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PAGE EIGHT Is This The Higher Edacatum? _ Student Says That Universities Are Editor’s Note: Thomas W. Dun can. a senior at Drake University, Des Moines, ia.. recently elected "stu dent philosopher" of t'ac school, has aroused much comment recently by writing for his college paper. The Delphic, a biting criticism, of uni versity life. Accordingly. XEA Serv ieerasked him to summarize his views on- modern college life in a special astieie, aud that article is herewith presented. To show that Mr. Duncan is not a student who lias been soured by being left out of those college activities that he” criticizes, the following excerpt from a letter from him is printed: * "This story is not written by an f outsider looking in: rather by an in-1 sider looking out. For, here at Drake, j I have been connected with the radi-1 eal group, also with four fraternities —5115.0/ them a local social, one a 10-; cal dramatic, and two national pro fessionals. This is not a sour-grapes. attack 1 r I have represented my college on j the varsity debating squad, I have servin' as Delphic editor for over a I year, and now l am Delphic colum nist. ■* I have known four o’clock dates, hot dances, etc. In other words. I am just the ordiuary college . student.'’ Florida Bulb Growers Making Bid for Holland’s Business ' S A NARCISSUS FIELD NEABORMOMD BEACH toothers in Central Florida are other pioneer oper itors who are winning success in bulb raising The embargo on European bulbs caused by the diseases (bat foreign plants have brought into this country »as given impetus to the bulb raising in the United States and especially its possibilities in Florida. The United States Department of Agriculture as a result if'its research in plant growing in Florida reports (hat the bulbs of the paper white narcissus can be (pieed successfully there. j .“I plant the bulbs,” said Mr. Goodwin, whose lower farm at Fort Pierce has attracted great at tention. “about October first to get them in bloom tor tha ..Christmas business, and then start a con- Inuous succession of planting to catch the markets g January. February and April. It takes me about <eventy days from the time I plant the bulb until I lot the flower and ship it I plant 150,000 gladiola (utbs yearly, and the total cost counting labor v’d J fcQjpijg is about $5,000. I sell the gladiolas to retail (orists at sls per hundred and figure that my Drofits Mr acre come to about $5,006. I till the ground, fertilise it, plant the bulbs and virtually forget about ton for two and a naif months.” Mr. Goodwin has bund a ready market throughout the United States or his bulbs, shipping them as far west as Colorado, p&s mi iv n luTn-ki Mfragcn w W* IHT w. W WW DUNCAN By THOMAS W. DUNCAN [ Written Exclusively for NEA Service ; and The Tribune. | If William Shakespeare were a stu- j dent in a modern American college] ■ he would be politely snubbed, j If Shelley were to enroll tomorrow] ! at any one of ernr middlewestern uni j versities, every fraternity would pass ; i him up as “queer.” Lord Byron would be booted from I the campus before a week had passed, 1 aud .1 doubt very much if Swift or Voltaire would be allowed to attend classes more than three days. The seif-termed “ideal college stu dent” Wf today must not be unusual Although the gMSola business, in which he hat specialized, occupies only sis months of histime rack year. Mr. GoodwtethOs been engaged in raising othej flowers in the remaining time. “There are over one hundred varieties which can be grown and shipped profitably.” be said. “I think that St. Lucie County produces the finest flowera in the world. By expend, ing the same energy and money that 1 did in th« North 1 am making over 200 per cent more profli here in Florida and 1 can grow flowera every month in the year. “Among the other flowera that can bo profitably grown are asparagus plumosus, Bermuda lilies, aspargus aprengari (or fern asparagus), tha sanseivera gaylonica. a tall, feathery plant that will stand in a living room for over three years without water or attention Os any .kind; the. bryophylun, popularly known as .tile Christmas Bells, the Jack. o’-Lantern plant, and file chandelier, atalka ft which will sell F. O. B. aa high as eight dollars per hundred. “The shipping of these flowers is remarkaMy easy * says Mr. Goodwin. *1 cut them when the bad is closed, wrap them In paper, paekibem in special boxes and put them on the Florida Bast Coast Rail* way trains to be shipped North. Bven thouafe. the* may be shipped to distant points storing en route, they wfll bloom Whan pot in’* vase of water. It Is only utessimrj to eut off ons- Wf Inch of the long krSr Left, Thomas \V. Duncan, writer cf the accompanying critic ban of uni versity life. Above, a page Jrmu "The Wampus.” student publication at the University of Southern Cali fornia. Branding the material as "shady," university authorises ex pelled the four students responsible. or extraordinary if he expects to re- ■ main in the favor of his fellow stu dents. He must be ordinary to the nth degree; he must be excruciatingly normal. Indeed, if he is just a trifle subnormal he is much more likely to “make" a good fraternity. He must believe implicitly t'iiat the varsity football squad is composed of young gods, that the half-baked opin ions of his instructors arc tinal, that the "old school spirit” is "great stuff,” and, above