Show nnnnnnnnnnnnn n n POOR STUDENTS BEST YALE SCHOLARSHIPS GO TO THOSE WHO LIVE PLAINLY Report of Dean Wright Shows That Scions of Wealthy Families Are Dullest ScholarsProtests Against Luxury New Haven ConnDean Henry Wright of Yalo has filed a report which shows that poor scholarship goes hand in hand with luxurious dormitories dor-mitories that nearly all of the best pupils In the university live in the cheap plain quarters but that qlmost all of tho students picked for tho secret societies come from the rich TTi nti a Inrtn I tnttno uw Dean Wright has kept a record of tile residence of the rich and poor students and the good hnd tho poor scholars in Yalo classes for five years and the report shows that the residents resi-dents of tho elegant dormitories aro becoming worse scholars than ever although it is growing to be moro rare to find an occupant of the cheap dormitories dor-mitories In a secret society Dean Wright does not attack the society so-ciety system as the only recommendation recommenda-tion of reform ho recommends that Yale erect more dormitories so that members of the freshmen and sophomores sopho-mores can be housed by the college instead In-stead of being lodged in the palatial private dormitories where at present they grow to neglect their studies and I form cliques which run the secret societies so-cieties throughout their Yale course Dean Wright found In 1904 that 31 per cent of the freshmen living in the rich mens private dormitories had been reproved by the faculty for poor scholarship against 17 per cent of i the freshmen who roomed in the plain dormitories on the campus Warnings sent out for low scholarship scholar-ship to the present freshmen class show that 32 per cent of those in luxurious lux-urious dormitories wore found deficient In their studies to 12 per cent of those residing In Pierson hall a moderate priced dormitory open to freshmen This shows where the start Is made toward poor scholarship in the Yale course nowadays Dean Wrights Investigation into the list of honors won covering general scholarship averages for the first two years of the course shows that only three per cent of the students who reached the honor list roomed in private dormitories while 115 lived In the moderatepriced dormitories How sweeping has become the practice prac-tice of picking secret society members from highpriced dormitories is attested at-tested by the fact that of 80 members of tho class of 1910 who were chosen to junior fraternities recently 70 were from tho expensive dormitories and only eight of the moderate price The Yale Alumni Weekly says in discussing Dean Wrights report There were those who Inclined to the belief that In tho last few decades there has developed at Yule a disinclination disincli-nation for the simple college life and a tendency to surround the undergraduate under-graduate days with luxury In other words there are those who see in the rise of private dormitories a tendency toward tho establishment of conditions characteristic of Harvard at the present pres-ent time where tho richer undergraduates undergradu-ates have forsaken the campus dormitories dor-mitories for what euphoniously is called the Gold Coast block of luxurious lux-urious private houses suggestive of prosperous metropolitan clubs with liveried attendants and operated with more than oriental splendor Hut any close student of the situation can seo that the rise at Yale of the private dormitories Is not primarily if at all due to a personal preference for luxury on the part of freshmen and sophomores soph-omores u |