The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-11-09
THE STATE UNIVERSITY.

The boldest suggestion yet offered SIS
a means of intoxicating a sense of delics
cy among the students at the University
is that the faculty be reorganized and !.
change made in the presidency. This Is
made through The Milwaukee Journa.
by, ostensibly a Madison man.
One difficulty attending a candid dis
cussion of this important matter is tina
those having some prejudice against thu
University, some of the faculty, or re-
gents, always make use of some such
discreditable proceeding as that which
recently took place at the University, to
extend that prejudice and thus increase
the difficulty of honest investigation and
the discovery of effective remedies for
the evils complained of.
Escapa les such as that of Halloween
are inseparable from such large aggre-
cations of young people, full of animal
life and impressed with the idea tina.
their social standing will permit infrac
tions which would not be tolerated in
young people less socially prominent.
The students of the University have
been gradually educated to the belief
that improperly ON their part is not
reprehensible because the educational
standing of the institution under which
they are enlisted lend to all their acts .
coloi oi responsibility.
The plain fact is the University has
grown into what may be termed insolent
isolation, ard the students have created
their own standards of propriety, not to
govern their action as individuals. but
what they do in body. When the
Legislature was dealing with University
matters, on which there was difference
OF opinion among the members. the SIN
dent lobby frequently employed means
which called forth severe reprobation
but only from individual members who
the discharge of what they deemed
their duty felt the displeasure of the
student body. shown in a manner which
the individual students sense of propri
ETY. would quickly condemn. But as "A
BODY seeking to influence legislation in
the interests of the institution to which
they owed allegiance, their enthusiasm,
took ON the bad quality of congregation
These proceedings met with tacit ap-
prevail from those favorable to what the
students supported, though they might
have wished that the methods emnlovel
We're less in the nature of boisterous co.
ercion
This interference with legislation i,
put sample of other proceedings in
dulged In by students, perhaps not O.,
plamable, but leading TO the acceptance
OF that dangerous theory that efferves-
cence needs not to be checked, and thu,
what is done in body imparts no cen.
sure to the individual who acted witt
that body. Human nature is the sam.
among educated or uneducated people
The mob which engages in lyncbin
Dee takes from the individual his sbar
OF responsibility in the lawless proceed
ing.
Inc student mob becomes an EMIT
entirely disassociated from the personal,
ity OF the individuals comprising it. am.
each feels that the community with
which ne acted and not himself, bears
lhe sin of riot or indecency.
These outbreaks are no sign that Uni.
versity life is as dangerous to morals a,
the disturbances indicate. These are
MOD manifestations which have not in
the past been sufficiently rebuked and
do not bear with sufficient clearness the
seal of disapproval 1t is a question
whether it is wise to have such large.
collection of students in one locality.
Hysteria is sure under such circum-
stances to have play at times, resulting
In foolish things more culpable in ap-
pearance than in fact, and less harmful
to the student than prejudicial to the
reputation of the institution.
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But few understand how the custom
came in vogue of taking a license foe