The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1910-04-22
SAYS PEWS ARE
PUT ABOVE SOULS
Princeton President CTItClseS
Protestant Churches.
COLLEGES ALSO SCORED
Declares Privately Endowed Ins'l'u-
lions Are a Menace Because OF un-
democratic Teachings.

HONS ATE q Wlhe~N
democratic Teachings.
President Woodrow Wilson OF
Princeton university startled nun
dreds of Princeton gradutes who lis
tened TO his speech delivered at the
sixty-hfth anniversary banquet oil tne
Princeton Alumni Association oil west
ern PENNSYLVANIA at Pittsburg 90
radical were his views that the ban
uueters refused to believe their ears,
until President Wilson had verified
his quotations as correct after the
feast
In no unmistakable terms President
Wilson criticised the Protestant
church OF the country as caring more
for new rent than for the saving OF
souls: declared that colleges, such as
Princeton. supported by private con
trjbutions. we're a menace rather than
a help to the country. on account OF
their undenominational teachings and
in the same breath lauded state educa'
tional institutions. He touched lightly
upon the Princeton graduate school
and intimated he was not in favor oil
nccep.'nc any donations TO Princeton
20 which there was "a string
After the banquet. I'm response to a
question as to whether he had been
correctly quoted President Wilson
said:
"While these views Of mine may ap-
pear socialistic. / have said just what
mean. The time has come for an
awakening in college life and educa-
tion. Foremost thinkers of the country
agree with my sentiments, and the
sooner these sentiments are spread
broadcast the better for the country
at large.
In the course of his banquet speech
President Wilson said:
"The colleges are in the same dan
gerous position as the churches.
hone that the last thing ! will ever be
CAPABLE of Will be casting a shadow on
the church. and yet the churches
the Protestant churches at least
have ASSOCIATED themselves from the
people They serve certain strata. Ger
tain visible uplifted strata. and ignore
the men whose need is dire. They
have more regard for pew, rents than
for soul and in proportion as they seek
the respect of their congregations &c
lift them in esteem. they are lowering
themselves in the whole scale OF
Christian endeavor
1.-THE colleges are in the same class
looking to the support of wealth rath
er than TO the people. The state uni
Yersity is being lifted in popular es
teen and the privately endowed insti
tuition is being lowered The future IS
for the state university and not for the
privately endowed one. The state uni
versity is constantly sensitive to pub
Tic opinion. to the opinion of the un
known man who can vote.
Most of the masters Of endeavol
Of our day have not come from the
colleges. but from the great rough
and-ready workers Of the world. Col
iege men serve the non-college men,
do YOU realize that?
no class can serve America. The
great voice of America does not come
from the seats of learning, but in
murmur from the hills and the woods
and the farms and the factories anC
the mills rolling on and gaining vol
ume until IT comes to MS the yoic'
from the homes of the common meT
Do these murmurs come into the cor
ridors of the university? ] have no
heard them