Life — December 19, 1895 — page 12: what you’re looking at

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-LIFE-: YALE OR HELL? HE remark of one New Woman that she would as soon send her son to hell as to Yale College has given another New Woman a chance to revel in the dregs of student life, and make of her discoveries a page article for a sensational New York daily. Unfortunately she avoids the broad view and dwells only on disgusting details of the sort which seem so attractive to the New Woman philanthropist and investigator. * . NY great University is an easy mark for people who are looking for vice. Among any two or three thousand young men there are bound to be vicious ones, and their doings are apt to be conspicuous. In a place like New Haven the student is a prominent figure. His own actions are noted and his shoulders are made to bear a good many of the sins of the young men of the town. The eo; New Woman's mind can not take the broad view, and she is easily deceived into taking the badness of the few as the general characteristic of the .~s many. ‘é At Yale there are four strings pulling the £5) youth towards right-living. They are, first, the religious sentiment, which keeps a large percentage of the young men in the straight and narrow path. Second, the requirements of the curriculum and of college discipline, which make it almost impossible for a dissipated youth to remain in college. But the most potent factors are the healthy athletic atmosphere and the sentiment among the ‘students themselves which makes the “ bummer” a fersona non grata among his fellows. This last is a feeling which has grown rapidly during the past few years, more, perhaps, at Yale than at any other similar institution. Lire does not mean to say that there is no drinking or other dis- sipation at Yale College, but it does mean to say that the majority of students there regard a man’s private life very much as other people do, and visit on offenders the same punishment as that meted out by the world at large. At Yale a man must to-day lead a pretty clean life to stand well with his fellows, The small, percentage of persistent offenders find Coventry mighty close at hand. LiFe’s sympathies in this matter are not Yale—an institution pretty well able to ta are of itself. It iS quite sorry for the good and philanthropic women whose sex is discredited by the foolishness and nasty-mind- edness of a few notoriety-seeking female persons. The genuine New Woman, she who has the practical advancement “THE 3 lone: FUT 29 THE WHOLE TRUTH Itogether with of the sex at heart, should be quick to disavow the words of the hysterical and dirt-loving women who seek only notoriety. Please let Eli take care of himself, sisters. The world is full of the poor, the sick and the distressed who need your gentle services more. Metcalfe. T° looks as though there might very soon be a vacancy on the throne of Turkey. There are a few visiting states- men in this country who would at least be improvements on the present tenant, and for whom there seems to be no American jobs from which they could not well be spared. We would respectfully recommend Messrs. Thomas C. Platt, Matthew Quay, Richard Croker, William McKinley, David B. Hill, and, after the House of Representatives shall have been licked into proper subjection, Mr. Thomas B. Reed. Any one of them would make a bully Sultan. . . . USTICE has been having a fine old fandango in New J York of late. Father Knickerbocker has to pay the ° fiddler whether the’ music belongs to the Duffy-Divver or the Goff-Mott school. IN A BOSTON ART GALLERY. ning Bean, Jr.: N DO NOT BORE ME WITH AN EXHIBITION OF AFFECTED oR REAL ABHORRENCE OF THE ‘'NUDE IN ART." ALLEVIATE THE DISTRESS OF MY HAVING TO APPEAR IN PUBLIC IN YOUR GOOD NATURED BUT PLEBEIAN SOCIETY BY DETACHING YOURSELF FROM YOUR PURITANICAL PRUDERY. NOW WE WILL PROCEED TO THE OBSOLETE MASTERS. MY DEAR GOVERNESS, FOR THE LOVE OF comicbooks.com