Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1914-03-07
COLLEGE GRADUATES KNOW
NOTHING or PRINCIPLES or
CITY GOVERNMENT.
APPLICATION IS Wasted
OcCupa,ional training should Find
Further Place In CairicuIum
Of Colleges Of the
Nation.

hy Associated Press
NEW HAVEN, Conn, March g.
'Not more than half the men and
practically none OF the women who
graduate from oberlin know any
thing about city government. and yet
most OF these men and women will
sooner or later be voters" Prof.
..,bert - Wolfe. OF Oberlin college.
made this assertion before the Reli-
gious Education Association here to-
day. as typical OF American colleges,
aud pleaded for more definite So
cial focus In college studies.
II is probable" he said. that not
much more than fifth OF the total
work taken by college students has
any direct bearing on the prepara-
ton for a broad citizenship and social
service, although all the social SCI
ences show remarkable gain In
the past fifteen years, both In the
number OF students electing these
subjects and In the amount Of wor
taken. When you find nume-oua
women spending from so TO rs sem
ester hours-from over third u
nearly two-thirds of All their work
on language and lteratlre--you
have evidence Of a large misplace
ment OF attention. more OF which
should 90 to the social sciences. un-
less we are going to be content with
the aristocratic and individualistic
view TO find still OF culture and Of
the function OF the college, a view
we regret to find still somewhat COM
mon among college teachers.
The tendency To the Develop
ment OF social focus In college ed
ucation exists and Is rapidly devel-
oping. but Il Is still lacking In intel
gent direction ! d In clearly defin-
ed purpose Scores OF students wish
TO express their religious and moral
| Impulses through so,ial service ,as
! vocation, bui too ma ~ people. both
Students and teachers, think qf so
s,i ile ~ synOpS .i,o a. ~. .xu--8r<-
I ieaeat and friendly ,isltInx.
4 perhaps when lle economy OF 3 real
ly constructive morality and the val
ue OF the vocational motive In edu-
cation are better understood we shall
.ove more definite and conscious
social focus than today. That II Is
| omng is proved by the stubborn
! fight me c'assicists and individual
! ultuTists are putting up against IT,"
Address by Carlton
OcCupatioual training is TO find
tll further mace in the college cur
/ -irnlum. accoring TO Prof Frank T.
carlton. Of Albion College. Michi
sn who addressed the Religious
duration Association here toda-
This development Is alarming ~
/ lrFrard lockers" he said. bu.
.ncoura r'np 20 others" While II
nor evolving into purely profes
| HHal school the college, "he con-
ma0I "Wi,h SOME recationary exce--
/ "u.. i. ue.inning y offer coursr~
Hrh for ma definite basis for fur
/ Door aud more spccitc profession 7
/ t1... Vocational or occupn tionn
ming especially the basis OF pre-
.r.iuru courses which the college
/ .... $500 upp'y not only purelv
. ... HuHl training but will also aid
/ IU-.lnE the American vo'\N Z
utury America In which
r-s are not as they were. Our
7 .''.-a authorities are beginning To
/ ..roeuiIe often hesitatingly and
1900 many obvious misgivings. that
/ .s gro of rampant and negative In
/ .Iual'-W IN passing. No business
profa ION is Ion ger TO he called
.'y private Private and public
.. being linked and welded togeth-
rI rHo empsas's Is being trans
rl from the former to the latter.
. u'N democratic view of col
e.r. 'ruc'ion insists thet indus
activity be- directed In harmony
No.. pro-social rather than a strict.
. nH.iudiyidual aim"