The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1896-04-18
The Ways of Yale.
H. c. Watson in Western Nd College Monthly.


Tomorrow is Washington birthday and
a holiday This gives me an opportunity
to tell you something about college affairs
at this great university. | will try to tell
you little things so ordinary that the out
side world doesn't known as much about
them as they do about the football team
and the crew.
The college day begins at $40, when
all the students of the academic depart
ment have to attend chapel. There are
over a thousand of them and you probably
wonder how they are marked present. OF
course they don call the roll as is done at
Western Maryland. Battell chapel, where
the students attend, has large gallery.
and the Freshman class, and possibly the
Sophomore, sit up there and the Others
sit below Each class has several division
officers and they note those who are tardy
and absent 1t seemed strange when |
first arrived to see so many fellows running
towards the campus about eight o clock.
| thought there must be a fire somewhere
bat they were running to chapel because
tardy means absent and they would get
mark or demerit, if they were not on
time About dozen men compose the
college choir and they are allowed several
extra ''cuts' or absences from recitations
for their services The service is about
the same as at W. VI. c.. except there is
no responsive reading.
After the exercises are over. the Presi-
dent walks down the main aisle, and as he
goes by the Seniors, who are in front, they
face the aisle and make very profound
bow that resembles very much the Japan
csc bow The Seniors then follow and
this is the signal for the general stampede,
as it would be called at Western Maryland
where you even have to think to music.
The students have to attend church at
the chapel on Sunday mornings. The
faculty is very strict about this. You are
allowed two ''cuts' during the term, but
if YOU have more, you get six marks
for each offense.
The Seniors wear the cap and gown at
the services on Sunday. The caps and
gowns are exactly like those used at w.
NJ C. and are made by the same firm.
The next two statements, if put in Ell
feet at Western Maryland next week,
might require the assistance of the state
militia. These are, that the college day
is not over until six o clock, and school is
on Saturday as any other day. Students
are required to have fifteen hours recita-
tons per week 1t is very seldom that
one has over three hours day in the
academic department
REGULATIONS are fifty minutes with a
rest of ten minutes between each period.
The college bell taps every fifteen min
utes as follows at the quarter hour, one
tap; half hour, two taps; three-quarters,
three taps and the hour whatever that
may be.
\ great many students room in the col
lege buildings. Room rent averages near
ly FIVE dollars per week. When there are
two in room, each pays one-half \
room means usually. large study room
and two separate bed rooms all communi-
eating. You have to furnish your own
room and pay extra for steam ard gas.
The lowest room rent is seventy -fye cents
per week and the highest SO per week.
Vanderbilt Hall is considered the most
desirable 1.-The Commons is what the
Yale dining hall is called. About five
hundred students board there. 1t costs
about four dollars per week. Freshman
have the preference among new students
and it is difficult for others to get in unless
they register several months beforehand.
Neither Yale nor Harvard likes to be
called the rich man college Yale is an
expensive place for the rich man and quite
moderate for the poor man, if he will make
it so.
Some fellows pay as much as $50 per
week for room and SO per week for
board while many others get both for So.
There are great many men who make
their way through Yale. A number wait
on the table for their board These men
are not looked upon as servants, but noble
fellows worthy of their efforts to get an
education. Several teach in the night
schools, clerk in stores, collect bills, run
boarding clubs, and do various other jobs
If you need it you can get your tuition
free, and can borrow money from certain
funds that are for that purpose. You
may even get the use of text books free.
So you see, if man has ability and the
will power he may get through college with
very little capital.
Everything costs at Yale Even the
catalogue costs a quarter. q say this
because know of some students who have
written for catalogue and wondered why
they didn't get one. Tickets to football
or baseball cost 35 cents. There are
great many extras that W. NJ. c. boasts
of not having. Car fare even costs five
cents.
Yale differs from Princeton in the Gus
tom eff wearing college pins. 1t is very
seldom you see Yale man with a college
pin. Nearly every Princeton man wears
his orange and black flag on his tigers
head.
No one is allowed to wear the college
cap with the Y except the athletes 1t
is considered a great prize and is only OBJ
tanned by being on one of the college
teams
There is no such thing as parlor- night
at Yale But when a fellow goes out
calling on his lady friend, he is said to go
'fussin. Sometimes this proves to be
a very appropriate term if he goes too
often
There are three former students of
Western Maryland at Yale. They don't
go fussin very much as they have had
previous training in parlor night tactics.
Yale University, Feb. FL, 90.