THURSDAY, JULY 2, 1931
VANCE NEWS-LEADER, HENDERSOX, X. c.
PAGE THREE
THE BOYS OF TODAY
AND YESTERDAY
(Charles H. Huber)
In the oft-discussed “good old days
the boy was wont to get ria of his ex
cess energy by throwing water and
smashing property, but in 1931 he
loses his animal spirit in well-con
ducted, organized athletics, according
to Dr. Huber, who has seen them come
and go at Gettysburg Academy since
1892.
“Mischief is merely misdirected en
ergy,” said Dr. Huber as he allowed his
mind to wander back over the years
that have transpired since he was an
academy student.
“Thirty years ago organized athle
tics was unknown, and the boy often
gave vent to his animal spirit by
throwing rocks through windows,
smashing doors and so forth. He was
crude, very crude, indeed. Today that
spirit crops out in some of the boys
but rarely.
The Value Of Athletics
“Today organized athletics works off
the animal spirit. We, like every
well-regulated school, have certain
hours for systematic exercise, and the
boys are tired when that is ended.
They don’t feel like damaging proper
ty. We have week-end trips to our
camp as a further means of getting
rid of energy in a wholesome way.”
“Wiiat about the boy of today as
compared to the boy of yesterday from
a moral standpoint?”
“I really cannot s/;e any great
change there. We had good boys and
bad boys in 1901 and we have both
kinds in 1931. One hears a great deal
of talk about the effect of prohibition
on drinking among young boys, but I
don’t agree that prohibition has re
sulted in a tremendous increase in
drinking among the boys with whom
I have ocme in contact. There was
prohibition for students in the old
days In that they were not permitted
to obtain liquor at local saloons. They
got around the rule by sending in a
messenger 'for liquor if they wanted
it. In other words, di-inking was a
problem then and still is and has to be
dealt with accordingly by those in au
thority.
“There is a change in the boy’s incli
nation to study, however. It is more
difficult to make him study today be
cause of the many things that have
come, to take his mind off his study.
The automobile is one, the radio
another and the motion picture a
third. When the radio first came in
to existence we permitted the boys to
have sets in their rooms, but that
soon had to be changed. The boys be
came so absorbed in radio programs
that they would listen in until after
midnight and pay no attention to
their studies.
“Boys now are cleaner physically
than they were thirty years ago. The
Saturday-night bath was no myth
then but a fact. In the smaller col
leges of the State the boys had to go
to the old-ime pump, draw he water
and then go back to the dormitories
.and bathe. Taking a bath was ac
tually something of an event then. To
day organized athletics and the
•Shower bath have made taking a bath
part of the daily routine. Speaking
again of organized games, I believe
the prep school student goes in for the
more sincerely than the college stu
dent, who is old enough to figure ways
and means of saving energy.”
“In what way have the courses
changed since you were in college?”
“When I first entered college, back
in 1888, the college course was a fixed
thing and included four years of Latin
and four in Greek. :gefore I was
graduated the elective system was iii-
troducd.
System Ran To Extremes
“In time the elective system ran to
the other extreme and many students
picked out all the snap courses. Then
came the group system with some re
quired and some elective subjects, and
I consider it the best of the three.”
“What do you think of the action
of Yale, Princeton and other schools in
abolishing Latin as a required subject
for the A. B. degree. Dr. Huber?”
“I think it is a great mistake, not on
the part of the institutions but on the
part of the students in demanding the
change. The English language is
based on Latin, and a person can
learn more English grammar from
Latin than he can from English gram
mar itself. These days, more than at
any time, it is imperative for people
to be well versed in gi-ammar be
cause of the great increase in writing
and public speaking.
“In addition, more than fifty per
cent of all the words we use have La
tin derivatives. Furthermore, the
translation of Latia helps a student
to leam how to reason, to think. A
knowledge of Latin is also a great help
to student of French, Spanish, mod
ern Italian, Portuguese aaid English,
because Latin is the mother of the Ro
mance languages.”
Why Latin Is Discarded
“Then why have so many institutions
relegated Latin to the discard?”'
"Because of the deands of the stu
dents who want to take the easiest
way through college, who want to
have all their obstacles removed for
them instead of removing them them
selves by conquering them. Such a
student wants to go forth, waving his
diploma to tlie world and saying ’I am
a mighty man of valor,’ but he has
not earned the right to be so called.
In time he will learn the thrust and
parry of real life and wish he were
better equipped to meet the fight.
“Educators may as well ti’y to sweep
back the Atlantic Ocean as to resist
the overwhelming tide of unanimous
student sentiment. But I hope the
pendulum will some day swing back to
Latin because I feel when educators
take everjthing away from education
' that makes students work and do not
' permit students to cudgel their brains,
I then they are taking away education
i itself.”
YOUNGEST GOVERNOR
IN UNITED STATES
Oath Administered By His
Father-
Atlanta, Ga.—Chief Justice Richard
B. Russell on June 'J4 administered the
oath of office to his son, Richard B.
Russell. Jr., who became governor of
Georgia at the age of 33 years. He is
the youngest governor in the United
States.
Governor Russell, who was elected
last October, has other distinctions.
He is a bachelor. He is one of 13
sons and daughters of a family whose
forebeai-s have lived within the boun-
daries of Georgia since colonial times.
He left the University of Georgia to
I the world war. He made
1 his political Campaign driving
1 frc^ house to house in a second-
; hand automobile.
I On assuming the office of chief
I executive gives up the post of
spea.^er of the Georgia house of re-
pr^entatives he served for three years.
Some insight into the personality
of this unusur’’, young man may be
I the fact that he has stat-
I The machinery of government
I should be simplified. Speaking of the
i ^ special legislative committee
I of the general assembly not long ago
Ihe^^put his views thus:
i achminery of government
should be so simple that the humblest
j citizen can understand it. Here in
Georgia we have more than 100 dif
ferent agencies to can-y on the state’s
bu^ness and I venture to say there are
: ve^' few who can sit down with pen
and paper and name them all and
outline the duties each is supposed to
perform.
“Co-crdinate and combine the de
partments of state to a minimum,” he
urges, “and thus give the people of the
state tlie economical government
Georgia today so badly needs.”
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