Litchfield enquirer., 1870-11-24
WHOLE NO aa7a
sQUAsHvILI.E ENRAGED.

At the commencement dinner of Yale Col le9e, Mr. Wm. Walter Phelps, of this city, las many of our readers will remember, made Verystelling appeal in favor of Pres ident Woolsey's plan of giving share in the government of the college to the alumni. Mr.. Phelps argued that the col lege wants management; and that Q corpo- ration composed of Connecticut clergymen and state Senators may not always be in full sympathy with the progressive wants of . great national institution of learning. An amusing and good natured sketch of "the Reverend Mr. Pickering of Squash vile" enliyened the after-dinner talk, which has since given rise to so much elaborate discussion. .t,, set4zs. -..5s "a ..ss4sFt
 The New Englande,' for October contains a long article from 'sTimothy Pickering, of Squashville." 1" one of the, clerical mem- bers of the corporetion, whom the Nation identifies with the Reverend Leonard Ba- con, of New Haven: It is painfully sug- gestive of difficult cause to plead, that MT. Pickering has to take nearly thirty pages of aponderous quarterly review, to tout up" a few remarks at a social dinner; and to cut them up he tries, into very small pieces indeed. But the worst mis- take Mir. Pickering makes is in mixing up chips of Mir. Phelpss speech with equally small fragments clipped from sundry anon- ymus letters that have been printed in the N0tion, and then treating the whole com pound as if MT. Phelps and the ''Young Yale" he speaks for were responsible for it. aa aIpa 7sa- s,al4a., i.a1. s .sesH
 As for the substance of MT. Pickering's argument, there is very little in it that seems to require comment. That the col- lege has been honestly managed, and that it has grown rapidly, is true; but it does not prove that nothing could be improved about it. That the admission of the alum nj to share in it's government would make it ''splurgy," whatever MT. Picker ing may mean by that, or be ''confisca- tion of the endowments, !" is only assumed, not by any means shown to be true or probable. phe rest of the Squashville re- monstrance is merely very heavy attempt to make the demands of "Young Yale" for reform seem absurd by painfully exagger- ating them to the most ridiculous extent, and is, of course, meant to be rather anus ing than convincing. It ought to be Ia. belled, in the words of the lamented Arte- mus, ''This is sarkassum." s@ d.,aa
 But in all seriousness, it is plain enough to the world, outside of Squashville, that Yale College, with all her splendid success l uo O GAu4uAU8 OSAOOA9 Ao AnAuA5 OOAAAU VtAOA colleges, notably behind her greatest rival, Harvard, in one of the most important iele- ments of University influence; the close l sympathy in views, arms and feelings, be. tween the government of the institution and its alumni. As soon as defect here becomes noticeable at all, it begins to- in- crease with great rapidity. The first need of Yale is that every influence which tends I to make her less comprehensivo in spirit than the world of educated men at large I shall be eliminated from. her constitution. l It is this need that Mir. Phelps brought in- to prominence; and, whatever may be thought of his remarks in Squashville. they were certainly regarded by the most active friends of the college and of learn !! ing, so far as such are heard in New York, as not only wise and appropriate in them. selves, but as voice from the great Re- public of Letters, to which Squashville it. self must yet give ear.-N P. Post.