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TTTE OMAHA- SUNDAY BEE: JULY 21, 1907.
Faults of Princeton Clubs for Which President Wilson Opposes Them
SO
begin-
mUE upper class club system at
1'rln. eton, which Is causing Pres
ident Wood row Wilson an.l the
J trustees or the university
rnui ri concern, hail Its
n.r.g in a group or Xck or twelve students
who clubbed together fur their mean In 1'79
The l'rlncetnn authorities In the '.Vs had
abolished all secret societies ami fraterni
ty a from the college and hart forbidden
their cxlatence In the future. The social
life ot the campua had for years centered
anlely about the two big literary societies,
Clio and Whig halls.
iiicne nana w-re r,r a sicret character,
but they w.r e.-.err.oi fr,Jm Ul, ioujty
and, what was more to th point, a cook
who could aet them a pood table. Ho
when' It came time for them to lenve the
college they saw no reaeon why thay
shouldn't pass a rood thing aong to their
friends who had a year or two mora at
1'rlncetnn. The same thing was repeated
the following year, and ao on until 1WSI,
when tho club was Incorporated and fairly
launched on Its career.
It got a little house of lta own and since
then has moved two or three times, until
now It la domiciled In one of the most
Insurious club buildings on Prospect ave
nue. The Ivy Club house, which was built
only a fsw ysara ago, represented an ex-
foot ball games or to commencement. The
clubs are provided with a good many sleep
ing rooms and the graduates are able to get
sleeping accommodations as well as their
meals at a much more elaborate rate than
they would have to pay at the hotels. The
university authorities forbid any of the
undergraduate club members from living
In the houses. Tobacco and cigars are on
sale at the clubs, but never any alcoholto
drinks.
President Wilson's complaint that the
cluba are distracting the Interest of the
undergraduate from the real purpose o
his university life and splitting the univer
sity Into cliques and combinations Is, in
the opinion of Dearly every PrLncti.n ip-
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bane. Any member of the nollegn-fnr
Princeton wasn't a university thon-was
ellKlbln to membership In the halls, and
everybody belonged to one or tho other.
To the Princeton men of earlier days thu
question, ' Are you a Clio or a Whig man'."'
always caine next to the question. "Are
you a Princeton man?''
From the winners of the lnterhall debates
Were selected the men who should repre-
pendlture of more than HOO.OOO. The club
counting the alumni, has a membership
close to BOO. The Ivy CHub house and tho
new Cottage Club house, which are shown
above, are the moat luxurious of the
Princeton student clubs. The Cottaite Club
building, which has been finished only a
year or so, also cost more than IIOO.OOO
The Cottage club was organized about
nve years after the Ivy club. Tiger Inn
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tests. Matches between the halls afforded recent years there has ben a remarkable
a meane of selecting the best chess players increase In the number of upper class or-
ln the college, and there were other con- ganlzatlons. until now thirteen of them
tests. Every honor attained by a C llo or a have homes on Proapect avenue With the
whig man was an honor for his hall. Olnry Increase in numbers there has. as Illustra
ted In the Cottage and Ivy houses, come a
steady growth of the degree of luxury which
the club members demand. The recent re
port of the trustees on President Wilson's
proponed plan referred to this phase of the
situation:
'The two oldest club houses," said the
trustees, now have houaea of extraordi
nary elegance and luxury of appointment.
as an alumnus In the outside world re
dounded to the hnll s credit in undergrad
uate circles. The lives of great men '
Were often used not to remind the umler
subUme, but to persuade them that they
f nuld Join the right club. President James
VJidlaon was probably the most overworked
man In this respect.
Rut there wns something lacking about
the social side of the hall life, for with the an1 "v other cluba are maturing plana for
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appearance of the upper class clubs they
have been steadily on the decline as a
factor In the undergraduate life. Karh hall
has a beautiful marble home In the very
heart of the campus, hut among the under
graduates now there bio hundreds who
replacing their present comfortable etruo
tures with buildings which will rival the
others In beauty, spaciousness and com
fort." The trustees fear that If the preaent un
dergraduate tendency toward club life Is
have never seen the Inside of the bulldlnsts owed to continue uncurbed the university
llseir will become "only an artistic setting
and background for life on Prospect
avenue,"
Tim views above give a pretty good Idea
of the luxury of the Interior of these club
houses. In the view of the Tiger Inn hall
way, fur Instance, are aome specimens of
the fine U-ak furniture with which a large
and who have no desire to become mem
bers. There are many others who have
paid their Initiation fees and have not been
In the halls since the nlpht they Joined. It
Is doubtful whether some of these members
would be able to give the password at the
door. The halls still exist, but only ai
training schools for debaters and speakers.
tern which President Wilson suggests as a
substitute for club life, membership was
not determined on an elective plan. It was
only a matter of choice with the under
graduate which hall he should enter.' Rut
President Wilson's qund system offers
something that the halls never offered, and
that Is the actual association of the men
In their living quarters for the proposed
plan of reform contemplates a common
dining room and a meeting hall for each
quad. Thla Idea Is borrowed from the
Rome Prlncetonlans nolnt mil thnf in thl. 'urt of lhe clubhouae U furnished. Thla
hall system, as In the dormitory quad sys- furnllure """e fr " old Bngllah ahbey.
