Morning journal and courier., 1894-04-12
COM UNlCArlONs.
Remarks by a Lover of Sh ams.

Tothe Editor of the JOURNAL AND COURIER:
 Permit kindly disposed reader to eau tion you against your mistake in criticis- ing as you did in to days editorial, ''some of the young gentlemen of New Haven both in and out of the university who ss- sisted in the prize fight that took place in the Insurance building last February"
 I do rot take exception to your c.iticising the young men ''out of the university, "but you should remember that "the youpg gentlemen in the university" have greater opportunities of forming ideas of what Is proper, refined and cultured, and it ssvors little of presumption to assume that any other person than their peers should judge them, unless it be the president and fac ulty of the university in whose charge these young gentlemen are and who guide and direct them in becoming cultured and refined.
 You probably forget that these young gentlemen are by common consent exempt from the operation of many of the laws of the state and city, as we'll ss those rules | which outside of university town are commonly connsideIed thole of propriety and good taste. Like Charlotte of Boston," "whstevsr they do, immediately becomes good form. 1" If other young men made 1t 8 custom to run about the principal streets In troops or twenty or thirty in greater or lees de- gree of dishabille crowding ladies, young and old, into the gutter and onto snowy and slippery places, 1t would not be thought proper. If other young men threw chunks of Ice at actresses on the stsgs and were only prevented from doing them further injury by a muscular male actor 1t would bs considered not quite be- coming to gentlemen. You may not be aware that 'Society" regards such thipgs as these, and stealing signs aud gates, and making night hideous for the neighbors until o'clock in the morning as quite ex- cussbls in 'the young gentlemen in the university"
 It has been very pleasing to the writer that you have from time to time In your characteristic way shown your apprecis. ton of the position which Society" occu- pies in New Haven and its relations, if such they may be called, with the common people. When you remember that Society looks with approval upon almost anything that 'the young gentlemen of the univer- city do," have no doubt you will avoid intimating that they could "do wrongn any more than can the King" Perhaps an illus tration will make my meaning more clear. Let me think-yes; one does not need to try his memory far to find an incident of this kind: Last evening at @ church enter tainmeut held at an amusement hall just across Chapel street from the university, before 6 large audience, mostly ladies, e sopg was rendered by the second Glee club of Yale university substantially as follows: "way down south.I knew a white nigger,
 Long time ago.
 l went and got my gun, and shot him through 1 the liver,
 L ng time ago.
 | Gosh how he holleredl
 Gosh! how he hollered
 Long time ago"
 Whati say the uninitiated, "You heard this in some coun ry barroom, not given by gentlemen before @ cultivated audience la New Hsvenl"
 There are usually in such plsces one or more persons of bright wit and clever enough perception of people and things to frown down Q song which has no sense, wit, passion or sentiment, no features ir fact except vuigs,ity and ssininity. In e country village if . number oi young men not connected with Q universi ty should come upon @ stage at . church entertainment and sing such 6 production every person of deosnt taste in the com munity would pronounce them vulgarians } But here we have different standard ol taste. This song am informed is not [ new one, but has stood "the test of time, and has the approval of the musical tast' of the Yale Glee club. , Iknsw very wise man who believed , that, if a man were permitted to make al the songs, he need not care who snnul: make the lsws of @ nation. The Yale Gle l club you will remember furnishes lsrg proportion of the sopgs for our youth especially those young ladies who sdmir everything that emanates from the uni T versity. What happy thing to have sucl