The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-05-12
WAR OVER TAP
 DAY WACED BY
 YALE CLASSMEN


 New Haven, May 12-The Sunday. peace at Yale was broken as it sell dom has been before.
 Yales senior secret societies ignored the demand of the sophomore class for the abolition of tap day. and com pIeted preliminaries- for it's observance next Thursday.
 Dean Frederick s. Jones supplement- ed his order to bar the public from the ceremonies with a request to the sophomores and freshmen to give the campus a wide berth son that occa- sion.
 P1acards were printed announcing a special ball game between the two lower classes on Thursday afternoon and notices were sent through the mails asking the members of the Shef- l field Scientific Schools Taternities to keep off the campus grass that day. The college authorities arranged for a faculty tea in Forestry Hall at the witching hour of election to further divert attention therefrom, and diplo | matists among faculty and students did their utmost to soften aspertties | that the situation has engendered. But, although Yale is not moving | toward tap day in a. lockstep, and there are loud murmurings of rebel lion, indications are discernible that 1 the counsel of Dean Jones generally l will be heeded-cheerfulIy by most of the protestants but sul1enly by a 1 large minority. The tenor of many sophomore utterances when Dean l Jones' request had been noised abroad ran like tnis:-
 I've want tap day scourged from the campus, and if we can't have that we
 want to see what Is going on. Now
 we are asked to promote just the se- crecy are trying to abolish. Leave I the campus to the juniors and sen 1 iors, let them have a nice little tea o6 1xzI11
 they harp on how well tap day went
 off this year we shall be told that we have no business to object because we
 were not there to know anything about | it.
 | Dean Jones made this statement to | a reporter:
 1T have asked the sophomores and l freshmen to keep away from the cam pus during the election next Thursday. Many ins both classes have assured me i that they will do, so. and that they 1 will do all in their power to dissuade
 those who are not inclined to let the i seniors and juniors carry out tap day 1 according to their notions. It is en- | tirely a students affair, however, and
 I am acting only in an advisory ca pacity The faculty has taken no of- l fcial cognizance of the discussion and 1 will not do so unless there should be some overt act which requires disci- | pline.''
 1 Tap day discussion had run on with l out any recognition Of it's merits by the university organs until Saturday.
 Then the Yale Alumni Weekly In what was believed to be an inspired editorial urged the lower classmen to
 establish a, precedent by leaving the campus in the sole possession Of the | principals and announced that Dean 1 Jones would make such a request o1
 them. The Yale News reprinted the 1 Weekfy's editorial and commended IL
 This was especially significant, as all the News editors are juniors | The insurging sophomores resent ad-
 vice from this quarter. They say thai tap day is an iniquitous institution and that coupled with the excessive
 secrecy of the senior societies, it mil
 itates against genuine democracy al
 Yale. generates un-American ideals 1 feeds class distinctions. dissfpates en- ergv and proper ambition. fosters 3
 feeling of f-importance, weakens in dividual efficiency and detracts from interest in study. They assert thai l the society men exercise an influence not 11nlike that of the House Of Lords
 divide the campus into cllques ano
 conduct themselves as if they had 1 enecia1 license to be superior ane | erohhish toward the student booy.