Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-07
THEY ARE TOO TOUGH.
Harvard Students Barred From Two
Leading Boston Hotels,
BECAUSE OF THEIR BAD CONDUCT.
Wine Dinners That Have eliminated in
Disgraceful Orgies.
DRIVING GUESTS AWAY FROM HOTELS
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DrsrArcH.I

ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATcH.]
BOSTON, June 6-The recent disgracefut
conduct of the members of the Harvard
Institute of 1770'' at the Parker House
was the elimination of a long series of dis
turbances which have marked wine dinners
of Harvard students at Young's Hotel and
at the Parker House, and now the doors of
those hostelries are closed against any large
body of Harvard students. The clerks have
received orders to refuse applications for
dinners when any large number of students
are expected to be present. Small parties
of 10 or IL will be accommodated, as in the
past, but none of the large societies will be
permitted to dine at either hotel
The same proprietors manage both hotels
and they say very little about the new turn
which events have taken, beyond the state
ment that the students did not know how to
behave deeently when they had been drink
ing. There had been plenty of wine at
nearly all the big dinners ordered by Har-
ward men. The wine has, as a rule, been
ordered by individual members and has not
been served with the regular dinner, but
there has always been plenty of it and
other guests always knew when students
were dining.
Dr1v1ng Guests From Hotels.
At times the carousals reach such a. height
that guests of the hotels have sought other
quarters, in order to be rid of the racket.
The proprietors have long seen that some
decisive action was necessary for the pro-
lection of regular guests, and the disgrace
full row last week gave them good pretext
for shutting down on privileges to Harvard
students.
''The students have only themselves to
blame, " said one of the proprietors. .'They
have shamefully abused the privileges we
gave them, and have conducted themselves
in disgraceful manner. They have shown
by their actions that they don't know how
to behaye.like gentlemen, for We can't allow
them to come where gentlemen are. OF
course, all students are not to be held re-
sponsible for the acts of those students who
get so drunk that they can't behave them
selves. But they have to suffer with them.
If we could pick them out we would do so,
but we can't, so all must be kept away"
The Institute of 1770 at the present day
bears marked contrast with what it was at
its foundation, and, in fact, up to compar-
atively few years ago. This is the Oldest of
the Harvard clubs now in existence, and was
founded by Samuel Phillips, John Warren
and other seniors of the class of III as a
speaking club.
The orators spoke from stage four feet
square and two feet high, with the front
corners clipped" and they chose such sub
jects as '9The Odiousness of Envy and
'9The Pernacious Habit of Drinking Tea"
In 1901 the club became The Patriotic As
sociation'' and later ''The Social Fraternity
of 1770." In 1925 it united with two other
societies and became 'The Institute of1770"
From being senior society, it passed to the
juniors and finally to the sophomores, but
up to Is or 20 years ago it retained its liter
ary character. At the time room was pro-
vided for it in No 2 Holworthy. Since. then
it has been a social club and within a year it
has opened a club house on Mt. Auburn
street.
Some idea of the standards now taken for
membership may be had from a glance at
the first ten" recently elected from the
freshman class, who will elect the rest of
the members next year. All of them are
prominent in directions other than literary.
They were the temporary and permanent
captains of the class crew and its man
ager, a football player, the captain and
manager of the class nine, substitute on
the crew, the captain of former Exeter
Academy football eleven and the secretary
of the polo club. -.
A Valuable Literary Remnant.
The only remnant that remains of the Lit.
erary character of the institute is the
library, really valuable collection Of
standard works, most of which were given
by the early classes The number of men,
bers is about 100 There is a strange con-
nection between the Institute and the famous
Dickey Club, inasmuch as the first so were
elected from the Dickey, which has club
rooms elsewhere. Before the Institute
House was opened this year it was an empty
honor to be elected after the Diekey had
been chosen, for few of the nom -Dickey
members ever even went inside the Insti-
tute rooms.
Now all the members use the clubhouse,
which furnishes clubroom, dining room,-
poolroom, ETC., and every evening finds
large number of present and past members
reading the periodicals, singing or playing
there. Other clubs have sprung up to fl1
the place abandoned by this old society; and
the college is no worse off than before in
opportunities for literary students to meet
together, but old graduates returning to
Cambridge, often learn with dismay that
the old Institute is no longer debating