Evening star., 1911-06-07
MANY GET DEGREES
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it than it has become something diff
ferent. Our American colleges are chang
| ing. They must change to keep ADJUST
ed to this changing social environment
Along with other modern institutions,
they are in the condition of a man cross
ing a stream on broken ice. At each
step his footing slowly sinks beneath
him and he must hasten on. repeating
endlessly that unresting experiment.
Those who love above all things that
form of college education which mas
come over to US from the closing years
of the nineteenth century should snow
toward 1t that affectionate devotion which
is due to that which passeth away. In
due time 1t will be sweet and pathetlc
memory, along with the poke bonnet. the
stage coach and the cookies our mothers
used to make.
Bach Age Doing It's Part.
But while the fashions change. with
passing whims, 1t is through them that
each age does its part In getting nearer M
to the essential good. There are three
of the most elementary aspects OF col
leze education which we are to consider
for a little time this morning. Iney
are science. art and democracy. VI, put
ting il a little less BADLY, we are TO con-
slider what college art and science may
do for the betterment of our democratic
America.
1T is in the interest of a better balance
I'm our collegiate currculums that l
would contend for a larger study or III
erary art and others of the arts OF es-
thetic enjoyment alongside of the pnysl-
cal sciences and the sciences OF humanity
which are based upon them.
Science deals with knowledge which
can be tested and verified here and now;
the fine arts deal with appreclauons
which can be tested and confirmed only
by the slow course of time through the
years and generations. Science deals
with recorded facts as interpreted by In
exorable logic. and is related to psy-
chology of the intellectual processes: the
arts deal with the large apprehension OF
color. form and sound, and are related
to a psychology Of the emotional lie ana
of racial development. Science reveals
the works of God that are and nave
been: the arts create new forms, ana IN
another way reveal Wnat Goa mas pu.
into the spirit of man.
Now, when we argue concerning the
college curriculum. We are not tmnkins
of the ways of giving the fnest pohsH
to gentlemen of leisure. The most OF
our young graduates are going to work
We should not be sorry to know that
all of them are going to work Ihey
are going to have certain public with
whom they will have to do, and In deal
ine with that public they will be serv-
ing in part their own immediate IN
terests and serving in part the larger
interests of the whole community. In
these various relationships and canvass
them all In turn. So We take one ques-
tion out Of the thousand that might be
asked. and say. What are out American
democracy? There is. a question that
goes pretty near to the heart of the
whole educational problem.
In every form of society there are
some who lead and some who follow. In
every form of society. but chiefly in
democracy, every man does some leading
and some following A perfect democracy
would be a society In which man
should lead where his real abilities mt
him to lead and by natural division
of labor, should follow where 1t Is more
fitting that he should follow.
I'VE are still a long way from that
perfect equality of opportunity. That is
clear to see. But it is coming to be
growing up in this country different from
that which our fathers knew. 1t Is new,
in that it is more democratic. lnstfnc-
lively we have set about curing the evils
of democracy by more democracy. Inc
change appears in thousand ways. IN
some parts of the country II shows itself
in the initiative and referendum and the
recall. Then it crops out quite diner-
emily in some phases of the woman move
ment. 1t is shown most profoundly In
that change which has come over our
humanitarian spirit Where benevolent
people In former days sought to do some
thing for the good of others, they seek
now more commonly TO do something
with others for the common good. There
is less of condescension and more Of CO.
operation There Is a growing disposi-
ton to give to every man chance and
a responsibility according to that which
is within him. All sorts and conditions
Of men are getting interested In all other
sorts and conditions OF men. They are
coming to understand one another lit
tie better, and the more they under
stand one another the greater the conf
dence they have in one another.