Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-12-13
THE SPIRIT OF
THE UNI ERSlTY
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;urned away every year, sent back
nome again as unfit to remain with
the elect. But this is immaterial to
The scheme and spirit Of the univer
sity. The university wants only one
out Of every hundred pupils entering
the schools Of the state anyhow, for
this is enough to make her leaders
from.
Surely nothing could be worse for
the cause Of education in this state,
or elsewhere, than for those in au-
thority to coldly inform the people
that the benefits Of the university are
not for the rank and file Of humanity
and that there is no hope for human
ity's rising above the dead level to
higher and better things except by
means Of the leadership brought
about by the training Of few skill
ed geniuses, culled out from among
the people, one out Of every hundred.
Surely nothing could be worse for
education in general than for those
in authority and who have, as they
dream, led us upward for forty years
than to tell us that there is still no
hope that we may rise above the dead
level by means Of the common
schools they have provided for us,
nor by means of the graded schools
they have provided for us, nor by
means Of the university's own espec-
ial feeders, the state high schools
that they have provided for us, but
that all the efforts Of all the people
in all these lower schools will still
leave us unrisen and unbalanced un-
till we are brought under the supreme
leadership Of the students gradual
ed at the university. The free and
open expression Of such views at the
university, shows clearly the nature
Of the spirit that permeates these
wide and spacious halls. IS,
The university Of Minnesota is not
ia place where great and wise leaders
for the people are trained and in
structed in honesty and purity and
fitted for life Of self-sacrifcing
services on behalf of humanity. 1t
is place of many sides, many
strong characteristics and that may
be viewed from different angles.
SPECIAL PRIv1nE eE SITS. SAFE
It is a place where special privil-
eyes and subsidized occupations sit
safe and secure from the :nterfer-
ence Of the peopIe;:W here q thousand
young doctors, t'entistss alnaggists
and lawyers are being speelallYI pre-
pared to make ii an softs handed
we'll dressed was IN l1x5lsaz.iIi' being
so prepared on t5:sS sa:s. paid by
blacksmiths, carpAA' t ans 81 ,llpar lang
ers, draymen, e,I5ors1@S. compost tors.
and the people VINO are 1,5nllillegs thei1
livings~ in the z2a ! sa,s~- nc s,the,
trades and occnpat ions . jo,e= not
fostered and suhsidizeda !, he uni
versity Of Minnefs ss=S 4 zisa T,lace
where the evil Of specia privilege
made unlawful III railroa 4 asses. ant
rebates and denied ltaw to public
officials who might .-tssGlrt t. profit
personally, by the opportunities Of
their positions, still fourishes fresl
and green, buttressed in power by
the legendary and inherited privileges
Of the university. It is not a place
to which a man would send his son
thanking God that the boy was where
he might be protected from evil ways
and trained in morals, right and du.
YOUTH NOT PROTECTED FROM
! EVIL WAYS
lty, but it is a place to which mar
would send his son, praying to Goo
that he might receive him home agar
as good and pure as when he wen
away. 1t is not my purpose here t
contend that the university is an,
worse than other aggregations Of hui
man beings elsewhere, but to con
,, tend that it is no better. There j:
as much Of open oppression and pet
ty graft and open and secret VIC
winding their devious ways through
these classic halls as there is in an,
other respectable institution in tn
state of Minnesota. You are like tn
rest Of the great world around you
in the matter of morals, no bette:
and no worse. ~.
The university of Minnesota is tn
smoothest,, best adapted and mos
finely organized political machine il
the State of Minnesota. It know:
FINEST POLITICAL MACHINE IN
THE STATE
the methods and employs them. I
has it's power and uses it. 1t is &C
quainted with the ropes and pulls
them. 1t has its political agents an.
sends them to do it's bidding It I'M
derstands lobby as we'll as it knows
Latin and Greek and locates a fin,
one where it will do the most good
The snifit Of the university O