Abstract

Republican Decadence at The Colleges

For some twenty years, beginning with 1870, the classes or the Academic Department of Yale University just before graduation have had printed a volume of class statistics-- known now as the "class-book." In the three classes, whose party opinions have been formed on recent political questions, the Democrats number more than one-half the Republicans, while in the ten years before 1882 they were only about one-fifth; and the Democrats, "Independents," and "Mugwumps" together have had, in the three classes, say three votes to four of the Republicans. The Democratic and Republican "vote" combined has not kept pace with the increase of numbers in the graduating classes and the difference must be made up in part at least of those who refuse to go into the class statistics as members of either of the two leading parties.