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NEW HAVEN, CONN., APRIL 25, 1900.
“THE KING OF FRANCE.’’
The April Lit. being the first number
of this magazine to be conducted by the
Board of 1901, has,.as is right, a leader
from its Chairman on, @$.4s:Tight,.a
matter of contemporary interest. A part
of this leader is quoted elsewhere in
this number of the WEEKLy. The sub-
ject is public agitation and the writer’s
view of it in a college community is
shown by the title he chooses for his
essay— The King of France,” as he ap-
pears in the nursery rhyme—
“The King of France and four thousand
men
Drew their swords and put them up
again.”
The leader is directed to the habit of
some of the present Senior Class of Yale
College, of doing a good deal of public
agitating. There has been rather more
of that than usual in the last six months
and it follows as a matter of course
that a good deal of it was unwise and un-
necessary. But that does not prove that
it is unwise to discuss matters with a
good deal of freedom. There are cer-
tain matters that do not appear in their
true light and cannot therefore be
remedied until they appear in public,
and until the community, which has be-
come used to them, is shaken up and
‘finds they are really not to be borne.
The fact is always overlooked by those
who decry public agitation, that it is
more apt to be, at least in those cases
where it amounts to anything, a-matter
of great cost to the agitator. We find
it easy to say: “We suppose he likes
that sort of thing;’ or “He thrives on
publicity, or “He is a born kicker;
fighting is his native element,” and all
that sort of thing. One does not have
to live long to know that many of the
men who do the most objecting in public
and take the largest number of hard
knocks with apparent indifference, are
those who were never given a thick skin
and have never been able to cultivate it;
who are pathetically sensitive to the
opinions of others, even though still
more sensitive to a sense of public duty.
The writer has seen this demonstrated in
the College and in the world outside,
too often to forget its lesson. The hard
blows that make enemies of old friends
and more or less jar on the sensibilities
of those of us who are easy-going and
lege editors.
take things as they are, were not given
with an easy reckless swing. Before the
man wrote or spoke, it is more than
likely that he sweat blood; that he
counted the cost, but was brave enough
to pay it.
We make a distinction in College and
say that this is a close-knit community,
which ought to work together; that our
reforms should be effected in our private
offices; that the general sentiment of
the community is for good, and does not
need to be hammered but led in the right
direction. So we keep still about a lot
of things. College is not very much dif-
ferent from the outside world. People
talk the same way about the city you
live in, and your state and your nation.
Get on the off side, face the popular
wind, and you stand a good chance to ©
be written down a fool or a traitor, no
matter where you are.
Don’t we like the community spirit?
Indeed we do. Every sane man does,
and most college men are sane. But
when we talk about community spirit,
we recall a letter that Professor Sum-
ner once wrote to the Yale News. He
commended this community spirit very
highly and then said:
“The danger, however, of a society
like this, with intense cohesion, loyalty
and esprit de corps, is, that the code of
the society will become too strong and
bear down individual reason and con-
science. Moral courage is a virtue which
_ here rises to the first rank. Who will
lead the corporate opinion? It is a case
for sturdy dissent upon occasion and
for manly adherence to high standards
at all times. I have seen one man save
a whole group from folly by standing
out against it at the right time. In my
memory of student days such action
stands out as the hardest, the greatest ©
and the most useful for the common
good of all the things that an undergrad-
uate can do.”
It is not likely that this spirit of objec-
tion will run away with Yale. It is cul-
tivated at too great cost to the individ-
ual. It is threatened and repressed by
too much of the natural environment of
the University. The trouble is, not that
there is too free a discussion, but that
it is not free enough; that is, that it is
reserved only for great issues and does
not devote itself to the work at hand
all the year round and so prevent the ac-
cumulation of the issue. Secondly, we
believe that the sense of individual re-
sponsibility in the community’s welfare,
is not general enough. This seems to
us a much more serious fault than that
it should be occasionally expressed in
an undesirable way.
Again the trouble has been with col-
They let these. subjects
of immediate interest accumulate until
they become nuisances. They have
adopted the policy of either refusing to
discuss the matter altogether or allowing
it to be treated just as anybody wanted
to treat it. An editor’s position in such
matters is half way between his public
and his paper. Least of all in a college
community does an editor’s responsibility
cease with the printing or rejecting of
college communications. His position
should be such that a great many of the
things that a man feels that he must
say, will be said only in the hearing of
the editorial board, and a great deal that
ought to be done, will be started there,
perhaps without any record of it in the
paper. Under such management discus-
sions may be very free, but may contain,
to a large extent, only that which is
helpful. :
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YALE LITERATURE,
The Prose of Sill.
Here is another choice inheritance
from a very choice Yale spirit. Edward
Rowland Sill, who was graduated from
Yale College in 1861, left his verse and
prose in very fragmentary form and
scattered all about. Houghton, Mifflin
& Co. have at last collected it in three
little books of poems, and one of prose.
The prose comes last. It is of the same
fibre with the poems.
The introduction is, strange as it may
seem, perhaps the most interesting part
of the whole book. Here isa collection
of short letters to intimate friends. Sill
has written with entire freedom about
things that most thoughtful people turn
over a good many times in their life.
Seniors at Yale or in any other college
or university ought to read and re-
read the letter to one who was coming
to Senior year and who was facing the
everlasting question of what to do.
Here are some lines. He is referring to
his own choice, which was more or less
interfered with, by the way, as choices
generally are :—
CHOOSING A LIFE WORK.
“Egoism, pure and simple, had some-
how always struck me—theoretically—
as mighty paltry for a grown-up man; a
kind of permanent child-condition. And
I cast about for some way of combining
service with bread and butter. The
ministry, or teaching, I finally settled, it
must be for me. It was a little narrow,
and conceited, too, to confine the choice
to these two. I can see now that there
are lots of ways to serve—more even
than ways to get bread and butter.
So I desperately tried teaching. I set
my teeth together, took a saddle horse,
rode about the country and hunted up a
locality I liked the looks of, with a clean
little school-house and wholesome-look-
ing farm people about it, and taught that
country school. I found there was no
difficulty in doing it, after a fashion at
least; so I kept on,—up to the date of
my leaving you in California. Toward
the last I kept on, not so much because
I still felt that this was the only altru-
istic-egoistic occupation for a man—my
view had broadened from that—but
rather because it was the thing I had
learned to do. One can’t switch off after
a certain age. Besides it was one thing,
certainly, among others, worth doing.
There are few men that find after forty
that there are more things than one that
they know how to do even decently well.
“One thing is clear: a year or two
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