Newark post., 1915-11-24

"No college should undertake
work for which it is unprepared
outside it's walls at the expense of
the legitimate work which it is al
ready doing within it's walls"
p. P. Claxton.
"Those who give instruction
make the college, not it's trustees,
president, and other officers of ad-
ministration, nor it's buildings,
grounds, and other equipment.
p. P. Claxton.
"a State university supported by
the taxes of all the people of all
parts of the State is failing in it's
duty if it does not draw students
in just proportion from all classes
of society and all parts of the
State"
p. P. Claxton.
"A really good professor should
be a Cerberus-three gentlemen
at once. He should be able to
teach. He should be good schol-
ar. He should be an admirably
sane, admirably broad, admirably
human individual. And, really,
such man is not to be had by ad-
vertising in the evening papers or
by corresponding with an employ
ment agency"
H. S. Candy.
"If our preparatory schools do
not begin doing better work in
this field (English), some one will
have to insistently demand re-
form"
w. G. Clippinger.
"There is no longer any good
reason, l believe, why any institu-
ton calling itself a college and
giving college degrees should ad-
nit students who have had less
than is offered in good high
school of four years"
p. P. Claxton.
Gwen in this age of ubiquitous
omniscience l think it is we'll to
maintain a distinction between
school and armory, between school
and State house, between school
and country club, between school
and counting house, between
school and hospital. The college
will not do everything that has to
be done in the world. There have
been college presidents, that have
been great school masters. If the
college president of today is held
down by worldly cares from as
piring so high, he may at least
count himself fortunate if he
shares the fellowship of great
schoolmasters in his faculty. My
: first answer, therefore, to the
question, "What will the college
contribute to the State?' is, THE
College will teach = \
/ 81 think it worth while to repeat
= the thesis. The first service OF
the college is to teach; to teach, ir
! the first place, a handful of young
= men. That, you think goes with
out saying, but does it? By teach
ing | do not mean training, draw
. ing forth of innate power, the de
r velopment of character, the stimu
!. lation of ambition, but by teach
: ing | mean just what it means il
the primary school, imparting tt
. the student, in such a way that i
becomes a permanent possession ;
knowledge of truth and things,
knowledge also of causes ant
values. | find a good deal of skep
l.. ticism as to the value of this par
Of the colleges work. Do we Amer
leans generally prize very highl,
the knowledge which the colleg
curriculum purports to impart
Do we not rather all agree tina
o the majority of college student
- do not know five years after grad
Q uation what they gave sufficien
3 evidence of knowing to pass tn
college examinations? Is there an
3 society or set or group to whor
. pre-eminence is generally accord
! ed, in which betrayal of ignoranc
in any sphere causes loss of cast
; as a breach of etiquette does in
y social club? On the contrary is
< not the mark of membership i
the most exclusive circles to dis
3 claim the possession of knowledg
u or even of natural curiosity
o any except limited field? Is
not the fashion to say, 4 remembe
"a nothing of what I learned at co
lege, but the impress of this {
that man will never leave me-