The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-03-06
SAY COLLEGES GET
CLOSER TO STUDENTS
Delegates at Religious Educ.
ton Convention Tell Of
Changes.
ANGEL TALKS OF CHEATS
Says Boys Who Are Honest in
Glass Will Do Crooked
Things in Athletics.

New HAVEN, Conn. March 5--pr.,I.
dent Hadiey Of Yale University delivered
the address Of welcome in woolscy Han
to-day before the eleventh annual con.
vention Of the Religious Education Asso.
citation, which will be In session here fsr
several days.
The presidents or deans from nesr,,
all Of the leading colleges In the East Or
middle West are In attendance, ana
among the other speakers At the various
meetings to be held are Disir Ct Attorney
whitman Of New York. ex-President
Taft, Rabbi. Stephen Wise Of New York
Gov. Baldwin Of Connecticut and Com.
missioner +. r. Claxton OF the bureau Of
educstion at Washington.
President Hadley. talking on What D.
the SocIa Changes In American Life DE-
n1and Of the Higher Educationy' said:
The exercise Of the right OF private
Judgment IN morals 10 full OF glorious
poss. biiitiss for the man who uses 1t cor.
iectly. 1t IL full Of perils visible and In.
visible to him who applies It carelessly
or without consideration.
Here In to be found the reason Why
higher education is more needed in the
solution Of the moral questions Of n.
present day than II ever was before. Tn.
more freedom you give a man III. nors
you teach him a. to the consequences o.
his acts.
"Ths superficial teaching Of pol.,ioa,
economy or sociology does more harm
than good. Nothing has done more %
undermine the influence Of the pulpit lr
recent days than the attempt to deliver
judgments on questions Of business or
politics on the basis OF q merely casvs
study Of the facts.
what is wanted 10 the power to trace
consequences that are not readily seen
to 60 deeply into the lessons OF history
and Law and ethics: to grapple with the
problems before us In virils fashion. %
intellectual problems to be mastered. IN.
stead Of seeking short cuts to their solv.
ton by appeals to sentiment"
President Charles r. Thwing OF West.
ern Reserve University gave the annual
address az president Of the associa lion
telling OF the social changes which have
taken place In the American college sncs
the civil war.
One OF the first speakers at the convsh,
ton was President Mary Z. Woo;ley d
Mount Holyoke College. who spoke OF
what Fundamental Social Characters
;ics May He Developed by Education"
A paper by Dean James Angel Of th
University OF Chicago on the college DO,
and athletics was read By Prof. Bake
"A curious double standard obtains II
college ethics" wrote the Chicsgoan "A
boy who would scorn to cheat at his les
sons will cut bases In q ball game II h
thinks the umpire 10 not looking. Thu
double standard ID a blot on the human
side Of college life and 10 encouraged b,
the pungent form OF snub to an stheu
who does not take advantage OF oppor
tunities to win and the sxhilarating form
Of appreciation Of the athlete who cal
win by . trick"
Miss Frances Cummings Of New Yor'
spoke Of the extent to which coileg,
graduates are goinG into social s.rvic.
She quoted the figures of the Inter
collegiate Bureau Of Occupations, OIL
which she Is secretary.
During the last two months o. 1911
l.l75 persons applied at the bureau fo'
positions In social work. Only AS ~er,
formally registered. 100 were placed or
an informal mon registered" list and 500
were turned away. most Of them in.i!'
gible.