New Britain herald., 1923-12-12
YALE IN NEW BRITAIN

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 mentioned were confined to the one
 hundred or more graduates of Yale
 University in this city, it might be considered ont of place in the editorial columns of this or any other news paper. But just as the meeting of the eleven men who, each giving book as the symbol of their inspiration,
 founded Yale college shortly after the ! year 1700, was of vital importance to hundreds of thousands yet to be born, l so. in smaller way the determination
 of the graduates of Yale now in this l city to form a permanent organization 1 is of more importance than they know ! to the people of this city and those 1 who, from year to year, will become residents of New Britain. Moreover not because it is Yale University, ra- ther than another great institution of | learning, is the matter worthy of com
 ment, That university, and the action about to be taken by it's graduates here, represent another step in splen- did practical progress. AS Yale. like other great universities, is passing from the class of the limited. narrow | influences of the world, into the class | that has abandoned old isolation by | emphasizing the importance of all of l it's departments instead of concentrat- ing upon one. the Yale College of the
 old days. so the men of Yale and of ] other similar institutions in varying I degrees, are seeing the opportunity to
 pass on to others some of the advan- tages they gained from the inspira- 1 tiOnal atmosphere of institutions of learning conceived and conducted un-
 der the urge of all that is finest and
 best in life.
 In the present instance Yale men 1 received today notice Of q smoker
 2 'c held Saturday evening "' :his
 Week, mat k inc immediate. ri acti- cal matter that interests them, super fcially viewed. They will want to see the moving pictures of the great foot
 ball games of the fall just passed:
 they will want to hear members of the Glcc Club sing and they will want to shake hands with the young man who was the first Yale man to cross the Harvard goal line in Cambridge since 1907. If this were all those Yale men of this city wanted, the matter might be allowed to pass with merely private expression of approval for the pleas ure the occasion would bring them.
 But the Yale men in this city feel, as under similar circumstances inc graduates Of another university would feel, that there is something more to be done than 10 plan for an occasion such as this. The smoker, enjoyable as it will be, is but small matter compared to the real. sincere purpose Of starting a Yale organization in this city that will not only bring pleasure and profit. practical and spiritual, to the men of that university, but will in- | tensfy the influence making for strength. energy, increased ambition, | love Of fair play which is born and l cherished at Yale. And then, in the | future after the organization becomes strong. there is the hope that the | organization will be able 10 help 1 young men to gain the advantages Of | a higher education which would not l be theirs were it not for the practical, | financial assistance this organization | will give them.
 Years from now there may be in i Yale. a young man who, today, is member Of the Boys Club or this city, or one who is q newsboy on the street. | and such young man. the poor hoy of today-will be there because this Saturday night number Of graduates of that university gather and form Yale club in this city. Graduates of other institutions may follow the ex- ample set Other men who have had the advantage Of the longer period of schooling d college course gives may bring to New Britain similar benefits. The possible good results may not be Sufficient for the moment is it to emphasize that wonderful good. practically and spiritually. has come 10 the world because Of the earnest desire of mparatiyely small group Of men or women to re- fuse to bury in the earth the talents that have been given them but. rather. 'eel the responsibility Of helping others .o the advantages. fortune or their own efforts have brought to them.