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AN AMERICAN GOOSE-STEP.
The Columbia Spectator of Colum
bia University reports the reply of
Dean Hawks of thnt institution to
the recent assertion of Major Gen
eral Robert Lee Bullard that Ameri
can universities are principally re
sponsible for lack of discipline in the
youth of the country. The Spectator
also quotes Chancellor Brown of New
York University. The opinions of
these two men are representative of
those of most of the students and fac
ulty men of the universities of the
nation The Spectator article:
"Answering the assertion of
Major General Robert Lee Bul
lard, that he found one German
soldier worth three allies and
that American universities were
principally responsible for the
lack of discipline in the youth
of this country, Dean Hawkes
said that this type of discipline
was nothing but an American
goose-step.
" 'General Bullard talks sim
ply as a professional soldier said
Dean Hawkes. 'Discipline is well
enough at West Point and in the
army ,and General Bullard
knows best about that, but Amer-,
ica needs no goose-step on the
campus.
" 'I cannot deny that some
times our college men seem a
little under-disciplined. But in
compensation, their initiative is
better developed.
" 'I think General Bullard over
estimates the rank discipline
takes in time of peace. Other
qualities are fully as attractive.'
"At the same time Chancel
lor Brown of New York Univer
sity asserted that German disci
pline would be an expensive
commodity for this country to
import
"General Bullard made his
assertion in an interview with
the New York Evening Post.
The retirement of General Bul
lard from active service will
take place in January.
"Chancellor Brown continued:
'Other things besides discipline
are of equal or even greater im
portance the cultivation, for
example, of a sense of and prac
tice of individual responsibility."
Further indication of the fact
that American universities are not,
and should not, be conducted on a
basis of strict discipline, is found in
the Ohio State Lantern for Decem
ber 8. There was reported in that
paper the reasons advanced by a
number of students from foreign
lands for their coming to America
to study.
"The greater freedom and oppor
tunity for personal independence in
America were reasons given by for
eign students for their coming to this
country, in a round table discussion
at the International Student Forum
meeting Saturday evening," says the
Ohio State Lantern. And later:
"Esa S. Haddad, Ag ,3, was at
tracted by the American spirit and
freedom. Personal independence ap
pealed to Takashi Fujimoto of Ja
pan."
If foreign students look with long
ing eyes to American universities be
cause of the independence to be
found in them, then why should that
independence, which attracts men to
study, be eliminated by an attempt
to inculcate more rigid discipline in
the undergraduates?
"The best- government is no gov
ernment" is phrase often quoted,
and often misquoted. But it surely
applies here. Freedom in the ad
vancement of the world's learning
can hardly be promoted by strict
supervision of the actions of students
in order to make them better sol
diers. Rather, the students should
be "trained for peace."
COLLEGE IGNORANCE
Notwithstanding the amount of
education which college students re
ceive, their lack of knowlodge on
matters of general information Is as
tounding. The results of a test on
world geography which was given to
112 students in the second and third
years of college at Leland Stanford
University prove the truth of this
contention as well as contributing
materially to sources of mirth.
For instance, Auckland was lo
cated by three persons as being in
Greenland, due to the association
with the auk which is a hobitat of
that country. Another strange an
swer placed Budapest in India, doubt-
I lessly because of the god, Buddha.
Sweden was named as the country
ownig Johanesburg, and uermany,
Zurich, both of which answers may
be attributed to the sound or deriva
tion of the names. The Haguc.Brus
sels, and Christiana were given as
the capital of Denmark.
Other questions were concerned
with estimates of nautical mileage
to six well known ports, rolutive lo
cation of cities or countries accord
ing to lutitudo and longitude, and
the lost required the drawing of an
outline map of North and South
America.
The nautical estimates were the
most difficult and on the whole the
most poorly answered group, al
though the tendency was to under
estimate rather than overestimate
distances.
Of the 112 answers upon the cor
responding locations of Milan and
Vladivostok, 104 were incorrect.
Forty of the maps bore a general
resemblance to the American conti
nents, but only ten placed South
America southeast of North America..
There were thirty-six questions in
all. One student succeeded in an
swering 27 correctly, rating an aver
age of 75 per cent. Two others at
tained an average of 70, while 16
secured a 50 per cent grade.
These results merely go to show
that while college people may know
all about Darwin's theory of evolu
tion, and be perfectly able to com
pute a coefficient of corelation with
correctness, they may be blissfully
ignorant of facts of the most com
mon knowledge. Syracuse Daily
'University Prize," was to be given
to the other team if it succeeded In
overcoming its opponents.
