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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.
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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
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