FOUR
THE SALEMITE
Saturday, February 5, 1929.
STUDENTS AT STATE
APPLY HONOR SYSTEM
Reports of the faculty on the
working of the student government
honor system at North Carolina
State College, during recent term
examinations, disclosed that of the
1,850 students, only seven were
said by instructors to disregard reg
ulations, or to show tendencies in
that direction.
Dr. E. C. Brooks, president, in
discussing the honor system at chap
el exercises, congratulated the stud
ents upon the showing. He quoted
faculty members as saying that
their observ'ations of the examina
tions and student government sys
tem were “good,” “very good,” “ex
cellent,” “very satisfactory,” and
“fine.”
The president spoke briefly of the
honor system as applied to student
organization officers who handle fi
nances and render reports on oper
ations. He used answers to a recent
questionnaire sent to 47 student or
ganizations, including fraternities,
for the basis of his remarks. Student
officers handled from a few dollars
to over $700 during the past year,
he said, the average per organiza
tion being $275. The reports dis
closed the majority of the organiza
tions to be in good shape, financi
ally, said Dr. Brooks.
CO-EDS VAMP PROFS
FOR HIGHER GRADES
The dirt is out. The professors
at Ohio State University are being
vamped, which is to say, they are
being “worked.” When a high mark
is needed to qualify scholastically
from sorority then the heavy intel
lects of the masculine sex are lubri
cated with a little feminine person
ality or “It,” and all is well, ac
cording to Dean Liretta Rose, of
George Washington University, in a
recent article in Plain Talk.
Dean Rose has been making spe
cial study of intelligence scores and
grading and she contends that va
rious tests taken in widely different
regions show that the young women
of co-edueational institutions have
no trouble at all in obtaining rela
tively high marks in their grades,
although their intelligence scores
vary strangely. She says that the
two just won’t correlate! Dean Rose
specifies Ohio State University as a
good illustration.
Dean Rose bases her article on
statistics. She says: “It is inter
esting to note a few facts regarding
the placing of men and women
groups in the intelligence curves.
It should be noted that no man with
an intelligence score below 85 re
ceived a C, but one woman with a
score below 84 received a C. Only
one man with a score as low as 105
received C and one of these 12 was
as low as 96. No man with a score
below 125 received a B, but nine
women with scores below 125 receiv
ed B, and two of these score as low
as 96.”
In conclusion Dean Rose adds:
“Sex,” “Charm,” “IT,” or “Person
ality” is one of those variables in
the educational world that must be
reckoned with. Even to the scholarly
absent-minded professor, an attrac
tive woman student with sex-appeal
will always help to make an other
wise dreary classroom a more inter
esting place and the daily education
al grind capable of producing a few
vicarious thrills when a feminine
student needs a bit of extra attention
and service.”
Dean Esther A. Gaw, of Ohio
State, is a little skeptical about the
whole matter. “It all depends on
the individual professor,” she says.
“There are those who lean toward
the pretty girl, but at the same time
there are those who are so opposed
to a girl’s receiving a grade on her
personal attractions that they abso
lutely refuse to give a pretty girl
a grade.”
And while we are speaking of
girls vamping grades. Dean Gaw
ppints out that the opposite sex is
not altogether guiltless. Frequently
a clever boy will learn the likes and
dislikes and hobbies of his professor
and will seemingly become so inter
ested in what the professor likes
that the professor will find it im
possible to give him a low mark.
CHINESE RE-ENTER THE
POLITICAL ARENA
Picture if you can 200 students,
angered, say, by the inadequacy of
the Kellogg Pact, marching noisily
to the office of Secretary Kellogg,
demanding an audience with him,
and then, finding him not in, pro
ceeding to his residence which they
wreck. For good measure they ad
minister a sound drubbing to several
policemen and minor officials of the
state Department who attempt to
restrain them. If your mental agil
ity hasn’t balked there, imagine
President Coolidge anxiously sum
moning them to the White House
lawn where he lectures them in
the following manner: “Your patri
otism is admirable, but I feel you
do not fully understand the policy
of our government. For diplomatic
reasons we cannot go too fast. Your
illegal actions only embarrass us.
Rest assured that the government is
proceeding in a true peace-loving
spirit, and should you find that all
armaments are not abandoned within
three years, then you may cut ofif
This hasn’t happened. It won’t.
But the momentary phantasy may
make more vivid the action of a
student mob from the Central Gov
ernment University in Nanking,
China, whicli a few weeks ago
wrecked the home of Minister of
Foreign Affairs C. T. Wang, before
being pacified by President Chiang
Kai-sliek. Just as it had seemed
that the Chinese students had
abandoned politics to the solons of
the Kuomintang and returned to
their books this new outbreak oc
curred. The provocation seems to
have been the belief that the Gov
ernment wasn’t proceeding fast
enough in the abolition of unequal
treaties, coupled with the rumor that
Minister Wang and Minister of Fi
nance T. V. Soong had recognized
Japan’s claims of the infamous
Nishihara loans of 1919 as a con
cession to Japan’s consent to tariff
utonomy. But the National Anti-
Japan Association in a series of dem
onstrations in Nanking had decreed
no concessions, and the grapevine
rumor following closely after a week
of anti-Japanese agitating fanned
the ebbing coals of student ardor.
