White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1911-09-24
WILL MAKE THE
COLLEGE YELL
CHARGES THAT STUDENTS IN
PRINCIPAL SEATS OF LEARN
ING ARE, MOSTLY DRUNKARDS
AND DEBAUCHEES.

R. T. Crane, millionaire iron man.
ufacturer, made public this week. in
Chicago, an arraIgnment of the big
universities of the country. He
cchanges alarming prevalence Of
drinking and gaming 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, ninety
per cent drink in their freshman
year; ninety-five per sent in their
senior year and fifteen per cent of
them go l~rrevocably to the bad, ac-
cording to the report of an inyestiga-
ton which Mr.. Crane has made.
Mr.. Crane has spent much time
and money investigating the results
of higher or college education.
So bitter is he in consequence that
he declares colleges do more harm
than good. Mr.. Crane says in his
report:
An outsider can scarcely realize
the amount of drinking that goes on
in the clubrooms of the colleges.
Referring particularly to Harvard,
estimate the number of students who
combine in a mild degree wine and
bad women at sixty-five per cent;
who drink heavily, thiTty-five per
cent, and who have two or three
bats a year also forty-six per cent.
/ do not doubt that even worse states
of affairs exist in other colleges. At
Princeton. it is beer, beer. The
body of students in my mind drink
even more than Harvard On
one occasion l believe there must
have been more than 800 students
dead drunk.
labels at BarToOms.
AT Yale drinking is recognized
in so great a desree that clubs have
their tables at the .barrooms. l was
never so shocked in my life as when
/ found New Haven the dissolute.
debauched aud whisky town that
it is. Some time ago the statement
appeared in a New Haven paper that
there we're 1000 fallen women in
that city.
AT Cornell the conditions are
somewhat the same, although / be-
lieve Cornell students do not carry
their excuses so far as do those at
Princeton, Yale an Cambridge. The
Cornell boys are great on beer, as
are also the men at Princeton.
AT Columbia, l believe there ex-
lists more debauchery than at any
other colleges, ON account of it's
proximity to the famous escorts OF
the city. If further proof be neces-
sary, let me quote from a letter re-
ceived from E. C. Mercer, who is
special secretary OF the Association
of Colleges of North America, and
who is following this matter up for
the association, which shows that it
has taken upon itself the work of
reforming college men. He is de-
livering a lecture entitled, College
Men | Have Met in the Slums and
Prisons of New York He says:
~ did say, and have written
proof to back me up, that l have
met personally and have heard from
the most reliable authorities of some
1900 collegebred men in the slums,
prisons, jails and sanitariunis who
were down and out through fast
living. The noted breadline in our
city has constantly in it college,
bred men,"
Mr.. Cranes report, which is print
ed in the current number of Valve
World, owned by Mr.. Crane, des-
cribes unsparingly student dissipa-
tion and is a remorseless Indictment
of not only the universities, but of
the municipal governments that per-
nit such conditions.