Morning journal and courier., 1880-09-28
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Parsons and Colonel Robertson Upon stat ng the outrage, President Porter expressed
 that he would lay'the matter before the Fac-
 ulty Several members of the University
 club had also waited upon Mir. Parsons and
 expressed their reproduction of the act There was a sea of faces at the meeting.
 Bartlett of 's1, presided. The object of the
 meeting being stated, the ball was opened by Aiken, of '81, who introduced series of res olutions, in which the action of the members of Sigma Epsilon was denounced, and the proceedings condemned as ungentlemanly and disgraceful, and promising restitution of the property destroyed. The resolutions | called for the appointment of committee of
 three men from each class to at once solicit l subscriptions and raise money enough to re-
 place the flag which was torn in shreds. Mr Ide, '81, recommended in preference the appointment of a committee of two from each class, who should not only draw up 8 l suitable set of resolutions for presentation to the Jeffersonian club but also to collect the 1 money necessary to pay for the flag which
 had been destroyed, and further to meet a committee of the Jefersonian club and act for the college in any other manner that may be deemed wise or necessary. He said that
 he had on Sunday met Mir. Parsons, one of the committee of the club, and was received | very courteously by him. From his conver- | sation with him he thought that some action of this kind would satisfy the members of the club and would remove the whole stigma l under which the whole body of students
 would rest until proper apology for the act had been made and proper restitution made for the wanton destruction of the property. He stated that he had drawn up series of resolutions for consideration by such com-
 mittee, and would refer them to such com
 mittee, moving that MT. Aiken's resolutions be also referred.
 His remarks were received with applause and his ideas as to the appointment of a com mittee were adopted, the following being ! named by the president ot the meeting :: From the senior class, Messrs. Ide and Wal den; from the junior, Farwen and Johnson; from the sophomore, Taft and TrumbuJl and from the freshman class, Bristow and | Evarts.
 Mir. Ide then, at the request of a number of the students, read the resolutions prepar- | ed, which were as follows
 Whereas, We, the members of Yale College feel that
 the good name of the college and the reputation of the students have been compromised by the unsup-
 ported action of in lawlessly destroying campaign flag of the Jeffersonian club, and Whereas We feel that fair expression of college
 sentiment is due to ourselves and to the community,
 and that full restoration of the property destroyed is due to the Jefersonian club therefore be it Resoyued, That do most heartily condemn this
 most unwarranted act, and do regret that the good
 New Haven and the students of the college has been endangered and be 1t
 Resotred, That full restoration of the property de-
 ResoIped these resolutions presented to the
 JeersonaQ Club and be published in the city press PHILIP G. BARTLETT,
 HOWARD T: WALDEN, FRANK c. FARwELL, Committee BARCLAY JOHNSON, of the WILLIAM TRUMBULL, College HORACE D. TAFT,
 VIM. B. BRIsTow,
 MAXWELL EvARTs The resolutions were greeted with applause, | and it was moved that they be adopted MT. Burrall, of 'S1, wanted the flag busi- ness condemned and the flag made good but | didn't want to eat more ''humble pie" than was necessary.
 Mir. Bromley, of '81 called to mind that the outside world wouldn't look upon the 1 flag business as ''college prank, " but as a l political demonstration, and the press would l disseminate broadcast over the land the act 1 and Yale would suffer It was all right to 1 eat humble pie as long as one was doing sim- ply right.
 Mr Hasbrouck, of '81, was infaver of hearty expression of regret for the busi- MT. Ide followed. saying that the college must condemn the business as 8 duty MT. Durand, of 'S1, thought the resolutions not too humbling
 MT. Griswold of 'S1, moved the adoption l of the resolutions. They were adopted with 1 out dissenting voice.
 One of the students suggested that it would be proper to append resolution stating that l the action was not one having any political significance, and stating that Democratic stu dents would gladly endorse such 8 resolution | if it was ordered. He stated that the impress sion had gone abroad through the city that the formation of the Garfield and Arthur bat talion in the college gave to the affair polit- ical significance which it does not possess. MT. Durand thought such Q resolution en- t1rely unnecessary, as the act had no politi- cal significance whatever. A Garfield and Arthur any other banner, he reiterated, would under the circumstances have shared similar fate, and the fact that the flag bore
 the names of Hancock and English had noth-
 ing to do with it's destruction.
 MT. Hubbard '91, President Bartlett, Mir.
 Fisher '81, all were opposed to any political
 plank being tackled on. MT. Fisher remarked the action of the New York World, which
 treated the matter as having no political sig
 nifcance, and he did not think the Demo- cratic press anywhere could make mountain out of the affair. The meeting then adjourned.
 What Was Done at the Jefersonfan Club
 The Students Committee.
 The committee appointed by the college boys at their meeting waited upon the con- mittee of the Jeffersonian club at the club rooms at II o'clock. The club committee was in waiting to receive the delegation MT. Parsons read the resolutions adopted at the meeting. Some skirmishing remarks passed as to what was meant by restitution, the stu dents committee reporting that the idea was to furnish a new flag as good as the old one. w. w. Stowe said the club wanted as much of the old flag restored as possible Mir. w. B. Catlin demanded for the club that the pieces of the flag be brought and the name of every student concerned in the outrage. Things began to warm up now and the spokesman for the students committee cour- teously reminded the other committee that they came as representatives of the whole college, and the sentiment expressed at the college meeting was not of the men who de- stroyed the flag. They asked if substitution would be accepted To this ex-Mayor Sper- " replied that great outrage had been com mitted, and one in a manner political in char acter The hauling in of the flag was pre- ceded by hurrah for Garfield. A promi- nent Republican had informed the club that the act was simply the act of a few drunken partisans. The club had the best feeling to- ward Yale, hence their careful action. Last fall there were disgraceful acts in that room, and the students engaged in it apollo giZed. We then told them we bore none but kindly feelings toward them, and did not want to interfere with their sport if they only let us alone and did not break furniture. We told this to President Porter, and said to him that that society is disgrace, not only to the college but to the city; it endangered the peace and good order of the city. Pres ident Porter told us the matter would receive due attention at the regular meeting of the Faculty
 Ex-Mayor Lewis followed. He said that it has long been the custom of the students of Yale to sheer at the Democrats We do not belong to the educated, refined class that | you gentlemen do, but are made up of the | lower elements. That's the way you have |