The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-03-22
PRINCETON.
70 ~ ts Ne . tnlseruiey - - Rs0aan Q
Tallege ear 0laer nP,ss

site and MANY other irrelevant paraNna
and things IN ths Princeton si,,sat,cn ?
There ars hit i,vn questions Iap che
larger so-tsl life Of undsrsrs duatsa 10 made
/ more effectively sonrr,hutIvs ~ intellectual
progress For What sort of graduate work
does rrinCaton Tnivsrsitv SAINT IN sssnd ;
The two ihtnga NAV or NAV not h@ -.
II ted but the present has 81 d,s~vsa,or has
welded thew together
Princeton had an oHsr ~ q million and
after some negotiations and much talk peV-
niiited the oHer ~ pasa Nsnv Alumni
think q mistake VAS made Sons fancy
! the president nlanRuvr~d 20 Feis~, The oFer
There haa heen such = show ~ feeling ~
every turn In the disr,i-a,on thai the facts
have gone asfrav The oNsr VS. for grad
uaie wcrk. and the gift would not have r~-
lievCd the need for general collage pn1iov o.
ment hut its reiection NAV pra,udice other
donors Whv wss II ROT a~certed' Tan
the president he mstideis
Princeton has alWays been and must re-
main essentially = liberal school for older
hays No one pretends that even after
, taking the name "univer~i,, she should
become primarily . seat of highest learn
ing. The president - hound to deem the
underETaduates his chief charge and 10 test
every new scheme nv its prohA HE efec, On
the existing work We has been succes@f1l
in elevatinR the stands rdS and imprOv In q
the quality Of the Intellectual work ~ The
undergraduates. These hettsrments have
apparently gone a. far a. may he expected
In the presence og social condit ions which
tend tn distraction and diffusion. Every
such college has ~ one ri ha educa PiOnal
Torres the subtle ltheralilinx influence NJ =
cha raCteri-iiC campus life The boys ira in
- Oh other almos, a. effectively a. the ten CHI
era train them In later years this -unoffi-
cial education has tended tn swamp the
strictly college work.
S,ndent- devote 90 large . part of their
energies 10 athlesi-, -oc,aI ana other ac-
tivuies which have no organic or intimate
relat ION to the curriculum that the faculty
and the classroom and the Textbooks are
secondary forces tine phase Of this ex-
pansion Of independent student activity
- the dev elopmeni % = club life with n
score 81 n~ttv centres from Witch dtaints-
grating social influences emanate 10 aRect
all other activiti@a Certain clubs are
deemed aocjsIIv suparIor 10 others and
non-club men are sad birds The old
Characteristic campus Iife has become =
confusion NJ cIioue-. involving an unfoT-
innate tDeoualtty Of atident ouportunltv
TIE president hoptng to chark this ten
dency and innnar,iaIly to reclaiun for the
" hole student BODY some n the praempted
so-iaI Influences. dev tS.d = plAn of en'arg-
ing the social units and providing for the
afu0eUha
group- a. would hermit and foster social
contac, among men 81 various grade.
inclusi'ng even such outra.ts a. freshmen
and unmarried teachers Obviously this
|. prac,i~ahle would strengthen the intel
ioc,,,,t ,Ans NJ ,oIIeys ne ant A. pa.d M,
:, ~
make 's"k anu b"F bdt college trad'-
lon- are 'utrk IN the masking and the clubs,
though IN fact very modern. had, N the
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