The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-01

bows, his back-all are protected from | the hard 1icks and knocks of the game. The college serves this purpose to the student; that sort of protective en- vironment, as it were.
 If a girl takes a tumble; If she hap pens to make a mistake; why should she be considered fast or foolish or done for?" Dr. McCracken querried- i Not at all; the college seeks to pro- | tect her from these pitfalls and to equip her with a purpose to fulfill every capacity which is the first ob- ject of life. Then, of course, when she
 has received her equipment it is for 'he lcommunity to say what she must be. "The college has for its purpose the | bridging of the chasm between the high school and life. The college girl l of today" said Dr. McCracken, has more sense of responsibility; she is | more serious than she used to be; she l is not so irresponsible; not so cheeky | if I might so express it. She is the 1 quintessence of American life. Her
 chief responsibility is to be responsi- l ble for fulfilling every oblig a1ion which she is capable of fulfilling.
 q admire the English for many at tributes which they possess" said Dr.
 McCracken, 'but the main one is that
 the Englishman plants his flag where he wants it to stay, and with bulldog 1 tenacity he works for the end in view. I He may not always fulfill the mission himself, but his children and grand children do so after him. The French
 man is different; he, too, Is tenacio IS,
 but he dismisses thing after lie las l thought it out and considers it as good
 as accomplished. His tenacity is more personal than the Englishmans; 1t be- | 1rr7 ti~1l fA for, personalities.
 'Tlle old fashioned college" said Dr.
 McCracken, "emphasized curriculum
 above everything else. It occupied the center of the stage by divine right; 1 that the classes were superior to mod
 ern works they did not argue; they ad-
 mitted it Mathematics. for instance, 1 is superior to chemistry; but such old-
 fashioned theories have been rele-
 gated to the limbo of days that are
 gene, with other by-gone theories To-
 day, the modern educator-f I nm re-
 garded is this class for which I am
 speaking, does not believe in a shibbo-
 leth of any kind; we place our respon- sibility on something else. For ln-
 stance, that music has a bearing on
 business. Let me explain; at first that seems odd; but take, for instance, the great department store of John Wan
 namaker in New York; some of the
 most brilliant young artists of the day, singers, violinists, pianists-make their debut there. have often heard in the
 midst of commercialism in that pig store some of the most enchanting I of singers, and have at once invited them to make visit to Vassar and sing for our student body This dem
 onstrates the psychological connec-
 tion between art and commercialism
 the interdependence of subjects. In other words, as I said before, in the
 opinion of the modern educator there
 Is no such thing as superiority of any
 matter over any other.
 l The morale that held our armies
 together during the late war" pr. Mo l Cracken said, lis the thing that we are
 trying to instill into our college girls. What the French call 'milieu morlle.'
 It obtained because of the college men
 who composed the army, and took the
 college spirit into battle; it was col lege crowd and 1t knew what group action meant. John Mott Osborne wEo
 speaks of Sing-Sing as Sing Sing e l. lege, comes to talk to Vassar students
 and expresses 1t this way; in other
 words. all of us are concentrated on