New Britain herald., 1921-06-14
TYPICAL AMERICAN
 IS CITY DWELLER
There Are Now Third of Million
 in United States

Evanston. Ill. June 14-Tho typi. | cal American of today is a city dwell.
 CT. President Walter Dill Scott. ot
 Northwestern university told the stu dents, alumni and visitors attending
 his inauguration as president of the
 university hero today.
 We are no longer justified in as-
 signing human depravity as the cause
 of inefficiency and discontent in
 homes. schools, churches and indus
 tries." President Scott added. The
 real cause is rather to be found in us, who are parents. teachers, ministers
 and managers. We have failed to de-
 velop methods of handling children pupils, parishioners and workers in keeping with the developments of the goth century.
 Tho social sciences have not been as completely developed aa the nat ural sciences and as helpfully applied and consequently we have not made a similar advance in methods Of training and handling men. Men and women are today not adequately trained for twentieth century cilivi- zation and they are not working to- gether effectively and happily.
 The typical American of today is
 more often the descendant of steer age passengers than of the pilgrim fathers" he added. "Our convention of men, our methods of training men and our methods of handling men are all largely the traditions of the eigh- teenth and nineteenth centuries.
 The traditional methods of han ding men ir America was to divide them into two c1asses-the bosses and the drudges and to treat them accord ingIy Most Americans were thought to he bosses The social sci ences teach us that Americans of to- day cannot be divided into bosses and drudges: that such distinctions are contrary to the facts and that the d. verse methods of handling men based on such distinction. are dangerous to the best interests of our nation.
 "Our inherited methods of training and handling men fail to meet our present needs. For guidance we must understand the crowd and the mob. We must think in groups. classes and tees. We must realize that in Amer ica today convention is more potent than tdadition."
 In discussing Northwestern, Presi- dent Scott stated tha five aspecs of the University seemed to him to be | d dent Scott stated that five aspects of These aspects, he said, were Human Culture, Religion, Nat ural Science, Professional Skill and Social Science.
 In disclosing these aspects. Presi- dent Scott said: Our founders real | zed that there was a culture unknown | Lc primitive life but the great heritage of each generation ir a civilized com To receive the benefit of this heritage, they saw that universities must be founded to make available he best thoughts of all men in all ages. Whether these thoughts were preserved on canvas or on the printed page. they were a tradition, without which the rising generation would be f not barbarian. at least unlettered, and unreined. -.
 Our founders were profoundly con- '1nced that a religious inter2retation If the universe is the only adequate for true culture. ..
 The social science phase has prob lbly been less emphasized than the others. but it is becoming increasing y prominent and important and has unlimited possibilities for develop nent. The world has great advance n natural sciences and in their ap- olication to the control of the forces If nature. Agriculture. mining, trans manufacture-all of these nave benefited by the application of natural science"