Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1913-05-07

o. 1nOtO - Dy American FresS ASSOCIATION
When the Going 10 Rapid Wilson Isn't
tho Man to Bother About a Shock
. Absorber. ~
the rights of manhood and submission
to the rights Of property. It was an
ineradicable. instinct in President Will
son and the men who supported him
that the life Of students must be made
democratic. -. -. -. ...-
Those who were enthusiastic for q
university in which social lines should
be obliterated and group of co-ordi.
nate democracies set up were divided
from those who were content to main
tain and even accentuate distinctions
by a cleavage as deep as any that ex-
lists In the world today. No wonder
that the partisans of the opposition, in
the board and out, looked on Wilson
as dangerous man; no wonder that
he. slowly aroused by their vilif1ca-
ton, began occasionally to unslip the
leash Of his tongue, denounce colleges
and churches for yielding to ''the &C
cursed domination Of money" and
make impassioned appeals for dec
laration of college independence. When
the going is rapid Wilson isn't the
man to bother about shock absorber.
At Pittsburgh, addressing alumni, he
poured out all his soul: 81 .s.=
The great voice Of America does not
come from seats of learning. It comes in
a murmur from the hills and woods and
the farms and factories and the mills.
rolling on and gaining valume until It
comes to us from the homes Of common
men. Do these lnurmurs echo in the cor
rtdors of universities? have not heard
them. e % q
The universities would make men for
get their common origins. forget their uni
versal sympathies, and join a class, and
no class ever can serve America,
have dedicated every power that there
IL within me to bring the colleges that !
have anything to do with to an absolutely
democratic regeneration in spirit.
know that the colleges Of this country
must be reconstructed from top to bot
tom. and J. know that America 10 going to
demand 1t. While Princeton men pause
and think hope that they will think on
these things-that they will forget tradi-
ton in the determination to see to it that
tho free air Of America shall permeate
every Granny Of their college.
Will America tolerate tl6 seclusion Of
graduate students? Will America tolerate
tho idea Of having graduate students ret
apart America will tolerate nothing ex-
cept unpatronized endeavor. Seclude q
man, separate him from the rough and
tumble Of college life. from all the con-
facts Of every sort and condition Of men,
and you have done thing which Ameri-
ca will brand with It's contemptuous dis
approval. s: "a
TO an utterance like that there could
be no reply. In an issue thus clearly
defined before the whole world (for the
Pittsburgh speech got into the papers,
and all America applauded) no living
board of college trustees would have
dared separate itself from the bold
speaker. .s5Ss:ss
No reply :? No living men to take Il.
sue? Behold how the president Of the
immortals jests with us:
In the town of Salem, Mass, lived
an old man named Isaac G. Wyman
Isaac had been graduated at the col.
lege Of New Jersey one June day IN
1848. During the sixty-two years since
that day be had never returned "a
Princeton. s..s.s.=.s
resident Wilson's Pittsburgh speech
was made on April II (this was ID
1910. a month and q day later, May
rs, BY the deceaseE Of Isaac G. Wyman
the graduate college Of Princeton uni
versity became the legatee OF an estate
estimated at more than S 900 600 be
queathed s. the rusteeship 81 John y
RAYMOND salem and q; Andrew 81,
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