The Washington times., 1912-02-25
GRADUATES WONDER
|;F NEW EZRA IS TO
\ DAWN ON COLLEGES
Harvard Banqueters Hear
of Changed Customs
|, Of Students.

: college men In general, but more par
= tichiarly those of Yale, and Harvard,
\ are today wondering IL the utterances
OF president a. Lawrence Lowell, of
: Harvard, and Dean Frederick s. Jones,
h OF yale, at the alumni banaucts, Fri
uay and last night, are to be taken as
Ihe establishment of a new era in GUS
toms, habits and traditions among the
undergraduates.
Certain it is that when Dean Jones
asserted at the Raleigh last night that
athe Yale men behaved themselves al
most to the point of testing his credu-
3lity, by doing away with the a'Sunlay
&eKodus to New York" attending classes
Y more regularly, going to church and
sassiduously studying; younger alumni
smiled complacently and older and more
= seasoned sons of Yale smiled broadly
\ In reminiscence. ..'.,. ~
: Among those who listened to the tes-
Z tmony given by the dean of the col
S1ege was President Taft, member of
= the class of 'IS and now member of
= the Yale corporation. The Presidents
9 smile was broader and when he arose
ITO speak, laughed aloud at his memories
9of Yale days. .... ..a .1., -
B Sees Progress At Yale.
THE idea of member of the ella So
sssof rs going to the dean and asking to
y be allowed to play Billiards on Sunday
lis, as they say, going some,' said
The President ITO sit here and listen
Il 70 Dean Jones description of the moral
Y tone of the undergraduate department
and to think what 1t was in my day,
is an. indication that we are really
I progressing at Yale. I am grateful to
Z my alma mater for the training that
: she gave me, and the really rugged
views that We were imbued with, but
: that the present system is better,
! am not only willing to concede, but
am prepared to assert"
? Dean Jones speech preceded that of
!. the President and was a revelation to
: many of the older graduates. The dean
: prefaced his speech as being the ac-
!. count of the stewardship of the riches
4 entrusted to Yale; outlining the devel-
: opment along social, moral, and intel
I lectual lines which now prevails at the
, university although Dean Jones dealt
, more especially with the college.
Compromise Course.
"The course today" said Dean Jones'
''is compromise between the conserv-
!, ative rigid course of twenty-five Years
4 ago and the wide open range of sub
!. 1ects recently offered. There has been
> steady improvement in the students in
!, regard to the attitude toward their
:. studies, there has been regularity of at
i tendance, and the Sunday exodus of
> students running off to spend Sunday
SR New York has gone out of exist
ehce. 1t is the students seiitlriieht We
appeal to instead of using executive
Aegulation." ID" ~. ~. Y, y,
sc Dean Jones also told of two instances
where student appeal had done much to
SAhe betterment of a saloon at Yale He
afurther said that students had come to
.shtm and asked to be allowed to play
billiards at the University Club on
:. s.&unday, and that when the matter was
E4ully explained the club was closed
f4hereafter on Sunday for billiard play
,sang purposes.
M Charles p. >Howland, the last speak
stfr at the banquet, said the people be-
ieved in the 'ibaralism of Taft" and a
ps1etter from former Yale President Tim
tspthy Dwight, indorsed President Taft
Nor another four years.
q Yale songs were sung throughout the
ssbanquet, which WAS presided over by
ssaI ohm X. McLanahan president of the
ss%ae Alumni Association.
X The committee in, charge of the ban
.Shuet consisted of John Ball Osborne
&Francis J. WoodInan, Walter D. Will
sseox, Hugh S. Knox, and Charles c..
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