Show one of the most unpleasant incidents of american college life was waa the bending of ft a yale university flag and a letter to a professional thug about to enge gage in ft a prize fight the letter asked the tb prize fighter to hang the flag la in bis corner of the ring and assured him that bat it he be won the fight it would delight dalight the hearts ot of all true yale men 11 it was waa signed ly by a few members of the junior claa this act was promptly repudiated by the tha almost sentiment of the tha university the sur sup priming feature of the incident Is that students tg who had bad spent more than two years yeara in the university should have hav so BO meagre an idea ot of tho the proprieties of college life as to take such a liberty with the yale colors and presume to line up all true yale men on the side of one thug as against another thug there can hardly be ba a doubt that every ever Y young man who signed his name to that letter Is already ashamed of the at act |