Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-11-07
Freshmen Taken from Expen-
siye Rooms and Housed
in DormitorieS

NEW HAVEN, Conn.,, Nov. L.
Yale,s war on snobbishness among un-
der class men, which has been one of
the reasons for providing more dor
mitory room on the campus, termin-
ated the past week, when the last of
the freshmen that could be accom-
modated were assigned TO rooms on
the campus. There were still about
fifty left out In the cold, but some of
these had homes in the city and were
permitted to room there, while the
others were put in private houses
that Dean Jones selected.
The old freshman quarters on, York
street are deserted and for the first
time III years landlords and boarding
house keepers who have grown rich
on the profits from green freshmen
are on the lookout for other means of
Filling their vacant rooms A few of
them profited by the notice sent them
a year and half ago by Dean Jones
of the academic department announc.
Ing that in September, 1912, freshmen
would be expected to reside on the
campus and WarniRg than against
making contracts with the first year
men. A good many still trusted to luck
that at. the last minute room would
not be available on the campus.
Dean Wright Leads Crusade.
This attempt to stamp out class ex-
clusiyeness and to bring all the mem
bers of each class into closer relation
ship by rooming together throughout
the entire course originated some fiji
teen years ago with Dean Henry p.
Wright. For years he fought, in and
out of the faculty. for adequate &C.
commodations. realizing that as the
classes grew larger and the indiyi.
dual members weather the breach
would naturally widen between the
rich and poor students so that in the
end Yale would lose that democratic
spirit of which the college boasted
AT that time all the freshmen, a
great majority of the sophomores and
many of the juniors roomed outside
of the college dormitories. It was
merely question Of necessity as the
college could not, furnish dormitory
ROOMS. BY the gift or one or two new
dormitories room was made on the
campus for the greater number of the
juniors and then the proposition thai
confronted the Yale faculty was what
! to do with the under class men.
Clique Grows Up.
There had grown up outside of the
college clique of sophomores who
roorned in one dormitory called the
Hutch. modern apartment house &
couple of blocks away from the cam
pus. The rooms in this building were
elaborate and the tales of good time:
there in Sophomore year were hand
ed from freshman to freshman, 81
that rooms in that particular house
were at premium and were taken
of course, by the men who could pay
the high prices asked for them.
/ A number of other houses in tina
vicinity were opened by private par
lties and these gathered in the over
flow of sophomores, but the Hutcl
Icontinued to be the centre of soph
omore activity. All sorts of storiel
Heated through the campus of deai
4 put through there for election to Jun
ior fraternities and senior societies
and it became a sort of college ira
dition that unless man roomed il
the Hutch during his sophomore yea
he didn't stand a good chance o
landing senior society election Ut
less under extraordinary conditions
Sophomore Headquarters Broken UP
Two years and a half ago DeaI
Jones announced that as accommoda
tons had been provided on the cam
pus the sophomores the next fal
would be required to take room
there and that the old sophomor
headquarters at College and Crow
streets would be broken up. Their
was opposition by the freshman elias
of that year, the individual member
of which had been looking forwar
to year of sophomore liberty ava
from faculty supervision. But the neN
| rule was memorable and the followin
September the sophomores took u
their quarters on the campus, unde
the eve of college discipline.
In the meantime a fund had bee
raised to build on the old campus