The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-07-15
HOLLIS OF HARVARD SAYS HIS ALMA MATER
 LAGS BEHIND TIMES
Declares That Cambridge Uni- versity Is HidebOunG and Does Not Represent Growing Sentiment of the People.
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 Washington. July 15.-'T was grad uated at Harvard in 1892. I believe am the first Harvard man of radical views to occupy a seat in the Senate
 1T do not fairly represent Harvard College in the Senate of the United States. am quite sure that Harvard College is not representative Of the United States, nor Of New England. She is to conservative. too hidebound. She lags behind the times. She does not lead; she follows"
 Such were the opening words of a speech that has staid old conser- vative Harvard University boiling with genuine, but contained, Indignation They were delivered by Senator Henry F. Hollis, of New Hampshire, a dem- ocrat and a radical in politics. He is the first man answering to such a de- sctiption to come ito the Senate from New England in many a year. His address was delivered before an as- ton. It has created such a stir that it has been printed in the Congres- sional Record
 SIn the middle vest continued Senator Hollis, the bond. between some states and their leading .univer- latures submit questions of public policy to- the college faculties, and receive opinions which largely con trol their action. This is particularly the case in Wisconsin.
 Imagine, if you please, the legis- lature of Massachusetts requesting an opinion from the faculty of Harvard Collegel Imagine the reception it would get on Beacon. Hill. if it should find it's way therel
 Our leading college professors look on politics as a low pursuit. a nasty business. Our leading Legislators re- gard college opinions a a joke. Both equally mistaken. The college men regard most politicians as corrupt and insincere while the politicians regard college professors as impractical theorists Worse than thisg they be- lieve that all college views are tainted by the great sums of money which have. been bestowed on our colleges by men of great wealth" /"
 Senatro Hollis then went on to tell what is wrong with the aristocratic universities Of the east.
 College professors are dependent for their living on the governing board of the college; and the governing board must satisfy the rich. men who make princely donations the college. The belief is prevalent among men in Washington that every eastern college is eating from the hand that has robbed the pockets of the people un- til this be1ief is dissipated Congress will have little faith in OUT colleges or in college men.
 "The college will act the part of the old society man in politics; it is likely to be snobbish, supercilious and over- nice The dominant note is the note of the old man, the conservative. Our colleges represent a. very thin upper crust of our. great American life. They are always respectable, conservative reactionary. The standpatter is con- servative, wealth is conservative, the college is conservative. They are all in the same boat"
 Senator Hollis said the remedy is to democratize the college. Most important Of .ans college men should be taught what Is wrong with the world and the way to set it right; what poverty is and where it exists what makes 1t and what will prevent it, what injustice is. it's causes and it's remedies; the reasons of high cost of living and the way to bring it down; the problems of immigration. and how to make country life worth living. They should be taught the brother hood of man, the glory of self sacri- flee, the passion of service >to man. kind.''