Omaha daily bee., 1911-09-11
SCORES DRINKING AND GAMBLING
Fifteen Per Cent Of Harvard Students
Go to the Bad.
ooLJ1CB1A HAS WORST RECORD
More Debauchery Exists There Than
at Any Other Institution.
MANY COLLEGE MEN IN PRISONS
Report Tells story of BrtaRshg,
immortality, BrAyyIinE and ReciZ-
les Money sDesd3ng, with
Numerous ExAmplea.

CHICAGO. SEPT M.-R. 7. Crane. million
aIre iron manufacturer made public today
ar arraignuaent Of the big universities Of
the country. He charges alarming prevail
enoe of drinking and gambling among the
students. Columbia he ranks the worst,
but conditions at Harvard, Princeton and
Cornell, he declares are almost as bad.
OF the students at Harvard 90 per cent
drink in their freshman year, % per cent in
their senior and Is per cent OF them 60
lrretrievably TO the bad, according to the
report Of an investigation which Mr.. Crane
has made Mr.. Crane has spent much time
and money putting under scrutiny the re
suits of higher college education. SO bitter
is he in consequence that he declares col
leges do more ham than good
Results of Investigation.
Mr.. Crane SAYS in his report:
AN outsider can scarcely realize the
amount Of drinking that goes on in the
club rooms Of the colleges. Referring par
| ticularly to Harvard he estimates the num-
Der OF students who combine in a mild de-
gree wine and bad women. g. per cent:
| who drink heavily, IS per cent, and who
have two or three bats a year. IS per
cent.
Il do not doubt that even worse states
Of affairs exist at other colleges At Prince
ton II is beer, beer beer. The town is IL
cense and the body Of students in my
mind drink even more than Harvard men.
On one occasion believe there must have
been more than 800 students dead drunk
AT Yale, drinking is recognized in so
great degree that clubs have their tables
at the bar rooms I was never 30 shocked
in my life as when I found New Haven
the dissolute, debauched and whisky town
that 1t Is Sometime ago the statement ap-
peared In a New Haven paper that there
were 1900 falln women in that city
AT Cornell the conditions are somewha
the same, although believe Cornell stu
dents do not carry their excesses so far as
do boys at Prinoeton, Yale and Cambridge
/ Columbia the Worst.
AT Columbia believe there exists more
debauchery than at any other collage. on
account OF its proximity to the famous
resorts Of the city. II further proof be
necessary, let me quote from letter re-
oeived from e c. Mercer. who is special
! secretary Of the Association Of Colleges
Of North America and who L. following
this matter up for the association, which
shows that II has taken upon itself the
work of reforming college mon He is its
special agent and is visiting the colleges
and delivering a lecture entitled, College
Men Have Met in the Sums and Prisons
of New York He says
II did say, and have written proof tt
back me up, that I have met personally
and have heard from the most reliable
authorities of some 100 oolege-bred mer
in the sluns, prisons, jalls and santa
RUNS who were down and out through fas
living The noted bread line in our citS
has constantly in IT college-bred men.
The rest or Mr. Cranes report is storS
Of drinking, immortality. brawline and reck
less nonsy spending. He gives a larg'
number Of examples and says the proof Il
irrefutable
! The report, which is printed In the cur
rent number Of the Valve World. owned
by Mr. Crane, describes unsparingly stu
dent dissipation and is a rernorseless In
dietnent Of not only the universities bu
of the municipal governments that PERM
such conditions.