Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1909-04-14
HOBO IN SCHOOL
WARMLY SCORED
DEAN REED or ANN AReoR
TAKES TO TASK THE clip.
PANT pupil.
INTELLECTUAL vAeRANT FOB
"FRATs," ATHLETICS, AND
cIGARETs.

have taught the barefoot bov
with cheek of tan and the college how
with cheek of Brass
That was the opening statame,t
made by Dean ]. o. Reed of the Uni
versity of Michigan before the North
central Association of Colleges and
Secondary Schools at the Auditorium
hotel, Chicago, a day or two ago.
He was discussing Intellectual Hobo
ISM opponents OF which, he said,
are to be found in large numbers in
high schools and colleges.
In the high school" he continued.
intellectual hoboism finds its express
siol in numberless ways, chiefly in
aping the worst features of college
and university life without the appre-
citation of any of its redeeming quali-
ties.
Such student is at the bottom Of
every surprising outbreak of disorder.
He may be an athlete or a fop. or
both combined; he usually excels in
dancing and other social functions.
and maintains toward the principal
an attitude Of armed neutrality, or of
, open instruction, according as he
feels himself safe in assuming the
one or the other. He chews gum or
tobacco, as his social standing die
tates and is usually addicted to the
eigaret
Does Harm; Gets No Benefit.
Such student does the school I'M
told injury and receives no benefit
from it's teachings. If he be com
PEELED to work or leave, he promptly
leaves, and betakes himself to some
prominent eastern private school or
military academy, from which he
graduates with great eclat in a sur
prisingly short time.
In many cases he may be a girl, in
which event devotion to society, to
theater parties, to bridge whist, to
late suppers to balls, to pink teas and
to similar intellectual pursuits leaves
the poor dear in such nervous and
overweight state that the dreadful
mathematics, the horrid Latin or the
detestable French are quite impossi-
BILE, really, while the duty of reaching
the high school on time is more than
should be expected of one so frail
and so sensitive in spirit
This amiable creature is not likely
to know anything or to learn anything
useful in the high school, and is soon
ready for the girls finishing school,
from which she returns highly edu
Gated in a few months.
Children of the Well to Do.
These intellectual Migrants are in
a large degree the children of parents
in good circumstances in life. They
come from homes where discipline is
either unknown or of such charac
ter as to be practically worse than
none at all
For such as these the high school
is a failure from the very nature of
the case. and such pupils should be
removed from it as soon as possible.
The school can do little or nothing
for them. while they can work untold
harm to the school
The counterparts of these charac-
tiers in college or university life are
still more accentuated and unique.
The university hobo, or hoboess.
speaks loftily concerning the duty of
subordinating classroom work and Sc
rious study to the demand for the
larger lie of a college man or
woman
This phrase the larger life means,
in plain English. athletics, fraterni-
ties. college politics, dramatic clubs,
amateur minstrel shows, glee and
banjo clubs azing. class rushes and
the thousand and one other devices
for wasting time. money ana vital en-
ergy in the precious four years OF col
lege life.
THE idea is to select line of study