The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-12-03
rRR ArLANrA ExrosIrIoN.
something should be Done to Counterao
 Attacks on Yale,

Attacks on Yale,
 Atlanta, Ga, Nov, 25,-Somethlng ought to be done toward counteracting the effect of the recent attack upon Yale, so I am impelled to write a word of commendation of New Haven's pub llo schools, which have a fine exhibit in the Liberal Arts department of the Atlanta exposition. It would be too bad to have them, also, go down in the wreck which threatens the great university. The New Haven schools are now, of course, feeders" to the educational Moloch whose steps take hold on the place Colonel Ingersoll says doesn't exist or at least didn't, in his opinion, before the recent cleo ton In Kentucky-but their graduates can still be fitted for entrance to insti- tutions like Harvard, whose curriculum, 1t is to be presumed, does not include pipe smoking and kindred deviltry.
 New Haven Is indebted for it's fine public school exhibit here to the efforts of MT. Max Adler, member of the At lanta commission from that city. II is true that he was also instrumental in securing from Yale university its large collection of framed photographs of the attractive edifices with which its campus Is studded-beautiful Osborn hall at one corner and Battell chapel at another. Mr. Adler ought not to be hastily condemned, however, for de- siring to see pictures of these notable structures embellish Connecticut's edu- catlonal exhibit, for in connection with them were also portraits of illustrious graduates whom Yale has given to the world-Jonathan Edwards, "En" Yale, Horace Bushnell, Jeremiah Day, Theo- dore D. Woolsey, Noah Porter, Lyman Beecher, Timothy Dwight, (senior and junior), Benjamin Silllman, Leonard Bacon, George P. Fisher, James D. Dana, Nathaniel w. Taylor George Peabody, James Hadley, Morrison R. Waite, Noah Webster, William M. Evarts, Donald G. Mitchell, N. P. Will lis and Theodore Winthrop.
 It Is not to be wondered at that MT. Adler thoughtnoharm could come to the cause of education or of broader civili- zation and enlightenment, by pictorial display from an institution that had graduated this large handful of nota- ble men, but now that the world has been told emphatically how bad a place Yale is it may be inferred that he wouldn't err in like manner again, ''The die is cast''; the Yale pictures are here, and must remain where they are until the exposition closes, for the rules prohibit removal of any part of an exhibit before the closing day.
 The New Haven public schools are the only ones In Connecticut having hn exhibit of their work at the exposition. There are two reasons for this: First, that there was lack of time in which to prepare systematic exhibits after the appointment of the commission, and secondly, the cheese-paring econo- nliSts of the legislative committee on appropriations cut down the amount asked for to such figure as to prevent the commissioners from making any pecuniary overtures in aid of such un- dertaking. Fortunately, New Haven was able to get together at short mo- tice, through the efficiency of Mir. Hew- lett clerk of the school board, a credit able display of the school work in all the various grades from Kindergarten to high school, including specimens of handioraft wrought in her new Board man Training school.
 In the kindergarten department the specimens of work in object lessons are from the Hamilton school, Miss Jessie I. Scranton, teacher, and the first that can he personally identified comes un- der the head of Sewing, first year" Among the little sewers and stitchers whose work was selected for exhibition l find these names: George Roberts, 5; Albert Gates, 6; Louise Thrall T; Nellie Johnson, 6; George Walker, 6; Nellie Allen, 6; Florence Grosyenor, 6; Wilbur Hopkins, 5; Frank Jacobs, 5; Carl Speh, 5; Mary Gompper, 6; Eugene Johnson, '; Willie Roberson, 6; Lda Augur, 5; Willie Hagan, 6; Alice Dodge, Y; Willie Wichmann, 6; Fred Voos, 6; Philip Borst, 6; Willie East, 6; Maud Cobb, G. This kindergarten roll of honor may be laid aside for future reference. It is not impossible that in this score of youngsters may be one who in the Twentieth century will be filling the position now occupied by President Dwight or Professor George P. Fisher, and perhaps tugging to swing old Yale around into the narrow path of rectitude from which she has been swerved by giddy undergrad duates of the Nineteenth century. As to the little new-wo1nen in the list, hope that if they do not grow up into Harriet Beecher Stoves or Lydia IT. Sigourneys, that they will at least live to become sensible women, with their mouths we'll under control. I rarely see pretty 1lt- tie girl but that am reminded of Ar temas Ward and a conundrum. Arte- mas said he liked little boys and little girls,-not but that he liked large girls just as we'll. The conundrum is: "Why Is modesty like little girl?" The answer is easy: Because 1t be- comes woman"
 The New Haven school exhibit covers several hundred square feet of space, and it could hardly be expected that could do the subject justice in one let ter, J. H. VAlLL.