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 - Class of 1929

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Page 20 text:

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YALE BANNER AND POT POURRI ' avaw.». ' . The Subdivision of the College By Clarence W. Mendell Dean of Yale College IHE quadrangle question is squarely before us — to be reviewed from every angle and all sides. At first glance it aiigbt seem to be largely a mathematical prob- lem: how many small quadrangles of assorted sizes can be j3ut into a large irregular space i But it is a much more complicated matter than that, for it involves the mores of Vale and hence the emotions of Yale men everjnvhere. A generation ago it was a popular tradition at Yale to talk about the democratic stroke oar at Harvard who knew everj man in his boat to speak to except a couple of fellows up in the bow. Eiveryone at Yale felt perfectly sure that democracy was a Yale product. We were con- vinced that we knew intimately and liked every man in our class. At least we would not let the world think otherwise. We smiled too with confident superiority at the Harvard Gold Coast. The} ' had elaborate and exclusive dormitories and they wallowed in luxiuy. We even boasted, I am afraid, of our own lack of baths and felt that it was a sign of one hundred per cent d emocracy. Now it can hardly be doubted that numbers have much to do with democ- racj ' or at least with the form which democracy may take. Kven in the early days I think there was never a desire at Yale to claim the kind of democracy which levels all men to the plane of the lowest. There were vigorous competi- tions and rigid application of the rules of competition. It was never felt that Senior elections were perversive of the spirit of democracy. What Yale did insist on was the equal opportunity of every man and it has always prevented so far as possible the exclusion of any individual or group from the opportu- nities it has to offer. Along with this has gone the attempt to live up to the democratic principle not only in letter but in spirit, to know ones classmates so far as possible, to bring out the best that was in each one. Out of this attempt at social understanding came what was early known as the Yale democracj Unless I misunderstand it the Harvard claim of greater democracy at the same period was based on this reasoning: Every individual has an equal right to follow his own inclinations and to indulge his likes and dislikes. A true democracy will have classes or cliques in great number because that indicates that men are going each his own way and recognizing the right of others to do the same. I suspect that this difference was in large part the result of num- bers. With the large classes at Harvard the aim which Yale recognized would have been impossible of fulfilment. Yale is now larger than Harvard was a generation ago. With entering classes of eight hundred and fifty we cannot hold at all rigidly to the old ideal, at least we cannot hope to attain to it along the same lines as before. If, how- ever, we still believe in our definition of democracj ' and if we still believe in 16

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