Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-06-09
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on which the faculty failed to apply thor
common sense"
A Lack of Tact.
Philadelphia Press, Editorial. =.
The students are usually wrong, but
they are not necessarily always wrong,
and where they are of one mind we sus
pect are seldom wholly at fault. A lack
of tact, discretion of knowledge of human
nature in body of instructors will invar-
iably, with the best intentions, beget no
end of difficulty.
When a faculty insist that that their
rules shall not only be O5eyed, but shall
not even he criticised by the students, they
Law down a rule which it is impossible to
enforce. The attempt to enforce it in this
case has subjected them to constant criti-
cisms even since. Instead Of two critics
the entire six hundred, if the reports are
to be relied upon, have resolved them
selves into committee of the whole on
the action of the faculty, with session per-
petual and debate unlimited. That such
criticisms were made at chance gatherings
instead of in the college societies would
only give them \ more irresponsible and
virulent character. For school or college
authorities to attempt to repress the ex-
preston of opinion among students is
vain undertaking. 1t inspires the latter
with sense of wrong that nothing else
will. They recall at once the historical
attempts to rcpress free speech and are
quick to draw the parallel to their own
cases and honestly develop correspond
ing degree of righteous indignation.
1t is unfortunate that any body of stu
dents should be dissatisfied with set of
rules, but where that dissatisfaction Is
freely expressed in nine cases out Of ten
that is the end of it. If insubordination
follows, then is surely time enough FOR the
faculty to act. There is nothing gained
and much risked in keeping either man
or boy, who feels strongly on any point,
from the healthy resource OF freeing
his mind. A wise administration, in
school, or elsewhere, will not attempt to
close this vent. Every college has its So
ciety, in which often the faculty, or some
member of it, is favorite theme OF ami
madvcrsion, and no particular harm done
either If one of the instructors were to
attend one of these society meetings and
take notes Of the swords uttered in de-
bate: and have the incautious speaker
subsequently expelled for it we should
have all the necessary conditions for
first-class college instruction. Ii
the principal OF the Millersvillc
school had stayed away from the
meeting of the Normal and Page literary
societies last Saturday night, or being
present, had allowed the clOquence of the
members to pass for what it was worth,
even when it dealt with college regulations,
the discipline of tho school would probably
have suffered nothing-certainly nothing
-, 4, 1,o co1 %l,sc
attempt to enforce an uncnfOrcible rule.
There were doubtless some mistakes on
both sides. At the same time the course
Of the students cannot he approved and
rigltful authority must be sustained.
Not Admitted to shIppensburs.
Special to the INTELLIoRNCEH.
SHIrpENsBURG. Cumberland Co., Pa,
June 9.-Ten or eleven late stu
dents Of Millcrsvillc came on here
yesterday and this morning, and
applied for admission to the state
normal school located here. 1t being un-
dcrs.ool by the school authorities that
they mad loft Millersvillc under discipline,
they were not admitted here, in accord
ance with the comfy existing between
normal schools under the state system.
Open Doors at Lock Haven.
One of the students who has left the
Millersville school informs US that he yes
terday met Prof. A. N. Raub, Of the
Lock Haven normal school, OH 4
railroad train. Prof. Il. said that
he had received \ telegram from DR..
Brooks asking him to not admit any
of the Millcrsvillc cx-studcnts that
he had advised his faculty to
admit and accommodate all who came,
and that he would inquire into the ci e
cumstanccs Of their leaving Millcsville
after his return.