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administering policies for the
conduct of athletic.
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cials of tha colleges ars not the only
enemies of alumni influence in ath-lectics.
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A HINT FROM CHINA
From China comes the news that
the department of education of the
central government there has issued
a statement declaring that the num
ber of students who are allowed to
come to the United States for col
lege work must be decreased. The
statement ends with a rather pointed
reference to the fact that many Chi
nese students come to this country
not to get a real education but mere
ly to get a college degree a pur
pose which they find easy to accom
plish. The Oriental educator who' is re
sponsible for this b't of criticism has
jabbed a pin through the cuticle of
the American educational system at
an extremely callous spot. He has
probably observed a growing tend
ency in American education to in
dulge in a sort of large-scale produc
tion a production which turns out
annually hundreds of students who
hold degrees but whose education is
only skin deep.
This practice reflects an attitude
that is characteristically American in
its tendency to worship bigness and
to ignore quality. There are those
who speak with commendation of the
size of the classes graduated from
our colleges. These persons are op
timistic because the number of men
and women who receive college de
grees increases yearly. But they
should remember that colleges have
other aims than that of quantity pro
duction. The first of these aims
should be to give every student who
is graduated an education that has
both depth and permanency. A mere
degree, no matter on how many per
sons it may be conferred. oi an
infallible indication that the holder
has such an education. The letters
"A.B." are valuable only for that
which they should symbolize an
The College Press
CARELESSNESS 7
If someone said that over one
thousand people on this campus were
dishonest and a good many of that
number were thieves, we would be
scornfully indignant. Yet from Jan
uary, 1923, to January, 1924, 1,819
books disappeared from the library!
Naturally, we would like to believe
that they have simply "disappeared'
through carelessness, but the facts
refuse to confirm this idea. Five
hundred and fifty-thiee were taken
from the reserve room, 77 from the
reading rooms, 897 from the stacks
and the remainder from the seminar
and departmental rooms. Those tak
en from the stacks could only disap
pear through the use of begged, bor
rowed or stolen registration cards.
It's unpleasant, isn't it? Worse
than merely unpleasant, it is coward
ly cheating and plain thievery. It is
cheating fellow students out of the
use of the books and the library out
of at least $2,000. Our library must
be partially run on the Honor Sys
tem. One of the meanest acts, we
all admit, is to break a trust placed
in us. Why, then, will we violate the
privileges that are thus given us?
Are some so base that we cannot be
trusted?
A dishonest college education is
not even worth the paper used for a
diploma. Furthermore, every diplo
ma granted for such an education
cheapens our degree, and lowers the
standard and the reputation of the
university. Those who are unable to
obtain a college education honestly
should realize that they are not want
ed on this campus! The Daily Cali-fornian.
upper statum of society. While this
is deplorable, it does not necessarily
threaten the existence of educated
people. Mr. Wiggam fails to consid
er that the intelligent class is contin
ually being restocked by members of
the so-called lower class, that there
seems to be a more or less fixed ratio
between the number of leaders and
the constituents of the mob.
Rather than step up the birth-rate
among the governing classes as Mr.
Wiggam impliedly suggests, the prob
lem would seem to be to curtail the
increase in the progeny of the poor
and illiterate. Quality, not quantity,
is the crying need. Even if Mr. Wig
gam's statistics on the thousand col
lege graduates be true, think what a
select glee club we should havel
Cornell Sun.
an excuse please
As long as the type of American
students remains what it is, attend
ance rules in our universities are in
evitable. They are like proctors in
examinations a necessary evil, I
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be given on the recent revision of
the code in the literary college. The
new system should function much
more efficiently than the old.
Instructors are to be allowed to
exercise their own judgment in mi
nor cases, the Administrative board
taking action only when absence be
comes excessive. There is both a
danger and a safeguard here involv
ed. On the one hand some officious
persons will be Incined to be unrea
aonable in order that they may dis
play their slight lease on power, and
there will be others who will be too
easily swayed by the excuses of the
miscreants. But there is another fac
tor which more than offsets this
instructors know their students (at
least they should) and will be able
better to do justice to individual
cases than the attendance board ever
could. They have to aid them a cer
tain knowledge of the attitude of the
persons involved toward their work
and aspect which could hardly be
given adequate consideration under
the old system.
The whole question of absence is a
matter for dispute. Some claim the
students should be given free rein
in the matter and take the conse
quences; others incline to the view
that the University has the responsi
bility of seeing that they are kept
on the right path of steady attend
ance. Whichever is correct the new
system is nreferable since there is
more opportunity both for individual
freedom and for guidance by Unl
versity officials. Michigan Daily.
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Meeting tonight at 7:30 at the Phi
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FOR A SUPERIOR PRODUCT.
