Norwich bulletin., 1913-04-18
BULLETINS SPECIAL YALE LETTER
Dean Rogers Speaks of Value of ExPresdent Tas to Yale-Activity Athletic Matters -Sophomores Sug- gest Reforms in Secret Society System-Greaest Need of American Colleges Today.

and you will win if you have the bull | dog spirit of past years"
 The Wesleyan baseball game wa: postponed from last Saturday on ac- count of wet grounds, but in drlz- l zling rain Yale met Harvard at soccer 1 on the football field and the visitors 1 won by two goals to one. Yale played
 an exhibition game with the New Hd-
 ven Eastern league team on Tuesday | and won easily. to O. Rain again or | Wednesday cancelled the game with Fordhan, and the next scheduled con- i test is with the University of Vermont i on Saturday. Walter s. Trumbull i baseball expert on the New York Sun i has written a criticism of the Yale i nine and his opinion was that Yale l should win the great majority of It's 1 college games.
 A formal statement has been drawn up by a committee of ten representing the sophomore class embodying sug- i gestions as to the reform of the Yale senior secret society system. The suggestions that are made are that the secrecy be reduced to a reasonable privacy. that Tap day as it now exists be abolished, and that the greatest
 care in the choice of men be exer- cised.
 Because of erroneous impressions that were believed to be spreading i'll regard to the attitude of the sOphO- mores to the senior societies, a meet
 ing was held on Sunday evening and it was decided to put the matter in
 concrete form as a means of removing
 any doubt about the reforms desired
 and of bringing the suggestions to
 public attention. The statement denies
 the fact that the movement. was start
 ed by graduate influence although
 once begun. graduate expressions have
 Eeen sought in shaping it's course. The
 movement does not stand for abolition
 but for a change in connection with
 certain aspects of the system on the
 ground that such q change would be
 for the betterment of the college.
 Without some such change, those par
 ticipating in the movement cannot
 give the societies their support.
 The excessive secrecy was attacked on the ground that it ''suppresses in dividuality. engenders hypocrisy and creates unnatural and strained reia
 tions, with resultant tendency to nn- dermine existing friendships" The secrecy is greatly magnified by the extreme and inconsistent publicity of Tap day. The secrecy which this publicity makes doubly evident places the societies more consplcuously be- fore the undergraduate, resulting in making the senior social system an end and not 8 means, thus stimulating a too keen pursuit of extra curriculum activities The right choice of mem bers was the second main suggestion and it was urged that the 45 men who have so gained the esteem and pect Of their classmates. and represent to that class the niSnoSC 1UedlS or I ale, should be elected without undue regard to family influence or personal inter ests.
 The new Racebrook golf course, which is to be used in common by m embers of the University Golf asso- citation and the New Haven Yacht club is to be completed about the first Of June. The Racebrook Country club has 14T acres, lying west of Yale field in the town of Orange, and the 6, ITO yard golf course, of IS holes. will be one of the finest in the state. One of the features is a small natural lake which must be crossed both in going out and coming in. and the course is being prepared under the direction of l R. D. Pryde. The clubhouse. which l will cost S23,00O is partly done and will contain lockers for $50 men, | shower baths and rathskeller in the | senbly hall on the first floor. It is to 1 De reached from Derby avenue.
 Rev. pr. Charles H. Parkhurst of New York city delivered the Lyman | 3eecher lectures in the Divinity school 1 ast week. and while in New Haven ne | answered a. question as to what is the | greatest need of the American colleges 1 oday. His answer was a criticism of i he present type of professors and in | ;tructors that throng the colleges and 1 le said that the great need is not more i money nor more buildings nor more i ,arefuIy organized courses, but a 'icher and more developed character if the men who come into immediate ,ontact with the students.