The Yale Literary Magazine, Vol. 60: April, 1895 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Excerpt from The Yale Literary Magazine, Vol. 60: April, 1895

Yale independence and Yale Spirit that we allow a few school boys to select our prominent men for us? For prominence gained without prestige is a weary journey.

Here we strike the real root of the matter. The petty secret societies of the great preparatory schools dictate to the secret societies of Yale for at least three years of the course. Instead of rebuking such presumption we actually foster it. No one will deny that college politics are dominated by cliques, which have no earthly excuse for existence? They are shrewd enough, it is true, to get a percentage of some very good men in the entering classes, but that before other, and often better, men could be tested. They pick their favorites and elect them to any office within the gift of the class, they present a united front at all elections and easily defeat the dis membered majority, and saddest of all, the majority repeatedly presents its neck to be trampled on. By the time we discover the importance of the cliques we have become accustomed to Speak of them with bated breath, and so we let the matter pass. To our shame, be it said, the best we can say of some of the most prominent men in Yale College is an association with this or that clique.

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