Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1902-11-11
THE POOR OLD THING.


ularly known as Politicians Bar
racks" and properly as Hanna Hail."
The same college had already con-
ferred upon Hanna the degree of Doc
tor Of Laws.
The exercises included much full
some laudation Of Doctor Hanna, and
some wretched doggerel to the effect
that the quid pro quo Of the doctorate
in question was the money given for
the erection of the building.
The occasion was the fitting success
sor of political campaign in which
tho chief subject of 1t had in his
speeches throughout the state invari-
ably lost his temper and INDUCED In
a farrago of abuse of his antagonist,
couched In coarse and illitcrate Ian
guage.
From his choice repertoire Of names
thus bestowed upon the chief magis-
trate of his home city were used, ac-
cording to newspaper accounts, such
as liar, demagogue, fakir, hypocrite,
and the like, to say nothing of pre-
fixes and suffixes unprintable. A re
deeming feature, pointed out by n
Youngstown paper, was found In the
fact that while Hanna swore ungram-
matically at the beginning of his tour,
he corrected the fault before it was
finished,--tbe Improvement consisting
in n correction of tense from d--n to
id
This is the man whom Kenyon Col
lege names Doctor of Laws"
The price to be paid for the Bar
racks" lis fifty thousand dollars If
old Kenyon could sit down and inter
view herself after the Barracks" are
completed, and set this hero of her
students doggerel over against the
long and honorable roll of godly and
scholarly men who. MS teachers OF
taught, have been gathered within her
walls-Chase, McIlvaine, Andrews
Bedell, Stanton, Henry Winter Davis
David Davis, Stanley Matthews
Hayes can imagine her saying
in the language Of Mr.. Rumble yeal
after he married Mrs. Corney, II wen
very reasonable; yes, dirt cheap"
Not that any such self-interview viii
take place; fifty thousand dollars 1,
too sweet morsel, and doctorates Of
laws are too cheap and easy things [,
give, to permit the hope Of 1t. On tn,
contrary, the proceedings of Satur
day-including the doggerel, all mpl,
that the fattery would have been pilet
on even thicker, IL the pachydern
subject of It could have absorbed more
II the college could have pried an on
ening into the calendar of saints t,
make room for second Mark, n,
doubt 1t would have been done.
We suggest, as the next hest thing
that Kenyon persuade Mr.. Hanna Il
endow chair of applied Horcology.
ana see u somo poor but respecta BIZ
doggeiel maker won't be'out hustlin,
after the placs-for stipend
The whole affair only shows tn
rendy servilIty with which even an
cient and honorable seats of learnin,
are ready to bow down to rlches-how
ever gotten, and however unculture,
and illlterate the possessor OF then
may be. "Parson Supple" Is not den,
yet; and Squire Western" continue
10 have lots of fun with him. Jus
pow his habitat seems to be the die
cese OF Ohio.
Before the war Northern college
truckled to miserable and brutal oil
garchy OF slave-drivers, for fear q
offending and driving away Souther
students.
I'm the same spirit, hut in a differer
form, our colleges are now becomin
the favoring parasites of wealth an
prestige.
Formerly a college education wa
calculated to make, and generally di
make, of its subjects, scholars an
men,--men of knowledge, culture an
character. Now its distinct tendenc
is TO make tiunkeys, It's modern mctt
Is;
mo. let the candied tongue lick al
surd pomp.
And crook the pregnant hinges OF n
knee
Where thrift may FOLLOW fawninr
Better give the boys a trade. Blac
smithing Is more dignified than boo
licking.