Among those who are ever criticiz
ing, tearing down and reconstructing
the fabric of our American college
system to their own fashioning, who
are displeased with the results pro
duced by the university of today,
there is ever the alternative of the
advanced university ideal college
minus compulsion.
One of the newest proposals to
ward this end does not embrace the
entire system. It takes the qualified
man who has definitely chosen a
field, and turns him loose. He is re
leased from the required drudgery
incident to class attendance, regular
examinations and assignments, and
all the routine and red tape of work
necessary under the common system.
But for such a change, the adminis
tration must realize that it is con
sidering the sudent as fit to steer
himself on his own educational car
eer. In place of faculty supervision of a
classroom nature, the student direct
ing his own course would have the
benefit of personal contacts, person
al conferences.
The success of any such scheme
would depend, largely, on the man-
I ner in wiucn me siuaeni snapea nis
' course. Without some sense of di
rection, without some definite goal,
little would be accomplished. The
education which is permanent and j student, further, to work into the
thorough. In China, it would seem,
this fact is recognized by those inter
ested in education; in this country,
unfortunately, such is not always
the case.
A general stiffening of standards,
of requirements, for entrance to the
college, for work in the college, and
for graduation from the college
would probably decrease the num
bers in the graduating class but add
strikingly to the quality. Such stif
fening must come if our colleges are
to maintain any sort of intellectual
standing, not only in this country
but also abroad. The hint from China
is too plain to be ignored. American
colleges must not attempt to turn
out degree holders in the same way
in which our factories turn out auto
mobiles and tin plates. The intel
lectual world does not look with
favor on this mass production.
, SUGGESTIONS
The newly elected president of De
Pauw University, Dr. Lemuel H.
Murlin, began his administration by
asking the students for suggestions
for the improvement of the school.
In the answer, which was made by
the president of the student body in
an official statement, there were
some revealing comments. There
was of course, the usual request for
more power for the student self- gov
ernment organizations. Added to
this was a plea for more frankness
in the relations between the admin
istrative officials and the students.
The most surprising section in the
recommendation, however, deals with
the question of athletics. The ath
letic department of De Pauw has
been, for some time, under the con
trol of the alumni and the students
met the problem, created by this situ
ation, with the following statement:
For some time, as you know,
all athletics have been controll
ed by alumni who cannot possi
bly be as well informed of our
needs as those on the scene con
tinually. A marked tendency
to commercialise sports has
been growing and has led to un
pleasant occurrences, parties- '
laxly in the past year. ...
The students themselves should
have a voice in determining and I
whole plan of the college or univer
sity, should stand some sort of fin
al test of his knowledge. His degree
should be granted only when he has
given satisfactory proof that he has
worked and become master of that
field in which he has chosen to seek
his goal.
The appeal of a plan of this nature
would not, perhaps, be to the major
ity; but it would be to the better cal
ibre of men, to the ablest. The pro
duct would be much more satisfac
tory than the product of a compul
sory system, often largely grind. The
new ideal would tend to produce men
and women of intellectual depth,
rather than educational puppets.
The Denver Clarion.
GRADUATES AND RACE SUICIDE
Annihilation descends upon the
colleges and universities like some
ancient Gargntuan monster, if the
gloomy predictions of Mr. A. E. Wig
gam, biologist and author, are to be
cerdited. "A thousand graduates at
the present birth rate will be repre
sented at the end of six generations
by only 50 descendants hardly
enough to make a good glee club,"
declares this scientific man. "The
day laborer can get married and be
gin rearing a family without regard
for the future of the children, when
he is 20 years old. The lawyer, doc
tor, educator, preacher and business
man cannot afford to marry and
have a home before he is 30. Civili
zation makes the world safe for stu
pidity . . . The American college
graduate is a dying race. They are
producing only two children per fam
ily. If America depends for its col
lege students upon the descendants
of its present graduates, within a
few years our colleges will be emp
ty." These observations upon the de
cline and fall of the intellectual class
are very discouraging, if true. No
person will deny the greater prolif ic
ness of the masses, nor the fact that
the common laborer marries earlier,
than the educated man. But this so
cial phenomenon is by no means nov
el. Even the Vicar of Wakefield,;
with his exhortation to people the
earth, was not the first- to recognise
it. For centuries the masses have!
been more prolific than those in the
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The library is the recipient of four
volumes of Chinese books containing
the works of twenty-eight Chinese
philosophers.
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Stake out your claim
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ONE field where there is still undeveloped
territory, still room for pioneers, is the
electrical industry. This will be encouraging news
to the man who thinks he was born too late.
1 f your aptitude is technical, there are years of
usefulness ahead of you in helping to design,
construct and operate public utility lines. And too,
fast-growing markets for electrical apparatus call
for more and more college-trained men in the
manufacturing end of this industry.
Or if your interests are along commercial lines,
there is a broad opportunity for you here in the
various departments of purchasing, accounting,
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