Litchfield enquirer., 1873-11-27
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 We make the following extraetsZfr0m an interesting letter in the \. r. Evsnihk
 Post regarding New Haven and sEsle Col lego. vzalaD ehT | C9,@ s.1s,l 8oixpA sfT C& THE CITY Ii --sl .lj1a9H
 With all it's new wealth and progf9ss,' New Haven seems to keep moro of it's an. cient character than any other thriving New England town. It is full, indeed, of the new signs of business, of stores, work shops, manufacturies, banks and other financial offices, yet the old scholastic stamp IS most conspicuous, and Yale, ,CotA lege is the crown of this City of Films; The college buildings now more than ever command the eye of the observer, and the officers of the University are decidedl ly at the head of social and intellectual life. The president and professors Hte for the most part in pleasant and slightly homes in and around Hillhouse avenueA that charming neighborhood; and their quiet habits and modest incomes are not out of keeping with the sedate habits of , the choicest society about theua.r E.. s.s saa.. THE ARIsToCRACY OF CoNGREGATIoNALIs1r. l7g lsf. In a certain sense the old spirit of caste,rl the Brahminism of the Puritan times, ap- pears to remain, yet not precisely upon the ancient ground of clerical supremacy. The Puritan clergy were as strictly a ., pr1estly establishment as the clergy of England or Italy, and the state as well as the church maintained their preogative. 1 This fact accounts for the surprise that9a New England man of the old school feels | in moving in the higher circles of English ! | society. He finds himself strangely at h home among vicars and deans, and even l among bishops and archbishops, because
 he finds among them very much the same sort of clerical dignity that he was accaeAo l cated clergy around him; and the defer I ence paid to the ministers of the estaE-r ishment in England is very much like ! that paid to the regular parish ministers
 in New England fifty years ago, before 1 the scots came in and the tie between
 church and state was severeda In New Haven, indeed, it is not so much the ecler- l gy, as such, who are held in honor, as it
 is the learned class who have been so
 long identified with them. A large DOT
 ton of the University professors are cler- 1 gymen, yet it is as men of thought and letters that they hold their position, and
 
 tive. There, as in New England general | ly, the clergy do not now keep their po- sition as a social caste; and, apart from |,
 especial personal gifts and attainments, | they differ little from men, will not say
 of the common herd, but of the common | lot. Of course, when eminent gifts and attachments combine with the sacred pro l fession, the new culture gives powercto. 1 the old sanctity, and New England peorsi pie are greatly deliohted to put their
 faith and their intelligence together in 1
 the joy and reverence with which they
 look upon their leading preachers, moral
 ists and theologians,
 | SOCIAL INFLUENCE OF THE COLLEGE. I It is not so obvious in what way the presence of thousand young men, most
 of whom come from other places to gtndy' there, helps the sociality o0fo the piacesh They certainly make these streets and l squares under the sombre elms very live l l5H and in vacation the city is very dull. l The money of these young men is very
 Weieome and convenient, and their man. neTs appes. generally to be uuite courte-
 ous and not want1ag in modestv. Yet
 they. bring to the city something of tbe
 gayety of a garrison town; and, in addi- A I tion to the usual proportion of you~e, l men belonging. to the place, thousand tsppernqmeraries are somewhat alarming
 addition to the ranks of the gal1ants who I have all the susceptibility of youth, and
 cannot, of course, keep it wholly to them
 selves. These students evidently tell great deal upon New Haven society, and
 in this respect they differ much from the Harvard students, who are so near Bos-a 1 ton as to visit comparatively little in Cam
 bridge, and who count little in a great
 city, like Boston, of nearly three tliotfs-
 and inhabitants.o The consequence seems
 to be that New Haven is quite court of 1 young gallants,5 and young ladies have
 quite as much admiration as is geOd for ! them, and perhaps more. Society does not suffer there, as generally in the old New England towns, from the dearth of young men, but there is glut of this i'm portant commodity. Perhaps. the pre- ponderance of men may, in part, account for the apparent ease and even majesty
 with which the married women seem gen. l orally to hold their thrones, and make the l City of Films the paradise of wives in this l age of fickle and degenerate husbands. | This preponderance of men accounts for the mature manners of many of the young
 women, who have 8 certain ceurtly grace
 and ease before they are out of their teens, and who charm the homes of their
 sober provincial city by self-possessed
 manner, ready wit add pleasing and com l prehensive address, that would do honor to the accomplished and experienced pets of French saloons or English drawing | rooms. -.. .r-. | -s. NEED OF Co-EDUCATiON.. E-- 5r. | The mischief of this abundance of chiv- 1 airy, and of the style of sociality which it educates, appears in precocious suScepti-
 bility and indiscreet love-making and en-
 gagements. The cure for this mischief
 should be sought in correct ideas of the co-education of the sexes. Let the young
 men and women meet together as freely as they wish in all reason and conscience; but why insist upon bringing the love re- lation forward so prematnrely everywhere. Why not meet upon the broader social and intellectual footing, and help out each oth- er's taste and culture with all the natural charm and zest that always, go with the genial companionship of the sexes? It may be more intensely interesting for William in his teens to pay his particular
 addresses to Mary, who has just begun to wear long gowsn, and to take her hand, ] whilst he looks into her eyes and talks l the regular nonsense customary on such occasions. But these things, without all
 the nonsense, belong to maturer yoaEs,
 and man needs to cut his eye-teeth and know what life is, and what men and wo-
 men are, before he commits himself by,an engagement So also a woman ought to know something of herself and of men
 before she venturesto commit herself in
 marriage But why not carry the pleas | ant sociality of the sexes into the refined
 tastes, the artistic and literary habits of
 polite society," This will gain greatly by
 shutting off those precocious and unwise
 love relations, and giving all the more life and joy to reasonable and elevating com panionship. Certainly great university
 town like New Haven can do much toe
 wards the do co-education of the sexes in
 this way, and without insisting upon en-