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For College Year, '96-7:
H. C. RosBrnson, °53. J. R. SHEFFIELD, °87,
W. W. Skippy, ‘65S. J. A. HARTWELL, °89S.
C. P. Linps.Ley, 758. L. S. WELCH, '89,
W. Camp, ‘80. E. VAN INGEN, ‘91 8.
W. G. DaccGcettT, 80. P. Jay, '92.
EDITOR,
Lewis 8S. WELCH, °89.
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ASSOCIATE EDITOR,
WALTER Camp, ‘80.
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NEWS EDITOR,
GRAHAM SUMNER, ’97.
ASSISTANTS,
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OFFENSES AGAINST YALE,
The college life is still a family life
Everybody knows everybody else, first,
second or third hand. The mutual un-
derstanding of each other’s acts and
the motives therefor, often removes
the necessity of much discussion of
matters of interest, a fact which, in the
past, has. been:.exaggerated. to. excuse
the omission of necessary record and
comment. When the family -life is
troubled and the case properly invest-
igated and understood, and action con-
‘sidered necessary by those who are im-
mediately concerned has been taken,
there is a fraternal, and a more or less
authoritative wave of the hand, ac-
cording to the age of the brother,
which means: ‘‘Now let’s shut up about
Anche
In many acts of a purely domestic
nature, this is a comfortable and wise
disposition of the matter.’ If all Yale
were quartered inside the college quad-
rangle, and if Yale existed by and for
herself and for the present merely,
with no relations or responsibilities to-
wards the rest of the world or towards
the past and the future, this off-hand
settlement of trouble, with an occasion-
al interposition of feudal justice, would
have to be enough. It would be, be-
cause those most concerned had said it
should be.
The trouble is that these conditions
do not exist. The Yale family is quar-
tered all through Christendom. Yale in-
fluence is bounded only by the outposts
of American education. Yale has accept-
ed a definite responsibility in the devel-
opment of American character. It is
not difficult for the imagination to see
the Stars and Stripes waving wherever
men are trying to secure the widest ad-
vantages of personal liberty and to
work out the problems of self-govern-
ment; it is only a heavy eye, if it be in
the head of a Yale man or a friend of
Yale, who cannot associate the deep
blue of Yale with the best
efforts to develop American manhood.
And no one will attempt to say, when
any member or any number of mem-
bers of Yale college play fast and loose
with the standards of Yale,—with the
standards cf the educated gentleman—
that they do other than insult a host
of men and raise their hand against
one of the fairest and noblest creations
of American life.
Some of these things seem to have
been forgotten—not by the thoughtful
sons and friends of Yale, but by those
into whose hands they have given all
these things which they rate so highly.
We are not pessimists. The Yale stu-
dent of to-day can be as _ sensitive
to the best instincts of Yale life as his
forerunner. But something in his en-
vironment or in his training, has given
him a temporary indifference.
Seven or eight years ago a company
of night revellers desecrated a statue
of one of the great men of Yale, that
stood almost within hand’s reach of the
door of the College Chapel. No one
pretended it was action in the name of
the College, or by any considerable
number of students, or by representa-
tive students; but the fact that it was
possible that such a thing should hap-
pen on Yale’s own soil, made the Col-
lege and the University so indignant,
that without a day’s delay, in mass
meeting assembled, they denounced the
act and arraigned the perpetrators be-
fore the bar of public opinion as of-
fenders against the good name of Yale.
The sense of shame was quick; the act
of repudiation and indignant protest,
just as swift and spontaneous.
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We talk about the development of
Yale as a University, with all the wide
liberty of action the term ‘‘University”’
is supposed to mean. If we venture to
include in that, the discarding of old
Yale College and its life, we fly in the
face of the explicit declaration of the
officers of the institution, we ride
rough-shod over the tenderest memo-
ries of all those who have known this
old Yale College, and deny the most
earnest prayer of her every thoughtful
son, that her work as a maker of men
shall be ever her greatest work. If
this is not so, then what do these terms
mean: ‘Yale life’, ‘“Yale spirit’, ‘“Yale
manhood” ?