To cool them required President
Chiang’s generous wager of his head
against the unequal treaties.
This recent outbreak, however,
seems to be the exception rather
than the rule now in Chinese stud
ent activities. It is an atavistic
throw-back to the tumultous days of
1919-1925 when students stumped
the country from one end to the
other, agitation against imperialist
intervention, forcing out the traitor
ous Anfu clique which had at-
tcmped to barter away China’s sov
ereignty, and ushering in the Nation
alist Revolution. I.ast summer, the
conclusion of the first military
stage of the Revolution was sym
bolized by the renaming of Peking,
the Northern Capital, to Peiping,
City of Peace. The student move
ment habit of opposition seems to
have been slower in adjustment, as
evidenced by the Nanking incident.
Possibly the students acted upon the
ancient Mencian presumption “if a
person has the power of authority
nine chances out of ten he is using
it wrongly.” Perhaps too, they of
a generation that has become articu
late since the early struggles of the
Nationalist drive resented the in
junction of the older revolutionists:
“Stick to your books.”
The future of the Chinese stud
ent movement is not easily predicta
ble except in generalities. Sporadic
political outbreaks may continue to
enliven an otherwise serene schola-s
tic life. But already the tremendous
energy of the movement as a whole
has been diverted into new and
constructive channels, we are in
formed by a correspondent in a re
cent number of the China Weekly
Review. The rights of co-education
and self government won, a deter
mination for study has taken hold
of the students almost as a fad. But
the “back to the books” trend has
not meant a revival of the old
scholasticism of rote learning. The
Renaissance has begun. Research is
the order of the day—research for
the specific purpose of applying sci
entific knowledge to China’s prob
lems of recon,struction. Most promi
nent in the curriculum are courses of
natural science, medicine, engineer
ing, commerce, agriculture, and edu
cation. The most capable students
are no longer going into polities but
into the mass education, rural school,
and vernacular language movements.
Dr. John Dewey and Dr. Hu Shih
are the new patron scholars. It
means that the reconstructive era of
nation-building has set in and that
the real revolution in China, as in
Russia, is social, and only secon
darily political.
“ARE WE COLLEGIATE?”
ASK THE DEANS
New York, N. Y.—(By New
Student Service)—'The raucous jazz
notes of “Collegiate, Collegiate, yes
we are collegiate,” have penetrated
the awful and silent depths of the
dean’s office. It is not a welcome
tune, and something ought to be
done about it, say they. So, at the
next convention of deans in April
the words will be revised to read
“Yes, but are we collegiate?”
Something may eventually be done
about it. In the meantime, a ques
tionnaire. Dean Henry Grattan
Doyle of George Washington Uni
versity has sent one to four hundred
deans. He asks, among many ques-
“Is neatness in appearance, as
evidenced by clean shaving, well-
shined shoes, starched linen, appro
priate neckties of neat appearance
and well-pressed suits of clothing,
typical of your student body.? Or,
in the main, does the psychological
attitude of your student body ap
prove of slouehy and careless habits
of dress and conduct or neat habits
of dress and courteous manners?
It does not require a very keen
mind to predict what the answer to
that will be. Already the re-assur
ing replies are coming back. From
Wesleyan:
“The present generation of stud
ents here, as I look upon them, are
well-dressed, well-behaved, a very
different type from what we had
twenty-five years ago ...
“Speaking in general of the mor
als of the community, I feel sure
that they arc on a higher plane than
they have ever been.”
We have a pretty strong convic
tion that Dean Doyle will be able
to report at the convention that on
the word of 399 deans this genera
tion is the best yet. (The one ex
ception will be Harvard, which has
already refused to answer the ques-
But aren’t the deans waking up to
the collegiate menace two cU iRree
years late? Collegiatism is dying
out in the colleges, though it will
linger on in remote colleges, in front
of drugstores, and on vaudeville
platforms for a ling while. There
is something of romantic excees in
the collegiate costume that is out
of key with these prosaic times.
Bell-bottom trousers, un-anchored
socks and such-like are as much
relics of the past as is the fashion
of carrying the American Mercury.
(College boys read The New Yorker
now.) The fearful dean should read
any “What Young Men are Wear
ing” column in the magazines that
cater to college youth. There col
lege men are being told that a neat
conservative appearance is a “valu
able asett” and that “anyone in the
business world who hopes to make
good is lost without it.” The garter
manufacturers depict in full-page
ads the terrible tragedies that befall
those who havq no “Sox Appeal”
and the Arrow collar people are out
gunning for the informal roll-col
lared shirt of the out-of-style “drug
store cowboy.” Even the coonskin
coat is passing.
Other times, other manners. The
collegiate mode is passing out. The
reason it is going is the reason wby
all fashions change. The hoi polloi,
drug clerks and farm hands, have
caught up with it. The next job for
college men is to create a new fash
ion. Otherwise the four years would
be wasted, and there would be no
way to distinguish between those
who have had the privilege of a col
lege education and tho.se who have
Gee, but that kid’s clever. He’;
only three and he can spell his nam(
backwards.
What do they call him?
“Otto.”
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