New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-03-26
THE FACULTY VIEW.

Just how the Yale faculty look at this ques-
ton is shown in the report of Dean Wright, Of
the academic department, made last spring. He
stated in that report that there was apparent a
marked falling off OF scholarship standing
among men who lived in the private dormitories,
showing that the clique system was having a
bad effect on the college work OF the men who
supported it. Dean Wright said that the high
stand men, as a rule. lived in the old campus
dormitories the percentage Of first division
men being about twice great here as in the
York-st freshman section" AS to the sopho-
rnores, the report of the dean showed that the
Phi Beta Kappa, or highest stand. men, in the
college dornlitories were as four to one as COM
pared with the private dormitory men. He also
stated that of the men who were deficient IN
scholarship while living in the sophomore sec
ton. about three-ffths did satisfactory work
after moving into college dormitories"
Assistant Professor Reed. of the Yale faculty,
in a recent alumni dinner address, had this to
say: AT present there is springing up at Yale
a set of so-called private dormitories for fresh
men and sophomores. These dormitorles are
well managed and pay the investors large per-
centage They attract fine set OF men, yet
they are one of the greatest menaces to the IN
dergraduat e life at present. These dormitories
will increase unless the academic department
has more buildings. The prices charged for
these rooms are higher by some 200 or 800 per
cent than the rooms on the campus. This means
one thing-that the student of moderate means
will be debarred from them, and we shall have
unless we guard against 1t, set of men or
wealth and ample allowances living together In
a compact body, and seeing little of their class
mates who have less money to spend.
In its support of the Yale faculty in reat-
tracing the undergraduates TO campus DOR
mitory life, THE Yale Alumni Weekly" re-
Gently had this to say editorially:
All agree that the Yale society honors should
be awarded after the freest race. IN which an
are entered Scratch and none is either handl-
capped or favored. Analysis shows that q very
large ma jority of the lower claSsmen VINO nave
made" societies have lodged in two or three OF
the private dormitories where the prices nave
been highest. To the friend of Yale democracy
the fact is alarming. Very few years nave gone
nv since the sophomore societies were killed be-
cause it was believed they formed cult at
Yale whose restrictions and privileges inter
ton and the exercise of full opportunity But a
worse cult than the sophomore societies were
ever claimed to be can be built up In q system
of expensive private dorTnitories. From such a
centre can be projected against democracy an
absolutely fatal weapon-the adding or the ere
DENTAL of money TO the requirements for social
bonors There is yet time to eliminate the fisk
before there has been serious loss, and 1t viii
be the source of the keenest disappointment to
leaders seem to us entirely sound in the prin-
cple of Yale democracy, fail to take such de-
terrnined stand their opportunities and con-
a