Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-07-08
PRESIDENT HARPER's ADDRESS
Advises Professors Against Sensation
alisn in College Work.

| Advises Professors Against Sensation
alism in College Work.
Minneapolis. Mimi, July S.-Sensa.
tional methods, startling utterances
and the failure by professors in col.
| leges TO exercise common sense Were
denounced in strong terms by William
| r. Harper, president of the University
of Chicago, in his address before the
convention of the National Education-
al Association yesterday.
| President Harper's address, which
was on the subject of ",The Education-
al Progress of the Year 1?01-'02.' was
the chief feature OF the evening session
of the convention. In regard to the
proper conduct of college professors DE-
Harper said:
"A professor abuses his privilege who
takes advantage of a class room eNer-
else TO propagate partisan views of one
or another of the political parties. The
university is no place for PARTISAN
ship.
"A professor abuses his privilege
who in any way seeks to influence his
pupils or the public sensational meth
DDS. a professor abuses his privileges
of expressions of opinion when, altho Il
student, and perhaps an authority in
one department or group of depart
ments. he undertakes to speak author
itatively on subjects in which he was
appointed to give instruction. A pro-
fessor abuses his privilege in many
cases when. altho shut off in large
measure from the world, and engaged
within a narrow field of investigation,
he undertakes to instruct his COL
leagues or the public concerning mat
tiers in the world at large in connection
with which he has had little or no eN-
perience.
Regarding women as educators and
the lack of competent ones in the high
er branches DR.. Harper said:
considerable comment has been
made upon the apparent scarcity of
women possessed of the proper quail
fications and training for the highest
positions in college work. The women
now being graduated with the Doctors
degree from our strongest institutions
are, in almost every particular, as able
and as strong as the men. If opportu-
nifty were offered these women would
show that they possess the qualifica-
tions demanded. The fact is that to
tunities to show their strength which
come to the men,"
College athletics and the effect upon
education of the rivalry between the
contesting teams also was discussed,
DR.. Harper saying:
THE much discussed subject of coll
lege athletics has received no impor-
tant contributions during the year. 1t
may be feared that within a compara-
lively short time the rivalry between
closely located Institutions east and
west has developed some antagonism.
In not few institutions there seems
to exist a strong spirit of personal hos
tility toward other institutions with
which competition in athletics is I'M
dertaken.
Some of this same spirit has been
manifested by home teams toward Wis
itng teams, as we'll as by visiting
teams toward the teams on whose
ground the games have been played. 1t
is hardly necessary to say that such
manifestations are a mark of deterior-
alton and Indicate that instead of maxi
ing progress we are losing ground.
"Such an attitude of mind is hardly
worthy of a sportsman; much less does
it accord with the high academic spir-
it. If such feelings are a necessary part
of intercollegiate athletics are aban-
doned the better for all concerned.
Lone can not believe, however, that
these manifestations are anything more
than passing phases, which in another
year will be forgotten, and that in their
place will arise stronger spirit of dig
nified and friendly rivalry, characters
tic at once of the gentleman and the
scholar"