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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . » . . . YALE BANNER AND POT POURRI j ' .vavavj ' ssssssss . OLD BRICK ROW supervision of the choice which will guara ntee the system against becoming an incentive to exclusiveness rather than a guardian of the old democracy. It is not difficult to visualize a Yale reconstituted along the lines sug- gested. To the undergraduate the plan seems perfectly feasible and is on the whole appealing. To the alumnus it necessarily looks like a big break with the past. But we who have been out of college for a quarter of a century must remember that Yale has already gone through an enormous change during that period, until we are hardly the best judges as to the social conditions of to-day. We are and should be the watchdogs of sound tradition, and as such we should be ready to support a plan that bids fair to retain the realities in which we believe, while changing the forms. Yale — the external, the formal Yale — has been changing continuously, along with the rest of our national institutions. But to an astonishing degree, Yale has retained throughout the changes, her characteristic qualities. Here on the horizon is one more change, its inception at least made possible by alumni generosity, sacrificing in part the old class spirit, rendered weak by circumstances, but making possible in its place a new House spirit with a vitality that shoidd rival the class spirit of the nineties. Within the separate groups should be possible the maintenance of the old loyalty which enabled every man to get the most out of his college contacts. At the same time within the larger Yale, so long as the colleges are housing units only, we shall retain the benefits of a university with the breadth and richness of a cosmopolitan life such as we know at present. Amidst the advantages of the new we shall have preserved the spirit of the old. 21
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,,,,,,.,...,... YALE BANNER AND POT POURRI J ' avavavj ' s sss enough to arouse a sense of individuality and unity; here, certainly, is the great opportunity for Yale. We are all agreed that much is lost in the extent and complexity of modern Yale life. It is much more difficult to acquire a loyalty toward and a love for a great mass of fellow students than to develop the same emotions toward a smaller group with whom one has more constant and intimate contact. At present therefore those of us who believe in the subdivision of the undergraduate body would hold that the best plan is to establish residential units providing for something in the neighborhood of two hundred men each. Such units must be complete in themselves. That is, if we are to have :uiy real value in living together we must really live together. Instead of trooping over to a general dining hall we must have in each group our own dining hall for it is in dining together that we are most apt to take the first steps toward intimacy and understanding. Furthermore there must be conditions estab- lished, including an attractive lounge adjoining the dining hall, which shall enable us to live like human beings and meet eacli other on natural and sensible terms in a more leisurely way than we do at present under existing dining conditions. We should liave then in each housing unit an attractive dining hall with provision for faculty members and invited guests, and this should be the regular ])lace for all members of a given house to eat. Another element working toward the establishment of a proper atmos- phere would be a rather informal organization of each House. There would be a Head, by whatever title we are to call him, who would live in the House and would have general charge of all its affairs. Probably several other members of the faculty, particularly associated with that House, would live there also and still others might have their offices there. In this way a given group of the faculty would become definitely associated with each House. Further they would be available for natural and easy acquaintance with the men and, without having any specified function as advisors, might be consulted with less formality than officers known to the students only officially. Physically the development of such separate colleges should not prove difficult. The plans now in train for new dormitories, Avhich we must have under any system, contemplate groups entirely suited to this purpose. In the near future there will be started such a group on Elm Street and land has already been allocated for further groups varying in size and accommodating from one hundred and fifty to two hundred and fifty men each. Harkness Memorial Quadrangle would lend itself readily to subdivision of this sort and the buildings of the old campus might, without additions and without en- croachment on the campus itself, be treated as groups, each group being fur- nished with a dining hall and lounge. There is no plan to change the old campus. There remains the question of selection. How are the members of each group to be chosen? As the whole plan is one for the future rather than the immediate present it is not wise to prejudice this question by premature dis- cussion. In general, however, it would appear that there must be a certain freedom of choice on the part of the entering student if the grou])ing is to be really successful. In the second place, it is equally clear that the different groups must be made equally desirable, and, finally, that there must be some 20
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