The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1914-03-11
COLLEGE AND CLASSES.
society EnfOrccS Higher Standard of
Right Than Church. Says Yale
President.

New Haven, March 5.-You may be
son of almost any one and go to
college nowadays, President Charles
f. Thwing, of Western Reserve Uni
vcrsity, told an audience in Woolsey
liali, Yale University, this evening.
In Harvard. perhaps the most aris-
tocratic in reputation of all American
schools, one class has eight men
whose fathers are technically class
ed as "laborers' said the president.
while other fathers are cigar makers.
letter carriers, firemen, paper hang
ers, house painters, express messeng-
ers. sections, cellar builders. shoe
cutters, peddlers or junk dealers.
President Arthur II. Hadley of Yale
University, declared society today en-
forces a much higher standard of
right and wrong than that of the
church or the scriptures
Modern society has been gradually
developing theories of morals which
compel us to decide whether our acts
are right or wrong by their effect on
the happiness Of our fellow men, in
stead Of contenting ourselves with
referring them to some standard i'm
posed by the past" said President
Hadley.
THE application of these new
standards of right and wrong is
more uncertain and required far
more exercise of the intellect in the
affairs OF every day life. It was a
comparatively easy and simple thing
to decide whether line Of conduct
confOrmed to certain traditional rules
laid down by the church or the scrip
lures 1t is an infinitely harder thing
to follow out the consequences OF a
line OF conduct and see whether they
are going to produce good or evil to
mankind.
Nothing has done more to under
mine the influence OF the pulpit in re-
cent days than the attempt to deliver
judgments on questions Of business or
politics on the basis of a merely cas-
ual study of the facts. A preacher
who POUNDS his precepts upon such
casual study is like a lawyer who
! knows no more of his case than the
jury. or a doctor who understands the
disease no better than his patient
THE remedy for the evils of ir-
responsible fraternities is more fra
ternities and more responsibility"
said President William De Witt
Hyde. Have enough fraternities or
clubs like them to include practical
| ly the entire student body: publish
their realtive rank, and stimulate
wholesome rivalry in scholarship, in
| character. in contribution to the So
cial, artistic, athletic, dramatic and
literary life OF the institution; admit
freshmen early for better or worse,
and hold upper-classmen to account
for their Influence over them; weed
! out upper -classmen who fail to real
ize this responsibility for lower class
| men in their group and fraternities
become "A mighty influence for the in
telluctual. social and moral uplift of
their members. far more potent than
any force presidents and deans and
faculties can bring TO bear"
Prof. f.. \. kirkpatrick Of the
state Normal School at Fitchburg.
speaking on Who should not go to
College said:
THE Importance of degrees OF all
kinds should be mnimzed instead of
emphasized, and to this end students
should be allowed and encouraged TO
take what is Of value to them Us
long as they wish. receiving instead
of Il degree, q certificate stating lust
what they have done, or in other
words universities should be run as
open shops instead of being closed
to all except apprentices to scholar
ship"