Saturday, September 22, 1923
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Calls College Life "Trivial
College ife is "trival" and college
students ."live . In a" fog," according
to Dr. W. H. P. Faunce, President
of Brown University, wild" discusses
educational problems in a book of
lectures' entitled "Facing Life," just
published by the Macmillan Com
pany, . 3 -
"The trouble with ' college life is
not that it is vicious, but that .it is
so often trival," he writes. "These
student 'activities'- musical, dra
matic, social, athletic have we ever
seriously appraised them and decided
how many of them are worth while?
Some of them afford a fine "training
for after life and some of them are"
a- mere frittering away of time and
.energy into utter futility. -'.. '
"Does any serious man think that
the comic (?) monthly published by
.many colleges is worth what it costs
the producers? Are the innumerable
. organizations . which figure in the
college 'annual' representative, of any
real .f acts, and -would the college be
poorer if most of them .were decently
interred? The danger in American
colleges in not that students will be-
come false-hearted, but that they will
become scatter-brained.
"Many students live in a fog, grop
ing about in a curious vagueness and
irresponsibly. . They cannot tell
how much money they borrowed last
week nor when the debt comes due."
The social life of college, he de
clares, "unfits our students for either
work' of play, ft is exhausting to
purses and nerves,- devitalizing to
mind ' and character. Any limit as
to hours and expenditure or garb or
manner is resented as a puritanical
restriction suited only; to a kinder
garten." ' .
' "Theigidly denominational college
faces added problems," he holds, in
that it "will "find difficulty in re
maining Christian."
"The college that demands a Con
gregationalist chemist or. an Episco
palian , teacher of Greek," he de-.
clares, "is, of course, subordinating
ability and character in its teaching
staff to the necessities of denomina
tional propaganda and cannot hope
for the confidence of the public,
V That is not the way" to make educa.
tion Christian."- " -
Governor S.mlth as Leader
(New York Wcrld)
In New York and its neighboring
states the great majority of people
Republicans and Democrats alike,
are immune to the -whispering cam
paign because the career and per
sonality "of Gov. Smith are so well
established in their minds But in
. Vrthe rural districts and in the small
towns, especially among men and wo-
1 men who live narrow and secluded,
lives," the conception of. Gov. Smith is
as f aiitistically unreal as if he were a
Hottentot chief fain. , That .unreal con
ception cannot be supplanted with a
true conception by exposing the slan
ders of the Whites, the Stratons and
the rest. It can be done only by es
tablishing Gov. i Smith as an authen
tic leader on issues of genuine im
portance. That task should, in our
opinion, have begun at least- a year
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That course was not pursued, and
now. on the eighteenth of September
the campaign to establish Gov. Smith
will begin. It deserves to succeed.
The country, needs the renewal of its r
ancient faith in human brotherhood
which the election of Gov. Smith j
would signify. The character of' the
campaign which the Republicans have
"not nly tolerated but in the person
of Mrs. Willebrandt have author
ized ought to defeat them. No party
ought to win in this country which
asks for , organized , sectarian help.
The precedent -is evil, .the wounds
which it inflicts .upon the fellowship
of American life are deep. It is time,
moreover, that the base of the Ameri
can democracy was broadened to in
clude all the races . and religions of
which it is composed. It is time ,to
renew the faith that the humblest
may by his merits aspire to the high
est. It is time that the unprivileged
had y& voice at the seat of govern
ment.. Gov. Smith symbolizes these
hopes. He has now to demonstrate
that he is the leader bf a party.
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Removing Roadside Signs
- (Neyj York Times)
To the credit of the biljboard in
dustry it must be said that it has
, done much to improve the appear
ance of roadside signs. But what the
public demands is not so much im
provement of quality as restriction of
quantity. People wish existing signs
removed and no others whether
beautiful or not, put in their place
This is an idea which has spread far.
and wide throughout the country. It
has the support not only of countless
civic organizations, but of nationa
advertisers as well. . It represents a
definite sentiment of the American
people that the country roads must
no longer be defaced by billboards,
no matter.how "artistic" or how un
obtrusively . placed. There has- been
a marked growth of public opinion
during the last few years since the
anti-billboard campaign was started,
vine movement is as yet only in its
infancy, but it is "going strong."
The hats worn by Mrs. Hoover and
Mrs. Smith will probably influence
the .woman vote more . than the
speeches of the two candidates.
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