The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1911-09-11
r. T. CRANE, MILLIONAIRE IRON
MANUFACTURER, DENoUNcEs
LARGE SCHOOLS.
COLUMBIA VERY WORST
New York Institution's Students Are
Fisrcest Of the Fierce, out Harvard,
Princeton, Cornell and Yale Have
Bad Lot Of Booze -Fightsrs-Result
Of Investigation ls Surprising.

Chicago Sept 10.-R. T. Crane. mil
lionalre iron manufacturer. made pub
lie today an arraignment of the big
universities of the country. He
charges alarming prevalence of drink
ing and gaming among the students.
Columbia he ranks the worst, but con-
ditions at Harvard, Princeton and
Cornell he declares are almost as bad
OF the students at Harvard, 30 per
cent drink In their freshman year: 81
per cent In their senior year. and ID
per cent of them go irrevocably to the
bad. according to the report of an in
vestigation which Mr.. Crane had made
MIR. Crane has spent much time and
money investigating the results OF
higher or college education. So Bit
ter is he In consequence that he de-
clares colleges do more Larm than
good MIR. Crane says In his report
Much Booking.
AN outsider can scarcely realize
the amount OF drinking that goes on
I'm the clubrooms Of the colleges. Re-
ferring particularly to Harvard. I es-
innate the number of students who
combine in a mild degree wine and bad
women 65 per cent; who drink heav-
lily, 35 per cent, and who have two ol
three bats year also 40 per cent
do not doubt that even worse states
of affairs exist In other colleges Al
Princeton, 1t is beer, beer. beer. The
body OF students, In my mind. drink
even more than Harvard men. Or
one occasion I 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 barrooms. was
never so shocked I'm my life as when
found New Haven the dissolute. de-
bauched and whisky town that II is
Some time ago the statement APP
peared in IA New Haven paper thai
there were 1000 fallen women In that
city.
"At Cornell the conditions are some-
what the same, although I believe Cor.
nell students do not carry their ex.
cesses so far as do those at Princeton
Yale and Cambridge The Cornell
boys are great on beer, as are alsc
the men at Princeton.
coiuunbia Worst.
AT Columbia. I believe, there exist
more debauchery than at any Othel
college. on account OF It's proximity Il
the famous resorts OF the city. 1
further proof be necessary. let mi
quote from letter received from =
G.. Mercer. who Is special secretary o
the Association of Colleges of Nortl
America, and who Is following thi'
matter up for the association. which
shows that 1t has taken upon itsel
the work of reforming college men. H,
| is delivering a lecture entitled 'Colleg,
Men Have Met In the Slums an,
Prisons of New York He says:
| 81 did say, and have written proc
to back me up, that have met per
sonally and have heard from the mos
reliable authorities of some 1900 col
| lege bred men In the slums. prisons
jails and sanitariums who We're dow
and out through fast living. Tn
noted bread line In our city has con
stantly In 1t college bred men,"
Mr.. Cranes report. which Is prlnte
In the current number Of Valve World
owned by Mr.. Crane, describes un
sparlngly student dissipation and Is
remorseless indictment OF not only tn
universities. but Of the municipal gov
ernments that permit such conditions