The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-03-11
THE YALE JUNIORS SCORED
ACTION OF CORBETT,S FRIENDS DIS
OWNED By THE UNIVERSITY.

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Yale Flag to Corbett Scored in a Yale
News Acknowledgements Called Before
the Ring at Carson.
The campus population is much
stirred up over the action of the men,
bers of a certain students eating club,
styling themselves the Corbett club,
who a few days ago sent to Gentle
man" Jim Corbett at Carson letter
expressing a hope that he would win
the coming fight, The letter, instead
of expressing such a hope as the indi-
vidual wishes of the signers of the let
ter, was so worded as to make 1t APP
pear that the letter was representative
of the wishes of the entire university.
In addition to the letter, blue silk
flag, with large white "Y'' in the GEN.
ter, was sent with the request that
Corbett would hang it in his training
quarters and in his corner at the ring.
The children who thus assumed to
themselves the right to drag the name
of the university into such an unWor-
thy affair, and whose names were sign
ed to the letter, are: j. M. WadsWorth,
jr., of Washington, D. c., Bruce Clark
of Chicago X. l.. Y. McLauchlan of
Cleveland, Frederick Kernochan, Payne
Whitney, John S. Rodgers, Moreau De-
lano, G. Morris and f. w. Sheehan of
New York, Robert j. Turnbull Of Nor
ristown, N. j., Dallas Cannon Byers of
Allegheny, Pa, and Frank Hunter SIM
mons of Brooklyn, N. Y.
These are all juniors. 1t is reported
that they were summoned before the
dean yesterday forenoon, but what
their punishment will be it not known.
They evidently became alarmed yester-
day or ashamed of their action, and
published the following notice in the
Yale News:
THE members of the junior class who
wrote the letter that appeared in one
of the New York papers yesterday wish
to state that they willingly retract all
phrases in it which pretend to repre-
sent the sentiment of the university"
The Yale News yesterday contained
the following editorial scoring the per-
petrators of the act:
THE letter printed in one of the New
York papers yesterday, written and
signed by a few men in the Junior class,
- utterly disowned and repudiated by
Yale undergraduates.
Its senders doubtless composed the
document with the idea that it would
be a good joke, but where this comes
in it is hard to see. even for men in
college, while outsiders and graduates
will certainly consider it most serious
thing.
THE very fact that it purported to
represent the opinion of the university
on an event that should be and is Of no
interest here absolutely prevents it's be-
ing considered as joke, nor are the
harm it has done Yale and the strong
condemnation of it by the many COM
munications sent to the News very fun
ny things. BY pretending to give col
lege sentiment, or even implying that
there is college sentiment on such a
subject, the letter is direct insult to
every Yale man.
Then, too, the disgrace to the uni
versity in having it's flag appear in, the
prize fighting ring, cannot be measured
or perhaps appreciated at once. No
one here will be able to deny truth
fully that the banner was. sent by Yale
men, pretending to give Yale's feeling
but the first step toward ,crea ting an
understanding of the real worth of this
happening has been taken by the men
who are to blame for 1t. They publish
| to-day statement not as broad as it
ought to be, nor apologizing for their
| careless thoughtlessness but still stat
| ing their good Intentions
1T seems too bad that Yale men
should SO often be the first to throw
mud at Yale, but it is certainly so in
| this case, and all that the guilty ones
can do is to beg pardon for it,