all. that his fraternity, his group, lits university are above criti | cism. The university of today is an im ! mense varnishing works where one learns to dance, play bridge and poker, j carry a load of alcohol gracefully, and, ] incidentally, to invent clever excuses I for undone work. It is a convenient place to which John and Mary may go from East Rutterville in order to have the rough edges and sharp cor ners smoothed dowu aud sandpapered. John dons a pair of wide pants, a checkered necktie, and becomes “col legiate.” Mary learns from the "ac- THE CONQUBD DAILY TRIBUNE Old Pipe, y we’re pals W jt/J • ’"'M SIX months ago, Old Pipe, we were . Say good-bye to ’warty, you fellows headed for absolute divorce. We were who doci’tyet know the joys of "a jimmy wrecked en the twin rocks of Tongue pipe and P. A. Tell .gloom to be on Bite and Throat ftareh. I tried tobacco its way. Your first fragrant pipeful will £. A - J fc ’°. u "f after tobacco. Than ... I found, give you a 99-year lease on happiness. Prince Albert! Prince Albert is the mildest, sweetest, ft' Today, Old Pipe, you’re closer to me kindest smoke mortal nmtoevar knew, than a tattooed anchor. P./A. made you Prince Albert gives you a helping hand sweet and cool as the wind from a laden when you are down and the glad hand orchard. P. A. led me out of the hot- when you are riding the crest. A real pipe desert into the pleasant valley of friend that understands your every mood. contented smokers. Comfort fell upon Make a break now for the nearest shop i me .... and it was welcome as rain to where they hand out pipe-peace in tidy 4 f ' T a dusty frog. red tins. —no other tobacco is tike it I O UK. % 1. SamMi Totem » Conpuv. WIHUACn. N. C, tives” the preferred "line" of her sorority, the proper fork to line, the technique of a moonlight date, and her education is complete. When She “Pets." If her sorority “pets.” she “pets," and the male half of the campus knows her as "a hot little number" ; if her group refrains from “petting” for policy's sake, She remains slightly aloof when her boy friend crowds a bit too close, and she is known in fraternity halls as “a dam' good all round girl.” Os course she smokes and now and then alps a bit of throa t scorehing hooch from a silver hip flask—it is a very ordinary procednre, and, in fact, expected . . . Now, to the sophisticated mind, these thing are not a bit shocking. But here is the hitch: Mary considers herself a "college student” and is so' considered by others. John readily admits that he is a “college Student.” Back in East Butterville papa and mama are proud to refer to their off spring as "college students." The term is a misnomer. John and Mary are no more students than Henry the Eighth wan a woman hater. John and Mary are merely eolltgiates, certainly not "students.” John can tall you all about the works of Zane Gray, and Mary is well acquainted with the currant “confes sional” literature, bat neither knows nor cares a whit about Henry Menck en, Carl Van Veehtoo, Edgar Lee Mastere. Joseph Conrad, Sinclair Lewis, Rabelais, Ben Jbhuson. Jam.a Branch Cabell, John Keats, Robert Herrick. Rupert Brooke, etc., etc. To speak of Grieg; Wagner or Chopin is to open one-self to the danger of be ing classed a “high-brow.” Rodin, Aubrey, Beardsley wnd Sargent are unknown. . . . There are, of course, the outcasts, the thinking minority. Circamstances force them together. Invariably they are known os "*the radicals." Some* times they are rebels, it is true, but thy college rebel is not possessed with a nefarious heart. He merely want# to poke into things for himself—cat aad dried pedantry ia obnoxious to him. * . . . : ‘ VtovmMi An l>«y It is not at «tt dHßeult to obtain a degree from the universities in middle America—on the contrary it is almost, unbelievably oasy. like stray cum moayliore; like the to* they muri needs conform to the steel lines Os the machine; and, like the dogs also, they emerge from the machine at the end of four years in strings of nice little link sausages, all alike, hope lessly alike. .... The courses in a modern middle western university are designed for the duinbell. The obvious is always insisted upon. Simple, patent, facts are emphasized. And these gullible youngsters, these Jphns and Marys, labor under the delusion that thay in becoming educated, cultured. One can hardly blame thepoor pro fessors. It is what John and Mary wish, what their, parents wishi Classes are meant to be only alight, unpleasant interruptions in the social whirl. Over half of the people hi our eol leges should not be there. Thcy have neither the inclination nor the capac ity for a rigorous course of study. Our universities need a general houseeleaning. They should be c tea rad of the rubbish of athletics, fraterni ties and sororities, and soar o'clock dates. Then, perhaps, we should have educational institutions comparable to such old world universities as Cam bridge, Oxford and Heidelberg. Un til then, the modern college student will remain a Mt. I want to mention a remark once made by BM> Ingersoll. He said, in subsance, that colleges were places where pebbles were polished and dia monds were dimmed. And, as usual, he was right! (Copyright, 1026, NBA Service, Inc.) “How do you know this is an age of prosperity?" "Because more people are being pinched by traffic cops than by poverty. 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