New-York tribune., 1907-12-13
HIGH LIVERS L1G.
FIGURES GiUen Look Bad for C0Stly
DOrmitOrU STUDENTS.

New Haven Dec. Il (Special).-Professor Henry
p. Wright. dean of the Yale academic department.
has followed up his attack of three years ago on
the private dormitories for wealthy students at
Yale. by a table, which appeared to-day in the
yale Alumni Weekly showing that the occupants
of the high priced dornitores have been for many
years among the low scholars; that most of the
warnings for poor scholarship and other reasons
went to residents in those dormitories, while the
high scholarship members of the classes were
found annually in the cheaper private dormitores
and in the d0rmitories on the campus.
The figures are accompanied by appeal by
the Yale Daily News and the yale Alumni
Weekly for dormtories for members of the
sophomore and possibly the freshmen classes and a
breaking up of the evils with the present
system.
The Yale faculty has additional grievance
against the present dormitory system, clique
In one or two of the highest priced dormitories
been found annually to form the nucleus for the
society elections in Junior and senior years
The facutys Investigations made it clear that this
is a disadvantage. and it is seeking
means whereby the selections for the senior and.
incidentally the Junior societies shall not be de-
cided upon till just before they made. instead
of being made certain by class politics almost as
soon as the succeeding classes enter college
The table given out by Dean Wright to-day shows
that from 1900 TO 1s0S inclusive warnings for poor
scholarship given to % per cent OF the fresh
men students living in high priced dormitories. as
compared with 16 per cent in Pierson Hall, he
large and cheap freshman dormitory, and u per
cent to students rooming in tho campus dormitories.
which are cheap in price.
Turning the sophomore classes in that period.
Dean Wright found that q per cent of the warn
ings given for poor scholarship went TO students
In high priced dormitOries. against per cent 20
roomers on the campus and Is per cent elsewhere
in the city. OF the students who received the two
leading scholarship appointments for the first two
years OF their course only per cent roomed in
the high priced private dormitories. while 115 per
cent lived in the cheaper dormitories-
The deans report for the last year shows that 81
per cent of freshmen roonling In private dor
mitories were warned for low scholarship, while
only 10 per cent of those in Pierson Hall and II
per cent of those the campus warned.
Scholarship honors by 81 per cent of
the students Pierson Hall and by % per cent of
those on the campus. and by only 20 per cent of
the students in the high priced dormitories OF
the present sophomore class 60 per of those
in the high priced dormitories warned for low
scholarship, while only 20 per cent of the men on
the campus incurred warnings
It was found that of the eighty men taken into
the four junior fraternities from the class of 10
last week seventy roomed in the high priced dor
mitories and only eight in private cheap dormi-
tories the campus. The three hundred sopho-
mores who were received into the junior frater-
mites in the four years Investigated included go
who residents of the exclusive dormitories
and only twenty-four> from the campus proper