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The Commoner.
C3PTEMBER 13, 1812
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UNIVERSITIES AS WINTER
RESORTS
Chicago Tribune: In many cases
students are extravagant idlers who,
being able to afford it, spend their
winters in fashionable universities,
which they look upon as attractive
winter resorts under the guise of in
stitutions of learning and culture.
This was the purport of a drastic
arraignment of American student
life by Chancellor Samuel Avery of
the University of Nebraska before
the higher education department of
the National Educational association
in Mandel hall of the University of
Chicago. Chancellor Avery is presi
dent of the higher educational de
partment. He lays the cause of student con
ditions at the feet of the faculties of
the universities, who are unable on
account of the great numbers, to
come into intimate touch with the
individual student.
"A student nowadays must bo very
blilliant or very troublesome before
the college president becomes ac
quainted with him at all," Chancel
lor Avery said. "The enormous in
flux of students, has changed the
character of the student body. In
the early days practically all college
students came from cultured homes
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or from homes animated by an as
piration for higher things.
"The Btudents were & select group
in character, training, Ideals and
antecedents a thing vastly different
from the student bodies of today.
The college die has become so worn
that we can scarcely find its impress
on any of its alumni.
"The unrestrained life of Ameri
can young people a life more buoy
ant, more exuberant, and more un
controlled than exiBts anywhere else
In the world finds its social expres
sion in our schools. Tho favorite
ready made clothing advertisement
is a picturo of a supposed group of
collego men.
"Tho annual 'proms' of some or
ganizations in certain schools are re
ported to co3t the students $100 each
for the expenses of a singlo evening.
Girls in danger of a nervous break
down from 'ovorstudy' sometimes
dance until 3 o'clock in the morning.
There Ib a universal lack of student
seriousness.
"Tho statement that Blank college
is a mighty good winter resort for
men if they have the price shows the
attitude of certain students there.
Every college president knows, and
if he is frank he will admit, that
there is some truth in the strictures
of tho late R. T. Crane.
"The story widely circulated and
commonly believed, that in the de
struction by fire of a fraternity
house at one instituion the students
lost their lives because they wore too
intoxicated to escape, and the other
story of the drunken student who
blundered into tho wrong apartment
and was shot as a burglar are suffi
ciently well known to make every
college president wonder if these
things are -not present in his own institution.
"I quote from Birdseye: 'In many
6f our colleges and universities, and
in too many of our smaller ones, a
very considerable part of tho college
homo life is rotten terribly so.
Some of the smaller and older col
leges, with grand records in the past,
have as low a standard of student
morals as tho larger universities.
Some of the worst conditions prevail
in minor denominational Institutions
which are presumed to be ultra-religious
and to be the chief places for
furnishing clergymen for such de
nominations. "The ultra-social element in our
colleges has meant a marked lower
ing of standards for college young
women In my own college days
most of the coeds were more or less
of the schoolma'am type. There was
some frivolous courtship, I admit,
but relatively little social frivolity.
No young woman of that day would
tolerate the semi-filrtatiousness, the
near-profanity, the easygoing use of
first names on short acquaintance.
"The difficulty in combating these
and other tendencies is that the
young people in oach Institution feel
they should be allowed to go Just
a little farther than would be tol
erated anywhere else. If the publi
cations of other colleges contain a
naughty picture the local institution
certainly is a bigoted one if it will
not 'stand for' a dirty one, and any
one attempting to uphold the stand
ard of decency followed In the bet
ter Christian, Mohammedan, or
Shinto homes Is accused of trying to
run a university on a Sunday school
basis.
"The system of har.ding in written
work has been the source of an enor
mous amount of dishonesty. I can
not but feel that our faculties are
somewhat responsible for the growth
of 'cribbing.' Dishonesty is one of
our most serious problems, because
unless surrounded by an atmosphere
of intense honesty, even 'classical cul
ture may produce such leaders as
Abo Ruef.
"College authorities must do more
than they havo dono heretofore
They must seo to tho elimination of
graft in student organizations; must
see to It that favors and promotions
are not passed out as matters of so
cial or organization favor; must pre
vent tho oxlstcnco of societies whoa
memberships nro concealed. Th
ideal university is an institution
without snobbishness or aristocratic
tendencies, without Idleness, with
out dishonesty, without vico."
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