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

where administrative Afternoon mas Deen cdilSu
10 It, with the result that revolution in Yale
undergraduate campus life is likely to take
place. There are those who say that the old
time common level of undergraduates at Yale
has entirely disappeared. and that the poor man
Just now is not getting his former chance TO
secure the social honors possible to him. This
view is supported by the fact that within the
last few years the centre of undergraduate life
has moved away from the campus. where the
great body of ordinary undergraduates live. 10
the vicinity OF at least of the high priced
private dorrnitories. and that this has produced
a marked split in undergraduate social life, to
the loss Of the much boosted Yale democracy.
Said a we'll informed Yale undergraduate re-
cen41v. IF a man does not take a room with
che .crovrd' in a certain private dormitory about
e block from the campus in his sophomore year,
his chances TO make a junior society are one in
three hundred In the last two or three years
there has suddenly grown up a clique system
that packs Yale secret societies to the ex-
clusion of all but few Of the eligible candi-
dates for those societies. This system starts In
the prep schools with the boys who belong to
the crack societies there. A crowd of these men
enter as freshmen at Yale together and room
.oeether IN certain well known freshman dor
rnitortes not owned by the college, in York-st
In sophomore year this crowd, augmented by
other men who want to get in with the society
push go in a body to private dormitory IN
colege-st, outside of the campus. These men
mack the junior societies with men from TINS
dormitory, leaving the great body OF their class
mates who rot wealthy enough 10 room
with them out in the cold.
.The result Of this Clique system and Of the
rsnoval Of society life to a building outside Of
the campus has already had a marked effect on
ysIe social life There is drawn a sharp
line between men who live in the old college
dornitorIes and those who join the crowd IN
this sumptuous private apartment house. Hard
as II is 70 believe of Yale life, it is fact that
this arrangement each year sharply divides the
sophomore class. from which junior society men
are chosen each spring. into campus residents
and men who live in the Hutch or Hutchinson
pr.vate domitory. This line is drawn so tightly
that many Of the Hutch clique do not even
know their classmates who live on the campus.
For the first time in Yale history money and
cliuues are determining which Yale students are
20 receive junior soci-ty honors. 1t used to be
q free for all race and open competition to make
the upper class secret societies, the only social
recognition possible in Yale undergraduate life.
Then every one knew personally lnost, II not all,
OF his classmates To-day all this is changed
It is practically certain that if a sophomore
does not live in the Hutch with the crowd
he has little OF no chance Of election to the
three big junior societies.
CHANGED UNDERGRADUATE LIFE.
"A few instances will show to what extent
this new Clique system has changed Yale under
graduate life. Formerly. when there was no
private do-nitory life TO amount to anything,
Yale sophomores were distributed among the
old campus dor1nitories-Wech, Lawrence Dur
fee and Farnam. Mixing together in this way
there was no chance for the formation Of
cliques to any extent. Men received junior So
ciety elections, both according to merit and po-
sitiou. The great annual fall elections on cal
cium light night were held on the campus. the
Junior societies parading in cowls and gowns
through the old campus buildings. With the
removal of the sophomore society leaders to the
Hutch this is all changed. Last year, for in
stance, calcium light night passed without the
least notice being given to men who lived in
the old campus rooms. There were scores OF
sophoTnores on the old campus who cidn't even
know it had taken place till afterward. The
whole scene was transferred to COllege-st., in
front Of the Hutch There an immense crowd
stood IN the street, surrounding the entrance
10 the big private dormitory. Among them
were the junior society who were to give
out the elections. AS all of the men to be
elected roomed in this private dormitory. this
vas natural
AT given signal. d pistol shot. the men who
were TO give out the elections rushed into the
Hutch staInpeded 10 the rooms of the elected
men and gave the elections. When it was all
over the crowd outside dispersed. and the So
ciety men went back TO their buildings As less
than hundred sophOmores lived in the Hutch
there were two hundred or more Of their class
mates who were entirely passed over in the cleo
ton, for the main reason that they did not live
with the crowd in the big sophomore private
cormitpry.
This, Of course has had great effect on
Yale undergraduate life generally. The same
clique system is kept up in junior and senior
year. The Hutch crowd that has been elected
10 the junior societies. live together in junior
year Oh the Middle Campus. in White and
Fayerweather, o. in WEIGH. on the old campus.
Out Of these men are naturally chosen all but a
few Of the forty-dve senior society men, These
men continue the same clique system OF living
in senior year. and go to Vanderbilt in a crowd
The man who didn't get TO the band wagon
IN his freshman year and who did not live in
the Hutch in sophomore year has lost by junior
year practically all chance TO secure one Of the
coveted Yale social honors. AS il takes money
TO go through the society mill and live in the
Hutch, the poor Yale man is nowadays prac-
ticslly shut cut from Yale social life. so far as
the societies go.
Moreover this clique system and the Hutch
have already made enormous difference in
campus life. The fence is nowadays deserted
Spring and summer evenings longer see the
entire Yale undergraduate body assembled at
the fence, by classes, mixing up and making
possible the famous old Yale democracy. The
Freshmen cannot sit on the fence anyway. The
6ophornores assemble on the steps OF the
Hutch a block away from the campus; the
juniors get together in front Of White and Fay