The junior cap committee, whose
duty it wai to sell sufficient num
ber of the '06 headgear to lift the
outstanding junior debt, incurred the
previous spring at the famous fresh
man bonfire, reported a general
apathy among their classmates con
cerning this proposition. According
to the complaint of this committee
to whom the unpleasant task of soli
citing orders was signed, the
juniors were very chilly in their sup
port of this measure, which had been
agreed upon by the major part of
them as a means of raising this debt
that had been a millstone around the
neck of the class all year. The ar
ticle concluded by saying that they
would be able to get the caps a few
days longer, and "it would be well
for them to brace up and order a
headgear."
The much-disputed football game
between the freshman laws and the
sophomores to decido the interclass
championship was to be played at
last. The game promised to be ex
ceptionally good, not only because of
its deciding the championship, but
also because of the animated spirit
and litigation between the two
classes that had been smoldering for
the previous two weeks.
Steel" in three reels tonight at 8
o'clock in the Geography lecture
room, Nebraska Hall 210.
Publicity Staff.
Y. W. C. A. publicity staff will
meet Thursday at 5 o'clock in Ellen
Smith Hall.
Fre.hman Council.
There will be no meeting of the
Freshman Council Thursday.
CbrWtma Party.
A Christmas party and a Kid par
ty will be held at the Grace M. E.
church, 27 and R streets, Thursday
at 8 o'clock. Bring a ten cent gift.
Calholb Studant Club.
There will be a special meeting of
Catholic Student Club at K. C. Hall
tonight at 5 o'clock.
Dalian.
Delian Christmas party will be
held Friday at 8 o'clock at 1337 R
Streets. All friendu and alumni are
invited.
Students will save themselves a
great deal of time and inconvenience
by purchasing their railroad tickets
now at the Burlington City Office.
Adv.
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SCORE ANOTHER FOR 'GATOR.
Beginning January first, the Flor
ida Alligator will receive telegraphic
news service from the Collegiate
Press Syndicate. In the wide range
of exchanges which the Florida Alli
gator receives from colleges over the
English speaking world, the preJo'n
inating feature is the rapid increase
of outside or "off-campus" news.
Many of the larger college papors are
now giving their readers sorre sort
of wire service, and the Florida Al
ligator must keep abreast of the tide
of progress.
Throughout the country the view
point is spreading that educntiimal
institutions should strive to arouse in
the student a proper interest in the
welfare of the nation and n sense of
responsibility in its government. The
state of Florida has made hug-e in
vestments in the education of its
youth. It has a rig'.ii to collect in
terest on this investing H in terms of
an enlightened and productive citi
zenship. This tendency of college papers to
enter boldly upon the field of public
affairs and to acquaint their readers
with the happenings in other institu
tions of higher learning, rather than
be content with merely chronicling
the events within the narrow limits
of their own campus, is entirely in
keeping with the present trend of
broadened interest.
Since the World War, papers all
over the country have been forced by
public demand to carry a larrrer por
tion of national and international
news. When Corporal Jone? of
Gainesville, Florida returned from
France he talked glibly about the
boulevards of Paris, as though he
had lived on them all his life. When
he picked up the hometown paper, he
wanted to read about the bonus, the
peace conference, Japan, the latest
sea planes, and the German mark.
The story about Deacon Smith spend
ing Sunday in Micanopy no longer
seemed to satisfy. Tho corporal's
family and neighbors had a'30 be
come less provincial; the war hr.d in
troduced them to a new world.
The college newspaper of today
that is satisfied with reporting only
the happenings of its own campus
and never touching upon events and
achievements in other collegiate cir
cles is understanding the interest and
intelligence of the American college
student. Florida Alligator.
Calendar
Friday, December 19.
Palladian Party L. P. Hartly,
2345 R. Street.
Omega Beta Pi Fall Party Lin
coin.
Notices
The Department of Geography will
give a special film on "The Story of
Freshman Council.
Regular Freshman Council meet
ing and supper Thursday at 6 o'clock
in Temple 101.
Sigma Tau.
Meeting of the Sigma Tau at 7
o'clock Thursday in M. E. 206.
Christian Science Society.
The Christian Science Society will
meet at 7:30 Thursday in Faculty
Hall, tonight.
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The girls basketball team met the
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