EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - Having occasion to examine recently the will of Lewis Morris, executed Nov. 19, 1760, I found in it the following clause: "It is my desire that my son Gouveneur Morris may have the best education that is to be had in England or America, but my express will and directions are that he be never sent for that purpose to the colony of Connecticut least he should imbibe in his youth that low craft and cunning so incident to the people of that country, which is so interwoven in their constitutions that all their art cannot disguise it from the World, tho' many of them under the Sanctifyed Garb of Religion have endeavored to impose themselves on the World for honest men."
This terse, sturdy, unambiguous declaration leads unmistakably to the conviction that Yale's unenviable reputation is not of recent growth but is as old as Yale College itself.
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