Newport weekly independent., 1901-11-01
THE DOODLE BUG OF CORNELL.
(Contributed).


 'Twere we'll in these stirring times to pass over in unnoticed silence the vast amount of sensational gush spill ed between the pages of our great CD journals.
 The Republic of October 27th con- tains special from Ithaca, New York, to the effect that one H. H. Powers, professor of Sociology of Cornell Uni versity, in delivering lecture to the class in political principles makes the following startling statement: 1T am strongly in favor of killing off the weak in society for the benefit of the strong. I would kill off the feeble minded and all others who may be a burden, as I would kill off so many rattle snakes"
 So states the professor, and the world stands aghast! His voice has thundered through the great inane and there is no echo-lost in the dream of things that were, so to speak. Is this sample of the professors who are engaged in the various universi- ties of this broad land and to whom we pay fancy prices for Henry or John to enter and secure thereby an educa- | tion to equip them for the battles of life? Is it possible that the evolution of education has reached it's zenith and that the beauties that inspire the seer are as stale and flat as a camp meeting in the Philippines?
 The human animal is pretty much like a bucket of clabber, i. e., to be- come part of it's immediate sur roundings. All students of cause and effect are agreed that environment plays the most important part While it is argued that the percentage is vastly greater in plant life than that of animal, still there has been suffi- cient data to prove beyond the ques- tion of doubt that environment plays the larger part in the animal also. For the principles underlying and sustain ing them are identical, the process of administration is the only difference.
 The professor is a doodle bug who would subvert nature, place the will of an intellectual TomTit above his Creator. He is looking forward to college of doodle bug censors of which he hopes to be made president.
 A Creator who writes His sentences in Astral fire, His beauty in the Sun sets mellow glow, and who permits to exist what our eminent professor, -GOd save the mark-Would other wise destroy; then it were we'll for you and 1, who are of the world and a part of it, to take up our pjamas an inch or so and see how far we have gotten. The professor would have us believe that by acting the role of a monster and leaving forever in the back ground the brotherhood of man and the Fatherhood of God, we could in time, engulf the Utopian age
 Sometime since, President Schur- mann, in featuring to a class in Psychology, made the statement that the faculties of the mind of man pos sessed not powers of remembering.
 Cornell has been known for sensa tional statements emanating from it's erstwhile professors, and little does the world care whether they be right or wrong. I earth has lost none of it's fructifying properties, nor the hu man race it's propensity to now and then create mental weakling or physical dwarf.
 'Twere we'll for parents in selecting a school or college in which they de- sire to train their offspring, to select one modelled upon sane and sound principles, one which inculcates the idea to build and not destroy.
 To teach them that all life is anala- gous, that when the evening ap- breaches, they may catch glimpses of a purer and brighter light beyong the achievements of this life