Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-05-27
A College Detective at Yale.

From the New Haven Register.
A solitary and melancholy Yale student sat
on the campus fence last evening s'Times are
not what they used to be at Yale" he said in
response to sympathetic query; '.you can't
do anything here now without your parents
learning all about it,
''Why, how is that?' asked his surprised
listener. "Is the faculty becoming even stricter
than 1t has been?"
''Oh, no, It's not that at all; but If am cor
rectly informed, and L believe am q private
detective has established himself here, and is
about to open a bureau for the purpose of Civ
ing parents secret in formation as to the doings
at Yale How did come to hear of it? Well
through my father. For the past two three
weeks have been receiving letters from him,
| and tell you the knowledge that man has OF
my career here at Yale is as full and complete
misconduct Finally these letters made me feel
so nervous that wrote home and insisted on
MS giving me his authority. He wrote back say
ing that he could not give the name of his in
formant. but that there a certain gentle
man in this city who had established bureau
OF Information for the benefit of parents of
young men at Yale college who spent more
money than they ought to. When read that
statement, tell you felt as though this earth
had no further use for me, but determined on
ascertalning just how much was to be feared
from this inforner. SO 1 induced my father to
send me on the circular explanatory of the
scheme which he had received from this
pleasant person. He sent it on to me.
The circular contained the pleasing
intelligence that a ssilIiul detective had
established himself here in New Haven,
ABOUT CHRISTMAS, ana that he had de-
voted his time since then to keeping a close
watch on all the young men in Yale College not
alone in the academic, but in all the depart
ments, who were inclined TO be q little fast. and
that for an adequate compensation he would be
glad to furnish the parents of these young men
with an accurate ana detailed statement of how
their sons spent their evenings here in New
Haven and furthermore, that every statement
he would make in regard to these students he
would back up with convincing and conclusive
proof. My father took the precaution to cut the
address OFT the bottom OF the, circular, so l am
a. much in the dark about the identity OF the
author ever
do you know anything further of the mans
mode OF opeTating.,'
Yes. l have been told since that he has in
his room, wherever that may be, a number of
large lndeNed volumes. Some Of these de-
others TO scientific men, and the latter's record
are SAID to take up more room than the for
mcrs one small volume contains the records
OF business III the medical and law schools"
''io You know what these records contain?'
"Not precisely, OF course, but from those pa
rental letters / received know that they con-
tain the precise number OF marks each of this
class OF students has in college, the correct
number of times each man has taken more
stinultnts than was necessary. and just how
far his Sprees extended; the names of the city
girls he happened to be sweet on, his losses at
cards and how many times he has visited the
faro banks an estimate of the amount
OF 5ao his h;u: indebtedness, especially his sa-
SKATING rink or not, whether he has ever
been arrested or not, and if how
much he was lined, and what his offense was,
and so on through the whole list of things the
last college man is usually DESTROYS OF keeping
exceedingly still and shady about. You see
this fellow has got the boys down pretty fine
ana there Is no denying that he has done his
work very systematically and thoroughly"
What do you think will be the effect of the
scheme on the bOyS?'
"A general reformation and remarkable
swelling of the list OF membership of the Young
Men Christian association. Hard lines"