DO PARENTS KNOW TftEIf* CHILDREN1? "The son usually woulcl go /for advice) to his roommate, his doctor, his teacher, his minister ? to anybody sooner than to his own father." So declares President Faunce of Brown University apiopoh of the question in our caption, and the reason lies in the father's lack of understanding of the son. "A number of parents over do the matter of keeping in touth with their children. They follow them to the college, put pillows in their chairs, and make sure that they will have the right kind of dessert for dinner." This is the dissident conclusion of the President of a Southern university in anwsering the same question. President An gell of Yale, however, distrusts ut terly "the casual impressions on a matter of this kind of any single ob serves." It happened that we were considering seriously this very ques tion of parents and children when an article by Dean Gauss of Prince ton appeared in Schribner's bearing the title. Should Johnny Go to Col lege? In that article he implied that many vouths < and maidens) were in college and taking courses of instruction, where thev did not want to be and were unfitted to be. and when thev would have been bet ter off and more contended else where. The cause of this, it was im plied, is that parents did not know their children. They had not main tained that intimaev which would have shown the children's prefer ences and potencies. So, he suggest ed. time is lost, discontent is caused, and square pegs are misfits in round holes. This pronouncement of a univer sity dean whose work brings him in to confidential relations with many students was somewhat stalling ? if not merely individual opinion. W as it? Who could tell? We an ticipated Doctor AngeiTs pronounce ment. Rut surelv other men in like oositions would have information. 'In the multitude of counsellors threre is safety." Accordingly, to about seventy presidents, deans, or chancellors of representative uni versities and colleges, whose work brings them into confidential lela tions with youth, we wrote asking (essentially) the question at the head of this article. These busy men were exceedingly courteous, nad nianv of them mulrh more than kind, writing freely and in extenso. Onlv two desired, their names withheld. The gist of our letter was in this paragraph. Is it your experience that sons and daughters are handicapped through the indifference or ignor ance of their parents? Do you be lieve that the best solution of the modern problems ot young people is for parents to know their own children, to solieit and keen their confidence, to be acquainted inti mately and day by day with what is going on in th,? minds of their bovs and girls? Do you think that the average parents are doinc: this less or more than they used to? We begin our citations with a let ter from one who prefers to be un named. It was sent for private in formation only. But it is so fine and revealing, and so much that is good that we begged the privilege of quoting it. Reluctantly consent was given, and we can not give even re gionally the location of the very use ful college over which this scholar presides. Among other things the poise of the deliverance will be not ed. In reply to your direct question "whether in my opinion parents do not know their children. I would in tl.y first place say that in this more than in most other case* generaliza tions are dangerous. I know so many parents who are giving a much n>ore intelligent attention to the needs of their children than the parents par ents of an earlier dav that ! should condemn myself if bv anything I had to say these parents felt them selves condemned. Naturally my mind turns at once to our daughters and sons. Each of them has chil dren. We proudly survey our grandchildren and rejoice that these young mothers and fathers are giv ing attention to their children which their mother constantly tells me is more intelligently directed to heir interest than she herself knew how to give. But I may venture to re mark parenthetically that to this I take exception without in any wise " J?rL ?Uing from the luiiiment f 4819. pass northwest corner of 4819 at 1 .0001.9 cross middle prong of EIIkiw Creek at 1520 feet cross east prong of Ell>ow ' "reek at 2100 f.-et then South 14 degrees West 4J3 .5 feet to a Mack wk the Northwest corner ot 4S'-r; then South t;6 degrees Hast | 3547.5 feet to a chestnut on point of ridge above Buckberry school hous" crossing Ruck I ierry branch HISS feet passing Southeast corner "f Ruckl>erry school house at 2.075 f?-et. then north 15 degrees and 15 minutes East 2 <140 feet to a stake cross road at :*71 feet, pass Evans corner at 1350 feet, cross the I'.rnwn farm road at 24CO fo?i , Pretty branch 2575 feet, then north S4 degrees thirty minutes East 2T::: feet to a small pin? a corner of the farm lot. then with the farm line as follows: North twenty degrees fifty minutes, east 16R0.7 feet to a pine on top of a mountain l?ettveen Cane Creek and Pret ty branch, then North 16 degrees twenty minutes, west 2634 feet to a stake, then North 21 degrees and ten minutes. West 803.8 feet to a stake, then North 4 ft degrees 15 minutes. East 907.7 feet to a stak?. then North 6q degrees 45 minutes East 1271.7 feet to a stake from which a black gum 10 Inches in diameter bears South 36 degrees East 37. * rcet ti> a red oak 22 inches In diameter, bears North .'12 degrees .70 minutes West 37.* feet; then South 84 degrees 50 minutes east 1 260. S feet to a Spanish oak on a ridge: then South 13 degrees 21 minutes West 17?S.7 feet to a chestnut, pointers small perslmmcn and two chestnuts, then South 4 degrees 30 minutes west 31 'J feet to a stake on point ot ridge, then south 11 degrees 5 minutes East 2286.2 feet to a stake, then South 2 degrees W. 550 feet to a Spanish oak on top of ridge, then South 7 degrees West 1090 feet to a stone marked 154. supposed corner of 154 and beginning corner of farm, then North S4 degrees 30 minutes East 980.7 feet to a stake on line of 522 and conditional line be tween S. W. Evans and J. I'. Brown estate, then with conditional line lietween S. W. Evans and J. 1*. Itrown estate North 37 de crees 45 minutes East 1131.5 feet to a stake and stone on top of ridge, cross Goan's Cove Creek (Evans) at 25'? feet then 26 degrees 5 minutes East 1643.6 feet to a stone and black .lack in the line of 236 then with line of 216 South 80 degrees West 363 feet to a stake, corner of said number rind in line of 522. then with that line North 9 degrees 15 minutes West 927 feet to a pine corner of No. 522. then With the line of 522 South So degrees 30 minutes West 1320 feet to a white oak in said line and corner of 4813 then with line of said N