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Show oo . COLLEGES DO IRE MM THAW GOOD CHICAGO. Sept. 10. R. T. Crane, millionaire iron manufacturer, made public today an arraignment of th,o big universities of tho country. He charges alarming prevalence of drinking drink-ing and gambling among the students. Columbia he ranks the worst, but conditions con-ditions at Harvard, Princeton and Cornell, Cor-nell, ho declares, aro almost as bad. Of the students at Harvard, 90 per cent drink In their freshman year; 05 per cent in their senior year and 15 per cent of them go Irrevocably to the bad, according to the report of an Investigation which Mr. Crano has made. Mr. Crane has spent much time and money Investigating the results of higher or college education. So biltor is he Inconsequence that ho declares colleges do more harm than good. Mr. Crano says In his report. "An outsider can scarcely realize the amount of drinking that goes on in the clubrooms of tho colleges. Referring Re-ferring particularly to Harvard, I estimate es-timate the number of students who combine In a mild degree wine and bad women, Go "per cent, who drink heavily, 35 per cent, and who have two and thrco 'bats' a year also 4G per cent. I do not doubt that even worse stales of affairs exist in other colloges. At Princeton, it 16 beer, beer, beer. Tho body of students. In my mind, drink cvon more than Harvard Har-vard men. On one occasion I believe thero must have been more than 300 students dead drunk. "Ajcohol drinking is recognized In so large a degree that clubs have their tables in barrooms. I never was so shocked In my life as when I found New Haven the dissolute, debauched nnd whiskey town that it is Somo tlmo ago tho statement appeared In a New Haven paper that thero wcro 2,000 fallen women In that city. "A( Cornell the conditions arc somewhat some-what the saino, although I believe Cornell Cor-nell students do nqt carry their excesses ex-cesses so far as do those at Princeton, Prince-ton, Yale and Cambridge The Cornell Cor-nell boys are great on beer, as are also the men at Princeton. "At Columbia, I believe thero exists ex-ists moro dobaucherf Ie any othel college, on account of Its proximity to tho famous rosorts of tho city If further proof be necessary, let mi quote from a letter received from E C, Mercer, who ti njoclal secretary secre-tary of the Association of Colleges of North America, and who Is following tills matter up for tho association, which shows that It has taken upon Jtielf the work of reforming collcgo men. He Is delivering a lecture entitled en-titled 'College Men I Have Met In tho Slums and Prisons .of New York.' He bays: " 'I did pay, and have written proof to ba,ck me up. that I have met personally per-sonally add have heard from the most reliable authorities of some 1.200 col-lego col-lego bred men in tho slums, prisons. Jails and sanitariums who were down and out through fast living. The noted bread lino in our city has constantly In it collego-bred men.' " Mr, Crane's report, which Is printed In the current number of Valve World, owned by Mr. Crane, describes unsparingly unspar-ingly student dissipation and is a remorseless re-morseless indictment of not only the universities but of the municipal gov-ernments gov-ernments thai permit Buch conditions |