The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1890-12-31
| anb Religious.
College Ethics.

VII. NJ, Y there is no such thing as
Whitmars es. We do not speak of
Blake, " ms, for an axiom Is an ak
49, 49, a ~ lege or out of it. We do
ant. H. of college multiplication
George five times five are twenty
X. Be re bank as well as in the shades
\ .cademy. We de not speak of
college, gravtation, for student fall
ing from the college tower will strike
the ground as hard as will the citizen
who falls from the courthouse spire.
Gravitation simply asks the question
how high is the fail College ethics?
College right anglesl College parallel
linesl The college north start | have
chosen this illogical combination from
the fact that there is a sentiment gen.
orally prevalent among college men
that the combination is not illogical,
but that there is such thing as college
ethics. Put in plain English, the senti-
ment which prevails in many colleges
is this: To tell lie is wrong on the
street, but right in college. To use
personal violence is wrong in saloon,
but right in college. To boycott is
wrong in Ireland, wrong even in the
business circles of the United States,
but right in college. To destroy
property is wrong in a cowboy, but
right in a college student. To take a
believing calf up a mans stairway,
through his attic and leave it upon his
roof, half frightened to death, and half
frightening to death the immediate
neighbours, is wrong in a town boy,
but right, even manly and honorable,
in college boy. To violate the golden
rule is wrong in a heather, but right in
Christian, provided the Christian
happens to have his name on the
college roll. The golden rule, so beau
tifully eXempliied by the Divine
Teacher, is binding upon the con-
science OF the pirate of the high seas;
of the liquor-seller, as the young man
appears at the bar for his first drink; of
the Indian, with his tomahawk uplifted;
of the gambler, in his den of infamy !;
but forsooth this same golden rule was
, not made to measure the conscience of
Christian who has matrculated in a
Christian college. Again, to restrain
a man of his liberty without cause, and
to add personal violence to this re-
straint, is wrong, even among savages !;
but to tie young man to his bed-post,
to shave his head, to hang him until he
chokes, to put him into a perspiraton
and then give him shower bath of
ice-water, to put him into his bed that
has been saturated with water, and after
all, to seal his lips with the threat
of worse personal violence, or even
death-this is only huge joke. Such
contemplate and criminal proceedings
it seems is right or wrong according to
the way we spell the word describing
it. If we spell it as they do in the
street, m-u-r-d-e-r, it is wrong; but it is
all right, and a great joke, if we spell it
as they do in some colleges, haze.
What is right in college life is right
anywhere and everywhere. What is
wrong anywhere else is wrong in col
lege. The golden rule does not bend
around a crooked college act. A foot
is twelve inches in college and out of
1t. A pound is sixteen ounces in the
store and in the classroom. A dollar
is hundred cents on examination day,
and it will be hundred cents on the
judgment day.-ChriStian Statesman.