The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1907-07-10
twenty FULL Years
OUT OF Yale COLLEGE
A Veteran ConfesseS to the
New Impressions
Made.
OLD ORDER OF THINGS.
Finds, However, the Yale
Democratic Spirit
the Same.
OLD ORDER OF THINGS.

The Springfield Republican publishes
an article from the pen of Octavus
Quartus Sheffield concerning Yale after
an absence Of twenty years. Parts of
it are as follows
'The disappointments are many to
an absentee of two decades, but the
most of them are personal rather than
general. The present generation of Yale
men knows nothing about them, and
fails utterly to understand or appre-
ciate, when the absentee tries to ex-
plain them. Nor does the "old Yale
man'-who has been in touch with Yale
life for twenty years, and so has grad
ually become accustomed to the
changes, and fails to notice the reten-
ton of that which were better changed
understand. And when the returned
absentee tries to explain to the old
man, who has been in touch with col
lege life, the old man tries to look
sympathetic while he murmurs, will
somebody please call DR.. Osler.'
Taking up the conditions which give
pleasure and those which cause dlsap-
pointment, somewhat in the order mem
toned, there is first of all Yale's dem
ocracy, which takes a man for what he
is rather than for what he has. This
characteristic seems to me even more
noticeable now than it was twenty
years ago; for the reason that there
are more men working for their living
wholly or partially-than there were,
so their treatment by the men who
have neither to toll nor spin is the
more noticeable. From close personal
observation it is a pleasure to see that
the students who act as walters in
student eating clubs, who take care Of
furnaces and lawns, who teach, work in
stores or offices, or are employed in
any of the other numerous ways of
earning money, or have little businesses
of their own, are treated in no way
different from those who are living up
on a liberal allowance from the old
man. except, perhaps, that there Is a
shade more of friendliness in the voice
when Woodworking Bob Shorty or
Buck are spoken to. This true democ-
racy is exhibited by about 95 per cent
of the students. In the other five per
cent. are two classes; those who are
sighting in their manner through in
difference to everything and everybody
save themselves; and those who have
inherited snobbishness.
AS 10 the men themselves, who WORK
for living, their appearance at Yale
field, on the streets or in the classroom
is not different from the appearance Of
any other student gentlemen, in man
ne7 or dress. Although their clothes
are probably not as expensive, the me-
cessity for keeping them well cared
for Is greater. As to scholarship and
athletics, many of the prominent men
in both departments Of university life
are working for living This in no
way detracts from the scholarship or
students, but 1t does emphasize the
sand, the inherent determination to
succeed on the part of the men who
come to Yale, because it Is Yale, with
a full knowledge of the long. hours and
hard work before them.
There is no false pride in the make
up Of the average self-supporting stud
emit When urged by one Of their many
warm friends, among the Weather
class of students to Join in this or that
good time, they do not hesitate to say,
It'd like to awfully but cannot afford
it." Not infrequently this frank state
ment is met with the reply Typical of
-. stxy
spirit") oh! to-with afford I've just
got a check from the old man. so
come along"