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Seated SAY LU Meneame ae FOR EVERY $1,000 OF LIABILITIES THE IMPREGNABLE PRUDENTIAL. IT CAN SHOW $1,279 OF ASSETS. It is Every Man’s Business To carry his family safely through the. period ‘of. their dependence. To accomplish this properly, his family should be protected against the financial loss which would come to them when the hand which shielded them is no longer active. certainty of prompt settlement. Life Insurance Furnishes this Protection —/™| PRUDENTIAL policy holders have the advantages of absolute security, liberality in treatment, economy in management, and WRITE FOR: INFORMATION. JOHN F. DRYDEN, President. The Prudential Insurance Company of America. Home Office, Newark, N.-J. CRITICISM OF COLLEGES. [Continued from rst page.] and all the classes to come are also to be considered; and the scholars not borne on its rolls; whom its wide in- fluences affect, have some concern for its well being. A college is a corpora- tion established, fostered and protected by public sanction for purposes of pub- lic concern. Having public duties it is properly amenable to public law and, within reasonable limits, to public opinion. Trustees and _ faculties are never backward about cultivating public approbation for the courses they favor, or for defeating any opposition to their aims. A notable instance of recent occurrence .was the successful rally of public sentiment by the faculty and graduates of Brown University in op- position to a purpose of the trustees to restrain the liberty of the President. of the institution. If Yale University: is not affording sufficient or proper in- struction in English, it is and should be, a matter of general interest. Those who think the. instruction inadequate, if their representations made to the responsible authorities seem to be dis- regarded, have a perfect right in all loyalty to alma mater, violation of any sound canon of ethics, to make their criticism public and to support it by proper argument. Perhaps it is not unaccountable that at the present time Trustees of Prince- ton should have an exaggerated sensi- tiveness touching the propriety of public criticism; for recently the University has felt the keen wind of it and has bent before the _ blast. Whatever humiliation may have come to Trustees and Faculty by being compelled to warn students from a favored bar, it will hardly be thought that the Univer- sity has suffered harm. The corrected fault was not in alma mater, but in those who suffered her to become ob- noxious to just criticism. Perhaps they would have done what they have now done at the suggestion of private criti- cism. Probably they would have dis- missed such criticism with smooth phrases of thankfulness and compli- ment, and complacently let things drift. WHERE CAN ONE CRITICISE? Mr. Alexander says that attacks upon the faults of alma mater may be of value in their place; but their place is not in the public press. If he would tell us where their place is, he would confer a favor. Is it in the college journals? But they are public newspapers and all newspapers of the land cull from them whatever is interesting. Is it at the meetings of alumni associations? But the proceedings of these are re- ported and no man is blameworthy for taking pains, as Gov. Chamberlain did, to be reported accurately when he is liable to have his language and his motive misrepresented. Is it at the general alumni dinner of Commence- ment week? However it may be at Princeton, Yale men know that criti- cism is not invited on these occasions » in New Haven. If, by chance, anybody ventures a suggestion unacceptable to dred great corporations. rants scheme of instruction or the qualifica- . and without the authorities, our professional - post- prandial panegyrist, who sits at the Col- poration table and makes the last speech, is alert to jump upon the rash man ‘‘with both feet,” and utter fresh as- surances, in lieu of those which have gone to protest, that the practical wis- dom of the Yale Corporation -tran- scends all the wisdom of all the business men with whom it has been his privilege to sit in the managing boards of a hun- This is sure to get into the public press, whatever else may be left out. The real point of Mr. Alexander’s alleged remarks is that the manage- ment of colleges must never be pub- licly criticised. No deep affection for ~alma:mater, no jealousy for her honor, no zeal for her growth, no regard for her primacy in the cause of liberal education, no fidelity to the needs of her’ present students, no care for the generations of students yet to be, war- criticism of the established tions of the instructors. -This is. a: doctrine which they who think it to be judicious and honorable may hold and may inculcate. But as the true patriot will not hesitate to condemn the evil ways of his counry for which its chosen officers are re- sponsible, so the faithful alumnus will attack the faults of alma mater for which the men are responsible to whom her affairs are temporarily intrusted; ‘and he will procure the correction of such faults by all proper means. When the fault is serious and the guardians apparently indiffent or ob- durate, no means are more legitimate than an appeal through the public press to the wisdom and good sense of the educated class of the community. ‘The invidious public’ (this is obsolete English, holding a taint of ancient scorn; but it may be the reporter’s and not Mr. Alexander’s phrase) does not comprise this class. In fact, no influential portion of the readers of newspapers which would give space to such criticism will ‘gloat over” the de- ficiencies of any college. It is as im- probable as that Mr. Alexander in his remarks was gloating over the alleged deficiency of the English Department of. Yale. WALTER ALLEN, 63. » we ~< > a ae Junior Fraternity Elections. The following elections to the Junior fraternities were announced recently: Psi Upsilon—MacIntosh Kellogg, New York City; Henry Bingham Bart- lett Yergason, .Cincinnati,..O., and Benjamin Burges Moore, New York Delta Kappa Epsilon—Hugh Moffat Bissell, Detroit, Mich.; Allen Warren, Rockford, Ill., and Joseph Allen Far- ley, Rochester, N. Y. Alpha Deta Phi—Harry Manford Dewey, Oneida, N. Y.; William Ker- foot Stewart, Indianapolis, Ind., and Scovill McLean Buckingham, Water- town, Conn. , ees Zeta Psi—Merwin Bolton Bangs, New. York City; Clarence Eugene ‘Coffin, Indianapolis, Ind.: James Eld- redge Wilson, Chicago, Il. The first game ever played by a‘ Yale | baseball nine took place at Hamilton - Park, New Haven, September 30, 1865. The opposing team was the Agallion Club of Wesleyan University. The game lasted three hours and twenty minutes, Yale winning by a: score of M. & W.’98 BICYCLE LAMP , BURNS Msi) KEROSENE $2.50 EXPRESS PAID If local dealers cannot sup- ply ‘you. 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THE CUTLER SCHOGE, No. 20 E. 50TH ST., NEW YORK CITY. One hundred and ninety-three pupils have been prepared for College and Scientific Schools since 1876, and most of these have entered YALE, HARVARD, COLUMBIA or PRINCE- TON. WOODBRIDGE SCHOOL, - 417 MADISON AVENUE, NEW YORK CITY... Special attention given to preparation for the Sheffield Scientific School. Circulars on application. Out-of-Door-Life and Study for Boys. TuE ADDRESS OF MR. THACHER’S SCHOOL is Nordhoff, Ventura Co., California. THe Wotcytiss School, LAKEVILLE, CONN. An endowed school, devoted exclusively to preparation for college, or scientific school, according to Yale and Harvard standards. Eight regular instructors. The school was opened in 1892, with pro- vision for 50 boys. Enlarged accommoda- tions were immediately called for, and the capacity of the school was doubled in 1894. 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