Worcester morning daily spy. (Worcester, Mass.) 1888-1898, 1898-02-17

/ easy II is 10 make ola ana RACED dresses,
waists, ribbons, coats, ETC., look like new.
who were wont to have skeleton at
their feasts
! Continuing, he said: Yale like other
| colleges, has enormously developed in
numbers. l do not claim to be the old
| EFT graduate, by any means, but / can
say that, in my own time l have wit
messed the university grow from 1000 to
26O0 students This has caused many
changes, and yet the organizations that
are so dear to Yale men have not
Changed. The societies take the same
number of men as they used to, al
! though, to be sure, there are some new
societies.
| That the organizations have, not
changed essentially, modifes the prob
lem of undergraduate life We boast of
Yale spirit and of Yale democracy and
II is as strong today as ever Yale de-
mocracy is founded on natural logical
facts. 1t is but a logical consequence
to the situation. The college is in a
! small place, comparatively speaking
Wealth does not count there There are
not enough wealthy people to make a
CLIQUE by themselves. All these things,
ana others | might mention, are the
foundation of Yale democracy.
Has there been any degeneration in
this Characteristic? My answer is most
emphatically no! I have lived on the
Yale campus-and tried to sleep there
Tor seventeen years. The spirit of de-
mocracy Is just as rampant there today
as ever. The students do not respect
the family. They look to the man and
nm alone. They. care nothing about
ms sisters or his brothers or his cou-
SINS or his aunts. Then there is an
other thing, 1t is the enormous conser-
Vatism of Yale students. They keep up
lellgiously the most foolish ideas. You
cannot, for instance, prevent the Sc
niors from playing top.
AS TO scholarship, there have been
great advances in the past Is Years
Ihere are very clear tendencies at Yale
or revival among the undergraduates.
Inc English department of the college
l consider second to none in the coun-
try. AS to athletics, 1 can only say. Ibat
l think Cornell will see that it is to her
advantage to row at New London,
mere has been no intelligent and
talr-mlnded charge brought against
yale NO person who has examined
ale carefully and at first hand has
Drought any charge. The w. c. r. II
IS SIMPLY taking up the charge of a SEN
Satlonal week, and that charge is base
Less New Haven is not a prchibition
anu we are not a prohibition faculty,
LOT the simple reason that the fanulfy
qoes not believe in passing laws that it
KNOWS 1t cannot conform 10.
Hdl are the moral conditions at
fale? 1t is no dollhouse; it is no hot
PED. The students come from all parts
Vi TINS country and from every
country and are put together. Shall the
FACULTY, as the W. c. T. U. would have
a a w hot -
NouId Inc w. c. T. U, have the faculty
turn into policemen and watch the Is
places in New Haven where honor can
pc sold? Yale, with all due respect to
others is charged with a responsibility
IN discharging its own offices. and thew
are as interested in sending out good,
pure, moral men as anybody. To now
crltlclse the faculty at long range and
say that its members are not as much
interested in the moral well being If tha
students as formerly is absurd Shall we
go to work with the men and treat
them as II they are school boys, when in
reaIlty the great majority of them are
voters and electors? | can truly saw /
have never known the moral atmosphere
N New Haven as pure as it is today
Fhere never was less drinking per man.
as today. There was never a more ear
nest spirit manifested among the under
graduates as today
Dean Wright was never surpassed in
this country as an earnest fisher of men,
and yet he is publicly insulted in some
OF the charges Yale is not drinking
mans college. If man wants to be a
total abstainer at Yale, he is respected
for it. The Greenway boys, so prominent
and popular in athletics at college, were
total abstainers, and not even so much
as smoked a cigarette while in college,
When a man sets himself UP and says
the only way to be good is to adopt his
way of thinking, the Yale undergradu-
ate objects seriously. He will respect a
mans own opinion, but does not want
to have it crowded down his own throat.
Prof. Reynolds closed by repeating an
interview of Mr.. Moody's, given to the
New York Evening Post man, after Mr..
Moody had visited the college last Mon
day At the close of his remarks Prof.
Reynolds took his seat amid great APP
plause.
The next speaker was Ex-Governor d.
H. Chamberlain, who is now living in
West Brookfield. Gov. Chamberlain
views of some things at Yale are hardly
in accord with popular ideas, but the
governor had the courage to speak out
what he thought, although some. of the
speakers who followed took occasion to
differ. some of them very emphaucally,
with his remarks. His criticism was
severest against athletics, on which he
said:
If I were to name today what deem
the least commendable trait of Yale sem
timent, the weakest, narrowest least be-
coming sentiment. | should call it the
satisfaction; and If | were to go further
and indulge in a more specifically criti-
cal word, 1 should say the great exam
pier of the spirit is our worthy
and much-beloved president, Timothy
Dwight. / go behind no man in my
love of Yale I have. memories connect
ed with Yale such as few other men
have, ties such as bind few other men
to her, recollections which after 40 years
often unman me-recollections of strug-
giles against fortune, against myself.
| No man can challenge my ardor or my
service to Yale according to my ability.
But l was born free, and am too old
to- put on even the Yale gyve.
l must SAY word on what may be
called athleticism at Yale. On this sub
ject [ do not intend to be misunderstood
by the sensible or fair-minded. AS lit
tie do / intend to withhold any criticism
which l deem just, l do not undervalue
or deprecate athletics in college. l do
not even deride athletic contests be-
tween colleges-between Yale and Har-
ward or between any Of our great uni
versities. But when l am asked to
| throw up my hat in mad joy to acclaim
| the victors in these contests as the true
heroes of the college world, l must pause
| long enough to ask one or two questions,
and first how many of Yale's 1000 or
1900 undergraduates, how many of the
1000 or more of students at Yale who are
eligible to thest contests, do the Yale
athletic contests and victories benefit
| Are they an inspiration to the whole
body? Do they promote the practice of