The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-02-23
CELEBRATION AT YALE.

Sophomores' Parade Yesterday-A Very
 Tame Affair
 The time honored Yale sophomore ] Washington's birthday parade yester-
 day was a joyous and decidedly harm
 less affair. The sophomores were not troubled by the freshmen during their plug hat celebration and they had to mix it up" with their canes among themselves in good-humored bouts to get much fun out Of the occasion. In front of Osborn hall, where lay what re- maned of few drifts, a rather lvely snow ball fight took place at about o'clock, but only among the sophomores | themselves, the freshmen being conspic- uous by their absence.
 The reason why the freshmen were so submissive was that the faculty had refused to allow a holiday yesterday, and had forbidden any such encounters as marked last years observance Of the day at the university
 The sophomore paraded as usual, a- though their march around the campus and green was more of an intermittent procession than a solid pnalanx. Every sophomore had high hat and cane and the motley lot fully sustained the traditions of the underclassmen of old Yale in their grotesqueness and shab- biness.
 The Yale Daily News gave the under classmen fair warning yesterday morn- ing of what might be expected by way of penalty if there was rush or fight, and the freshmen and sophomores act ed wisely in taking the News advice. The News said:
 There is a misunderstanding as to how Washingtons birthday is celebrat- ed at Yale. Many men think that GUS tom has grown from early times for the sophomores to hold a procession through the campus, wearing high hats, which the freshmen try to break up with sticks and snowballs. This is to last for a time and finally end in a rough and tumble fight between the two classes while upper classmen stand near by and encourge their favorites. With in the past few years such an occur renee has taken place annually and it reached climax last year when the celebration eliminated in a pitched battle which exceeded the bounds of decency
 This is not a college custom and there is nothing in Yale's early history to justify the belief that it has been handed down as one of her traditions Such disorder between classes might | be expected of a small college, but here, where the institution is run ac- cording to university methods, it is out of place.
 With due regard to class spirit, which | Is prized so highly at Yale, and for | those contests which require firmness of character and tend to foster courage | and aggressiveness, these proceedings | are entirely inconsistent with the spr- | it of the university and should not be | repeated this year.
 Yale was house divided against | itself yesterday so far as its observ- ance of Washington's birthday as a | holiday was concerned. Tn the academ- | ic and scientific departments recitations were held as usual as a direct rebuke for the students of these departments who participated in the riot of a year ago. In the law school, the medical school and divinity school recitations and lectures were suspended in honor of r. the spirit of the day. although no exer- ,ises in commemoration of the day r. were held in the university