Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-03-09
VARSITY FACULTY
HIT BY CARDINAL.
Students Organ Accuses Professors Of
Being intellectual Arts
tncrats"

MADISON, Wis, March 5.-[Spe-
cial. 1.-The Daily Cardinal in its most
recent issue charges, in an editorial, that
Wisconsin university professors are be-
coming intellectual aristocrats, VINO
have put themselves on a pedestal like
penitent monks of the old eastern coun-
tries" A warning of possible eHects Is
included.
Tips for the State Solons.
The editorial is in the nature of a tip
to the legislative investigation, and has
caused a sensation. 1t says:
The legislative committee will find If It
pursues it's investigation long enough anu
Searching enough that there has grown
up amo.lg our university professors Ger tnr
tain intellectual aristocracy when IS Iar
from beneficial to the students ana tne
state Many of those, professors VINO are
reported to have built up the University OF
Wisconsin have placed themselves upoi,
pedestals, like the penitent MONKS ol oiu
in the eastern countries.
Like those ancient pen1tents, TOO iuauy
of our professors expect to receive tneil
sustenance from the populace whom tney
expect to be ever ready TO hand TO tn tI
in their high position e yam ana lne
date with not even ''thank you TO com
penSate them.
What History Teaches.
History tells us, however, that the infiu-
ence of these penitent monks would nave
been far better had they mingled among
men and taught them, by example 1lli Inc
paths of righteousness. Perhaps TINS pin
ciple applies as well now as then. FER
haps the influence of our professors wouid
be far more widespread II they w1 batr
call for q ladder, climb down from their
lofty seats and mingle among us as men.
We have every respect for the professor
who has become an authority III ms cno o,S1il
line. even though he answers our friendly
greeting with, & netrified stare and a me-
chanical nod Such a teacher. however,
cannot say that he has done his duty TO
does nothing more and if this is a cr,-
terion we feel we have struck the truth
when we say that over half of the faculty
of our university is delinquent.
Don't Know Each Other.
We do not know them and they do not
know us. We are aware of their pres
ence in the classroom, at exam time ana
before the discipline committee. They are
aware of us at those times In but vague
and indefinite manner and they can can
but few of us by name.
We cannot excuse this attitude in our
best and oldest professors, much less can
we excuse it in the rising young instructor
who believes that since his name is placed
needs assume the iemcanor of Snob and
try to drive his students into intellectual
fields in the same manner ana with tne
same motives that the section boss en-
ploys when he drives his men for the honor
and glory of himself and for the financial
benefit of his employers.
Can't Hide the Facts.
We want to know our teachers and we
have Il right to their mountaineering. IL
they are men shall soon find 1t out
and learn to love them for what they are
If they are ''dubs, in the modern sense,
we shall soon learn to know that also, put
our contempt for them will be no greater
than now. We do not know them now
and are led to. believe many things about
them which may not be true.