The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-02-23

matter for it's verdict All that may be
 said by MT. Moody, or Bishop Potter,
 or Secretary Downs in reference to the
 character or amount of moral and re-
 ligious influence at Yale is not an an- swer to the charges of the demorallz- ing effect of so much drinking and
 lewdness and carousing, on or off the
 campus, especially after athletic con- tests, at New Haven, or New York, or elsewhere, as has been commonly known and reported of late. Only
 they who are personally familiar with student manners on the streets and in the social resorts of New Haven are fully qualified to testify in this re- gard.
 Notwithstanding the councilmen's proposed resolution on the reports which they characterize as entirely
 unwarranted and exceedingly pernl- clous, liable to cause permanent injury to the reputation of the city," they were shrewd enough to think that plenty of effluvia would rise if the stirring was continued. But which is
 most hurtful, such press reports, or the general belief that there is more or less real foundation for them? The board, properly enough, conceded con- potency to Yale for the management
 of her own affairs, and this matter 'en-
 tirely outside of their jurisdiction" But in a matter which is thought so
 seriously to affect the good name and interests of the city itself what ought
 properly to come inside the Jurisdiction of city officials? Who are the lawful rfJ Jio r,SS Nf ,.ier tc t,1 | morals of New Haven people? Is the city's healthful influence to be rele- gated to the vicious or rougher element | of the university, or is it Yale's busi- ness to properly police New Haven in | the interest not only of such students as are the more tempted to lawless- | ness, by city official allowances, but | also for the sake of the city children, youth and families, injuriously affected l by the law and order breaking of stu- l dent performances outside of the cam 1 pus? The quotation of the Voice from the Register of November 22 last Is strong evidence in point. The effects | also of initiating some of the bad feat ures of Yale life on the part of stu
 dents of the high and other schools of
 the city are more than I can now enum- l crate, but they are sufficiently numer- l ous and pronounced to deserve consid- l eration by somebody. For the sake of all unfavorably influenced or likely to
 be, it seems certain that the city gov- | ernment ought to have more jurisdic-
 tion than 1t seems disposed to exercise,
 and that there might be some equitable
 understanding and combined arrange 1 ments by which both Yale and the city authorities could promote the common good, and reduce to the minimum the common incidental evils justly com
 plained of. Why should Yale students be exempt from regulations that should
 apply to all residents of New Haven? It is not my purpose or wish to justify all the Voice or those women have pro- claimed, but know, as others do that enough of the charges of bad order and
 unwholesome conduct have been no-
 torious For several years past if not
 an increase, as has sometimes seemed
 to me, there has been an amount of
 recklessness and lawlessness, by night
 and day, on the streets, particularly
 on Chapel, and at special public places
 to the great inconvenience and discom-
 fort of many persons, incompatible With any true sense Of fitness or honor
 or good morals. If evils complained o1
 by others than the Voice reporters are
 not as bad as represented over an6
 again heretofore, or if there has moi
 been an increase of the evils since ath-
 letic contests, and especially football
 games, have received so much promi- hence, it does seem as if there should be some decidedly wholesome restraint placed by some authority upon at least the excessive student public habits ant conduct outside of college grounds, ir ? the interest of the city with it's gran6
 old and new university whose associ. ated reputation, if not already tar. , nished, Is in real danger of being jeop
 ardized by a continuance of some feat : ures of the past and present order o. affairs ALUMNUS.