New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-09-16
NEW YORK MECCA FOX AM
\ BITIOUS SCHOLARS.
Soon Cry of the Class and School
\ Yell VII Rercrberate Through
City and Country.
Rahi Rail- Rab.
Fifteen, ha.
Fifteen, fifteen.
Rail- Rahl Rah!

r,,;n. like this will soon be going abroad
In the land, to the great disapproVai VI
non, Lowell Of Harvard, as typical of the eh-
ponents of the school and coiIeee yen HA1 =,
tbe manifest approval Of Provost Edgar -
Smith, of the University Of pennsylvania VIZ
may be called typical OF those VINO arc AZ ''
patty with the noise makers .,.s
Provost Smith disagrees empnaucahS ~
President Lowell who condemns inc oo"eo,
yell and college song as being not mar os'e' WV
q degenerate way of showing emotion
az know little or nothing about music Nv
post Smith is quoted as saying, pul w N
that there is nothing more inspiring Oh III ocoA
stons than the college yell. While the o'Nee'
songs always appealed TO me as oei''s WIZ
catchy. 49, ,.;oh,
Abolish the yells? By no means no. "isn
.s well think of abolishiDg the three chee'e i''
the stars and Stripes or three cheers ior Pop
Mar hero. The college yell expresses the S..ni'
degree of enthusiasm and is equally msp"i's
Some college yells are more Inspiring 'na'
others. of course depending largely OH the ihS'
tutjon to which one is attached pul al SCI "
their purpose, and doubt if they DO any per
manent injury to the throat or lungs ei'her'
Ard so the students old and young ne" AIN
advanced are trooping to their poohs 'n'
month. An army of about seven huhoreo 'n0"
sand swept down this week on the inaaequa''
accommodations provided by the city OF ne"
York. From other educational 1nsutu"ohS
mblic and private comes the same story
Eve cannot handle the applicants Tor adin's
eion TO school,
our class this year will be the largest "
our history.
These and similar expressions are heafo Whei
ever educators meet and are announced jill wv
preliminary stories Of the entering class al VIC
Yale or Old Harvard or Old Something Else d.
the case may be, which is now entering upo'
the umptv-steenth year Of a long ana hohora
BILE existence.
Parents are coming 10 feel more ana more
nat they should not send their children hht'
The world unprepared for overcoming us oo'
etacles and frequently at great sacrihces 'hes
provide the opportunities that perhaps they
themselves missed In the long ago when hlghe'
education was not considered SO necessary as
modern conditions have proved 1t to be. Many
successful men may be pointed to who nave
risen to great heights from small beginnings
but almost without exception they are the ones
who now advocate most consistently the need
OF the privileges that they were forced to &c
without
Competition Is intense, competition among
men and competition among schools and educa-
lion centres Boston invites students to come
g. her. submitting proof Of her fitness her
reputation and acknowledged capacity for de-
bverng the educational goods New York calls
as she has been doing. with more and more re-
sponses for a number of years, and thousands
Dock from all sections of the country and from
kTI countries to lay here the foundation for q
useful and successful future.
New York City has within her boundaries two
Universities which stand in the ten largest in
ptitutions in the country. Columbia stands at
khe top with total Of T. 63 students last year
Ind New York University is tenth. with a reg
stration of 4,039 With these nucleus
there are countless normal schools technical
Echools boys and girls preparatory schools
others where co-educaton Is the rule. music
business dramatic and dancing schools schools
Of law, medicine and pharmacy, theological
schools and kndergartens All these and equally
countless private teachers bid the seeker after
vate teachers bid the seeker after learning to
learning to come TO New York. And the seeker
will come, and he will acquire knowledge here
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