'o it are carvea many Dirjlcel quotations
and scenes from the Bible. The furniture
was given to the Tiger Inn by Mrs. Robert
Usrrett of Baltimore, whose son, Robert,
was one of the founders of the club. The
tv.ore cosey. It la of JEllaabethan, half
as ths Ivy or the Cottage house, but It Is
More cos.y. It Is of Elizabethan, half
timber Style.
The Ivy library, shown In one of the
above views, Is the finest among the upper
olass olubs. while the hallway of the new
Cottaae alub la iwrhm, th. , . . -. 1. 1 ..
k T ' . T.Te U'6 room to be on Aspect avenue. The
club, has always been that of the first one c,ttae club was designed by McKim
organised In 1KT. to afford a place for con- M.ad White. It 1. finished throughout
genial men to come together for their ( foreg wood,. Thll haway t the rear
t lo" out on a oourt of Italian villa effect.
Perhaps the university Itself was In a A atone halu-trade extends across the
measure responsible for the appearance of court at the rear, connecting the two wings
the upper class cluhs In the beginning. A of the building in which are eocated the
good many years ago the college ran a main rooms,
commons where the undergraduates took Each Undergraduate member of a club
thetr meals, but Princeton traditions record pays an initiation fee of about U6 and
several Instances where volleys of strong weskly dues of SS. The weekly dues Include
butterballs were fired at the commons cell- the cost of board. These weekly dues aia
Ing and other eatablea were thrown about paid In at the university offices eighteen
the place. "The revolt of the commons'" weeks In advance. Just as though the men
la how the college authorities characterised living at regular boarding houaea,
such an occurrence. and then the money Is passed out to the
The commons were finally abandoned and managers of the olubs. There Is usually
the undergraduate was turned over to the undergraduate manaer who haa his
tender mercy of the Prlnoeton boarding weekly dues remitted for his work. The
house keeper. The university authorities erraduate members of the olubb pay annual
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-.uiii iiuun aeepers a -" " '. im pnvueges o w"" ib looglng Tor Information droi.s his
helping- hand by compelling the atudents th e,ub whaa thajr return to base bail or hat down on the under class man s head
to pay for their board eighteen weeks m
advance. The money was paid Into the rr
university treaaury In a lump and then
monthly payments were made to the board
ing house keepers. A man was alwaya at
liberty to change his boarding place, but
the university officers never appeared to
be greatly dellghud to listen to complaints.
Prior to 1879 little groups had run their
own table, but none of them had ever
thought of organising permanently and
electing their successors. The ten or
twelve who were the founders of the Ivy
ciuo had found a comfortable little place, governor
well founded. Where the difference lies
Is that some of the graduates think the
present system can be corrected and re
tained, while' President Wilson believes It
must go.
There were days when the electioneer
ing for men by the Princeton cluhs was
worse than it has been in recent years, but
then there weren't nearly so many clubs
on Prospect avenue and they had not come
to assume such an Important place In the
undergraduates' mind. In the early life of
the cluba the members were picked almost
before they entered college and were
"nursed" along by the club memlers for
the first two years of their college course
with tho understanding that they were to
get an election at the end of their aopho
more year.
But with the Increase In the number of
clubs the rivalry of open electioneering
became more intense, and finally the under
graduates themselves drew up an Interclub
treaty. This trenty specified in detail Just
when the elections were to be sent out.
No member of any club was to approach
any under class men in any way until his
acceptance of the election had been re
ceived. Tho club members were fo elect
eight men from the sophomore class, and
these elKht men were to choose the re
maining seven or eight, subject to the ap
proval of tho members of the cluh. That
Is practically the system that is In effect
now. but the treaty has been broken tlmo
and again, although severe penalties have
been meted out to violators. Princeton
undergraduates who have stood loyally for
the honor system In examination, seem to
be unable under the excitomcnt of an
upper class club election to refrain from
violating, If not the letter, the spirit of the
treaty.
For Instance, Instead of approaching an
man openly the club member
s v y Cz. its z. rjsrzi n vr"
and asks smlltn.. . prooably asking what the make of the hat
"How do you lll-.e that?" s. Tt he doesn't like It he will probably
Of course the hat h-js a club band on It- say nothing', because It would bo rather
the gre. n and gold of Ivy, the white and "fresh" on his part to dislike a senior'a
green of Tiger Inn or the red and black of hat.
