The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1914-03-06
Notable Addresses Today Be.
fore Religious Educational
Association Convention at
New Heaven.
STUDENTS MUST BE
TAUGHT HOW TO VOTE
Sharp Warnings Against Pres
ent Day Defects in the Ma
tons Educational System
[By Leased wire to Evening Herald

New Haven, Conn, March B.-'Not
more than half the men ard practical
D. none CO.. The women who graduate
from Dbcrliu know anything about
city government. and set w-l OF
these men and women wsl aooncr OF
later be voters Prof. Albert II.
Wolfe of Oberlin college. made this
assertion before the Religious Edu-
cation association here today, as
typical Of American colleges, ana
pleaded for a more definite social
focus In college studies.
III is probable" he said, chat not
much more than q NTH Of The total
work taken by college students has
any direct bearing on the preparation
TOR a broad citizenship and social ser-
/ vice. although all the social sciences
show a remarkable gain In tho past
| fifteen years. both On the number II
students electing these subjects and
! In tho amount Of work taken. 'Whon
you find numerous women spending
from 80 Ia a. semester hours from
over @ third 10 nearly t%Wo-thirds ~
! All their work on language "A liter
/ ature-you have evidence of "a largo
misplacemcnt Of attention. more of
which should go TO the social sciences
unless We are going 20 be content
with the aristOcratic and individual
istic view To ind still OF culture and
Of the function of the college, a view
We regret to and still somewhat COM
mon among college teachers.
The tendency to the development
Of a social focus in college education
exists and Is rapidly developing, but
IL is sim lacking IN intelligent direc-
ton and in clearly defined purpose.
scores Of students wish TO express
heir religious and moral Impulses
through social service as "a vocation,
but too many people, both students
| and teachers, think of social serVic'
as synonymous with settlement work
and friendly visiting. Perhaps when
the economy Of "a really constructive
morality and the value Of the vocn-
tional motive In education are better
understood we shall hav a more def
mite and conscious social focus than
today That It is coming Is proved oy
the stubborn night the classicists ana
individual %culturists are putting up
against a."
o~ccupational Training.
Occupational training Is 20 find still
/ further place IN the college curricu-
lum, according TO Prof. Frank T. Carl
ton, OF Albion College. Michigan.
This development ~ alarming TO
backward lockers" he said, but "en-
c~ouraging 10 others. While h is moi
evolving into a purely professional
school. the college he continued.
with some reactionary exceptions, is
beginning "a oner curses which form
a definite basis for further and more
specific professional studies. Noca-
tional or oc%cupational training, cspcc
tally the basis or preparatory courses
which the college offers, will supply
not only purely technical training but
will aso aid In adjusting the Ameri-
can youth To a twentieth-contury
| America In which things are not as
they we're. our college authorities are
beginning to recognize, often hesitai-
ingly and with many obvious missiv-
ings, that the era ~ rampant and
negative individuaiism Is passing. No
business or profession Is longer "a be
called purely private. Private and
public ARE being linked and welded
together. aud the emphasis h being
Transferred from the former to the
latter.
~ HNM III -H I
leglate instruction insists that indus
trial activity be directed In harmony
with a pro-socinl rather than a strict
ly pro-lndividual aim"
American Colleges Not Democratic
American colleges are not as dem
ocratic as Is the wont % colisgians to
boast. according 20 Dr. Edwin y
slosson of the Columbia school %
Journalism,
Almost every collegeman. he said,
boasts Of the unique democratic
spirit' Of his anna mater. "But ne D.
only comparing conditions with those
OF n~ristocracy In the outside world
based on money and family-entirely
forRotful Of the collegiate aristccracy
that has been substituted by druwine
the line between sophomores and
freshmen. Greeks and ~barlarians
classical and scientific students"
who indeed the speaker asked,
would suspect that the universities
had any intention la inculcase a spirit
OF democracy when he secs the acad-
omic professions Ale through the
Gothic hall robed la the costume of
the medieval student guild and ar
ranged In hierarchial order IN strict
H~''ofhNH'' WIN "a hfrAtM W NNhi
ton, artificial. and, Ia large part
fictitious honorihc distinctions"
Keep Ont OF Business.
"Nothing has lone more 90 unders
mine the influence Of the pulpit in re-
rent days than the attompt - deliver
judgments on questions Of business or
politics on the basis Of a merely cas-
ual study Of the facts declared
President Arthur r. Hadicy OF Yale
"A preacher" he said. "who found9
his precepts upon such casual study
Il like Il lawyer who knows more ~
his case than the jury, OF a doctor
who understands his disease no hettcr
than his patient What Is wanted On
the power 20 trace consequences thar
are not readily seen; 10 50 deeply In