New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-10-08

New-Haven Conn, Oct (SpeciaD-A sooo
MANY rerscns have been saying lately that fale
University does not care for the tradluohs "a 'o
early days and that it is fast becoming as nloue'
an institution far as its buildings are
as the latest universities that have come up IN
she West Some color has been lent to this sehll-
mont because of the fact that in the last quarter
o4 a century and particularly within the last teli
Years while Yale has been building over again
whole rows of old campus structures nave oeeii
deroolished and brand dormitories anu Grass
room buildings put up in their stead But tiat
+bere is some feeling left at Yale for tine ahclene
5,-s &c shown bv the rebuilding of one OF THESE
old structures. South Middle, last summer from
money given by graduates of the university
rho 1qbt for the existence of Old South Middle
,,egap five years ago. when there was every an
5ia+on that the last of the Brick Row was to Iol-
low it's predecessors to the rubbish heap move
a,t began at once among Yale graduates leo
h,, .cThe Yale Alumni Weekly, to preserve ttie
5orr,i,orv Funds began to come In. some OF me
most prominent who ever passed through lane
sent in their contributions and pfoteS.S' tue GU
Dora+ion was prevailed upon to vote for the res
t-+top and last summer the work was done
I1-, the college year opened. on September q the
.,,ooro;po undergraduates returned to md Old
south Middle prin in its red oricK walls ana "n'e
t,,r,inqs with the same old hip roof and with
Get of the original dorner windows IN the roof.
CLa~iaS tIonkins Clark made this remark once
about Old South Middle and its proposed restora-
&C., Ne said. You remember the observing trav-
euar from, Chicago who told his friends when he
cot home that he hadn't been IN Rome twenty
fonr hours before he had made up his mind that
that CITY had seen its best days. similarly as
.. rning mind would say the same thing ABOUT
South Middle Ny own suggestion Is that the
building be formally and officially proclaimed an
chronological museum which all know II long
has been and that the insects hereafter be fed on
something less precious than human blood move
the students out and the college authorities feed
matter how often it has to be fumisated Accept
its plain protest against the worship OF money
without any inquiry to how it is made. Let us
preserve at the old home this modest monument.
which does not look Ike handsome fortune. 1t
looks more like 90 cents. It's glory is not what has
been put into 1t. but in what has come out of it
in the long procession OF brave. buoyant ard pur-
poseful youth that for centuries have been
moving out from these walls to carry all the
werld the Yale spirit and the Yale education"
II such protests as this that brought the
Yale Corporation 10 that il would be worth
whte for Yale 10 keep the old building whether il
was an chronological museum" or not Mr.
C'arks story OF the Chhego traveller might have
been conpienented by the story OF that other
american abroad, TO illustrate how Yale as GO
Ing, VINO said that the old benedictlon ought 10 be
changed. from an American point OF view in Fcti-
rope, TO AS it was in the beginning IA now.
and, bgosh. has got 10 be changea,v
Justice Dayid J. Brewer of the I-,,.., c....s