Cap and Gown and the Bopliomore, If he
likes It, will smile In return and say to,
If .tie sophomore Is a friend of his class- pnrafory schools. For years the St. Tsui's
mate Jones. Jones happens to have a school club got the red hats from the
brother In Cannon or Colonial or Klin, and sophomores, and for years it was almost a
It is prety well known where he la going, certainty that the freshman who started
If the aophomore doesn't know Jonrs tho out In the St. Paul's club would land
upper class man remarks "Well, he Is a at the end of his sophomore year In Ivy
bully good fellow; you ought to get ac- or Tiger Inn or c. ttngo.
qualnted with him." Wlthln th. n((t year r two th-
But the most pernicious practice Is among slty has opened a commons for freshmen
the sophomores themselves. A few who again, but President Wilson litis said that
get hints like those described or who have the club feeling has so permeated the unl-
been tipped off where they are going before versify that tho university authorities are
they entered college Immedlatly get busy obliged to have separate rooms for various
with the freshmen. There Is nothing in the groups In tho commons.
interclub agreement which prohibits a About two-thirds of the two upper classea
sophomore from talking club as much as belong to the upper class clubs. The re-
he likes. Bo the sophomores get a group mainlng one-third are necessarily compelled
of freBhmen Into line for an election that Is to endure a humiliation for the remainder
years away. a.very man who enters of their course
a club signs a statement that he has not
been approached by any club member. The
trouble Is In defining Just exactly what con
stitutes an "approach."
The upper class system has resulted In
the breaking up of the sophomore class rnen leave tho university rather than face
lnio ciuns. These cluhs are merely board- the two years of college, life as a member
ing house clubs, but they are stopping of the nonclub frnlernlty. Club men as a
stones to the club houses on Prospect ave- rule go cut of their way to try to bo
Due. Until recently each sophomore club pleasant and companionable with those
had Its own name and hat. There were who have missed an election, but these ad
also eating clubs In the freshmen class, vances do not smooth things,
and some freshmen club alwavs fell heir In the last year or two things have hap
to the colors of a sophomore club hut. For pened In Princeton's athletics which some
Instance, the graduates from the fit. Paul's thought could be traced to IU feeling Pn
school at Concord for years started the gendered by the club campaigns. There are
Bt. Paul's club In freshmen year. They some who believe that a rieroua., ., .u-
took In with them some well known grad- club rivalries will redound to Princeton's
way of going about it. They want to know ' ZL' .u ZJj '"" ..rPa' mucn on tns u"ctlc "-'J In
...., .uw. 1-' ti onu inurr large pre- me class room.
They feel that they have
been tried by their fellow students and
found lacking In some of the midlines
which go to make up a good fellow. Of
course, any such opinion Is often without
Justification. But It Ih a fact that many
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Then the upper class men have another nates fr
under cla
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Firs la tho atory of the rise nd fail
of Antonio Apache, some time a
person of prominence in he
metropolis of the Western Hem
isphere, a yaiuyered pet of society
and claimant to the title of grandson of
Cochise, the famous chieftain of the Apache swell society
nauon. lhe atory opens In the guberna-
lunai era or Theodura Rnnnvnit Th.
-as Introduced to the swarthy
descendant of Cochise and became deeply
Interested In him. Once Mr. Roosevelt In
vited the Apache to dine with hun and
riven by Mrs. John Jacob Asfor
and he was hand In glove with the Drcxels
and other prominent leaders of the smart
aet. Had Antonio been a dlsdainfjl ma
hatma or a duky maharajah he could not
have cut a wider uih in v.-, t.
Next season, however An.
tonio will not be found gracefully lounging1!
i.m. i..s or ine great. And therebs
hangs the tale.
The downfall of Antonio Apache Is du(
to Edwin W. Demlng and Wlinm vt
Cary, two New York nalnter. r 'li
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u array surgeon-and tcan. and. after a good deal of patient in
had assisted. General Uawton in capturing ve.tig.t.on. th.y were able to throw ,.m.
Uerwnlmo. Naturally enough Mr. Roose- new light on th. dusky do.ccndant of To
velt thought that his friend would be In- chl... Bay. Mr Demlng
terested la studying Antonio. During tb. "W. have Investigated' the fact that hi.
meal at least- so nimii h.. i, vi- c, mo mci mat Ms
velt turned to Oen.ra Wood a7 Z Zpson bU 'r !
marked: "Here, certainly 1. a fin. type", S Cc. S but a 'f l
Amertoaa. Indeed, thl. fellow is th. real Sag.', colored cook. It u . .out time ,"h !
American, th. kind tht en K. ..... . . 11 thne the i
. - - uuo cnaracier of th s lrunnarer i.
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decaying
Oeoeral Wood agreed with his friend th.
governor that Antonio was the real thing
In the plotureenue role of original Amer
ican, and be In turn reoomm.nded Antonio
to hi. frlenda. And It accordingly hap-
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He is not onK- a n.
but a scamp. H. is the same person who
stole a painting from me about nineteen
year, ago, and In consequenc. served two
years In Sing Slug prison."
' The Incident suggests that If Mr. Roose.
v.lt is so easily deceived in ethnic matter.
gristly bears and
people of Gotham. He was "taken up-. whtey and T ,, " Burro"-
by moiety. He wa. th. jue.t 0f honor .t T.l Express v"-"i
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