Morning herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1837-1840, 1838-04-07

csi1egfsss Life - Princeton and Yale.
Annexed wdl BE- found tive highly interesting let
tsrs recs'ved few days ago from private coespon.
dents, describing recent events at the two leading
Collegiate Inslitstions of Yale and PnRceton. They
will furnish our readers with brief Glimps. Of the
mode OF life which the young seroes and statesmen
pass .. these famous semnaries.
Our Princeton correspondent gives US fuller ac-
count of the racas at that place. than we pubishsd
the other day. In his description he is however, ra-
ther unfriendIy to the southern Students There may
be black sheep among any class Of young men-but
the young gentlemen from the south are, beyond the
possibility ola doubt the courteous, refined and
intelligent that any country can produce. We have
lived in the south-we have mixed much with south
ern men-we have known southern fair ones-and
the result of our experience very decided partiaty
for the sosthern character and principles in all their
varieties. In the .fracas at Princeton we have no
doubt both parties were TO blame-but we doubt whe-
ther theseyou gentlemen, in quarrellng about
buckwheat cake, and dirking each other therefor,
showed such deplorabe and ignorant specimen Of
Generalization was recently exhibited in Washing
ton by two members of Congress; one shooting the
ether with rifle, because he would not admit that
certain notorious parsonage was gentleman. =
When men high in Office, and leading in society, do
such things with impunity can we expect any thing
but ARRAYS among the young and uniformed at our
literary insttutons2
The affair at Princeton will do geod-not harm
Il will teach the young there to behave like gen.
tlemen, and not fight like dogs for buckwheat
cakes
In relation 10 quiet, classic philosophic, elegant
Yale, eur correspondence gives different account of
their amusements, and very naisely ascribes the i'm
proved civilization oftha great seminary to the happy
influence of the Herald and the passion with which the
students have been seized for the Bennettsnian Phlo
sophy. There may be something in this view Of the
matter During the last two years, the Herald has
circulated more widely at New Haven, than any pa
per ever did. Professors, Students citizens and par
ticularly the angelic SEX have made their daily CON-
panien. The high intellectual civizaion-the supre-
macy Of soul over matterAwhich we have always
nculcated have aided and assisted the philosophical
and religious instructions of the University ITSELF II
thus that the poets of Athens shed an effugence
around the Academic grove. The cultivation Of the
higher order of the afecons-those feelings that leap
into rapture at the contemplation of every thing beau
tfu and greats marking the character Of the present
age The regime Physical pleasure or brutal passion
is fading away. Yale College is fast approaching the
threshold Of that heartfelt Intellectual age which
is but another name for the millennium. The follow
ing note which received the other day, speaks well
for the commencement of the spring.
YALE uNIvKRsITY-ls3s.
The Manages s1 the Janisr Bal. The pleasure Of
ang the 24h April.
n s%S 81 S S.ys.s Ss.Issod
To Princeton, we say; go and do likewise-and
kick up quarrels about your buckwheat cakes
Hunours Of Yale CoHege-Secsnd Series.
YALE COLLEGE, March 24th, 1888.
DEAR GORDON BEsNETr-"Twelvea and hafcents
or single copy" rung through the College yard yes
erday afternoon, from beneath lofty elm, where
40 so students had assembled, all anxious TO
gain one glance at the New York Herald" 1 mir
ged myself among the party, and found that the
arose from piece in your paper, headed
g Humours OF Yale College" / stood and listened,
while read aloud to the others, who had escaped
from the rigorous discipline Of the Faculty, to reeale
their minds with the enchanting pieces which dai-
~ published in your journal.
How these students do run after youSpaper! With
such eagerness they sought after yesterday, that
IL and Is cents were offered for single copies, but
could not be had Some of the students had even
gone and bought IL or Ii copies each, that your
paper conld be had for neither love nor money"
This is nothing new-the Herald is eagerly sought
by these young embryo statesmen and philosophers,
the SlimaBs Daggcts and Websters of future years.
From it's aflnspred page they imbibc eprncplcs
ofindependence which in future years shall stimulate
them to make bsd resistance against the domineer-
ing prolgacy Of such corrupt politicians the Wall
street cabal" But this is not all; how often have
such men rs grace our counrys name, run after the
Herald. How often have seen the venerable and
D. Daggeti, LII. b. plod his way to the
Office where the Herald is Sold buy his copy and fold
il up and then return home bearing Il as treasure
to amuse himself and family and TO chase dull care
away" by the mage wand of that "horrd Bennett
paper Thus you see that you are esteemed not only
by the youthful student but by the hoary headed
members Of the bench, alike venerable by their silver
hair as their unsuled character. Not much matter
then, whether you are persecsted by such men as
Webb, &C. Truth is on your side then Ego ahead"
"Your price is immortality, and posterity will pay
it."
7. stood and listened TO the article. But "oh 20
gods and little fishes r. what libel upon newspaper
correspondence 1 had hoped while the piece
beng read that IL was not your paper, but the New
Era, or Daily Wing, or some such loafer print But
no il was the Hsrald-t was James Gordon Ben
nett who published such article as the compost
ton of one Of the members Of Yale.
aThis was the unkindest cut OF ALL
Well might the sumscrng geniss Of College ex-
claim in regard to your correspondent
"Tor G-ds sake, reader, take (him) not for minew
What an idea he has about the nslgniss (lnsRnia)-
the sun rising in meridian splendor" l-efnigenf
heat! first striking the ground, and then deseending
TO the ton of the eImsl Without controversy, this
r.. st IL nd r0cultayb Nov dear air