Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II YALE UNIVERSITY ALL State universities look alike to the average Eastern man. The average Western man couples Yale and Harvard in the same phrase as inevitably as he does the words " Scylla and Charybdis," " hearth and home," or " free and equal." He does not see how a color-blind man can tell them apart. But when he comes to visit Yale and Harvard and to associate with their people, he perceives not only the difference in their architectural physiognomy, but also something of the difference in the college spirit which is so strongly felt by the alumni of the two institutions. This difference in spirit seems to me most clearly expressed by two books that appeared not long ago, "Pragmatism," by Professor James, of Harvard, and "Folkways," by Professor Sumner, of Yale. "Pragmatism" is the Harvard elective system applied to the universe. "Folkways" makes the Yale system of social control the fundamental principle of all morals and manners. The former book preaches a defiant individualism that would free itself even from the bonds of its own past, that would shatter this sorry scheme of things and then remold it nearer to the heart's desire. The latter book shows how completely we are ruled by custom and tradition, and how righteousness and conformity come to mean the same thing. It would be hard to imagine "Pragmatism" proceeding from New Haven or "Folkways" being written in Cambridge. When I first went to Yale, I was timid in my inquiries ARTHUR TWINING HADLEY, President of Yale University. about customs and traditions, for I did not want to make myself any more offensive than my profession required. In my school days at the University of Kansas there was only one persistent custom, that was for each class to disregard the customs which the preceding cla...