The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-11-16
CONCERNING YALESM0RALS
REV. JOHN c. COLLINS SAYS NOT so
 BAD IS VAS REPRESENTED.

-Rev. MT. PNteat on His wire's Utter
 ances-Yale Judged as n Whole by Ac-
 tlons of a Few students-S1O,0O0t to be
 Raised by the Convention- 5000 Raised
 at the Ono in This City.
 Rev. John c. Collins, secretary of the Christian Workers association. In speaking last evening of the recent al- legations in the conventions as to the alleged immoral condition of Yale stu dents and the assertion that Yale is worse than Hades, said that the opin- ions expressed in this line at the con vention could not, of course, be con strued as voicing the general sentiments of the delegates, but were simply in dividual opinions formed from a meagre knowledge of present Yale life and in- fluences. He further stated that in his opinion Yale, instead of being the most immoral college in the country, is one of the cleanest in its morals and that in proportion to it's size fewer students of Yale are immoral than in almost any other college of the United States. He thought, nevertheless, that Mrs. Poteat spoke from the honest convictions of her heart and that her remarks were not in any sense meant to be sensa- tional. He said that without doubt her remarks would have a wholesome effect. As they have been published broadcast over the land they will awaken sentiment in behalf of higher endeavor for the spiritual life of those in our colleges and will react in favor of Yale az moral college. Yale grad uates all over the country will rally and show the vast number of Yale grad uates who are doing splendid work for the advancement of the race, not a few of whom in their college days were among the so-called wild boys" of the college. In answer to a question as to the number of Yale students who fre- quent saloons, he thought the number was greatly magnified. The college as a whole is unjustly judged as whole by the acts of a comparative few. MT. Collins said that the report that the convention had started to raise work ing fund of S100,000 was an error, as the amount to be raised is $1o,o0O, of which about $500 was raised at the convention in this city.
 President Dwight of Yale when seen yesterday in regard to the remarks of Mrs. Poteat at the convention the other night concerning the sulphurous char acter of Yale, said that he did not wish to be brought into the matter at all, nor to make any statements on any of the points involved
 Rev. MT. Poteat pastor of Calvary Baptist church, and husband of the lady who made the sensational remarks on Yale, says that Mrs. Poteat does not wish to retract what she has said.
 The remarks were not made hastily, but were the result of mature honest conviction, and she cannot conscien- tiously retract them. But I wish to make 8, statement in this connection relative to the position taken by Mrs. Poteat in the matter which was being discussed Wednesday when her re- marks were made. Her statements were simply personal expression or sentiment and were not an arraign- ment, not "a, series of charges against Yale or any institution. She expressed a personal preference in her ideas of sending her boys to college. Mrs. Poteat's temperament, her bringing up, her sensitiveness on certain matters" said MT. Poteat, "have much to do with her feeling on those subjects. To per- sons who have not been brought up to regard smoking as a vulgar habit, it may not be considered as such, but when she sees a student smoking on the street, it affects her strongly with aversion to the habit, the practice. When she sees a student drunk on the street it makes every fibre of her body jingle with indignation owing to her nature, and her training on the mat ter Mrs. Poteat has for some time held strong views on the subject which Rev. MT. Torrey treated of in his talk in the Grand Opera house Sunday night and she heartily agreed with him. She thought that his statements which, like hers Wednesday, were purely personal expression of sentiment were correct, and she simply stood up in the conven- ton yesterday and said so. She brought no charges against Yale. She gave as her personal opinion that more boys are ruined at Yale than at any other college. That was her own view on the subject, and I don't see why the public as whole should be specially inter- ested on the subject"
 Dean Henry P. Wright of the aca- demic department will not talk for pub lication concerning Mrs. Poteats utter ances, but said that he thought that Yale was a very healthy moral place to send a boy. In regard to the ques- ton as to whether the utterances would iniure Yale, Dean Wright said that he thought that a university should be judged by the character of the men it sends out into the world, and I think that such is the way that every fair minded person judges Yale, instead of by individual statements on the matter of Yale life.