensible people of New Haven appre-
ciate Yale and Yale men and Yale’s
officers generally show an apprecia-
tion of the fact that they are a part
of the city of New Haven. But it
would seem very easy to make this
tie which, by nature, is strong, very
much stronger, so that any act of
animosity on the part of one side
towards the other would be entirely
out of the question.
We would not want Yale, threat-
ened with an enormous tax assess-
ment, to seek in any way to curry
favor with the powers that be. We
hope she will fight this direct at-
tack on her resources with all the
strength in her power and without
yielding in any point out of fear. But
that is only an incident in the situa-
tion.
A few days ago it was announced
that the citizens of Baltimore had
given outright nearly $250,000, just to
help Johns Hopkins out of the diffi-
culties in which it is temporiarly
placed. Would such a thing, or any-
thing like it, happen
similar circumstances. ©
not?
here,
If not, why
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THE PUNISHMENT OF CRIBBING.
The Harvard Crimson doubts tie
wisdom of the plan adopted by the au-
thorities there for the punishment of
cheating at examinations. There is no
attempt on the part of the Crimson to
extenuate the crime, or to make it
seem any less dishonorable than it in
fact is. The point at which it declines
to endorse the action of the Adminis-
trative Board, is that part of the plan
which contemplates the publication of
the names of those who are discovered
cheating in an examination. It says:—
“The Administrative board may have
the legal right to publish to the world
the names of those who break the rules,
but it has not, we believe, the moral
right. The man who is thus punished
will have his College life ruined and
may have the first few years of his
life after. leaving College severely in-
jured. If the authorities wish to weed
out from the list of its members those
who are dishonest, the best way, the
just way, is to expel the offenders at
once and for all, but not to thrust
their faults upon the whole University
and upon the outside world into which
they must enter.”
We would not be inclined to criticise
the details of any scheme undertaken
to root out this evil. The publicity
given to the crime will be, we believe,
a most effectually deterring influence.
There is always a disposition to shield
from the public gaze those who have
first committed some evil, and news-
paper offices are daily besieged to
keep from. the record of the police
court the name of this or that man or
woman who has fallen for the first
time into the hands of the law. It is
always a questionable exercise of
clemency to yield to these requests.
The way to keep one’s name out of
the police court record is to keep out
of the police court, and the harder
it is for any one who reaches there,
the less often will people travel in that
direction.
ALUMNI
under.
quite regularly.
W EEK LY
It is undoubtedly true that a good
deal of dishonorable work in exami-
nation has not been appreciated by
those who have committed it, so dulled
has been their sensibility by the
amount of sophistry with which this
thing has been shielded. But college
Students are not the ones among whom
an offense against honor is to be
excused on the ground of carelessness.
It is of course true that the reform
of this evil will not be successful, un-
til the student body appreciates the
evil. We believe such efforts as these
planned at Harvard will be a power-
ful educating influence in this direc-
tion.
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NOTES ON FOOTBALL,
The end of the season’s play in foot-
ball has brought the usual discussion of
the rules of the game. There is unusual
unanimity of expression in favor of a
more open game. The last amendments
to the rules aimed largely at this, but
have yet, however, succeeded only par-
tially in their purpose.
Indeed, in some respects they are en-
tirely inoperative. It takes a good team
and very skillful work to develop a play
like a tandem, with such perfection as,
for instance, the Princeton eleven showed
in the game with Yale, while the mass
‘plays of Pennsylvania in the last half of
her game with Harvard also indicated
a high order of skill and strength. At
the same time, this style of piay does
tend to make football a pushing game,
with too much depending on avourdupois,
and to lessen the chances for the skill
and agility of lighter players. Mr. Whit-
ney in Harper’s Weekly recommends an
increase in the distance to be gained in
four downs, making it ten instead of five
yards. A good team, fairly trained in
pushing plays, can make the five yards
To make ten is very
much harder. A stout resistance against
one or two plays would almost invariably
force a kick, an end play, or a long
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and more interesting and on the whole
more worthy of this splendid game. The
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Outing for this month also strongly
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and favors rules to restrict them. It is
to be hoped, and we think reasonably,
that some improvement in this line will
be shown next season.
The review of the football elevens of
the different schools as printed in the last
Weekly showed one result which quite
surprised us. It will be remembered that
rather more than half of the players
who graduate next year from these
schools are coming to Yale. This is in-
teresting enough as a fact but we do not
attach any particular significance to it
in forecasting next year’s eleven. Pre-
paratory school reputations do not neces-
sarily forecast athletic strength. It
would be pleasant enough to find that
Yale was able next Fall to develop) an
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