Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1908-03-27

half-baked professor or official who
has a little authority.
This class we're nightly swelled
up with importance since the death
of Mrs. Stanford, whose broad hui
manity WAS ALWAYS A RE-
sTRAINT UPON THE CARPING
sCHIsMATIC PHARAsAICAL ELE.
MENT AMONG PROFESSORS and
n strong student body and faculty
existed as long as Mrs. Etanford was
alive.
Men OF broad views have had to
go about with muffler over their
opinions, "eln Blatt vor dem Mund"
as the Germans say. and the removal
OF Prof Durand and his associates
from the student body affairs com
mlttee. was only A STEP IN THE
DIRECTION OF A NARROW AND
BIGOTED Foley that has put
the best men in the college and the
best professors on the faculty under
a cloud OF condemnation.
Tho warfare on the fraternltles
has b en- another vainglorious streak
OF sham morality. because the fra
ternlties naturally contain many Of
the PICKED MEN IN ANY EDUCA-
TIONAL INSTITUTION.
The latest climax OF absurdlties
has been reached In the practical
suspension of $50 mon because they
participated IN a parade-no offence
at all. or II an offence. Il was ridicu-
lousy small.
Men with any blood In their veins
are going Ia peep once I'M n while.
are going To blow of steam. are go.
ing to explode once a year or oftener
when there Is occasion, aud instead
of expulsion deserve commendation
for not being the Rnaemlc creatures
such condemnatlons as Prof. Clark's
WOULD MIKE THEM OUT To BE
~ THEY Dm NOT RESENT IT.
Above all let us get n clear con-
coption of the fact that young mon
cannot be handled according 20 ideal
programs of the angelic goody-eoody
variety
Let us admit that youth has the
bottled up energy and stored yltali-
ties on THE MANHOOD AND WOM-
ANHOOD on THE FUTURE.
Is the electric power and the gem
Grating auld OF American manhood
To find NO expression Is the indi-
ylduality and the warmer impulses
of humanity all 10 be squeezed out
and smoothed down under the rules
on DAPPER SALARY DRAWING
PROFESSORS who have sense
enoslgh to make few rules hut not
sagacity enough TO enforce them?
The parent or school teacher who
Is always laying down rules for the
government OF children II STORING
UP TROUBLE ROR THE FUTURE.
and will lose standing and influence
in proportion as he seeks to enforce
hls rules.
II takes more wisdom aud inteni-
genoe TO rule nv love than by force
aud this applies to college professors
as we'll as To Others.
Young men can be ruled by kind.
ness, by love and by reason far bet
ter than by arbitrary rules WHICH
THEY HAVE HAD M HAND N
ADOPTING.
/ University students are men aud
women In every sense of the word
and the old idea OF a pedagog With
authority 20 punish arbitrarily ha,
disappeared.
A ruling OF committee or az q
disolplinarian must be subject 20 ais
oussion, 20 appeal. 10 reference q
Il is arbitrary. AND INCONSISTENT
WITH COMMON SENsE.
The professor or head OF an in
siitution nowadays who takes IN.
students into his confidence. VII,
asks them to bear a share OF the re-
sponsihility for school government
viii win out.
Noung American manhood aud
womanhood has developed 10 IN,
point where Il demands To know IN,
reason for rulings and the grounds
for decisions. and IN WILL KNOW