Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-02-01

. What kind Of bath-tubs did you haveY
/ 1--WE didn't have any. SIR, and we were
a great deal better off without them"
was the reply.
The cheapest rooms on the Yale campus
are two i'm South Middle and one in
North College that rent for 20 cents q
week The rooms are hardly fit for hu-
man habitation, are damp and dingy, and
a constant menace 10 the health Of their
occupants. They form something OF a
contrast TO the eighteen rooms, sixteen OF
which are in Vanderbilt Hall, that ma
ready tenants at SO a week, and IN THIS
contrast meet the extremes or under
graduate poverty and undergraduate
wealth. The rest Of the 40 rooms range
all the way between these extremes, al
though il must be admitted that the
larger number are nearer the SO limit.
In Vanderbilt Hall there are two rooms
that rent for $3.50, one for 500, nine Tor
81. fourteen for S, twelve for $3.50, six Tor
@ and sixteen for SO In Pierson, IN
which the rooms are also. as a rule. very
high, twelve rent for $3.50, twenty-Iout
FOR $3.50. four for S. eight for So. ana
eight for 81. In WEIGH and White the
prices are also beyond the reach or the
average UNDERGRADUATES. The lowest rates
are naturally found in the old Brick Row
and I'm Berkeley. In the latter ten rooms
very excellent rooms, too, rent for y low
as 81 and Sl.25, eight rent for s., two ioi
$34J, two for 81, and four for sou
II Is interesting TO deduce from these
figures the income which the university
receives from its dOrmitories IL IS no
ticeable that, in spite OF the hish-prlced
rooms of Vanderbilt Hall, the income
from that building is very small com
pared to the money invested. The weekly
income amounts 90 S5l6; or. figuring forty
weeks I'm the college year, 10 S20'biV year.
Inasmuch as this building. at the very
lowest estimate, cost 100000. this Would
give an income OF about II per cent
without deducting the expense OF IT'S
maintenance, which must be quite Il sum.
Inasmuch as the dormitory was a BiIt,
of course the university can easily auolu
this low rate Of interest. but it IS dli-
ferent story with the buildings erected
az its own expense. Pierson Hall, built
about three years ago from university
funds Is a case in point, and, considered
purely as a business investment. Is one
Of tho rarest plums I'm New Haven.
liberal estimate Of the cost Of this build
ing is about $4,000. The income from 10
Is 1914 per week, or $1,000 per year; IN
other words. the university has invested
its $1,000 az about 10 per cent This. Of
course. explains the reason for the high
price for the rooms i'm Plers0n Hall
which. in itself, IS a very modestly equip
Ped dOrmitory.
on the other hand Berkeley Hail. which
IS an extension of White Hall. and was
built about the same time as Vanderbilt
Hall, when the protest against the high
priced rooms was so strong, and was in
tended 10 silence i'm a measure those pro-
tests, yields about per cent. The rooms
were offered at q low price in order that
the poor students who We're crowded out
OF Vanderbilt Hall might have some place
20 90. This act In itself, has been vigO-
r0usly criticised as a deliberate intention
Of the authorities TO separate the rich
and the poor men, or at least on the
ground that its action has had that result.
The rebuke administered by so import
ant a tribunal as the Supreme Court
OF Connecticut has again stirred up the
slumber.ng opposition 20 this state OF
affairs. The Yale Alumni Weekly, whose
opinion in Yale matters carries great
weight heartily endorses the reprmand
OF the Supreme Court.
1--WE are bound 20 admit" says the
Weekly, that the warning was IN order
Reinforced by this high authority, We
cannot but reiterate In palmer language
than we may have yet used that the
general policy OF the corporation. in the
treatment of'its dormlt0ries, has been in
consistent with the spirit OF the place,
with the common. II not the unanimous.
desire Of those who have furnished these
dormitories. and though clearly within
the law, as the Supreme Court has said.
is without and against the higher law OF
this place. II has threateAed the best
asset OF Yale. and. proceeding. on a purely
commercial basis. has finally reached the
point where II has also threatened most
seriously those visible and material assets
OF the university which 1t was supposed
TO foster"
or course. the corporation has but one
reply 10 make 10 criticisms OF this kind.
Ind this is a purely practical one. They