The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-04-21
Sounding the Gong.

The alarmst does not bother us In fact we
are glad of him for he does good. He sets his
hearers to thinking and some of them to investi-
eating, ant. the more thinking and investigating the
world mas the better off it will be.
4 Dr. Woodrow Wilson alarm went off again
the other evening, this time at Pittsburg, while
speaking to the Princeton alumni and We are In
formed that his hearers even in that town OF sur
prises startled.
.If she loves her self possession, said he, Amer
lea will stagger like France, through fields of
blood before she again finds peace and prosperity
under the leadership of men who know her needs.
That was too general to be especially startling
but there was more to come. Warming up to the
I topic he asked: ''How does the nation judge
Princetonf'' And he answered.:
.sThe institution is intended for the SER
vice of the country. And it is by the re-
auirements of the country that it will be
measured / trust | may be thought
IA among the last to blame the churches,
yet feel il my duty to say that they at
least the Protestant Churches, serv-
ing the classes and not the masses of the
people. They have regard for pew
rents thin for mems souls. They are
depressing the level of Christian endeavor.
If is the same with universities. We look
for the support of the wealthy and neg
lect our opportunities to the people.
1t is for this reason the State University
is held in popular approval while the
privately supported institution to which
we belong is coming to suffer cor
responding loss of esteem.
''Whie attending recent Lincoln ceie-
bration | asked myself if Lincoln would
have been as serviceable TO the people OF
this country had been college man.
and | was obliged to say to myself that
he would not. The processes to which
the college man is subjected do not rem
der him serviceable to the country
whole 1t is for this reason that have
dedicated every power in me to Demo
cratic regeneration. The American college
must become saturated in the same SYM
pathies as the common people. The col
leges of this country must be reconstruct
ed from the top to the bottom.
''The American people will tolerate no
thing that savors Of exclusiveness. Their
political parties going to pieces. They
are busy with their moral regeneration,
and they want leaders who can help them
to accomplish it. Their political parties
are going to pieces, and only those leaders
who seem able to promise something of
moral advance able to obtain a fol-
lowing, The people tired of pretense,
and [ ask you as Princeton men, to heed
what is going on.
Well, things have been going rather badly since
Roosevelt and Bryan went off and left Taft and
Cannon, Rockefeller and Carnegie to run tht
country. But Bryan has already lit and Roose
welt will be back before long and then things viii
begin 10 right themselves
Testing ASIDE while We are not prepared to speal
as to conditions at the North if DR.. Wilson mean
his remarks to apply to Southern churches ant
Southern colleges, they were greatly exaggerated
Neither the churches the colleges Of Virgins
were ever more Jealous in good works or closer t.
I the people. The alarm does not ring true so fal
as this State is concerned