Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1912-01-03
THE UNIVERSITIES WEIGHED
IN THE BALANCE
IA Reply to Dr.. Arthur Twining Hadley,
Presidentlof Yale.
(By Lillian Davis, LIE Sueur, Minn.)

LIE Sueur, MINI.
hindered grinding out Of lawyers who
have taken possession of the courts
as you desired, DR.. Hadley, how do
you like the popular response to their
enlightened and self-sacrifcing rule9
A word, now as to the second head
Of the doctors discussion. He writes
"The university has established stan
dards Of professional success in pri-
vate business which lead men to do
what the public needs instead Of
merely trying to make money for
themselves"
Ye Gods!Han nd the university
presidents throughout the land, Of
whom DR.. Hadley is notable exam
pie, are among the highest salaried
men in any branch of the public ser
vice-almost universally more high
ly paid than even the governors of
the states where the universities are
located-than the state supreme
judges, and are, in themselves an
ever present and living example to
their students as to how much can
be wrung in taxes from a suffering
people if you do the wringing by call
ing yourself an educator and public
benefactor!
| And listen, fellow citizens! He is
| also telling us that the doctors, law
yers and civil engineers, turned out
in thousands every year by the uni
versities at the expense Of the peo-
pie, are examples for US to study Of
men who are setting standards for us
by faithfully serving the public needs
but not endeavoring to make money
for themselves thereby.
Do you follow the doctor here?
Is he clear? The country at large
seems to have formed ideas strangely
different from those so expressed by
DR.. Hadley, but, if, perchance, you
are inclined to agree with him, any,
one Of my readers, then look around
you in your own community and in
dictate by his name any university
graduate who is thus sacrificing his
hope of worldly gain on the altar of
public service.
AS to the standards set by the uni
versities in public morals, sounding
words Of alarm come from many
sources. R. T. Crane, a man of
great wealth and influence, an ex-
tensive employer Of labor, denounc-
es the universities in millions of
widely-scattered pamphlets as hot
beds Of immortality and vicious hab-
its and President Taft, in a public
speech concerning the charge, was
able to. but feebly combat the allie
cations explaining and apol-
ogizing than entering denial. Wood
row Wilson has uttered grave words
Of warning and censure along the
same lines and serious apprehension
and alarm have been expressed by
many in high places and situated so
as to know the facts. What is said
Of the failure Of the university men
to get near to the people and to live
up to their ideals is but natural re-
suit Of their life and training in the
university itself which have been
along the lines upheld by the tradi-
tons Of the past. AS one Of the most
progressive university presidents said
lately, while examining the univer-
| sity students for corruption, perjury
and dishonorable practices in their
sports, "In medieval times univer-
sites were fostered by privileges.
Independent legal codes and courts
were established for these academic
guilds. The students could seek the
protection of his own group against
the outside world"
u Mayor Gaynor, one of the best lit
erary men Of the country, in a late
article given to the public press, at
tacks the whole system Of modern
, higher education, with it's hot house
methods of forcing products calcu-
prcserver of our country's honor al