Morning journal and courier., 1894-06-11
A LOOK FROM PRosPEor HILL.
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The Hill has bssn very we'll, thank you, and Is increasing in beauty and in num- bsrs. The Hill Is all the while having ac- sessions of the very best. Lately the sci- entiac part of the Hill has grown mighti- | ly. The Hill has lowered out in philan- l thropy and new-fanglsd surgery, and Is l now prepared to cut and slash humanity | with the best of the schools. In theology | and literature the Hill is holding its own. It's theology may be little lnmpy, but the summer will relax 1t. The name and fame of its writers is, however, extending to the confines of the remote earth. There is delicious hesrtiness, breeziness, fresh ness, grace and 90 about all the doings of the Hill that charm visitors and are put ting the price of real estate way up in the skies. All the while the Hill regards the town with complacenoy and rejoioes in it's growth and in its prosperity. New Haven is to bs specially congratu- lated on the introduction of the trolley and on the many benefits which eneue. Among these must not be forgotten the free distribution of electricity. As every one knows, when the electricity has showed the car along its work is finished. and it has nothing more to do but to distribute iteelf. It follows pipes and things into houses, and cheers and comforts the in- mates till they wonder why they feel 80 fine. Electricity mixed with atmospheric air forms ozone; the source of health and vigor. That all the people who live along trolley lines are better, brighter, healthier, happier and more pious than ever before is easily understood if you will stop to think of the trolley. Until the companies begin to charge for thess benefits they may be enjoyed ad libitum. And when they do charge, the expense may be offset by the consequent reduction in the rates of life insurance. Ali New Haveners who live along trolley lines, and whose lives are in- sured, must see to 1t that they secure the In fact they must insist upon their being made at once. It should not be possible for any life insurance company to take ad- vantage of the supposed ignorance of New Havsner.
 That the trolley will decrease walking and, therefore, curtail leg action is true. When leg action ceases altogether the gross material of legs will begin to disappear in accordance with we'll established laws of evolution, and legs will become spiritual izsd. The trolley must therefore be re- garded in the light of one of the spiritual iz!ng forces of the century. Nature, how ever, does not apparently propose that the spirltualizing of legs should be immedi- duced the bicycle, of which the direct eff feet is to increase the materialization of legs. That the trolley and the bicycle should have been introduced at the same time shows the wonderful design and equilibrium of nature. Which of the two is the more effective, the one in materi. aliztng legs, the other in spiritualiztng them, cannot be determined at once, but may safely be left to the conclusions of to the bicycle as well as to the trolley assures the sterner aex that the gentler sex does not propose that the other sex shall be materializsd, or spiritualizsd, Il away from it's embrace.
 Another question which has arisen Is: Which is the more dangerous, tine trol- ley or the horse-car. There Is only one way In which the question can be accu- rately and finally decided. Let an enter prising New Havener have himself run over, under precisely the same circum- other. What Is left of him will be able to answer the question absolutely. That is if all of him be not consumed in the first experiment.. Until this enthusiast appears answers must be speculative. One would say off hand that the trolley Is the more dangerous. But is this so2 The horse car, with horses harnessed, covers more apace than the trolley. There can be no doubt about this premise. Now if eve. ry point covered by both, while in motion be dangerous; then there are more danger points to the horse car than to the trolley There Is certainly greater variety of dan | &r ha af fho {oo o11 ! ed the deadly kick of the car. horse Another point. The trolley moves nor. rapidly than the horse car. Therefore its danger points are more rapidly covered and passed. It would therefore seem tha the horse. caz having more danger points more variety in points and longer expo sure of individual points, must be th' | more dangerous vehicle.
 This Is sad question and may better b. left to itself till an accident renders fiji
 discussion imperative. Oae thing is cer
 tain; parties, whether young or old, dis play greater alacrity in crossing trolle, streets than in crossing horse car streets
 The town is delighted to see nice old la dies hopping as they haven't hopped sinc' they were sixteen and pursued by the ra pacious student. That even then they dit l not hop as fast as they were capable O.
 hopping has nothing to do with the pres ent question. The question is whethe their present hopping is caused by thei
 greater fear of the trolley, or Is the natu ral result of the impulse of the free cir cumsmbient electricity.
 That there should bs disbelievers in tn. free electricity impulse business is nothing [ more than was to bs expected. There al ways are disbelievers in everything. Some ! of these disbelievers are pointing to Yale'i defeat by Harvard in debate as proof ol their position. Yale has been trollied al
 up and down College street. Yet see th. result; failure, flat failure, triple failure These pessimists are about as mistaken a, psssimists usually are. Yale apparently failed; but her failure was a substantia victory. Yale understands, better thar any peesimist can tell her, what colleges are for now-a-days; and Yale knows that | for victory all her energies must be con I centrated. There was time when col leges stood for scholarship and for Htera ry ability. Then Yale excelled In these antiquities; but the time for antiquities has gone by. We live in new and bet ter era. Colleges now stand for legs and bicsps, oare, bats and balls. Any energy energy wasted. It is we'll enough to make a show at the thing for the purpose of pleasing old foRies; for the purpose oi tickling their old ribs and making them think that they are still Yale men. But ;hs old fog:es must understand that the main object is to divert the energies of other still so- called institutions of learn. ing without wasting any euperfuous Yale energy. Other institutions will be spurred by their forensic victories to divert more of their energies to secure more useless victories; while Yale is conserving all her energies for the real and useful victories which come later on. The sizs of the audience in comparison with the size of ball audiences would, one would suppose, open the eyes of the old grads to the lit. tie game which is being 80 successfully played. But old grads always were so stupid.
 Their last effort to preserve scholar ship has deservedly failed. It was a clev- CT scheme to propose having athletics in- troduced into the curriculum as option als. If those who watch Yale with an eagle eye had not been quick witted the old grads might have succeeded. To of fer a junior a choice between Greek or foot ball; metaphysics or sprinting; bota- ny or putting the shot, sounds remarka- ply well. To Q casual observer and super fcial inquirer it would appear a step in the right direction; a splendid oompro- mise of the old and the new. But 1t was seen at once by the captains of the vari- ous teams that the result of the arrange