The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1914-02-04
ONE THING We
NEED IN COLLEGE
GERLOUGH TELLS Us THAT An
GENT HISTORY is BASIC IN
ALL COLLEGE WORK.
"Sunshine of the Gods" First Battled
by a Holy Friar. Yorkshire Par
son Wrote First Novel.

Dear Sir:-I have happened to thinl
today that since have mentioned win,
in the three letters have written from
come to believe that l have become {
winebiber. Such, however, is not the
case. | will return to Idaho, | hope
a very temperate and Puritanical
young man and will be pleased to
drink and, as was always the case
desire nothing more than the kind OF
drinks that used to be retailed at
Childers soda fountain. However, in
travelling in Europe ones attention is
strongly drawn to the customs and
habits of the people he visits and some
of those habits are such that if they
were practiced in America they would
be decried as Incorporate. | laughed
at the directions of my guide book
when the other day | was in Pompey
and was reading about the road to the
crater of Vesuvious. In one part of the
road, it says, 'the vineyards yield the
finest Lacrinae Christi wine, / franc O.
bottel (but better ask the price before
hand and only partake of it on the way
back"
| think it very characteristic in
.cident that in a recent dinner given
by large body of English authors to
NJ. Anatole France that the toastmas-
ter in his speech should say that in
modern times when imaginative writ
ing has not the place it had in politi-
cal and philosophical fields in the days
of Greece and Rome that the only
things that are worth while are cham
payne and the novel Both of these,
he added, owe their origin to the
church, for it was holy friar who
first bottled the Sunshine of the Gods"
at Rheims and it was a Yorkshire par
son named Sterne, on the authority of
Goethe, who originated, in its modern |
form, the novel. However, it is my |
frank opinion, though | am not deeply |
versed in the subject. that it is high |
time now that we should in very |
moderated manner endeavor to return
to the thinking of a former period.
| wonder, Mr. Editor, if it would be
state my opinion on the study of an
cient history. l hope that in some flu
Lure time we will have at Idaho a
chair devoted to the teaching of that
subject. If we define education, as |
believe some educators do, as an insti-
.ution which sums up the experience
If the past and presents it to its stu
Tents l believe that in the department
If ancient history at Idaho there is a
,reat gap. 1t is true that Professor
Axtell has done very faithful and eff
icient work in teaching Latin and !,
freek. Also Professor Morley, in his j.,
curses in philosophy, has taken us =
ack to very ancient times, and Dr.. 7
Ioore, in her courses on the drama has
ad us look for a certain length of
me at the dramatic art of the Greeks
tut all of these things are side lights
nd scarsely suffice as a basis of Undue
on for truths drawn from the Greek
nd Roman history. In the last CEN
Try great scholars have been at work
n ancient history and there is ire
endous amount of material to work
ON
A certain university professor of my
has been known to state
his lectures that girls should not be
lowed to study Crook. In certain
.nse I agree with him and I can
'mpathize heartily with any one who