The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-01-11
ABOUT YALE DEMOCRACY
AN EMPHASIZING EDITORIAL AR-
 1IOLE ON THIS SUBJECT.

Rooms HI Recent Years AghIhst Ara-
 dltion of Yaie-Thc Campus Reproduce
 ton of tho World Outside.
 In, an editorial on How Much Do We Prize Yale Democracy" published in the issue of January G. the Yale Alumni Weekly has the following which will be of interest to all graduates of Yale and to those who are interested in the welfare of the old institution:
 "The point is whether the students environment and the effect upon his character is to be considered cardinal point in the government of Yale-that is, not any less important than the method of instruction in the principal studies and the character of the men who instruct and influence the students. The regulation of instruction at Yale and the choice of men is not altogether governed by commercial considerations. Yale instruction must be of the first order and the men who give it must be the best men available. It is part of the immemorial tradition of the place It is an ideal, set up by the founders and perpetuated by generation after generation, from which no corporation would dare to deviate, but which each set of trustees feels called upon rather to develope and raise still higher. Should the corporation of Yale say that 1 the depreciation of certain securities would make it necessary to cut the sal al,ioc op tha oi q r6 to | lop off certain branches of instruction, | its members would undoubtedly be soon | informed of how far short they fell, in | the minds of their fellows, from the 1 standard of what the governors of Yale i should be. The men of Yale would ask | them why they had not frankly come | forward and said to the graduates and to the friends of Yale that the univer- | sity was in need of money for carry, | ing on it's instruction.
 We confess to much surprise that the | frequent advance in the price of rooms l at Yale with scale set in certain | buildings which is practically prohibi- | tory to certain classes of students, has not raised in a more general way a sim liar protest. It is a tradition of the | | the most perfect association between men on the score of difference In their | bank accounts; and this fact has count | ed greatly for the glory and benefit of l Yale
 But for several years the government of Yale, in regard to the students envi- ronment, has gone on the same princi- pie as govern the environemt of men in | the outside world. Such a plan leaves | the campus far from the ideal place of l which we grow eloquent at alumni meetings. It makes 1t simply repro l duction of the world outside. It allows no particularly favorable influences for l the development of those traits, which must become very strongly implanted in youth, if they are not to be crushed out afterwards by the conventions of worldly wisdom.
 Do we really want to teach men here to gauge men by what they are, rather than by what they have or what posi- tion their family, holds in the world? | When a millionaire's son comes within these gates, do we principally desire for him that he may be pushed up | against a farmers sturdy son and re- ceive from him such benefit as can come from association with a man of
 simple force and strong principle and inherent love of that which is good and true-these things alone, without the pleasing accessories of finish which wealth can give? Do we especially
 desire when the boy comes to New
 Haven with only his own hands and
 head and spirit to carry him and having
 had little opportunity to know men and
 the ways of the world, that he be sure,
 as soon as possible, to meet one who
 has had the advantage of all the refin-
 ing processe which money and social
 situation can command? And do we wish these two, in as early and frequent
 association as possible, to altogether
 forget the dollars-and-cents difference
 in their condition and the distinction
 of lineage? Do we wish them, above
 all else, to find out, each what is in the
 other, and rate him accordingly, so that
 after four years together they may gc
 out into the world, the one fearing
 nothing in the way of the advantage
 which others have from wealth or posi- ton, and the other rating nothing hali
 as high as character?
 "Or do we think this thing will take
 care of itself, and wa can do anything
 whatever, however unfavorable to idea
 conditions just because Yale students
 have generally been manly fellows and
 given a healthy tone to the life here
 and because the traditions of Yale are all that way?
 "Or really don't we care? If we do | it is a good time to say SO when Yalt has again shown the power of iel better self after some years in which
 that better self was partially eclipsed Or do we still wish to go on very ; blindly and so invite a more complete
 eclipse? If not, why is 1t not wei
 when we meet around the jovial alumn
 banquet board to take few minute.
 from singing and from glorifcation tc
 talk about these things?'
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