The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1914-01-21
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 81, 1914
THE OLD ORDER, OR DISORDER
CHANGETH.

Students in western colleges, par
tionally well-behaved and of good re-
port When new members of the
faculty first arrive in Moscow they
frequently comment with with surprise and
satisfaction upon the earnestness with
which work is done, the definite and
serious aims of their students, and the
striking absence of frivolity and malic-
ious disorder.
These happy conditions are due, we
suspect, in large part to the restraints
inevitably imposed upon high spirits
and the pursuit of pleasure by half
empty purses and limited time. Many
of our students are earning their way
through college and are put to it to
get hold of enough cash to pay for
board and room, books, and clothes
They have no leisure for foolishness
and no money to spend on it. Many
more students are being sent here by
Woodworking parents whose self-de-
NAL is a spur to SONS and daughters to
spend both time and money to the
best advantage.
This wholesome state of having to
make every penny and every moment
count is in measure responsible for
the welcome sobriety of our student !
body. But there is back of it, too, a |
universal change in sentiment tmost |
desirable and too long postpoend) as |
to what constitutes a good time at col
lege. The silly notions current some
years ago as to the necessity of filling
student days and night with ridiculous
and lawless pranks have given way to
a more sensible ideal.
The New York Times has an edi-
torial upon some of the customes for
merly in vogue and now happily out
of style:
I'm the good old days even lecture
room was not secure against an out
break of high spirits. Young gentle
men surreptitiously threw pennies at
the instructor or his assistant. They
emptied bottles of vile smelling chem
icals in the room. Not infrequently
a professor would sound the call for
bluebooks and an examination on the
spot to quell the roit which interrupt
ed his lecture u
I'm their care-free moments the =
Young gentlemen stole barber poles u
and street signs, stole hotel silver y
and napery, entered playhouses and .
broke up the performance, fought the ~
police and were a scandal to the iu- IL
1icious ="
"At Harvard, for instance, such lam :
entable practices had long, if not hon =
,rable. standing. In the presidency of
Josiah Quincy the habits Of the STU
Tents were rude; and outrages, IN =
yolving not only large destruction Of :
property but peril of lfe-as, for in
stance, the blowing up of public rooms
n inhabited buildings-were occurring
very year.
prescott was hit by piece of bread
hrOWn at RANDOM i'll tHe cOHlluOhS anu
ost the sight, of his left eye. James
russell Lowell was fined dollar for
utting chairs in recitation room.
"The notion that disorder was neces-
airy in college which would COM
1and respect prevailed until less than
Ell years ago. In 1905 the bronze
memorial tablet to Phillips Brooks =
yas carried away and a skeleton, ia
en- from Dr. Darlings laboratory was
suspended in Massachusetts avenue. ~
Glass and lecture room discipline
rere established long before signs of
were found elsewhere in
ollege life, and now the writer in 70
he British observes during the last ,
We years marked tendency toward ,
eaner living and speaking, saner -
1nduct and higher scholarship W.