The San Francisco call., 1910-03-02
PROF. WRITES BOOK
GRILLING COLLEGES
Work of Students and Ph. DIS
Is Mostly Rubbish, Says
Berkeley Savant

BERk ELEY- March Talking rub
bish INCREASINGLY: thinking rubbish; re-
Famping rubbish; rubbish about high
inks. rubbish about low jinks, rubbish
about rallies. rubbish about pseudo cfTic
honor. rubbish about girls. What mar
sin of leisure is left for the activity of
college study?'
The foregoing is only a part of the
indictment and arraignment of nearly
ali things academic which fills a little
book GA idols of Education by Prof
Charles Mills Gayley, veteran head of
the department of English of. the uni
versity. whose Classic Myths" has
made him one Of the foremost savants
of the country.
Nothing touching on the relations of
the students to each other, while pur-
suirg thir college course, escapes un-
= sed. and even the members of the
= culty' come in foraheir share of criti-
.cism from the pen Of Professor Gayley
I'm the book, which is Just off the press
Of Doubleday Pzge & Co.
The whole student system is CEN
sured. and he asks: How many nights
a week does the student spend in pur-
suits nonacademic: how great a pro-
portion Of his iday2 What with socalled
college activities by which he must
prove his allegiance 10 the university
and social functions by which he must
recreat his jaGed soul. no margin is left
for the one. and only one college actiy-
ity which is study
Glass meetings business meetings,
committee meetings. editorial meetings.
~ .-s-1- f.-.- x-s..T Tov-f
Gus foQtbsll- rallies, athletics on the
bIeaeliers garrulous athletics in dining
room and pariors and on the porch
rehearsals of the giee or of the man
dolinaclub. and Of the banjo, rehearsals
FOR dramatics a word to stand the hair
on erd94 college dances. class banquets.
= fraternity dances and suppeTs, prepa-
rations for the dances and banquets,
more committees for the preparations
for the dances a running UP and down
tire campus for ephemeral items for
ephemeral- articles for ephemeral pa
persf a soliciting OF advertisements; a
running up and down for subscriptions
10 the dances and dinners, and the
papers and the clubs; a running up
ana aowa- ia college politics, making
tickets, pulling wires, adjusting COM
. binatiops.. canvassinG for votes-can-
fVassing+ the girls for votes, spending
hours AT sorority houses for votes
spending hours al sorority houses for
sentiment; talking rubbish increasingly,
What time. Professor Gayley then
asks, has the student for the only thing
that xoIlege was Instituted for-study?
athletics receives a grilling just as
severe and scatiling as: the social func-
tions:of the students, their dances: and
their teas. He does not believe in
-scrapers and oilers" and says:
r-c orrfS he -r11e af
the game that necessitates pugilistic
pr0fIciency. and hence protracted
Aeriods of professional inurement, and
" enee: saiaried coaches and trainers,
faasSuers and scrapsrs and oilers and
the ira lining table and special gratui-
colossal expenditures and colossal
rusks and beneVo1ences and colossal
gate receipts. Let. us bolish the night
mare: Of frantic excess. and carnal hos
tility: and strife and blood and dust.
Let.0s make of football not a menace
to. morals and manners, life and limb
but a generous rivalry a pastime in
wlich All may engage, a clean whole
+ some sport.
In brief. let us cultivate athletics
for *ieducstion-pot for the thug" or
the "beokse" or the bum
After taking fling at the student
who. i1esnS- when faint upon the in
hot brick. Professor Gayley passes on
to his colleagues and declares that
.iiliteracT: is not a hall mark exclp-
sfnvely- referred 10. the student body.
our Phi. D:sr are lanentabfy prone TO
errorin the use Of their own tongue
.9Of the later crop Of Instructors in
universities. seme. say he don't luck
rative,' .ninerology,' confessing that
they hadn't ought to-: others never
fail. they fall. down they never will,
they Min- out they. are never at a loss,
they are frequently pat against it p
- Passing on 10 systems of education,
Professor .cayley does not hesitate TO
arrsign present day methods in the
employment of women in the high
schools.
. For the noble women in our schools
7 have the sincerest admiration. They
are the natural protectors and instruc-
tors Of the early childhood of both
sexes. But concerning the system
which commits almost exclusively to
women the disciplining Of maturing
boys ] entertain misgivings, mitigated
only by the psthos of the conditions
that seem TO have rendered the system
necessary