| Show POOR 1 aa BEST YALE scholarships GO TO THOSE WHO LIVE PLAINLY report of dean wright shows show that scion of wealthy families are dullest dulled scholars protests protect Pro against luxury new haven coon conn dean henry wright of yale has blied flied a report which shows that poor scholarship goes hand band in hand with luxurious dor ml ral that nearly all of the best pupils in the university live in the cheap plain quarters ou qu aiters but that almost all of the students picked for the secret societies come from the rich men a dormitories dean has baa kept a record of the residence of tho the rich and poor students and the good and the poor scholars in yale classes for five eats eais and tho the report shows shown that the resl real dents of the elegant dormitories are becoming worse scholars than ever although it la Is growing to be more rare to fand an occupant of the cheap dor ml mi in a secret society dean wright does not attack the so defy clety system as the only recommend a tion of reform he recommends that yale erect more dormitories so no that members of the freshmen tiesh men and sophomores can caa be housed by the tha college in steal stead of being lodged in the palatial private dormitories doimi doi ml tories where at present they grow to neglect their studies and form cliques which run the secret so defies throughout their yale course dean wright found in 1904 that 31 per cent of the freshmen living in the rich mens men s private dormitories had been reproved by the faculty tor for poor scholarship against 17 per cent of the tha freshmen who roomed in the plain dormitories on the campus warnings Wain ings sent out tor for low scholarship to the present freshmen class show thit that 32 12 3 per cent of those in lux arlous dormitories wei e found deficient lu in their studies to 12 per cent of those residing in pierson hall a moderate pi iced dormitory open to freshmen tiesh men this a shows aws w where ere the e a start ar ia a ma made e toward towar poor scholarship in the yale course nowadays 9 dean wright a investigation into the list of honors won covering co ering general scholarship averages for the first two years of the course shows that ont oab three per cent of the students who fetched retched the honor list roomed in private dormitories while 11 S lived in the moderate priced dormitories how sweeping has become the ties ot of picking secret society members member a from high priced dormitories Is at tested by the fact that of 80 members of the class ot of 1910 who were chosen to junior fraternities 70 were viere from the expensive dormitories and only eight of the moderate price the lale alo aluin alumni 1 weekly says in discussing dean wright wrights a I 1 iceie hei e v m ere those who inclined to the belief that hat in the last few decades there has developed at yale a nation for the simple college life and a tendency to surround the under graduate days with luxury in other words theist are those who see in the rise of private dormitories a tendency toward the establishment of conditions characteristic of harvard at the pres ent time where abere the richer ates have forsaken the campus dor ml mi torlea for what euphoniously Is called the gold coast block of lux urious private houses suggestive of prosperous metropolitan clubs with veiled ll li attendants and operated with more than oriental splendor but any close student of the situation can see that the rise at yale of the private dormitories to la not pil wilmarily pilm arlly marily it if at all due to a personal preference for lumur on the part of and soph amores |
