The morning journal-courier., 1908-01-02

Ole or lAb lIlUlCs anu oAO HUN pres ldent and over 270 professors and her students, then a handful. are now over 2,500. Of buildings and grounds she then had none; now her structures cover block af- ter block in the City of the Elms. Then she was little more than name: now a stupendous fact. Then with little touch or influence upon the now a mighty power in the world.
 That last sentence suggests a dis tinction between Yale and other east ern universities. of which her sons are proud. The others began life as church colleges; Yale, the third college in point of time-for William and Mary. in Virginia. ranks second to Harvard in that respect-set out with the avowed purpose of fitting youths for the public service. Yale claims rank as the first educational institution in the world to make training for the service of the public the supreme ob- feet of her life and work, and We need not stop to quarrel with the dlstinc- ton between service of monarch and service of the public, whereby the titles of British universities are here excluded. Yale claims distinction also las a university which was always catholic in the broadest sense. As early as l765 President Clap could affirm that in his university founded by Congre- gational ministers, no inquiry was made, on the admission of a student tor afterwards, about his particular sentiments in religion.
 In it's physical contour Yale bears general resemblance to Harvard. That is to say, there is a main quadrangle known here as the campus-wlth ad- ditional buildings grouped irregularly in relation to it. The main campus in cudes the Alumni hall, used for ex- Iaminations, Dwight hall, the abode of the Y. M C. A.-~hich, by the way, has firm footing in all the large uni Iversities--the library, whose scope has already been mentioned; the School of Fine Arts, with notable collection of Italian masters; Phelps hall, the clas- sical department, and half a dozen dor mitories. One of these, the Vanderbilt I-Which. as the name suggests. Is one of the most luxurious of all the halls of residence-is piquantly entrusted with South Middle college. the only sur viving building of the original old Brick Row, dating back to 1750 Thi: block, which pres nts the familiar fea- tures-or the lack of feature-of nur- sery architecture is used now as a dormtory by students who wish to combine plain living with high think ling.
 l conspicuous feature of the campus is The Fence, divided, according to an official description which does not lack unconscious humor, into three sec tions, for the use of sophomores, jun iors and seniors respectively" The meaning of this might be obvious II these were political and not academic ] divisions. Few statesmen are able tC I dispense throughout their whole career | with 'the use of a fence' But The Pence at Yale is used merely to lean against, and the unwritten laws of ! generations decree it's division between the three senior years One can only guess at what would happen to soph. omore who was found leaning against the senior fence. Apparently a fresh. | man who wants tho use of fence must go out of college to find one The rules which senior students invent fo. the discipline of their juniors would make an amusing chapter in the his tory of universities. At one institution the first thing that student does or quitting the examination hall at the end Of his second year is to fill his pipe. which is llt for him. with pre- tended ohsequiousness. by the nearest junior or senior, This mock ceremony preserves the ordinance that freshmen and sophomores are not allowed {, smoke on the campus
 I have mentioned the exuberanee oi college spirit at Vale. It was natural, lat it's height at the hicentennial when on campus night 9000 gathered in tn. main quadrangle ftteds up as m open. air thoater anl concert hall or thl. number at least 5.0)O were graduates from aN parts of the world, ranging il age from twenty to ninety There wer, tableanx depicting the history of Yale but the singing was tho thing. It wa, led by chorus of coo students whr had made themselves word perfect -s rare condition of student singing Ant some 5000 undergraduates and dunn
 making allowance for strangers pres ent-lct themselves so in such songs q, this, which had 10 be given six times: Show mo the Seotchman who doesn'
 love the thistle
 show mo the Engiishman who doesn
 love the rose,
 Show me the true-hcartcd son of ol,
 Eli,
 Who doesn't love the spot
 tStop here aud hit tho left breast thre'
 hard slapsl
 Where the elm tree grows"
 or course the clan spirit sometime