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Show Ollraa WII.- llrcrorrallon. There waa once a time when a college col-lege yell wa an laaplrlng cry, not wanting In that mtlody that rceulla from the Mending of aonorou young vole In perfect time and aeeord.rlng-Ing aeeord.rlng-Ing with enthulm, and pronouncing word or phrnic ch-wen with aome reaped re-aped for the rule of euphony. It waa undoubtedly inualc ot rt barbaric- kind, turh a mirkeil the beginning of civilization, civ-ilization, but It held tha element of harmony, with a defined cadcucu nnd meaaiire and pent-up fire that had aomcthlng of tho flavor of Homeric day Ihe college yell of today hi lott all of It inualc, much ot He Iniplratlon and moat of Ha algnlflcanee It la no longer a epontanroua outpouring of pride and loyalty to the alma mater, but n hareh mnchanlam which at th turning of a crank pour forth a groat volume of dlacoMant aounJ Ita main object aeema to be to make n nolae, and a bigger, louder, more dlugreeable nolae than the rival arhool, ahould Ita reprrnUllvea be preeent. Now, It may be that American In-atllutlon In-atllutlon of learning are wholly do-pendent do-pendent upon the college yell for prea-ervntlon prea-ervntlon and auatenanee, and that they might helptcaaly rnllapae ahould Ita aupnort be withdrawn. Among conaervatlve people, however, there la a growing auaplrton that the Intcrcata of education may be conserved with a little more decorum and a little leaa yell. Borne one haa wlailv auggeated that an Initial atep In woanlng tha American unlveralty from dependence upon tho yell would be to follow the evamplo of Oitord and Cnmbrldge and fix, a certain day In the year whan Indent In-dent ahjill be conceded unlimited II-cenae, II-cenae, when dlaclpllne and Ihe faculty ahall take back aeata, and youth and merriment relrn auprrmo, and not college col-lege yell and claaa yclla alone be the order of the hour, but when all manner man-ner ot cat calla and carlcaturo of tho domlnlea ahall be reckoned among the day'a privilege. Should auch nn order or-der be catnbllahed, ao atrango a combination com-bination of mantlnraa and ot babyhood baby-hood la the American atudent that, finding hlmaelt eaat wholly upon hla own reponlblllty, one mny aafely predict pre-dict ho would uae hla liberty with a wlae reatralnt and cnnalderatlon unknown un-known to Kngllah unlvcraltlea. |
