New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-03-05

college?" said self-supporting senior, who is
not the owner of evening clothes. well, think
that he would have to hunt long time to find
young man in the University of Missouri who
wants anything for nothing, ana least of all
anything in the way of weaving apparel. Not
many poor Missouri students would wear dress
SUITS II such were sent to them by their fathers.
A poor boy does not desire and does not need
evening dress There are any number of young
men il the university now who would feel out of
place in a dress suit. In few years, however,
they VIII seem perfectly at home i'll them. 1t
VIII be when they can buy them witt their own
money"
| Other students are more outspoken. aid:
It's foolishness. If young man cannot buy
his own dress suit he has no business wearing
one II raises his ideals far above Whefe ne
| belongs, and he viii find it hard TO bring them
| down TO earth again when he leaves college
Another puts it this way: "a dress suit dOn1-
! ton would make poor boy subject OF con-
tempt No boy with any self-respect would
wear one" And still another expresses ms
| opinion thus: 1T would make a counterfeit OF
g. fellow; no sensible young man would wear
A freshman in the Law Department, who
| supported himself While taking the at2ughl.C
! course, comes forth with opinion nun OF
! typical Western Independence. That q coieSc
president should ask for dress suits for the poor
| boys Of the school" he says, raises question
! in my mind. Are there boys in those schooIS
with little salf-respeCt as TO enable tueili 10
! accept such contribution. Possibly lH5' -
! but I should say, From this class, eoYa Lo'N'
| deliver us"
Would the boys Of the university ol p
| souri, appreciate such contributions TOT lleLI
benefit? Not if I know them. The, ~ eI'-st 10y
at the University of Missouri doeSll oN u q "a
| suit; most Of them never wore one 'olie
! them can afford it ana some can not' pu0 80
/ time has not yet come when II is the hISt a.
btion of the Missouri student to Wea' . ulv[
suit. Every man at the University OF n"
is working for and expecting some time 10 ledC1
a position in society where dress SUITS are Nol1
but he is thinking of the position ana NOT OIL me
dress suit He expects to reach thal Pos![i t
by making himself useful member OF sutiSt.'
and that is the purpose which noloS MS 80 :
, ton while a student. When that POSITION -
reached he will a dress suit. But te5 Po9'l
ton will be the result Of hard work ana Soot
sense Into that position he viii take Hul FII"HI
independence and strong CHARACTER anu "us .Ii
, he wears dress suit it viii be his own 1t VIII
add nothing TO his self-respect and take holI4HS
away but will be to him only one OF the con -
| fiong]fties which society has imposed upon nm
For the man who is willing 10 come TO the PJSii-
ton through the conventionality. the man VINO IS
wiling to take the short cut ~ Ieoe.N liiS ~
donation of a dress suit. the missouri Stutehe
has a supreme contempt. That man IS h1t o5
! our kind. Only as son Of Adam Is ne feltlei
to us. If the students of this college are III > III
parhv with the proposition of this Eastern pres
ident 1t is to be hoped that the blood relation
ship established in the ancient Garden is lhe
only connection we shall ever have with them
ORDEAL AMHERST MEN MAY EXPECT!
The kind Of ordeal a freshman clad in evening
clothes given to him may expect to he Put
through by fellow students is revealed by the
! following extract from THE Providence Jour
nal:
An Amherst freshman whose remittances
from home are not large spent a few hours in
this city On Sunday NO" said he earnestly, in
reply to a question. no more society for me
At any rate, no more mixed society. I broke
into a Smith College reception over in North
ampton Friday night l was wearing suit