Norwich bulletin., 1914-03-06
BULLETINS SPECIAL YALE LETTER
Religious Education Association Conference Attracts Six Col lege Presidents-Yale Team Gets Intercollegiate Swim ming Championship-More Senior Statistics-President Hadley on Democracy of University-Pro Fisher Tells Why He Isn't Socialist.

New Haven. March 5.-Six college presidents spoke today in Yale halls at | conferences and meetings of the elev enth annual international convention | of the Religious Education association. 1 There are several hundred people in New Haven and Canada and other countries are represented. The gath I ering is for the purpose of discussing l religious education and social life, and 1 especially as these relate to univer- | sities, colleges and other educational | institutions.
 1 The convention opened Wednesday 1 at the Hotel Taft, but because of the 1 large number of delegates later ses- | SionS were transferred to Osborn hall 1 and Lampson Lyceum. while evening meetings, the final one Sunday night,
 are to be held in Woolsey hall for the | benefit of the public.
 1 Some of the distinguished speakers 1 who are on the various programmes | are President Hadley of Yale, PTesi- | dent Charles F. ThWing of Western
 Reserve, President w. P. Faunce of | Whitman of New York city, ex-Pres-
 ident Taft. Rabbi Stephen s. Wise, 1 Dean Brown of the Yale Divinity 1 school, Governor Baldwin.
 1 The aims of the association are to inspire and aid churches and Sunday l schools to educational success, and | to cooperate with colleges and univer- 1 ties that men may be prepared for lives 1 or Sclentlnc re1g1OuS Ideals. In pre- | pairing the program for this week, The 1 Relation of Higher Education to the 1 Social Order, the question has been 1 kept in mind whether the modern col
 lege is really preparing men for the l social life of the coming days. The intercollegiate championship in swimming came to Vale as the result l of the victory over Princeton last week 1 by a score of 31-22. Princeton, how hO 4
 and thereby deprived Yale of the polo l cham mpionship
 In the Boston arena Saturday night Yale lost the deciding game in the
 series with Harvard, 4 to l, while in basketball Yale's defeat by Cornell, 1 25-22, has killed Yale's hopes of an l Intercollegiate championship in this I field
 The minor sports. however, have ap-
 parently had a season of better sup port than usual. Yale, with the Car | negie pool, although the other large | colleges have practically as good | equipment has always developed a fine | body of swimmers, although this years | team was by no means exceptional. In | the relay at Princeton though Yale 1 broke the intercollegiate record of 2.S2 3-5 by 3-5 seconds. The open | ing of the new arena in New Haven | gave an impetus to hockey. Before | that the seven had been playing loose | ly, but they pulled themselves together 1 after the new rink gave them oppor- | tunity for all the practice they needed l and after discouraging beginning | there was hope for a championship | for time.
 Basketball is the least favored of | all YaIe's lesser sports. The team has been Unsupported in past years, has | had to withdraw from the league at | least once, and has gravitated from 1 first position down to foot on occa- | sions This year the five was broken | up time and again by withdrawals of l men, no less than three captains hav- | ing been thus necessitated and it did not get teamwork until close to the end of the season. Yale won from 1 Columbia Tuesday night and thus gave
 Cornell a better chance for first place.
 Some more of the always more or
 less interesting statistics of the senior | academic class have been tabulated and show that the great majority think
 that the senior year is the pleasant
 est. Two hundred men voted this 1 way against 53 for junior year, fresh
 man year 12, sophomore year II. 1 Freshman year was voted the hardest | with 172 votes.
 Two hundred and twenty seniors ia vor daily chapel. 80 men oppose: 157 l men voted against Sunday chapel, 148 for it.
 Twenty nine seniors are engaged, !! one is married. 218 men use tobacco l and 188 drink some alcohol occasion 1 ally; IA men have been abroad
 The average age of the class is P years months, the oldest member | being S6 years old, the youngest ls
 years, months. One hundred and eighty-three prefer Phi Beta Kappa | key and 105 a "Y' to any other honor. 1 Tennyson is voted the favorite poet,
 with Browning and Shakespeare next.
 Stevenson is the most popular prose
 writer, Dickens second. Thackeray
 third, Kipling fourth. Crossing the
 Bar" is the favorite poem.
 Whether Yale is still democratic or not is a question that President Had l ley has answered recently in address
 es before the alumni of Hartford and l again at Buffalo N. Y. The ques- i tion arose in connection with the great ! changes that have come over the uni
 versity in the last ten years. Presi- l dent Hadley's reply is positive, but is l deep enough and broad enough to at | tract the attention of all thinking men. 1 Democratic Ideas, but the sense of the word democratic has changed, l both in Yale and in America. as a | whole. Formerly democracy meant
 equality: today it means public spirit ] readiness to be governed by public 1 opinion and to take part in making public opinion what it should be-" l Thus it is that in Yale life now there l is not the absolute equality that might have been approximated in the col lege days of half century ago, per- | haps even twenty-five years ago. Just
 as in the larger world the man who | comes up to college with plenty of
 money has a distinct advantage in
 many ways over the man who enters | largely on the rather intangible cap | ital of unlimited faith in the future.
 The boy who has by two or three years of life in the atmosphere of the
 prep" school pretty well absorbed a l knowledge of the things the college
 will expect of him, and of how to get i them, has big start on the untutored 1 chap from the small high school. But