The morning journal-courier., 1908-02-15
NOT 4 SPITE FENCE.

The plan of the class of 1902 of Yale, which will come back to New Haven next June for it's seXennial eel ebration, for the fencing in of the Yale campus at that time has been criticised, at least in one quarter Tn New Haven, as having bad tendency It is argued that of late the unlVersl- ty and the city have been growing nearer and nearer together all the time and that any such movement as this proposed one of a fence to keep people out of the campus is not in ac- cordance with the approved amalgam- .ation of town and gown" In some quarters the indignation over the an- nouncement has reached such height, we are told, that some have questioned the moral right of the Uni versity to keep whom it will off its property, since it does not pay any taxes.
 This non-payment of taxes at Yale seems to be a thorn in the side of many an minimizing New Havener. But Yale was given her charter with the provision mentioned in it that she would not be compelled to pay taxes and for this reason it seems highly impossible to believe that the present manner of doing things can be changed. even if it should be Then again Yale is, and has been, much more to New Haven than many New Haveners seem willing to admit Half of New Haven's notoriety and reputation (such notoriety as boards of trade elsewhere spend thousands of dollars year to gain for their cites) has come about through the placing of Yale within our city limits. Yale, with her thousands of students, brings many many thousands of dollars an- nually into New Ravens stores and gives work to literally thousands of our population. Such matters are worthy of consideration as counteract- ing the tax question at the University.
 In the matter immediately at hand the fence-there seems to be no need for any ire on the part of non- collegiate New Haven. The Journal Courier has received from James Wright, who is at the head of the campus-fence movement for Com mencement time of the class in ques- ton, letter which should allay all fears on the matter He writes in part: Our class has no desire or intention of spelling the relation between town and gown. At our triennial reunion the hootblacks and other loafers ot the campus grabbed our torches in. | itIltItu Nllil our Ndsbn anu TlhNt their presence unpleasantly evident l With 1901, at their sexennial last year it was even worse. It is to keep ou this element that the closing of tn, campus was suggested by our class We will not ask that any one witt the Yale spirit at heart be kept out As for the others all will agree tha the proper place for them is outside.
 This seems a logical statement ! Those who have Yale hearts. whethe they are sons of old Ell or not. can not but want the rowdies kept out side The latter cannot but interfer with their pleasure as onlookers. a well as with that of the reunion classe as high jinks producers. As for tn University having a right tn keel whom it will off the campus. such right is assumed every day Tn old-clothes-m are no longer allow ed on the campus, and not even tn delivery wagons of the business firm of the city, the express compane among them, are allowed to delive their goods except at certain well prescribed hours So again We repea that we believe the class of 1902 Ina
 proposed a good scheme and we loo
 forward to the Commencement day of next June as ones to he more de lightful than any of their predecessor for this very reason.