New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-07-21
COOPERATIVE CLUBS.
The Wall Of an old College
Graduate.

Yes sir said the old alumnus with sorrow In
his voice. "a great city makes strange bedfellows,
and incidentally It's running the good old fash
toned college spirit in doing No sooner had
family lie been stamped out by the New York
hotels and apartment houses than the insdious
spirit OF metropol.tauIsm began 10 plot the de-
struction OF college patriotism. Look at that. the
old gentleman cried augrily. shaking his finger At
the column I'm his newspaper telling about the
proposed establishment or an intercollegiate club
house n New York by six New England colleges.
What's going 10 become OF the grand old notion
that a mans alma mater IS the only institution
OF learning and pleasure worthy OF the name
earth2 Why my boy. when went 20 college. tho
rnerest suggestion from any unbroken freshman
that college In the next county was good enough
make its students 1T persons for us TO asso-
ciate with would have precipitated riot ending
in the mysterious disappearance or the heretics
clothes and hair. and In his violent immersion IN
the watering trough at the south end Of tho
campus. Yes. sir the Thlrty-nlne Articles vera
fragile glass then In comparison with the ACADEMIC
doctrine OF the Indisputahlc Superiority OF our
selves We used To- read about the baseball games
and Tee cream socals In other colleges with tho
same supreme CompIaceucy that you young fellows
to-day read about the slum children and their
games. the society affairs In Madagascar. Tbs
Eulf yawning between us and the students OF tho
other places so deep and wide that We couldn't
work up little envy over the reported
achievements of crack athletes and scholars there.
And now the pampered young rascals
only recognizing the merits yC other Institutions
and their students but they are even Cumming
Them and, what's move, they re going to i've in
the same hat with theml II makes hopping
mad sir. II do say H. The papers say they're
going 10 build IA nine story clubhouse, using the
first three floors for general dining room. billiard
and smoking rooms. bowling alleys and all the
other luxuries that. in may day. STR not Prexy
in all his glory dreamed of reveliug in. The
six upper floors will be for the use OF the different
colleges Each college is going 10 have floor TO
itself Think OF It! The paper says this with
mir pride. II college should count Itself
lucky If II could get a suite OF rooms floor
In a New York fiat I'm hopping mad sir and
you'll have to hold down II brood over this
decline and fall OF college egottsm much longer.
Suppose the fellows from my college have Jhe SOW
enth floor. What happens TO college pride then?
II gets squelChed. Let show You how. In the
old days, when satisfied TO stay each in
his own college town. fellows could so any
where in or about the village and yell the college
yell or haze town boys and freshmen TO their
hearts content. But what will happen IL the young
club snobs try to do anything like this: Why. u
house committee will appear and levy fat fine
for their having created disturbance. Where's
college egosm then? Squelched, sir by tho jugger-
naut OF gilded civilization! Squelched forever
The old gentleman tainted away. and his auditors
a doctor.