Evening star., 1912-02-28

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try into the minds Of tho young. but that
instead they were becoming nurseries
As an example Of tho degeneration Of
college president who. he said. had been
married, and had then scoffed at the mar
| riage ceremony, and had ended by put
ting the maiden name of his wife under
his own on his door.
Not only are some Of our mems col
leges becoming hotbeds of socialism. but
| many seminaries and colleges for wom-
| en- are getting to be hotbeds OF sunra-
| getism," he continued. 1.-THE next great
curse after women have been made like
men will be to make men Hike women.
Such ideas are destroying our homes. and
unless they are checked there will be no
| men left At to run our government
There is now going up sect which
thinks 1t wrong to be prosperous Edu-
GATED men should enter politics to offset
this movement. And no man is too high
~ educated to take part. whether he
thinks he is or not. There is in the coun-
times says he will not take another nomi-
nation for the presidency. and later at
not say it,
The Presidents Speech.
President Taft spoke as follows:
AAs AAOoAuSAI hllO GfOuIl01u0Q OF the
University Club: It has often come to
me to think OF the confusion that is
nKeiy to be In heaven when we all meet
there, especially gentlemen that have
| been married three or four times, but
| as l look around at this audience, with
| these headdresses and other additions
| TO your beauty, and discover once in q
| while man / know, and only once in
while. 1 think the addition Of wings
| ana other things in heaven will pre-
vent that identity. That will be either
| confusing or embarrassing I have OBJ
served that you follow this course gener-
ally In the University Club. and why 1t is
that on occasions like this you feel II
necessary to disguise your identity, l
body is respectable here-at least have
not heard anything that you ought to be
ashamed of. except possibly your ap-
pIause on political issues.
you on your progress toward that build
| ing that Is to give you a local habitation
| ana name. You have selected the best
place in Washington-there is no doubt
| about that-and hope that soon you will
| be able to go there and enjoy all the
| benefits of q club.
"A club Is an institution to the going or
| ana the carrying on of which q great
many contribute and only comparatively
| few enjoy the benefits of-but that is in
very badly when you need 1t. When your
wife is away, and there Is nobody al
nome, then you need 1t very badly. When
you haven't any wife, and haven't any
home, you need it still more badly and
am one of those who believe in contribut-
ing to every club that will elect me a
member out Of sympathy for the poor
fellows that have to spend all their time
| there
Purpose Of a University Club.
"a university club is an outgrowth of
university life that has peculiar fitness
1t provides for an association of mer
who have been used to association under
| conditions likely to make the sweetest
memories, and that lead on to the contin-
u4nce of those associations so far as may
be under the auspices of such a club. l,
is THE institution where public opinion o1
THO best character ought to be formed
and l doubt not is.
| rAs my friend Senator Bailey has said
| men may be educated beyond their ca.
| pacity, but that is not the fault OF uni.
persities- 1t Is the fault of the men, OIL
| OF their parents who sent them to place
where the intellectual living is q bit toe
| rich, and where, then, they become in
toxicated under the inspiration of some
thing stronger than their minds are able
to stand. 1 agree that a university edu
| cation does not prevent a man from
making an ass of himself. as the senator
| instanced with respect to that professor
who insisted> on something that woulG
1 shock everybody that had sense ant
would not give him a standing with ever
| those who did not have sense, and l agree
ton in making men of that mental fbel
think. without keeping their feet on the
| ground that the education they have
puts them in different atmosphere, puts
| them above the crowd that walk on the
ground. and that are Influenced by COM
| nonsense considerations l agree that
! there is danger in that.
Educating the Filipinos.
But I feel very much about that as
did about the education Of the Filipino
| It was said-and the Englishman said So
| DO not educate your Filipinos: do not
send them abroad to be educated, because
|. when they come back you will find that
they are all independistas, and they will
all want to separate themselves and think
they are capable of self-government;
"But did not approve Of that. It did
not seem to me that was the best way to
look at 1t. because l had observed them
sufficiently to know that after they had
Ing that they were all capable Of doing
| everything they finally. by jolts. by the
| jars Of life. settled down to a reasonable
| view of the situation.
Value Of Higher Education.
"And SO 1 hope that those university
men for whom education has for while
proved too strong may a'so be brought
to earth. They are ordinarily not success
full; they do not accumulate a great deal
of money. and the hustling around for a
| livelihood that men of that sort have to
do usually brings them down to consid-
Grafton Of things that make them like
other men.
$50 what I would preach Is not hope
lessness 1 would not preach that univer-
sity education Is not something that is
good for the country. But I would say
| that while 1t does make possible sociais-
become conservatives, and while 1t does
make asses Of some people who were
| probably asses before. on the whole it is
a great advantage to have a university
education that imposes upon the one who
has II responsibility and gives him no
right to elevation above anybody else
| unless he can show that by reason of his
education he Is establishing his claim to
stand we'll among his fellows
Reception Of the Guests.
A committee made up Of Gardner r.
Williams. William d. Hoover, Edward J.
Stellwagen. John Joy Edson. Justice Job
Barnard. David T. Day and Daniel w.
Shea received the guests.
The arrangements for the banquet were
made by q committee consisting OF
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