Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1908-04-04

and divide their time between
smashing university furniture and
lying about the campus in a drunken
stupor. Let me inform him that
student drunkenness" as considered
by faculty and students alike at
Stanford admits of no such broad
Interpretation. Stanford men are
not and never have been allowedsto
get drunk at all, whether they 90
any damage when drunk OF not
Students and faculty for the most
part live together on the campua In
many of the fraternity houses some
OF the professors live with the stu
dents: in my own fraternity for ex-
ample we have two facn'ty mern-
bers living with us continually. More
over. II Is the duty Of every mem
Der OF the faculty TO report any stu
dent whom he sees intoxicated.
The authorities therefore are IN
the best possible position to know
Iwhat the students actions are In re-
gard to drunkenness. Yet In the two
years that have been at Stanford
only two students have been ex-
pelled for drunkenness, and these two
students, according to the report OF
the Student Affairs Committee, were
not badly but only noticeably un-
der the influence of liquor" Does
this look as though Stanford were
"hell-holc OF drunkenness"
Our embryonic college reformer
charges I'm his editorial that Stan
ford is place Of debauchery and
riot and that the smashing OF college
furniture is INDUCED In with Inn
punity, no such thing as a riot has
ever occurred NJ Stanford. and by In
qairlng OF the oldest students arl
professors / am unable TO discover
single instance where any college
furniture or anything else has ever
been destroyed or even molested by
tho Stanford students This applies
not only to the present controversy
hut TO the whole history OF student
activities. As for dobauohery. that
Is something absolutely unknown at
this university.
II the oregnian writer would visit
Stanford. he would find out from
| professors OF national and even in
ternatlonal experience and roputa-
tion that Stanford Is the eleanest
morally OF any large university In
the world. one thousand young
men and Ave hundred young women
associate here together. Most OF
them live on tho campus side by
aide In the halls and fraternity
houses. and in the fifteen years OF
Stanford existence there Is yet to
appear the first instance Ot any
form OF scandal whatsoever Can
any ono point TO another large uni
yersity In this country with such a
reeord9
To show the amazing Ignorance
on tho matter OF men like the Ore
gonlan writer who attempt 20 ad'
wise people upon something about
which they know absolutely moth
ing. let me quote. almost at random
a sentence from this editorial;
when Stanford university Is ono
we'll rid of the lot. its reputation TO
sobriety and scholarship will b.
vastly enhanced. and parents wh'
2 have their hearts set on other thing
r than football, wine-suppers, an
J, eollese yens will soon al the vaoan
. class rooms with a more promlsin
9 band OF youth"
Has this person ever consult
= any college statistiess Docs he kno'
9 anything at all about collegesg
he does. he certainly knows that 81
u briefly az Stanford Is held IN mnc
Il higher respect than at other repf'
u sentative colleges like Yale, whcI
y even the divinity students drink, q
@ dozens OF other universities havin
Il no dormltories or places OF residen'
y on the campus. the very organlz
y tlon of which renders u impossib
'e for the authorities to have any 81
n pervlsion over the men outside q
4. class room
'n II he has taken the trouble to /
II form himself on college seholarshi
hs certainly knows that the standa
at of scholarship at stanford Is high
We than at any other university In /.
q United States. A passing grade
"a two thirds OF the work carried Is I
~ aulred OF all regular Students, a
ly In the case OF special students
en- passing grade In all thu wo
le carried. II this record Is not una