The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-12-12
SOPHOMORE DoRm1roR1rs AGAIN

name, taxes issue WlIn our eultOlldi of December 6, in which we comment ed upon the complexion of the recent junior society elections as given sta tistically in the Yale Alumni Weekly. That this paper is the bull's-eye for the editorial is clearly shown by the number of quotations taken word for word from our columns.
 The statistics given in the Weekly were startling in one respect, namely, that they showed more than anything else that the place of residence of students during their freshman and sophomore years in college apparently counted greatly with the inner circles of the societies when the elections came to be made. Whether the Inner circles were conscious or not conscious of this fact is immaterIal, but 1t is tn- deniable.
 The News says the statistics, as giv- en in the Weekly, are apt to mislead; that they lay stress upon the dormi- tory question and do not mention some honors that the successful neo- phites had attained. "A casual glance at the list of only one society" it tells us, meaning Delta Kappa Epsilon, ''re- veals the fact that the captaincy of the Freshman eleven, the Fence-orator- ship, chairmanship of the Sophomore German, and (most surprising omis- sion of alb the second scholarship stand in the class Is left unmentioned" This seems to us to be an unfair attack upon the Weekly, inasmuch as in all but one instance in the above quota ton the News is mistaken, and upon this paper, inasmuch as we are quoted in a more or less facetious vein,
 The list, as given in the Weekly, does mention the fact that E. H. Coy was captain of his freshman football eleven. The chairmanship of the Soph- omore German was not decided until after the first ''hold-offsf were made | by the societies and hence cannot at this time be considered an adequate reason for selection as society neo- phite. As for the second scholarship standing of the class, that veAs and is unannounced. It has not been figured out at the academic deans office even yet It is generally supposed that the honor may be claimed by Robert AL phonso Taft, son of Secretary of War Taft. MT. Taft is given philosophical stand in the Weekly's statistics. The only justifable criticism the News makes seems to be in the case of the Fence orator.
 We cannot but agree with the News
 that there is present crying need al
 Yale for more and better Sophomore
 and Freshman dormitories, but the fact still remains, however soreb
 these dormitories are needed and how.
 ever the private dormitorles, 250 Yorl
 street and the Hutchinson, are fal
 from being luxurious, as the New! lwould have us believe, the rich mer of the classes are in the private dormi
 tories and they are the men that re
 ceive the society honors whether the,
 are paying much or little for thei
 rooms. whether they are enjoying tn,
 luxuries of palaces or the inconven
 fences of novels. It Is not the sopho
 mores of the common herd"
 But the trouble does not end here
 Dean Wright has long since taken t task the system of private dormitorie
 on another score. namely, that the
 foster unsatisfactory scholarship. H
 has shown that the percentage of higl stand men in the two lower ciasse
 during the four years from 1900 t
 1908 was 22.5 with the students i
 Pierson Hall and 2S per cent wit
 those on the campus, as compare
 with only 1S per cent among the stu dents living in the private dormitorie during those years. "Of the men wh ) lived in Campus dormitories in Sopho l more year 11,5 per cent made the tw 3 highest Junior scholarship appoint ) ments, while of the men who had live 3 in the Sophomore private dormitorie l but three per cent. made the Phi Bet 3 | Kappa list"
 l The Weekly in its current issu g brings the figures down to the preser e lyear, showing the percentages are eve ], more startling as to scholarship. ( l. the present Sophomore class, 1910, 5 e per cent are residents of the Crow e street section, and of these fully ( : per cent. were warned. The campl y dwellers only show 6 percentage d 29 warned The Weekly further show Il that of the fourteen men who receive 5, elections recently to the Junior fri : ternities all but one lived in the tv f Hutchinson dormitoEies. Again, durir