New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-10-29
Students Called" Greasy GrInds,
SAYS Harvard's Head.
SCHOLARSHIP RATED LOW
Or. Almon Gunnison for Free
Education, He Tells the Uni
versity Convocation.

srha,- O~- 2S-That the appreciation
% schola-ship among students al the pres
er- dav is very low hardly seems 20 need
demonstration. was the assertion Of Presi-
a.. lowell OF Harvard University in an
ADDRESS today before the University Con-
vocation
II, the cases Of colleges he continued.
II Is notorious, and what IS true there is
certain in time TO work down into the
schools 10 an even greater extent than IL
has done already Sayings familiar among
Students, such as that high scholars never
amount 20 anything afterward that in later
nfe the sports pass the 'grinds' are suf-
rcierr evidence Of the way in which they
regard rank
1t requires indeed. little familiarity with
students ourselves to recognize that they
not only regard the athlete or the man OF
social prominence as a far more prorlls-
Ing personality than the high scholar. but
that rank IN itself is. in their minds. little
O. no indication whatever OF the qualities
that make for success in life This feeling
seems 70 have been progressive, as is SHOWN
by the very words used TO indicate the stu
dent who works hard a generation ago
ne was called a grind but now he is often
referred 10 as a greasy grind. the adjec-
tempt. In fact. il may be doubted whether
the respect for scholarship has ever been
50 low n any institution OF learning as
Il is n American colleges al the present
ozv"
other speakers were President Taylor Of
vassar College and Dr.. John H. Finley.
president OF the College OF the City Of New
York
Discussing the subject Of Cooperation
Between the state and the College Dr.
Alrnon Gunnison. president Of s.. Lawrence
University. declared that the ideal condi-
ton Of the American educational system
should be the free school in the free state
free for rich and poor-free from the kin
oe-zarten 70 and through the college and
university
But 70 think that the state would assume
this burden is only an i-idescent dream. "
Re continued It might grant the logic,
but IL would not grant the appropriation.
The thing 20 strive for is not the ideally
academic proposition Of free colleges. sup
ported oy the state but for such an amount
Of freedom As the state VIII grant and a
general recognition Of the desirabiIity and
pracucabnity Of q closer relationship be
tween the colleges and the state through
the states Administrative body. the Board
of Regents, the Regents asking the state To
provide free tuition in the colleges for six
hundred OF one thousand students. or such
number as may seem wise. the Regents
acting IN conjunction with the college ii
mutual helpfulness for the mutual good.
The colleges Of New York every one Of
them. Is the gift OF the rich 10 the state.
Founded by wealth. endowed by wealth.
supported by wealth. without wealth they
could not have been, without the conttnu-
ous IEfowing Of wealth they could not
exist The widows mite inspires. but il
does not build-there are not widows
enouEh-snd only wealth can rear great
buildings, sustain great faculties. furnish
the costly administration OF great colleges,
and the S40.o@0oeo of Columbia and the SO
10000 Of Harvard and the lesser thousands
OF the smaller colleges testify TO the splen-
did generosity OF the wealth OF noble men
and women, and ought to seal our lips
against the indiscrimiuate abuse OF snarI-
ing aEe against wealth that has been gath
cred by prudence and consecrared 10 high
est uses
L. II. Bailey. dean q the State College
o. Agriculture at Cornell University. ad-
dressed the convoca-ion on The Place OF
Agriculture IL Higher Education"