Morning journal and courier., 1894-04-06
AS SHE IS mIsUNDRKsTOoD.

It is perhaps not surprising that the Governor of the State of Connecticut couldn't speak to the people in Latin with out being isupderatood in the Register of6ce, but 1t is little surprising that the president of Yale university finds that he cannot make himself understood in Eng fish, and that, too, in the editorial rooms of the Hartford Courant, where English Is used as chewing gum Is used in some places and where she is wrote ss she Is wrote. Brother Dwight was the other day mentally fessting upon the evidence of the growth end prosperity of his big school and especially upon the evidence conspicuous in the magnificent new buildings. His mind and heart glowed within him as he thus feasted, and he had mild, pleas ing and an entirely logical vision. We may also add that 1t was 8 sensible vision. He saw his great school ex- banding and growing more beautiful, more grand and more impressive in It's ma terial aspect and with justihable faith In pro- gress and in the possibilities of student na- ture he esw a corresponding expansion and growth in the soul of the school. Where upon he spoke these winged words: Tbe sentiment of the coming generation of stu. dents will be ioftier and nobler ssnti. ment, because everything connected with the home and dwelling place of the uni versity is fitted to awaken 1t.
 Tbaaa xripnad rdo Aa- far uark ford and found their way, into the editorial rooms of the Coursnt. They were there subjected to a scrutiny which didn't take into account the glow, the faith and the hope which attended their birth, and an attempt was immediately made te clip their wings. It was discovered that in them Brother Dwight had rather eniffed at the Yale sentiment of past years and intimated that 1t had lacked loftiness and nobility and then thee, winged words were let loose: Call the lons and glorious roll of Ysls's alumni, living and dead, remember that her precious reputation and worldwide renown hay, been given to her by her graduates, and f | will seem more fitting to urge on tn, | student of to day and tomorrow that b, | cultivate the roble and lofty sentiment, that are now Yale's richest treasure sni tradition than to congratulate him ol being lifted into anything better by th monuments that mark Americas gres fortunes.
 This is a fine and stirring utter ance, but 1t is off its base. Or rather, it has no base in the utterance O Brother Dwight. What Brother Daigh meant to say and did say was that he ha, faith that the material progress of hi school would be accompanied by a cores bonding mental and moral progress an' that noble surroundings would favor no5l sentiment. A perfectly natural, simpl
 and sane association of ideas. If we un derstand the Couraut 1t does not look 0 hope for anything loftier and more nobl
 in the mental and moral life of Yale tha
 there has been, and it thinks that tn
 new building business may be overdons
 Possibly, but all the same the president 0
 Yale University Is entitled to be under
 atood when he writes plain English, sn
 hs reveals no mental, moral or ssntimsr
 tal obliquity when he expresses his bs
 lief that progress at Yale will not hers
 after be mora than half material.