New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-12-01
LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE.
MORALITY AT YALE COLLEGE.
A RECENT ARTICLE UyJUsr-THB AUTHOR UNKNOWN
TO STUDENT LIFE.
TO the razor or The tribune.

TO STUDENT LIFE.
To the RAZOR OF The Trt6une.
SIR: The article which recently appeared in
The PeOrq Transcript from the pen Of A Yale college
Senior" andnOm which extract was made ID iae vs.
OF THE TRIBUNE. has created no little excitement here'
The communication which represents the college IN an
unenviabe unfair and false light will 10 doubt be ex-
tensivey copied and will, it is feared. nGict most
disastrous iaiury upon the college. From this article
coming from a Yale Senior-a man who is supposed 70
understand thoroughly the college manners and Gus
toms-the public viii justified in forming the opinion
that the students here drunken cardpayins se''
with liquor ana tobacco loosely scattered around th'f
rooms; that their rooms are ornamentcd with obscene
pictures; that they Sabbathbreakers ana tHt the
only time of study is at morning prayers
II this were true picture. parents should cease send
Ing their SONS here and the college should Immediately
sink out Of existence. But far from being true il Is most
maciously false. The writer Of that article has hot
correct idea OF what college life IL. During h5 fiesh
man and Sophomore years he was almost never seen
among the fellows" AMI rarely left his ROOM except 10
attend recitaon or 10 70 his meals lie regarded
"a a recuse but as man who was anxious to make tho
most of his time here Daring the junior year he stad
ont OF college altogether This year he came BACK and
"a usual is almost in another mans room IN
writing his letter. therefore, he did not write from
actual knowledge, but rom his very vivid INA Inatl0h.
Ills picture would be OverGrawn II he had taken tlr
twelve men, and united into one the worst feature
II would be idle assert that there were no impure
men In Yale College. In the AcidomCd Dcpaitn Dt,
with H. 600 from all parts OF the country ana
from different classes OF fOoirty-0ne VIII ma iNst
every vice to which men are addicted so long as han
nature is what II this must be the case. Wne II may
be tro therefore, that there arc those mere WO uth'
and even get drunk; who play cards, even on SUNNY,
and perhaps then Tor money ana VINO s,uly hu'
very te sparn0 the few moments devoted to pnn-
lie prayer-hle these may be true, to draw such pc
general, average, or even larry cOi-
mon thing, - simply sl9udCrOus.
The moral sentiment here Is certainly reasonably h!gh
More ODerd Of the men are processing ChIlstih'
ana the other the ma Drlty come from CHRISTIAN
homes, and have grear respect for religions matters
Notwithstanding the large number OF men thus brought
together drunkenness aad other vice. are nor on me
average, greater than the same number OF men
out IN the whole. While many may drink Dcef tue mum
her who get even occasionally drunk average less than
dozen 10 the class. In fact the sentiment OF the coege
such that the who are guilty OF amy klnd OF WICK
euoss their best To conceal the aci ior III tci
character becomes known they at once Ial Ia the
public esteem
As FAR as dsseerang The Sabbath s concerned this is
far less the case college than I'M the city out'loe
Whatever may IN taeir own ruOm1, ont""tuy
the ibbath - strictly observed, ana instead OF Jolly
drinking songs being heard 10 is throughout me dY am
evening very quiet tho whole Campus II COMA 10
wished that tho moral Of tine college were even
higher; il is truly na enough as II IS DIt 20 i7tcp
resent y IS has been done, Is simply slanderOu'
Nem-HGgeH, CONT, NOV. %, 1877. h. c. J.
The moral of this business is that students ought
not to write long letters to Western editors Too
much Importance has been attached to the reyela-
tions Of this Peoria lad fragments Of which have
appeared in a TRIBUNE paragraph, with good
humored comments. OF course there are Wild oats
sown in Ncw-Iayen, but the average crop to tie
acre is less than in other University township