The principle we prize most in Yale
democracy, next to that of equal op-
portunity, is the principle that the men
who make up that life shall govern it
and themselves; that the students of
Yale, who are trying to make of them-
selves the best Yale men, shall work
out their own salvation. They have
come into the full heritage of those
who have gone before them. They are
expected to guard that heritage as best
they may, and develop it as best they
may. The official government of Yale
likes to act on this principle, as far as
it may, and does well to do so.
We have indicated already what a
tremendous responsibility this means.
It means all we have said, or it means
nothing. Do we expect too much of
young men carrying this responsibil-
ity? Not at all. Do we expect them
to work without error? Not at all. Are
we prepared for remarkable blunders
occasionally? We most certainly are.
But do we expect them to forget or
to lay aside the very principles on
which this life has been developed and
made so glorious? Certainly not for
any length of time. Do we demand of
them the swift correction of a mistake
when they see it? There is no doubt
as to the answer to this question. Do
we expect them to believe that they
can do anything directly or indirectly
in the name of Yale that does not af-
fect others than themselves? No one
will say yes to this.
Such offenses as those of which we
have spoken are not atoned for by such
a paper as is elsewhere described as
“the staternent of an argumentative
diplomat.” Nor is it to the point to
say that the men who happen to be
concerned are known by their friends
to feel most keenly their mistake.
These actions come before a tribunal
which can not be affected by personal
considerations.
One feature of such cases remains to
be touched. The action of those con-
cerned, and the judgment of a large
-number of college students, is often af-
fected to a great degree by what treat-
ment is expected and what is received
from the public press. The College pa-
pers are even criticised for treating a
matter of supreme college importance.
This makes one of the best illustra-
tions of an altogether distorted view
of the function of the College press,
which is still largely prevalent. To
contend that the action of the men con-
cerned, or of the College press, or of
the College, should in any way be reg-
ulated in such matters as these by
what might be said, or what had been
said, in the public press, is a most dis-
couraging abandonment of the much-
vaunted Yale independence.
We reveat, we are not pessimists.
And we would make no plea for any
radical reform in the government of
Yale life. We would, however, like to
see some closer connection between the
permanent body of Yale men and Yale
traditions and the temporary trustees
of Yale traditions and Yale life, which
would helv to keep that life always
true to its highest ideals.
PROFESSOR CAMERON’S RESIGNA-
TION.
It is with very sincere regret that the
news has been confirmed of the resigna-
tion of Professor Cameron from the
staff of the Sheffield Scientific School.
It is not necessary here to speak of his’
attainments as a scholar or to record
the enthusiasm which he was able to
awaken among those who came under
him, which evidences one of the very
highest arts of teaching. And it is only
putting into writing what is felt by the
very large number of those who have
come in contact with Professor Cameron
during his stay at Yale, to say that his
departure will mean a personal loss. We
are sorry he is going. We wish him
well, whatever or wherever his work
may be.
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A SULA.
Even such a well-informed paper as
the Waterbury American sometimes lets
its memory wander, when it comes to
Yale affairs. Commenting on the late
unpleasantness, it refers to the time
when “Dr. Woolsey’s statue was in-
sulted, because it was placed where it
interfered with the Seniors’ game of
marbles.” This time never was. The
American is thinking of what was said
to have occurred at New Haven, and
has forgotten the facts. An attempt at
a bonfire was made on the spot where
two or three wooden stakes had been
driven in the course of a survey of
possible sites for the statue. This was
a nucleus and opportunity not neglect-
ed by certain space writers. There are
some papers that look at Yale affairs
rationally and record the facts with
general veracity. The Waterbury
American is one of the best of them.
That is why we take the pains to cor-
rect it.
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