The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1867-07-28

NEW YOKk HERALD.
Model Literary Isstitutiens Of Now Engiand.
For more than . century Harvard and Yale
have been eulogised as our Oxford and Cam
bridge. During the present commencement
season their claims to holding the same rela-
tons to the United States, and especially to
New England, which the last named universe
ties hold to Old England, have been abund-
In what the late Mr.. Marcy called the "Ameri-
can" language, and in what Gulielmus Maguus-
Humilis, alias William Biglow, of facetious
memory, used to call Iingsa latina porceliana,
vernacularly "hog Latin" If we are to judge
from The Bowery-like rowdyism Of which too
many undergraduates Of Yale and Harvard are
said to have been guilty during the recent re-
gatta week at Worcester, In Massachusetts,, we
must reluctantly infer that in the old days of the
Mohawks the English universities cannot have
let loose on London bigger set Of bad boys
than those who are reported to have made
night hideous and the hotels uninhabitable in
the quiet town Of Worcester last week. OF
course all the young gentlemen who assisted
at Lake Quinsigamond in those athletic sports,
the introduction Of which into our colleges we
have 40 often recommended as healthful and
desirable adjunct Of collegiate education, and
as tending to secure the mems sana in corpore
sano, are not to be COMPOUNDED in the public
behavior of their comrades. But bad enough
as some Of the fast men of Oxford and Cam
bridge have appeared on some Of the frolics in
which they have emulated the eccentricities Of
the late Merquis of Waterford, we cannot help
thinking that the fast men Of Cambridge and
Yale have distanoed them and disgraeed mex
cusably each of the colleges which they re-
spectively hail as alma mailer.
But after all, what can we expect from the
offspring Of these two colleges, which have
been bepufed for hundred years as fountains
of science and literature and pietys
Look at Yale and admire Tin the true etymo-
logical sense of the word) one Of its principal
professors, who at first astonished the world by
false prediction as to an expected meteorio
shower and afterwards, when telegram by
the Atlantic cable had demonstrated the falsity
of his rash predictions, most gratuitously
wrote himself down an ass by discredlting the
news and bringing railing accusations against
the HERALD, which had tue enterprise to secure
1t for the public benefit. A Loomis. who, like
lilliputan Titan filings defiance at the HERALD
and the heavens, and Calhoun, who re-
beled no less vainly against the laws Of politi-
cal gravitaHon and cohesion that bind the
Union In its orbit, are heavy weights enough
Yale, without tho additional burden Of young
scapegraces whose badges should not have.
saved them from the severest penalties for
their indecent conduct at Worcester. And,
setting aside the Juvenile scapegraces, with the
father of all the lies Of nullifcation and seces-
sion, and the undevout astronomer who, on high
poetic authority is mad, what can we say of
one ofLoomis' colleagues who 80 far demeaned
himself and the dignity of his position as to
run as q candidate for Congress on the same
ticket with the Snowman Barnum, of woolly
horse notoriety, but that he was most deserv-
eddy consigned with the spouse Of the Feejee
mermaid to disappointment and deieas by the
Connecticut
So much for Yale. Now look at Harvard,
with its constellation Of bright and shining
stars, dimly visible, indeed, beyond the limited
horizon of Cambridge and Boston, but refulgent
there, at least with the mild reflected beams Of
Everett, the laudator of Washington. What do
We here see TO make us surprised at the de-
generacy betrayed by certain harum-skarums
Of the Hasty Pudding Club, In emulation Of the
eryans terribles Of Yale, the natural children Of
q reaction against the old blue laws Of Con-
necticuts We cannot forget that Harvard
lends the most liberal aid and encouragement
to the North American Rsvis,o. This ponderous
quarterly has lately struggled with desperate
effort to emerge from the dull oblivion into
which 1t had fallen; and, in order to regain
public attention, has poured torrents Of abuse
upon New York city, intermingling libel!ous at
lacks towards Its Corporation, violent diatribes
against its Judiciary. and scandalous imperti-
nences upon its press. The editor of the North
american, James Russell Lowell, is, in fact,
Professor Of Modern Languages in Harvard
University. That he is not unfamiliar with the
language Of Billingsgate Is obvious from the
fact that its vocabulary seems to have been ex-
hausted in the recent wordy warfare waged by
the North American against New York and
that no has apt pupils is but too we'll shown
by their vulgar profanity at Worcester.
An Important Fact.
Mr.. Horace Greeley is never going to speak
to Mr. A. J. q. Duganne any more. Not be-
cauae he linda IL an dif3cult IN rcrnorpher all