New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-10-08
Supreme Court wrote to Yale in these words about
the proposed restoration:

Supreme Court wrote to Yale in these words about
the proposed restoration:
The students of my day found in the old B faeI
Row their college home loan and bs tn his
home a sacred place fills the hearts OF mos onUSe
forv buildings except South Middle have gone and
il that be taken away there Will De nothiIg iStl
less it is structure INTELLECTUALLY speaking, not
IN harmony with the new buildings on t9 ePT b
is of date and takes up space when may , DE
used for the present needs of the university While
things becoming new, and while in a snort uine
they who have personal associations with any
passed away yet so long as South Middle remains
it will tell of the older life of yale Of the time
a university testifying as nothing else can to the
Tarveous changes and growth Inc ~ b bWgI1ts
but who would tear it down?
Judge Simeon E Baldwin. of the Supreme Court
of Connecticut wrote this to the leaders of the
movement to retain the old structure;
Old South Middle is the one thing left at Yale
that speaks of the past and the long past There
are not too many of them this side OF the Al
lie buildings in the United States that date back
as far @ is very b to Re side d0 OF 1an
derbilt Hall 1t has no bathrooms and no gilt hung
doors oeuP9 bc f Pacf the IN best se
effect should be kept clear 1t needs repairs with;
harmony of outline for the gambrel roof and der-
windows with which the old print i OF l16s
1871 under the pressure OF an increase IN the num-
her students. to q tuli tOufth story But,
ing all this and assuming that the university has
no funds to repair IT, and that there are other
and better dorrnitores sufficient for the accommo-
dalton of all those whom IL now admits to the
privileges of the campus does it follow that this
venerable pile must be taken down and the last
vestige of the first century of Yale life blotted
out? What is Yale Harvard or Princeton? Is II
half important that 1t is where universal learn
ing is professed that it is place where II has
been professed, from century TO century, by great
men among those whom ii trained to become great
men? Some Leland Stanford. Jr;; University OF
Yesterday may have a greater endowment some
Carnegie or Rockefeller University OF Tomorrow
NAV have uncounted millions. and the best men
in its chairs instruction that money can attract
But where are the traditions the story of public
service the roll of honor the firmness and steadi
1ass ana character that come from slow
tuition toward the greater from the less? Let this
&C. of the trust and the billion dollar Congress.
a5o,e all others cherish the memory of the early
80 when South Middle seemed a "splendid'
ediace and pIain living was found quite compatible
nth InteIiectual energy and high ideals.
The money for the erection OF the original BUILD
ing most of which still stands, contributed by
the state of Connecticut in three separate grants
from money gained by the sale of State Wal frg
ater and the French ship it had captured; and
from money raised by public lottery held by the
college authorities and authorized by the State
government From this lottery some 5000 was
raised In return for this support by the state the
college authorities named the dormitofy Soiheen-