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

OF scholarship, drinking, etc, that
exist at present have always existed
here. TO use the words of DR.. Jor-
dan, no graduate of Stanford has
ever disgraced the name of his al
ma maters AS for scholarship, the
lrecord OF Stanford in It's short ex-
istence OF fifteen years in producing
such men as Hoover and the Erwins
and a score Of others equally as
famous in their respective fields Is
without a parallel in the history OF
American universities. And when
the oregonian mentions football and
wine suppers as things which STAN
ford students regard more than their
studies, l reply that when American
football reached such q stage that
II was overshadowing every thing
else in nearly every large college in
the country. Stanford and California
were the only two universities that
did away with the game. and substi-
tuted for II a sport in which the
students had almost no interest. As
for wine suppcrs, am unable to
learn OF such a thing ever having
been given at Stanford.
The whole idea which the Oregon
ian and many other papers seek to
convey, besides being an absolutely
false one. is upon the face Of IL Ut
terly ridiculous. II ought to be OBJ
vious to any one with sense enough
10 be janitor in a newspaper Office
that Il would be n physical impossi-
billty for students TO behave as the
oregonlan says they do and yet re-
main in a college with scholarship
restrictions like those of Stanford.
But Il Is q waste OF time 20 make
n detailed denial OF everything
. charged against the students by thi1
hopelessly uniformed editorial
writer. There was no organized
demonstration OF protest" as Is
charged. Tho students did not "in-
suit the disciplinary committee
and they did not seek TO bully DR..
Jordan" Moreover. tho parade OF
March 12 was not a demonstration
In favor OF drunkenness.
now expect to hear the question
"whot then Ia the cause of all this
troubleg II Stanford Is not an Ia
stltution OF vice and drunkenass
what In the cause OF these wholesale
Suspensions aud the protest OF the
whole student body against the CON-
mlttee's action in suspendIng nearly
every prominent senior in the uhi-
versity7"
Briefly. the whole cause OF tho
matter Ia this; and I'm desi:ous
and anKloas for any one who Is 81
all acquainted with the situation e
scrutlniEe my statements closely
and 20 point out. II he can. anything
say that Is not absolutely correct
Tho cause OF the controversy Say
Is this: President Jordan is pro
hibition fanatic. and has used meth
ods more befitting a character Ike
, Carrie Nation than a college pfesi
dent 20 remedy a situation which a
the time he launched forth HI
. drastic action called for little or M
remedy at all
Il No one will attempt TO deny tha
moderate drinking OF beer Is and al
ways has been indulged in at Stan
) ford, although In smaller degre
= than az other representative univeT
!, sitlCs. Il 10 impossible 10 obtai
the exact figures. but from what
have been able To gather shoul
say that considerably more than flft
" per cent OF the students do nc
'. drink at all, and as for immoderat
= drinking. personally do not kno
, OF a single man in this universal
- who ia an immoderate drinker.
;. Now driking al stanford. nnlli
:. that at other universities, eonfin'
- itself almost exclusively TO the s.
- called beer busts. II should
n. remembered that the campus. whel
"a nearly all the students live. Is oI
A. mile from the nearest town and "
no miles from the nearest saloon.
beer bust" is given by some orga
m ization or crowd OF students up'
In some occasion which they thin
m warrants II, as after football
or track victory. Some OF the frater
he titles give an annual sophmore par
In which takes the form OF "be
"a. bust" These "beer busts" as IN
nd are called have been in vogue sin
\ the foundation OF the universal
ek Every one, the faculty included, I
de poets them on certain occasions, a