Athletics for All

In any institution as large as Yale it seems impossible that there could exist between student and teacher a camaraderie other than occasioned by an all too rare intellectual affinity. It is a noticeable fact that transition between the preparatory school and that college has been accompanied by a similar change in the attitude of the Faculty towards its students. When contacts have been made they have generally emanated from sacrifice at the common altar of scholarship, but rarely at that of friendship, for friendship's sage alone. It is encouraging therefore when opportunities arise in which mutual respect can be red in other fields more common to the student body as a whole. Such, however, did happen last week when the "Faculty Rowdies," a sobriquet devised by the ingenious student, met the "Campus Gentlemen," again ironically named to fight it out in baseball.

In athletics, particularly, there is a medium in which the so-called "official standoffishness" of the Faculty can be mitigated. The barrier, however, is not simply the outgrowth of a natural attitude attributable to the faculty alone but is rather the product of several contributing factors. On one hand we find the more conservative, the more find the more conservative, the more narrowed, and the dependent individual; on the other the more radical, the more care-free member, relatively independent of society or of business. Between the two there has been and will be the conflict between old age and youth that in the latter case approaches disdain and in the former tends to paternalistic superiority.

Last Friday the baseball game showed up the human side of those austere and dignified members of the faculty better than Mr. Hoover's new secretary employed to "humanize him." Students flocked to see not simply the unbending official, but his personality behind the mask of officialdom. They went to see their elders take in good humor an occasional personal jibe. They came back satisfied that after all faculty men are not entirely unsympathetic, inhuman pedagogues. Yale News.