Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-01-21
NOT ALL ARE GOOD
But the Vast Majority of Ann
Arbor Students.
ARE THE BEST ON EARTH
Prot Davis Defends His School From
the Shafts of Chicago Newspspef
Maiice-Hosel News.

Joseph b. Davis of Ann Arbor. as-
sis:ant professor OF engineering at the
University. is \ guest st Sweets Speak
ing of affairs at the University. he said
yesterday to . reporter for The Herald;
"rhere is one thing the newspapers OF
Michigan might easily do for the Uni
yersity, and do il conscientiously. too.
That is to chow little more conxidera-
ton In treating Sensational stories from
Ann Arbor. With few exceptions the
Michigan newspapers are entirely hon
orable and just in dealing with these
affairs, but two or three of the Chicago
papers seem to take keen delight in
exsggerating every escapsde or sensa-
tional story that they may happen to
hear Of. Now such things are terribly
unjust to the University. l don't be-
Iieve students should be' shielded in
wrongdoing, but do believe that some
of the conscientious hard work done by
large majority of them ought to re-
ceive at least rs much consideration as
the deviliry performed by few. l will
venture TO say that not more than one
per cent of the students at the Uni
versity of Michigan are participants IN
any of these wild cscapades that we
hear SO much about. l have kept a
tolerably close watch on the ac-
tlons of the students ~ q body,
and l think there are not more
than twenty-five of them that are re-
sponslble for the general disorder at
tributed usually to the entire Univer-
sity. While these twenty-five are dec
Grating the town, $500 more are at
home working for al they are worth;
yet these papers spoke of will judge
the character of the University by the
actions OF these twenty five, and let the
conscientious work Of the $500 count
for naught. just think - the injus-
tlce of that. These twenty-five by a
half hours deviltry do more TO estab-
lish the reputation of the University
than they could do by 100 years OF the
hardest and most faithful study; or
one Of them does more towards II by
thirty minutes of dissipation than he
could by 300 years of the most sye-
tematic labor. The injustice of such q
state Of things is apparent on the face
of il. believe as Prof. Olney did, that
there is no class of people under the
| light of Heaven who are better fulfill
ing the purpose for which they were
crested than these young men
and women At the University
of Michigan. Why, in our de-
partment. it would be utterly
| impossible TO accomplish anything If
there was the slightest tendency 70 dis
order. Many of tho students in my
classes do not see more than once q
week, and then for only an hour.
Some OF them ] don't see that often
| yet they perform their work as faith
fully aud 10 conscieniiously IS if some
one were watching every movement
they made - perhaps more SO.
Take any town in Michigan with
$500 inhabitants, and ] will guarantee
that you will find ten times as much
disorder in ii as you will among the 25oo
students at the University of Michigan.
am not claiming that our young men
arc all archangels and our young wo
men all scrapbs, hut for true mani.
ness and true wonlaniiness will match
them against any similar body of peo-
pie on the face of the EARTH"